The sun., 1895-02-03
Foreign Note. or Real Interest.

Paderewskt will go to Germany at the close OF his
English engagement, and will play at Dresden and at
Leipzig In the middle OF February. and at Budapest
with Niksch and at Vienna with Richter toward tho
end OF the month, In March he Is TO go to Spain,
whore he will play at Madrid Seville, Cadiz Valencia,
and barcelona.
There Is "A dispute between tho Mayors OF winches-
ter and Truro In England to which 10 the senior
The Mayor OF Winchester Is the In succession
that city and IL generally sdercd the ancien
Mayor In England The Mayor ot Truro claims to no
the 758h Of his order The Heralds College 10 inves
tIgating the question,
A collection Of six manuscript and !, ,l09 printed
versions ~ the Imitation Of Christ" OF Thomas A
Kcmpis sold lately in London for e72O. q sum
which probably would not cover even the capresshgo
paid by the collector, To make complete collection
of all III" editions NJ this book Is one OF the impossible
fcats Of book collecting,
Football In the form OF the Rugby game has taken
strong hold ON France. Some twenty clubs belong to
the Union dcs Sncibt@s FRANCHISES des Sports Ath-
Hulue. There arO n dozen clubs In Paris aud others
In BordcHuE, harsoillcs. Lyons, ana Havre. The
yCt"s IN Paris and the provinces have Rugby nfenns
The association game lis confined to Paris and 7cw
places In the north Of France. the clubs Delng com.
passed mainly OF English residents
Buring the ten years from Ssa to ls0a the colleges
at oxford have lost on n average SJOOO 900 year or
Income through the prevailing agricultural drprcs.
slun-J0 per cent of their total Income, This has
been made up In part by Increased receipts from
other sources ~ that tho total decrcas" Is about nys
per cent The dinnuton, however, has affected IN
dVIdual colleges In dlnercut ways S0ns having lost
a. much as quarter ~ their rrNUnucH
D. Ihaput, n French d0rtur has been examining tho
calibro ~ the human Intestine. Tho instrument hn
found II safe To twenty one millluietreA Ia
diameter while one ~ twenty seven mllllnrtT-s
seems Ia be- used Ia America. lie asks whether this
is due Ia difference In sH" IN the Intestine and II Il
IN, whether II snnt dun to tho refinement ~ French
cookug Durs good cooking produce physical do
trl"railon. and lNlt a physiological u,istako'
ON" ~ tho latest sandals un.aTthed In Irauce reads
lik. a buTrElue. man was arrested for drfraudlng
wine merchant hy representing that certain shaTrs
of tho Nir" Navigation company, which he gave Ia
payment fuT Ius, were worth much more than their
market value. THIS he'd a. an INVESTIGATION ~ tho com.
phny, which Ad'rril-ed daiJ service brtwosn Nic"
and G'hara n turned Out that The persons f0rmlug
a." company never hai any capital that ihry had
hired an old steamer credit had chAug'i IT. nama
Two or three times Z" conceal sientity and used tho
inherent IAnes g. mGso up their Meet A. the steamer
was not Senw"rthy Il regularly l"'t SIC" with great
display, aud soon as it MAS cut ~ tlght made Tor
safe place tho coast never trying "a Ia Corsica
and after while returned 10 Slice IN" captain aud
crew wrTa paid Tho drvlarr ~ this Ingenious
scheme IL naval engineer and ChsvAlisT Of tho L0,
sion VI HOnOE.