The sun., 1895-03-01

Jean de Reszke is to sing ut Bayreuth in 1896 the
part OF Siegfried In "Segfred" and in the Goetter
daemmerung" Edouard de ResEke will be the wotan
Father Tekerie, German, has been appointed Pre-
feet OF the Vatican Library by the Pope in place OF
Monsignor Carini who died OF apopexya little while
ago.
LongfelIows Ballad OF Carman." )" set to music
by young Scotch composer, Mr.. Archibald D. Arsott
was recently sung for the first time by the Lonoon
Choral Union.
American colonial art is becoming fashionable In
London. set OF ten handsomely carved chairs, i'm.
ported from Pennsylvania $50 years ago. were sold
there recently for S775.
Both Oxford and Cambridge made money by their
university presses last year. The Clarendon Press
earned $4,000 clear profit for oxford and the Pitt
Press $4,000 for Cambridge.
Two loads OF salted human heads were recently
delivered to the Sultan OF Morocco Fez by expo
dtion sent against the Rahauma rebels The trophies
will be placed on the city walls.
DR.. II. +. Johnson the new Bishop suffragan OF Col
chester. is Eton, Trinity, and Cambridge man, and
when in college rowed the university crew. Dur
ing the Crimean he officer In the First
Dragon Guards then studied law and finally entered
the Church.
Finland must he a sportsman's paradise. In ten
years 10000 domestic animals, including $4,000 rein
deer. destroyed by wild beasts and in that time
lOO bears. 1900 wolves. $4,000 lynxes and foxes.
10000 ermines, and $4,000 birds OF prey eagles.
hawks, &C., were killed.
Berry. lately the hangmsn in England was sum-
moned recently for not paying very small debh He
explained that his lectures hanging had not proved
attractive. that he had unsuccessfuy tried to get
work a commercial traveller, and that none of his
six children could md employment on account OF his
former calling.
Nimrod has been discovered In the cuneiform in
scrlptons by Prof. Sayce. who writes TO the Ahe-
nGum: Ills full name Nazl Muruda the Rassee.
and he the Babylonian contemporary OF the As
syrian King who restored Nine'eh and founded
Caiah about nifty years before the Exodus. 30 Moses
right after all"
Anthimos Archbishop OF Leros and Kalymnos has
lust been elected Gcumenica Patriarch OF Constanti-
nuple. The CEcumencal Patriarch Is nominally tho
head of all Christians OF the Greek rite. but as tho
Russian Church and the orthodox Greeks In Greece do
not his authority. he is cheny
by members of the Church in the Turkish domnions.
A Haryeyzed steel arnor plate for the barbettes
OF the new Magnificent was successfully tested at
Portsmouth recently. The plate eight feet by ak
and six inches thick four o.inch Holtzer proisctes
were fred against Il with velocities OF 1907 lsIb
1860 and 1913 foot seconds all four proJectIles were
completely shattered the fragments OF the third only
perforating the plate. the others penetrating from
two TO four inches only.
A curious breach OF the Sunday law came up re-
Gently In London police court. The International
Tract Society the agent Of a Sabbatarian Christian
sect which breaches the observance OF Saturday In
stead OF Sunday. complained OF for violating tho
Factories act by employing labor on sunday. Al.
though the law makes provision for Jews working on
Sunday II does not for Christians and though It
shown that work done by tho society on Satur.
day, and that Friday was kept half holiday nno
was imposed.
Mr.. Flinders PeTle has come a curious ceme'
tory at Cagadah In upper Egypt, The people buried
there are not Egyptians, for the bodies systema'
chly muIilated the heads taken OF and buried
after the bodies aud the larger bones broken on
nj the marrow end and gnawed, The articles found
belong u tha latest stone Sge' there are stone ana
AlAbast = vases, beads beautifully worked hnts,
Nory and bone hairpins ana combs and great Narl'
ely OF pots, many o; them decorated but NO iron or
bronze. Come papyr have also been found, in one Of
which We have for the rst tno the complete list of
the nrSt ten PtOlemles Ia Greek.
Caricstures by noted artists fetched high prices AT
recent London sale set OF nifty watcrculor draw
ings by hichard Doyle of PIiRCh, made when he MAS
only lb, and illustrating jack the GianGilleT'
brought $3.50; four drawings made by Tharkeray In
his Paris days sold Tor over saOa. Two dozen ut
leecha pictures the rst OF his drawing, 10 be SOLD n
open market brought nearly 500 apiece An unpup
Ahed ssIt by Charles Krcne on Heorgr Francis TRAM
with q note on the margin TO the editor OF IS"'h'
VIII this do II II lbeols p" sold Tor So There
were also Hnblot X. HoSnes ,Phi2l drawings i'r
Levers works, pictures by HOwlandson aad seymour
and Cruikshank's IlustratloIS tn AinsNoF1hs noNeG
An unpublished "sr John FaiSian and BardopA' ~
cFuikshank went Tor taS.