The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-14
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest.

-Four hundred tons OF top weight must como on q
the new French battle ship Brennus before she can DO
made seaworthy; one of her fighting masts will be
taken out and her upper deck will be almost com
plctely dismantled.
Reports from Gibraltar say that owing to threat
encd revolts the one-ey ed elder brother OF the Sultan
OF Morocco has been walled up in his prison ct widah.
The door aud windows of his cell have been blocked
up, leaving only q small opening through which food
Is passed to him.
The Brazilian National Observatory At Rio Janeiro
is to be moved from Its present position at MORO do
CASTILLO to a better situation near Petropolis. on the
other side OF the bay, $500 feet above the sea- II 10
expected that the new observatory will be ready
within two years.
A woman really died of a broken heart lately In
England. She was an old lady OF eighty.seven. who
fell dead while bu,toning her granddaughter's dress,
the post norton examination showing that the left
ventricIe OF the heart was ruptured. Only one other
such case Is on record.
Clwydfardd. the Welsh srchdruid. has Just died AZ
the age Of S3. lie had won many medals for poetical
composition, and since 1900 had. as archdruid, pro-
claimed each Welsh Eisteddfod. His strength and
vitality we're wonderful; when 81 years old he climbed
TO the top OF Snowdon.
Cape Colony Joins tho Universal Postal Union on
Jan. l, 1893 a nve-ccnt stamp will then carry a letter
10 eny civilized country OF Eny Importance in the
world. The only countries not now In the union are
China, Morocco, the orange Free State. and the Islands
OF Ascension, st. Helena, and Pitcairn.
DR.. Hubert Parry has been appointed Director OF
the Royal College OF Music In London. In succession
TO Sir George Grove. Or. Parry was professor OF com.
position and musical history in the college. He Is 40
se",S W, sfuuua'e oi E'oh anu oAioru' DOCTORS or
ano,iuso, Duo'in' ana Author
OF three oTatorios, Judith. -" Job" aud :" King Saul"
and of a " History OF Music"
Paintings and designs by Bartram HiIes. an armlesa
a'''s', u ho" on eAhio'uoh IN LONDON Mr. hiles
,ost MS arnis' close 10 'he shoulder, when q child by
o',ns run over oy morse car, ana Is Obliged 10 pains
o'a'" '"' o'uSh "e'"esh ns Ups ne won. never
'uhpe'Ie"h' hA'ioh scho'arshlp
"i e"o a yeara' SCUM hehs'hgton' and at the same
''''e" "'a'heu u h's' p''Ae iof modeihns IN clay He
paints 'anuseape'
'%iAharh' 'ho iA'e '<Ars physician mas lately
ue'iseu me" hiethoh or StAnehihsthe no" or blood
e''Sm y ihIee'ea INTO n "ouhd 'hroush q catheter
Ior minute or less the patient under ehioroform.
he''he pam nor any eNh enects IRON the steam
experiments on animals sho" that portions OF the
hNeI' Spleen AldneJs' lungs ana TO q certain sxtens
OF 'he oraih, may De removed without loss or blood
ana ""ho"t iatai results
'nA' n s'auiuhn, the on race course ~
Athehs' VIII DE the site OF the nrst contests of the new
International olympic games arranged by the Inter
national Athletic Association last June. Tho games
VIII De contests for the championship OF the world In
sports ana forms OF physical exercise, limited 20
Adult Amateurs Tue hrst meeting Will take place In
1870 In Athens, the second In 1900 in Paris, and after
thAt meetings VIII be held every four years In some
capital city
Loru ihurIo"' VINO In 1868 was attached 20 the
briush legation at Washington as Sir Frederick
p'Na'e secretary no" appears IN the bank
Iup''S court WIN hanl'ues amounting 70 sSlOo.oOo
ana assets OF slSo,ooO' HIS bankruptcy Is due TO
In stocks, The nrst Lord ThurlOw wAs
george iii's sreat Lore chancellor during the war or
the american revolution and Is famous for the speech
III when ne ea'led tue Duke OF "rafion' the descend
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