The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-25
Foreign Note. or Real I-ter..t.

In Finland the Salvation Army has now lao ofhcer
and 5000 recruits. The Russian authorities no longei
oppose Its work.
The Quorn hounds in England recently followed thu
fox for twenty.seven miles. In two hours and seven
teen minutes, before II was killed.
Mr.. Harry lIcCalmont. the owner OF 1singlass and Of
the new steam yacht Glralda. has been made President
OF the Sports Club In place Of the late Sir John Ashley
Archdeacon Farrar has been appointed one OF the
Queens private chsplains in place Of the late Canon
Prothero. The Official title 10 Deputy Clerk Of the
Closet In ordinary to Her Majesty.
Lieut.. Nicholas Savin has died at saratov in Russis
At the age, 1t is asserted, OF 1925. He must have been
considerably above a hundred, for he entered the
French army In 1893. ninety six years ago.
Mozart's "Bastien ct Bastienne." q oneact operetta.
written when he was ~ years old, In to be given soon
in London as a curtain raiser for e HAnsei und Gre
tel" The l5retto Is an Imitation Of Rousseau's a" lie
Devin du village"
Albani has revived Italian opera in Berlin. She re.
Gently sang in la Traviata" to q full house. though
the prices were doubled; Raveill was Alfredo and
d'Andrade the father. She followed this up with
Gddd In I" Rigoietto."
by vote of the Greek Chamber OF Deputies. the whole
OF this years crop of currants will be detained and
destroyed. This is intended as . heroic measure to
save the currant trade from the utter ruin threatened
by overproduction.
At the recent sale OF the horses OF the late Duchess
OF hontrose. the three.yesr old nily None the Wiser
brought $4,000. Twenty horses brought siss. 900.
with The sales made during the summer, the entire
stud sold for $3.50, 900.
oxfords oldest graduate. DR.. y. q. Hawkins, died re.
Gently In England at the age OF 90. He took his de-
gree from Exeter College in 1918. There Is now no
living graduate Of n year earlier than 1920 and hare.
ly half a dozen who belong to tho next decade.
One hundred and twelve designs have beep .ubp,t.
ted for the buildings and grounds OF the Paris E1hi.
bition OF 1000, and the competitors have already
chosen the ten elective Members, who. with twenty.
one persons appointed by the Government. will ,olp
the Jury To Judge the plans.
nAl the English historical record, in the custodv ~
the stats will for the FIRST time be safe from FIRE by the
completion OF the new wing OF the Record ONCE in
London. TIL the beginning OF this century the records
were disgracefuiiy neglected, and IL was only I'm 1894
that n nreproof building was provided for a part OF
the papers.
An heir 10 tho ytediye OF Eeypt,s throne ia expected
soon. Abbas Pasba has notified bis Minister. that n
slave in the barem 1, soon TO he n mother and tina, tho
child, II a son, will be his successor. This 1, according
to ~ohammed precedents. the las, instance being
Tewak Pasha. the father OF the presen, Khcdiy.
Experiments are being made in France TO copcen.
trate wine into tablet. for TRANSFORMATION Altar Nh.
grapes are pressed the Juice 1, pumpsd into m appa.
ratus where IL IA evaporat.d and the amor condensed
When Il has the consistency OF a ,yrup IL ia mixed
with the grape puIp. producing n marmelade tina,
contains so per cent. OF grape sugar. To make wine
the cakes are mixed with the right proportion of
water.
The Chinese Testament which f. 20 be presented to
the Empress Dowager by the Christian women OF
china is a copy OF the Delegates version. made iu
1853. The book has solid silver covers. deliberately
ornamented In the centre OF one cover is a gold pla;.,
with the name OF the Empress and an inscription on
the back Is another plate, inscribed Holy Classic OF
Salvation" II is incioscd In q silver casket, and that
again In q teakwood box.
After twcnty years OF experiments q Russian
steamer ha, at last safely navigated the ANU Darya.
or oxus, as far as Faizabad in the extreme east OF the
Afghan frontier. As far as the river surhaui the
steamer CEar found a depth OF water nowhere les,
than AZ feet; beyond this, however, there was only
four feet, ald from ralzabad progress toward the
Pamir frontier was blocked by the decrease OF the
depth to only three feet. No other vessel ha, ever
made its way so far up the shallow oxu,.
The thousandth performance Of Gounod's Faust"
in Paris was celebrated recently at the Grand Opera
by the addition OF an 'apotheose - OF the composer. of
which the words were written by Jules Barber. on, OF
the authors OF tho original Iibretto. and tho mu.I, nv
Ambrose Thomas. The cast was: Marguerite. Rose
Carou; Edusf, Alvarez; Mephisfophsies, Dalmas; VlL
entin, Renaud: Siebs., Mile. Agussol. The first TIRES
hundred performances OF the opera were given at III.
Theatre Lyrique, where Mioihan CaryaIbo was the
original Marguerite.
An unpleasant dispute between the sculpIo. Robin
and the sOcIeI6 des Gems de Iettres over the statue of
BaIEac has been patched up. The money was sub
scrIbed six years ago and IN, commission for the
statue given to Chapu. who received a OOo francs ON
account. but died without completing the work In
1891 Rodin was selected as the sculptor and received
an advance OF 10. 900 francs on promising 10 hay. tho
statue ready by January. 1898. Unforeseen DELAYS
occurred; Robins nrst sketch was refused nv the
society because Il was too like the real Halxac. abort
and fat; he tried then TO make an ideaI naI,.c I'm,
refused To exhibit the result, as IL did nor satisfy him
whcreupon the society asked him 10 nav back tbs oL'
vance, and the sculptor refused. He has agreed how.
ever. to deposit the money with a neutral party and 10
receive his pay only when the work is done. The
OF Rodin has created dissensIons within liz
society; President. Jean Aicard and a lumber OF other
among them Hector MaIot. hav. resigned
A portrait OF the Virgin Mary aud the Infant Jesu,
painted by ST. Luke the Evangelist, 4. ATTRACTING
crowds TO the English Catholic church in the Avenue
Hoche at Paris. The picture belongs 10 The Passiopt.t
Fathers, having come to them from Col szs,aInav
Hungarian, who obtained It In 1929 in the HOW
Land. He there assisted a Greek monk In distress.
died aud left his belongings to the Colonel. This
is painted ON copper In ancient encaustic coI.
DTS aud Is ten inches by eight. The figures havs mo-
nimbus, Virgin and Child have Jewish features and
painting and drawing is rude. The inscriptions
IN II are In early ChAldaic, running like this. /" Nine
Eyes have seen Jesus. Miriam" give strenuth I,
Thy servant. Luke" on the back are inscriptions in