The sun., 1895-02-08
Foreign Note. or Rec, Interest

new and larger hospce travel the Aosta Ms7-
tigny pass is increasing in winter.
| The Girton team OF Cambridge played match %
! hockey with Alexander College, the womans college
OF Dublin University, and the game was draw.
| At Krakow recently theatrical manager obtained
permission to perform Julius Cesar" provided TIE
soldiers "were dressed in the uniform Of the i'm
| periai and royal Austrian army"
| In a Hungarian village recently farmer tried -
shoot his tenth wife and her father. He explained
that the previous nine wives had all consented TO be
| divorced when he asked them, but that this had
annoyed him by refusing. owing to the injudicdous
| advice of her father.
| man named slingsby, the last of the smusgierA
died lately at nearly ninety in aworkhousein Kent.
He belonged to the old OF half piratical SNUG
glers read of in Marryat and @. p r. James, and
figured in the trial of the Addington band in 1897.
when he escaped prison by turning states evidence
| Bicycling has conquered the French Academic des
Sciences It the subject for the Four
neyron mathematical prize for 1897: The Theory q
Motion, and More Particularly the Conditions OF Star
bility of vcocipedic Apparatus (bicycles safeties
| Co. in Rectnear and Curviiinear Motion on Hort
zontal and Inclined Planes"
J. Takasusu japanese A. b. Of Oxford, has trans
| lated into English description OF India and the
Malay Islands, written twelve hundred years ago By
I. Tsins, q Chinese buddhist priest. The book do
scribes the monastc life observed by the author in
india and contains great deal OF inform about
| geography chronology, and literature.
At Westminster Abbey the two hundredth annivsr-
Of the death of Henry Purcell. the composer vii
DO observed by the performance or programme OF
his music, including the Te Deum in d. the hrst
| ting OF the hymn TO music by English composer.
In two hundred Purcell has had only eight
| cessors in the post Of organist OF the Abbey.
By the death of Professor Sir j. R. seeley less than
three months after Mr.. Froude, Lord Rosebery 10
called upon I'LL Regius Professorshp History
at Cambridge well as that at oxford. Though Pro-
fessor seeleys fame with the general public rests
his Ecce Homo" and The Expansion Of England"
his best contributions history the "Introduo
to the OF md ife of
At Aug,nagsalik, the east coast OF Greenland in
latitude 85 degrees 81 minutes north. meteorologi-
cal station has just been established by the Danish
Government It is provided with selfrecordng In
struments well the usual ones. Holm. who spent
year there years ago. found the mean tempera-
for the be degrees Fahrenheit below the
freezing point while the minimum 18 degrees
below zero.
In Paris there Is theatre to every 82 900 inhabi-
tants in Berlin. 900: in Bordeaux. s4,-
600; in Budapest, one to s5.00O in Hamburg one to
10000; in Vienna, to l3S, 900. and in London,
to i45o0o The proportion of theatres to popula
tion greatest in Italy however where there 10
for $500 Catania in Sicily 10000 at Florence.
10000 at Bologna $4,000 at Venice, 10000 at Milan
and Turin and 3 900 at Rome.
Of electricity generated by q plate Of false
teeth occurred recently in England. man feelings
severe pain in his tongue consulted q doctor and Q
dentist neither OF whom could find anything wrong.
He then went TO an electrician. who found tbns his
false teeth were fastened to the composition plate
with two metals they were connected by wires to .
oalvanometer which as soon az the metals wer.
moistened by the saliva, showed current strong
enough to liberation and pain. The plate
was coyered with an Insulating yarnsh which nut an
end TO the trouble.
kaoul pictet has been experimen ntina with cotton
wool and other bad conductors at very low tempers
to test their to prevent radiation Copper
yere cooled down IN IN degreea taIoxv v.ro
centigrade and packed in layers OF cotton wool Of
various The cylinders rose to 40 degrees
below zero very quickly whether naked or packed in
cotton wool twenty inches thick the cotton vooI
acting like n perfect conductor of heat Above
itself felt the rate of warming varying with the bick
ness OF the layer
on receiving the Testament recently presented to
her on her birthday the dovaper Emnress n, rh,n.
began to read H. The Fmneror wisbea IN "a. IN.
hook and growing impatient sent n servant n.m.d
Ii to buy at the American Bible repository one Old
Testament and one New Testament writing IN. t,t..
down with his own hand Tha servant soon rssnrn.d
with the copy of the New Testament comnlain,ng
that number Of pages the CORNERS n, which h,d hn.
turned down were m,spr,nted A mora corrsct COW
was subs,ituted and since tben accord,ng ,o ths
pakip corresnondsn, NJ the ondon 1ys. ,ha cn,,...
royal family has been busv reading the scr,ntur..
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shows I'm color IN. material ~ which every pars
of building ia construc,sd Tba n,ans sbo,v NO, nn,v
the exact shane of eyarv hu,Id,,a hu, .ysr~ rorcr
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with blunt chisels into strips 2|S feet wide.