The sun., 1895-05-26
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

his Mira Pelham Feeding Chickens" for s575.
Bagdad date mark Is the name given TO mysterious
disease that attacks nearly every who stays IN
Bagdad for any length of time. ana Is found nlso at
Aeppo and other places in Turkish Asia 1t is sore
that comes only once but lasts year. leaving
the shape OF a date Nearly all the natives arc
marked with It, No remedy has been found for II,
but hyposuphito OF soda seems to have some effect
on the mark.
At Athens, with the fragments lately discovered on
the Acropos. tho German school has put together q
part ortbe pedment OF the Parthenon Of Psistraus
and some OF the frcze OF the Erechthelon.
When the library OF Mr.. Chapman, the publisher,
sold little while ago In London tho contract for
"Pickwick" brought $3.50. an agreement by Dickens
for sales IN the United States ESQ., and letter written
just before he started for America e16: two sepa H.
Illustrations to Barnnby Rudgc," by II. X. Browne.
were sold for sll0.
Cambridge University Is going to give tho degree OF
Doctor OF Science to Francis Cation for his researches
In hcrcly aud that OF Master of Artsto Lord Acton,
the Professor of History, who holds no degree.
Recently the Prince de Sagan was allowed TO turn
part OF the Bots de Bouogne into bicycle track for
private club when he had over three hundred trees
cut down without permission.
Leipzig Uurcrjity has Just lost its two best known
medical professors in Friedrich Thcrsch and Karl
Ludwig, WHO died within two days OF each other.
Thcrsch Of the greatest surgeons Of his gen
Grafton and during the war with France was Surgeon.
in.Chlef OF the Twelfth Army Corps. Ludwig
of the foremost psychologists OF the century and
to sustain violent attacks from the anti tivivisecton.
lists, and for long time of the sights OF Leipzig
was little dog he owned in whose breast was set
glass plate allowing the beatings OF the heart to be
seen Lndwig daughter married DR.. Bowditch Of the
Harvard Medical School.
At the Hamburg Marine Observatory $4,000 copies
of German ships logs containing meteorological and
other valuable scientific Information have been re-
ceved since the observatory was established In 1873,
though only $500 German ships go to sea yearly.
During llrltiSh Admiralty
cc"C only 5000 ships logs though the yearly sa!lings
OF English ships exceed 20,yGO
Japan in SOB contained /, ,OO6 commercial corpora
tons with $40 "a" OF capital l3l national banks
with siS4 capital; II electric light companies,
In which Sc Az $50 invested WI lie til
In railroads was S13l 1000. and 90 corporations pro-
posed to build 1900 miles more. refinery
with 81, 900 900 capital had just been started.
Karl Vogt tho paaortoogst, who accompanied
Louis Agassz In his inretgations OF the Apins
glaciers. died recently at Geneva in his 18th year.
II" was driven from his professorsp at Gicsscn. and
from Germany In lslS. on account or his liberal
views and since 1852 had been Professor o: Zoology
and Geology at the University OF Geneva.
nangkok IN Siam, has more than dout led its com.
mercc in single 5 vessels entered and cls ,rei
| In 1893 as compared with 2s5 in 1892. while the In
crease IN tonnage was 211,3o0 tons 1872 per cent.
The value OF the imports Sll2053 800 in gold and
that OF the exports s22. .2S5j1o, mainly rice.
out OF 25Hl11 recruits for the German army last
only 1i, about ~ IN 10000, were Unable to read
and write: Of 34365l Frenchinen in the
period % oa5 that is 0i3 in 10000. ilierate
Zoa's opinion Of university training is not fattcr.
ing: Whoever has hrea,hed the air OF such school
remains infected by II long he lives. The stale
and sickly odor OF dead and useless learning cngs
his brain. and In spite OF ali his efforts, he goes
through life itching with petty jcalousies md a
pcdagoguc love OF the rod. and embitterrd with all
the hatred and envy OF the Old bachelor who had
never had courage enough to claim the woman he
loved. When such fellow happens to be quick and
bold by nature un innovator with new Ideas which
Is not often the case, he spends such time and labor
in giving his thought academic and conventional
air that pass his discovery by n autIQuated
formula. He cannot be original II he would lie has
lived too long In the world: his being has taken the
shape imposed upon 1t. You may scholars and
reap professors but never will you nnd original
creative intelligence among them: Schoomasters!
all schoo!mastcrs! nothing but schoolmasters
The old Oceanic the pioneer steamer OF the
White Star line, has Just returned to England from
the Fast. She has been used passenger boa. for
twenty-five years. From 1870 to 1875 she be-
tween New York and Liverpool. and for the last
twenty years between San Francisco and Yokohama.
