The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-05
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest

Never before has houseboating on the Thames been
carried so lux urously As In tho present season
Tho German Social Democrats are making great
preparations for celebrating on Aug 81 the birthday Of
Lasalle.
Tho season thus far In London has been unusually
cold the ranging the forties to the
seventies
Travellers between London and Paris are disturbe
by tho rumor that the famous Club train may be dis
continued.
woman is In custody at Great stanmore. England,
on the charge OF numbering her lomonths.od daugh-
ter by forcing cork down the childs throat.
N. Roulez, who hoaxed The Psrsians by pretending
to have fought four iusls In the Bos de Boulogns
within forty minutes. has been sent to q mAdhouse
Frenchmsn has invented an envelope which sx-
pose part OF the letter to the stamp that the
postmArk Thus the enclosure will bear ofcinl proof
OF the date on which II was posted.
A question tuat 10 causing some little commotion in
England ia whether. on the Queens birthday. Sir
Charles Mitchell the Colonial Governor at the Cape
did or did not Kiss eighteen debutaLtes.
the beginning OF tho current year the police force
OF London numbered 5.o3s men. Sixty per cent Of
tue force required for light duty. The Metropolitan
Police dstrct smbraces an area OF about oeS square
miles.
In London police court recently tho Rev. Samuel
Barnes vas condemned to pay 81 so nne and &l5.75
costs for cruelty old bay in having turned
cut to Craze whom she was unequal to 80 great
erton.
Paris builder about 5000 1t 10 presumed that
material will be made into paper weights and similar
memeutoes. AS was tho marble from the runs Of the
Tuileriea
Mrs Ricss. tho venerable negro woman from Liberia
who recently shook hands with Queen Victoria. at.
tended . salvation Army meeting In London few
days ago made speech and danced ill., 10 the great
delight Of the army
The sermon which Canon Fleming preached recently
at Sandringham with special reference to the premu-
~ hair
been published in pamphlet form. and has already
realized a prOht OF 81, 500
The British Chancellor Of the Exchequer scknowl.
edges the receipt OF one half Of Ave pound note from
Il conscience stricken man who cheated the dovern-
mrnt In the matter of income tax, and who, per haps
retained the other half AZ his receipt
Anew malsdy has been discovered In London. II 10
"pocemans govt" and its possessors lot 10 not =
happy one It supposed to be produced by recsssy
taking advantage of opportunities to sisks the thirst
at the cost OF dealers in beer ana spirits.
An amateur astrologist has sent to Family Fair the
following result OF his observations II Is very odd
that Jupters transit through tho degree OF Aries that
occupied at his birth has always brought Gladstone
into power all through his life; but when Mars enters
Aries and Saturn forms the opposition in early spring
OF 1923 Gladstone will go out"
According TO correspondent there is bottle anoat
somewhere that contains an interesting manuscript
This writer says that the Emperor william was so de.
lighted with his recen. exploit OF happening whale
It, put tho writing In bottle and threw II sea
Nine. Viry, the widow OF the Paris restaurant keeper
who was killed by friends of Ravachol in retaliation
for his part in Ravachos arrest has been appointed to
OF tho lost OF tho boulevard newspaper Mosques
She fears TO tend tho kosque in person. but will get
$i4o aday for it, after paying another for doing tho
work.
London policeman Erapped with and upset q BIZ
cycler who he thought was going At unlawful rate
The arrested the whssman for fast driving
and the latter had the policeman up for assault The
magistrate had the summons withdrawn In each case
and now wheslmen aud policemen don't know what
their rights and duties are
Mr. saia. in his gossip in the Sunday rma OF London
tells how the volcano OF stromboi came TO be known
to English sailormen as Old Booty" Tho legend 10
that one Capt Booty master mariner trading TO the
Mediterranean in the seventeenth century. became 60
notorious for drinking and swearing that he was seized
upon by the nend and carried to the Interior OF
s.rombon from which he has continued ever since to
utter pofans language BY means Of tongues Of Ore and
puns OF smoke =,