The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-22

Prince Henry OF Battenbers's estate. for which
letters OF administration have Just been granted -
Princess Beatrice. amounted to IS, 145 in all.
A Paris shopkeeper who does not smoke 10 trJ ing
to get q divorce from his wife. the only evidence hs
offers of her inndenty being that her clothes always
smell OF tobacco.
DR.. Salmon, tho o 7.year-ol English physician.
has Just died at Cambridge. When no heard OF the
battle of Waterloo he posted to Dover and crossed
to Brussels to care for the wounded. He practically
gave up smoking ut 90, but drank port to the end.
A queer accident happened near walsall in Eng
land lately, where a canal fell into q coal pit. The
canal flowed over the pit, the underground supports
of which gave way. letting down the ground above.
draining the canal OF water. and putting a stop to
all trafic.
Lame de Pougy, the best member of the
Paris demi monde, after making a successful debut
on the stage of the Folies Bergere. in Jehan Lor.
rains ballet THE Golden SPIDER was thrown
from her carriage near the Arc de T%riomphe. as she
was returning home, and severely hurt.
At the Pasteur institute In Palermo 2,22l persons
have been treated in ten years. While the greates
number OF cases were OF dog bites there were instan.
COS or bitesby donkeys. mules. oxen. pigs. wolves. .
horse. a ferret, and a rabbit. and sixteen cases Of
bites by human beings suffering from hydrophobia.
A Norwich. England. bicyclist coasted down q
steep hill recently. striking the parapet of a bridge
at the bottom. over which he went, bicycle and all,
and landed twenty feet below on a boat In tho river.
He broke the thwarts OF the boat and bounded into
the water; by that time his back was hurt 30 thaa
there is no chance OF his living.
In consequence of the beauty prizes In PART. hav,
Ing been awarded to Mile. de Merodc. who is half
Belgian and half Austrian; TO Miss sibyl sandersou.
an American. and Mile. Wanda de Boacza. q Pole, .
meeting or French dancers and artists models has
been held, and o petition drawn up appealing to
III. heline for protection against foreign competition.
Sleeping In the open air Is a grievous and severe.
ly punished offence in England. Two little Rirha.
ono nve years old, the other two. were brought b.
fore a London police magistrate recently charged
with sleeping out without visible means OF subaiss-
ence. He refused to commit them and ordered
them 20 be let loose IN the streets again. Is thels
parents had abandoned them.
Lord George hamilton recently said in Parliamens
that the English system OF primary education was
the most expensive in the world. Sir Charles Dixie
thereupon asked the Government 10 give onncial
figures, asserting that the United States spent two
or three times as much money on schools a. Eng.
land does. This is likely TO be true. yet the results
obtained probably Justify Lord George Hamilton's
statement.
Nineteen German student corps that night dueis
have been dissolved az Vienna by order OF the Gov.
eminent. owing to their declaration that Jews are
Infamous and not entitled 20 demand or give satis.
faction by arms. Al the same time the German.
slav, ana Koumanian students were ,usI ended who
protested against the millennial celebration In Hun.
gary as an insult 10 other natlonalitIes, and who
tried to burn the Hungarian nag In the COURTYARD
OF the university.
A girl who can sNe the R6ntgen rays has been
found by DR.. Brandes OF Halle. who discovered
her, Starting from the fact that the rays do not
penetrate lenses. he hunted for some ono the lens
OF whose eyes had been removed, an operation per.
Formed not rarely for extreme short, slghtedness or
Tor cataract Tue g'rl, who had had the lens OF her
LEFT eye removed, was able TO see tho light with lt,
though her Tisht eye. which retained It's lens. could
see nothing. Or. iiTandes asserts that the rays NJ.
feet the retInA OF the eye, amt n any ones head 10
enclosed In an opaque vessel near thes ource OF the
raSs the light can be seen even with closed sysG