The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-23
Foreis. Notes or Real I.te-est.

In nine consecutive passages the LucanA has svsr-
aged 2Ik knots an hour this year.
During the nine weeks that the cholera lasted at St
Petersburg the number of cases was ans. and OF
deaths 2,043: that Is, every other patient died.
Earl Grey, who died recently at %. was the Oldest
living and the last survivor OF Lord Melbournes
Cabinet, the Cabinet which held once when Quee
Victoria assembled tho throne.
Dean Mccartney OF Melbourne Australia. has Just
died In his Goth He had held the deahship forty
two having to Australia with Bsnop Perry
the nrst Bishop OF Melbourne.
Gen. Wolfe's sword. which he when he met his
death at the capture OF Quebec in 1852 and which ts
owner Major Dunn, used in the charge OF the Light
Brigade at Baiakiava, has Just been bought by the
Canadian Minister OF Militia
Napoleon I. was "I'homme petit chspeau girls"
the man with the little gray hat NJ Casmi Perer u
"Phomme au petit landau bleu" since the Longchamps
races, TO which he was driven In a landau drawn by
four horses. with positions. The outriders were
given up at the last moment but the reminded
Paris OF the Second Empire and gossps insist that
carriage Is the one used by Napoleon III.
Escbylus's triIogy consisting OF the Agamemnon,
the chpphori and the E9menides, Is To he given In
some London theatre next May Prof. viiliers Stan.
ford, who wrote the music for !" The Eumenides"
when Il was performed at Cambridge. has undertakes
to compose the music for the other two playa The
work will be carried out with archaeological accuracy.
and the proceeds will to the British School Ath-
ems subscriptions TO guarantee fund TO insure tho
success OF the undertaking are now called for.
Returns OF the French vintage Of 1894 Just received
report yield Of sO,0OOO0O heetolitres 1870 900 900
gallons only three fhs of the yield $685. while tho
quality Of the red wines 10 likely be Inferior owing
to q cool summer and very late vintage. The best
vintage In France this year has been In Champagne
There Is fear OF Immediate scarcity OF good French
wine however, a. the last years uss7 20 1899,
have been rich years both for quantity and quality.
and the storehouses are full OF ripening wine. For
1894 the yield Of the leading Bordeaux vineyards a.
follows AedOc 900 hogsheads OF 40 gallons; Chateau
Lante 100 hogsheads houton Rothschild. $50; Cos2
d'Estournel. 900, and Pontet CAnet. 500.
AT Radicena, In CalabrA, . statue OF the Virgin.
which had stood quietly for hundred years in the
village church suddenly began Its eyes the
9th OF September last The miracle By all
the Inhabitants, who took the out that night
and carried Il about In procession when a strange
halo in the shape OF the around tho
moon. From that day the Church OF the Madonna NJ
the Mountain has been crowded day and night, pill
grmages to her are being organized gifts are pouring
in, and already so 900 francs in money have been
ceiyed. The syndlc OF the town asserts that the
miracle really happens and deputAtion has started
for Rome TO lay the facts before the Pops
Among the unpublished memoirs OF the revolution
and the empire known 10 exist In Trance are those OF
Marshal DavoIs kept In iron chest In the museum
at Auxerre and 10 he published till 1928. hun.
dred years after the Narshas death; those Of PaIs
10y who helped tear down the Baste, part OF which
are in the BbliOthAque Rationale. and part In the
Mus1e CarnAvslet OF the members OF the Convention
Bandot and CaSsany6s. In the library az Sens . copy
Of the memoirs Of FIsury de Chaboulon. with mar.
ginHl notes In the handwriting OF Napoleon Tue
BIbothsque Rationale contains a unique COPY OF the
memoirs OF LartveillSrs LeDeaux. the member OF The
Directory which was printed IN 1873 by Hstyel bus
the whole edition was bought up and supsssssed by
the family before Il published. The DIRECTOR -
very bitter against Lszare Carnot, and BonapAT--.