The sun., 1893-11-14
FOREIGN Notes or R.., Interest

Ukase No 227 makes 100 900 more Russian soldisrs
Oakley Hall In Essex. property Of 900 in good
order valued forty years ago at f2sooo has been bid
OF for Sc. ooo
The Diocesan Conference OF Truro concludes that
harm has been done to tho Of purity by
| reception of Zola In London.
Tho question whether a female claiming to be .
"iady" libelled by being called . woman" was
decided by British Judge and jury in the negative.
rrot. Klebs of Carlsruhe. who has modified advan.
tageousy Prof. Koch's tuberculin for consumption
says that no has discovered sure for dphthsriA
He has been successful in thirteen distinct casea
The Paris Exposition OF 1909 will be In q con-
trail site even than the last one 1t will extend from
tho to tho Tuieres Garden that visitors
Will not be taken so far from the shops and
Mascagni has finished a new opera. and under the
pledge OF secrecy. he has played 1t over to musical
critic who pronounces 1t as good as CavalleriA Rus
tcana" The work is supposed to be Roma" COM
mission by Sir Augustus Harris for tho London
Fragments of the Had and odyssey have been dis
covered In some Egyptian papyri bought for the Ii
brary of Geneva The Books XII and XII. especially
from those have Fragments Of the orestes of
Euripides thousand years older than any existing
texts were discovered also.
Tho keeper of tho lighthouse at BonAfaoio. named
Donzela. who has Just died. WAS commissioned by
Gambetta 10 instructions to BaZano while shut
up in Metz He swan the Mosele under q heavy hre
from the German outposts and returned in tho same
way he went for which service ho was appointed
lighthouse keeper
The Gau'ois laments crisis In tho culinary art Of
France Ono Of the two chief for this the
corrup;inR influence OF foreigners that makes too
much for simplicity ana for tho abandonment of the
more plicaed elegances OK tho chefs profession.
The second tho decline in practical
displayed by the young French mensRere.
Recent discoveries in Egypt and Chaidea. says Mr..
Boscawen. Indicate that although the monuments
there carry back about 900 before the Chris
tnL they do not constitute tho limit OF
Indicate ho of thsEe n
have been In western Persia Eurdistan and LuristAu
show more ancient remains than have been studied
in part OF the world The old Babylonan civiliza-
ton and Chinese civilization both probably from
this region, and II may yet yie.d knowledge Of
times far earlier than any that we yet know of.
An interesting discussion has sprung up among the
pnmiss in regard to the line OF the hand known
marriage line. One recognized authority says that
when this limo curves upward tho possessor Is not
likely to marry all Other experts reply that they
know many married and happy people with such .
line. 1t is also alleged that the transverse line
hll OF Mercury which party says 10 the marriage
line is not so considered by the Chirologca Society
"our opinion SAYS the editor of the party organ. "s
that these lines are signs OF attachment and there
scarcely hand ever seen without at least one in the
hand of either married or unmarried people"
The manager OF the Paris opera who produced Gou.
mods Faust in 1859 that in tho original
Marguerite nrst appeared IN the fair and sang dueS
with her brother. but as that distracted from her
trance to tho church It was cut out In the garden
scene tenor solo. "Agitato" was also eliminated.
likewise q whole act THIS gave 4 scene tho Harris
Mountains and was omitted being too long and too
orchestral Tho cathedral scene almost forbidden,
from the Ministry fearing that 1t might lead TO dipIo
matte difficulties with Rome. Because tho Papal Nun
cio accidentally friend Of Gounod was blind he crit
icsed nothing but the music which he found beautiful
30 tho scene was saved The solii.s chorus was ln'
serted later In place OF song Oy I"'W"> Ihc great
publisher Of the time iiengc. reiusei Faust" and
his rival who took II, Choaden', made fortune. AZ
the hrst performance the audience were hostile and
the garden scene was b vigorously bbseu mat the
manager ordered the odg4r to cease ApplsudinE