Under Glasgow harbor a tunnel has been just
p!etsd and will be opened next month. connecting
tho two banks of the Clyde II Is 10 feet in diameter
and 100 feet long. and has taken five years build
Readers OF Lorna Doono" Will bc glad TO hear
that Mr. Blackmorc has written another story Of the
time and place. using some OF the characters of
the romance. 1t Is called "Sair by the Dooues:
Rec orl OF ENmoor" and will be published in October.
An oviform Savrcs vase, painted with horscnen
and figures after Wouvermaus. brought $4,000 at
the recent sale of the collection OF the late Mrs Lyme
Stephens. the ballet dancer Pauline Duverney.
Other high prices $4,000 paid for a given by
lou's XIV. u the Marquis de Montcalm the defender
OF Quebec. and the same sum for pair OF beu
jardiniAres, with paintings after poucher For tail
StvrcS part OF the royal service Windsor,
$4,000 given: for three hexagonal Worcester
vases. dark blue scale pattern $1,000; for old chi.
nesc square vase. enamelled with ducks and water
plants, SlB15; for gobuiar cistern enamel'e with
l!oHD birds. S7Ij: for pair of mandarin Jars,
s3,35o; oviform Sevres vase gros bleu, white and
gold with figures landing merchandise. fetched
S3,SU0 and another pair OF SGvres vases S5,25O.
ToIrevcnt ts notes being forged by the aid OF pho
toyraply the Bank OF France is about to print them
in three coors-bistrc. red and bue-and In rev de-
signs Tile I.OC0-franr notes nearly ready, and
the 100. franc note Will be changed soon
one plan or entertainments for the Paris Exhibition
of 1900 is reproduce the Boulevard du Temple OF
Louis XIN.s time. II there that the fairs were
held and on It the Vauxhai. the Royal Circus.
the Wax Works of Curtius, Nine. Ncoet's Menngcre,
the IarlIn Turc. the Funambues, and many cafes.
The proposer. H. Bertrand. manager OF the Opera.
suggests tina; these shows be Joined the Oil I6te!
tie Roursogne the theatre that preceded the Cor6die
Franchise, and LullrS opera.
A newspaper printed at LIhecz. Germany. gives a
curious Instance OF police tyranny In ths neig boring
town OF Dassow. A poor laborns woman named
Dorothca Brlhn. whose a husband had for many
years been belrdden went TO the pastor OF the town
with request that he would ofciate at the burial or
of her children The pastor merely said that he
would about It. and failed appear at the grave
al the appointed hour. In default OF other religious
services the mourning mother rccited the grave
single verse of hymn expressing her faith In the
chiids welfare in the other world For doing this she
was reported hy n Jealous policeman as having vio-
lated an ordnance forbidding lay person TO make
a discourse intcrmcnt. Tie Police Justice found
her guilty and she was fined the sum ~ little css
than dollar. with the alternative, nonpaynent,
OF days Imprisonment.
All the CoDurg company comprising lbn persons.
will appear at Drury Lane next June. They will give
operas rarely well sung outside o: Germany like Zell
ner's Vogelhindlcr," Smctanas Die Verknufte
Brnut" Iocrtzings Gear uni Zimmermann,"
Willschitz," and Der WaTenschmed," besides
" Fauscl und G:ecl," The most important play will
be Sudo rmaiins D" Ehre;' bar they will act also in
comedies like "Doktor klaus" ana Hasemanns
"Tochtcr."
Herr Schiosser the original Mime IN Wasncr's Der