The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-19
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

During the recent hot term In Berlin
thirty persons committed suicide in one
week, in most cases the cause being the
heat.
census of last April, is 9, 300 9i5. In 1886 it
was 2,422, 969. 1t has. according to this, in
creased by Z per cent in less than five vars.
The CustOm-house agent in Duisburg as
sessed a collection of butterflies as 'poul-
try" for the reason that they had wings;
and it required much time aud patience to
get the collection passed free as an object of
science and art.
Several Gottingen students, while explor-
ing the Vera Mountains, resolved to scale
the bilstein, a famous rock on the summit
of one OF the peaks. Ill succeeded ex-
cept one, who missed his footing and fell TO
the foot Of the peak, bounding from rock
to rock.
The electric tram-car system has been so
successful since the Frankfort exhibition
opened that the Directors of the Frankfort
Forrest Railway have ordered an accommo-
daton car from Nuremberg to test the pos
sibilities Of its superseding the use of the
steam engine.
A sad calamity is reported from Vel
media, on the River Ruhr. Eleven young
men went boating on the river, when the
craft careened, its occupants became panic
stricken, started up and capsized the boat
All were thrown into the water, aud Tour
were drowned.
Fifty years ago, at Cold Ashby, bans were
published for the marriage of Thomas Cow
ley and Sarah Clifton. For some reason or
other, instead of marrying each other each
married another person. Last month Thom-
as, aged 70, and Sarah. II, fulfilled the PROM
Use Of their youth.
A well-known physician of Ulm, DR..
Haering, only 30 years of age, took morphine
to induce sleep. He swallowed an overdose.
Every effort was made 10 revive him, but he
died finally of heart failure. His young and
beautiful wife, distracted by grief, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Tho Bavarian army will be concentrated
in and around Munich on September 7th.
The First and Second CORPS will parade be-
fore the Emperor at his official headquarters
on the Sth, aud on the i've following days
there will be series of field maneuvers un-
der the direction of the Emperor
Pure chloroform, something hitherto IN
attansble, will now be made by NJ Pictet,
| chemist of Geneva. The majority of
deaths from chloroform are said to be trace
able to impurities. One feature of NJ.
Pictet's process is the reduction of the chloro-
form TO the colduess Of 1902 below zero.
There is story that Valera took Arditi,
the conductor. TO Stratford-on-AyOn THAT
ter's monument. You recoilect. 'Amleto'
and Romeo and Juiletta.'" "Ah," said
the conductor, Il understand, 70 librettist."
Arrangements have just been completed
with the Spanish Legation at Mexico
| whereby pen sions shall be paid by Mexico
to the heirs of the Duke Of Muntezuma, who
died few months ago. He represented the
| Spanish branch of the house of Montezuma,
| to which the various governments of Mexico,
without interruption, have paid pensions for
| 365 years.
| statistican, who does not place great
| confidence in parental in tinct." shows that
| throughout one-fourth of England, during
the year ending the LIST Of prl, the Police
| Courts showed convictions for injuries in
| fiicted on children in the cases of 1856 mothers,
| 347 fathers, % stepmothers, 10 stepfathers,
2 brothers, aunts, uncles. 4 grandmothers,
| 3 nurses, and 131 others.
| Two years ago Florence was provided
| with new aqueduct, and there was great
1ubllation on all sides. The authorities,
however, soon got tired of their new toy,
and it has been allowed, through neglect,
to get into a state of Undesirable filth
| Last winter there was an epidemic of
typhoid in the town, and commissioner
appointed by the sanitary authority has
traced 1t tc the aqueduct water.
On her late tour through Southern France.
Italy and Dalmatia the ex-Empress Eu-
genie, the widow of Napoleon III, stopped
in small town just at the time when the
census was taken, and was compelled to fill
out a census blank. This is the way she
gave an account OF her personality: Ma
RE Eugenie,, Countess of PIerrefond, 81
years of age, born in Grenada, Spain; natu-
rallied in France; "a widow; a traveller"
A tragic affair happened at Weimar last
week, which shows it will not do to trifle In
that country with the troops. A military
convict escaped from prison ana made for
the woods. He met a detachment of soldiers
returning from ball practice and The off err,
recognizing the fugitive, ordered him to
stop. No heed was paid = the order, where.
upon the officer ordered ne soldiers to fire.
One vollsy was sufficient The convict fell
dead at the first fire.