The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-04
Foreign Notes or Real Interest.

R6ntgen's rays are becoming vulgarized rapidly.
Prof. Brouardel OF the Municipal Laboratory Of Paris
has used them to nnd the contents OF Internal ma.
chimes, and has seen nails. screws. cartridges. and
even the grains of powder in a bomb. An English.
man asserts that he can tell pure claret from adul'
terated by the use OF the rays. In Berlin they have
been Introduced into q new farce. An English pho
tographer who sent out a picture OF q foot showing
An embedded needle received n telegram from Q
customer saying: photographs received very
tame. Send more sensational ones, such as interior
Of belly, backbone, brains, liver. kidneys. hearh
lungs. soul"
Some money, part OF 800, 900 In Brazilian paper
currency, lost in the wreck OF the steamer Buenos
Ayres. on the coast OF Brazil. between PernAmbuco
and Rio Janeiro. ak years ago. has Just turned up
I'm a fishing village north OF Oporto I'm Portugal. The
British company that paid the Insurance recently
received all anonymous letter from Portugal. which
they put in the hands of the Portuguese police.
who have already recovered ~, 500. The case con.
tanning the money was picked up by oporto Usher.
men. fishing on the Brazil coast, who divided 10
among themselves and said nothing; they vowed
10 give part OF It TO the church. and were betrayed
for not keeping their vow.
London police sergeants or roundsmen are paid
from 60. so TO s12 a week and constabies or pa
trolmen from SO to ss, In Dublin the wages are
half a dollar less. In Glasgow the highest pay for
a constable Is 50. as, for a Sergeant IS, an Inspector
gets $500 a year, and a superintendent from 81. 200
to 81 500. Tho st. Petersburg Chief OF Police
draws 81, 800 u year, a Sergeant from 5000 10 s4O0,
and a ~patrolman from $3.50 to s2eO n year, Paris
paws s5. 25 to 50. so to patrolmcn agents. and 81
TO roundsmen. Patrolmen get from s225 To $3.50
a year at Vienna. from $3.50 TO $500 at Amster-
dam. from 5000 to $500 at Brussels. where detec-
tiyes may rise q $3.50. The Turkish policemen get
IS aweck and the native policemen of Calcutta from
81 to 81. so a month.
Italy has been defeated In Abyssinia by men OF
her own race, n Prof. Sergi Il right. He believes
from meteorological evidence that tho bulk Of tho
population OF Spain, Italy, and Greece IS Hametic,
ike the ancient Egyptians, who came from tho
land of Punt, which SerVl places In Ethiopia, So
maitland, and south Arabia, The Hnmites first en-
tered Egypt, then spread east Ia syria ana Asia
Minor and west ns far as the Canartrs, the her
fans, Lycurians, Ptlasgians, and Etruscans being
branches of the main stem. They overran south
Russia, SNitlcrlanl, France, and Great Britain.
In tho Inter stone age they were cNterminated IN tho
valley ~ the 10 and In switzerland. and were du'.
en- south Of the Loire In Franc" aud To the soutn
and west In britain by the Colts. Prof. Sergi
assert, that this Mediterranean race II the most
BEAUTIFUL of all tho varieties or man.
Europoan observers are obtaining Interesting re.
suits with the \ rays, Prof. NIrrhow's assistant
Al Berlin has shown the lungs or a frog In the act
Of breathing. They have reproduced at Vienna the
veins aul urlrrIc, In a woman's hand into which a
chemical preparation hal been Injected, Two
Paris journalists have photographed the writing IN
"A letter thruugh the rnNrlnp" enclosing u, AZ
Aberdeen rublrs aui diamonds were enclosed In nm
aluminium box, when IN" plate showed the ruhi's
and the box, hut not the diamonds, tn" French
rxpcrimrutcrs seem Ia hr coming to the conclusion
thai the pictures are due 20 chclniral action on the
substancc with which the plates are sensiti1rd,
caused by the cle, tricity transmitted In the rays,
while many English observers think that the plc-
tuTes are formed by the action Of electricity on the
plates rather than By any property OF Light