The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-15
FOREIGN NorEs OF e A INrEREsM

Victoria, Australia, has turned out see, bie ounces
of gold during the last nino months, an increase Of
81 900 ounces over last year.
seventy one persons died OF starvation in lou.
doa during 1895, according TO official reports,
nearly double the number the year before.
Plague and pestilence. In addition to famine, are
impending over British India. There have been ASs
cases OF bubonlc plague, with 2s2 deaths, 40 far in
Calcutta and Bombay.
At the nftieth anniversary OF the French schoe,
at Athens next year, a performance OF "OEdipe Roi'
With Mouret sully and the Comedio Francaiss
company will be given In the theatre OF Dionysos.
steamship building on the clyde has taken a boom
of late. one Glasgow firm recently received an or.
der for fourteen steamuiers of from 1000 to 6,Cc9
tons, and nine other sIeamers were ordered The
same week.
The Dnunt's Rock ~liShtship on Queenstown har.
hor. which was believed to have gone adrift IN
last months gales, foundcrei at her moorings, car.
ryinS down her crew OF eight men, as the divers
recently discovered.
DR.. hansen has received $50. 900 from the pub.
fishers for his coming book. This statement was
sworn to in a suit they brought recently to prevent
the Daily Chronicle from printing "a long account OF
his explorations written by him.
Xavier ScharwenEa's opera 'Mctasarunta' has
been brought out at wcimar under the direction OF
StaScnhRren, the pianist. the principal womon's
parts were taken by Stavenhagcn's wife and by the
daughter OF Joachim. tho violinist.
The Rev. Carr John Gym, brother of the nrst
Lord Wolvcrton and senior member OF the Glyn
family Of bankers. has just died at the age Of 90
years. He held the two family livings of Hinton
Parva aud Witchampton for sixty years.
Cardinal lioheniohe is the 18Th Cardinal to die
since Leo Mn. became Pope. His death leaves only
hve survivors among those appointed to the Sacred
College by Pho Nono-cardinais orcgila dl santo
%stcfnno, Parocchl, Ledochowski. di Canossa, and
Mcrtcl.
on All Souls Day. when Paris turns out to deco
rate tho graves OF Its dead with wreaths. many
mourners this year went 10 the cemeteries on bi-
cycles, carrying their flowers with them. Al tho
Pore Lachaisc cemetery policemen were detailed
to look after the wheels left NJ the gates.
Coquclin cadet hns put through a new rule at che
Coincide Francaise, by which each part in a play
VIII be performed by every societa.re entitled TO
act in IT In turn. Hitherto only parts In classical
plays were changed about, but henceforth the
practice viii apply TO modern plays as we'll.
NJ. Barriere believes that he has discovered a new
chemical element in the course of his Investigations
in mouaZite sand and has named II lucium. II does
not form insoluble salts when coming into con-
tact with either sodium or potassium sulphate. Its
spectrum resembles somewhat that OF erbium. NJ.
Barrierc thinks II may be useful for incandescent
gas lights.
NJ. Paul Buffet, the young artist who this year
obtained the splon prize OF 10000 francs, which
ohliges the recipient to travel out Of France for
two years, has shocked the directors OF the BeauE
Arts. by turning his back on the museums and art
SCHOOLS or Europe II starting q AbvSslhla.
where he intends TO paint Nesus Mcnelek's por-
trait for next years Salon.
Lord Saisbury's luck IN the matter OF high crcls-
siastical patronage Is holding out. In fifteen
months he has had 10 appoint an Archbishop os
Canterbury, and bishops of Winchester. Rochester.
Chichester, Ne wcastle, Peterborough, and London,
a NTH OF the whole bench. Twenty -four Of the
present Bishops. about three fourths OF the total
number. have been appointed by him.
Fanny Ccrito, the ballet dancer. tho last survivor
o, the famous pas dc quRtrc" Of 1898 under Lun-
ley's management at London. the other members
OF which were Taglioni, Fanny Fl ssler, and Car
lotta Grisl, was one OF the persons who turned out
to see the Car when he was in Paris. She IS only
IS wears OF age. Lumley stopped the fight for pre-.
ceicncc IL that quartet by saying that the oldest
should begin.
Gen. Venukor. head of the geological survey CON.
nectcd with the Trans Siberian Railroad. reports
to the Paris Academic des Sciences that he has
found nifty. four deposits OF coal or OF Ignite along
the line OF the road, none OF them, however. in
the region between the Ural ana the Altai noun
talns, 10 western Siberia. The survey has extended
to the shores of the sea OF ochotsk, where coal and
gold have been found.
British Guiana intends soon to d.sestablish the
Church. At present It has two established reTig-
ions. the Anglican and the Scotch Presbyterian.
while the Government also helps the Methodist
and the Roman Catholics. The colonists think that
500, Oo1 a year is too high a piice to pay for what
they receive. The Legislature has extended the
present system for eighteen months only, instead
OF the usual seven years.
Prot. Kraft Ebing, who holds the chair OF mental
diseases at the University OF Vienna, cnlivened his
instruction recently by allowing a mailman, one OF
his patients, TO lecture in his stead. The man is af-
fictcd by periodic ATTACKS Of mania, during which
he Is much more clever and witty than when sane.
His lecture, on The mental condition of the maniac
in periodical attacks OF Madness was a brilliant
success, After it was over he was shut up again.
oxford men won hfty.six and Cambridge men
twenty-sIx out OF ninety four Indian and homs
civil service places open 10 pablo competition in
England. one result of making II easier for univer.
sItv men to enter the public service is a falling on
In the number Of candidates for the University
honor examinations. The civil service candidates
give up their last year TO examining for the special
examination instead of attending to their college
work, conteuting themselves with pass degrees.
Peacock feathers do not bring III luck, according
to Mr. St. Clair Baddelcy in a recent issue OF Notes
and Queries. In China, from when the bird nrss
came. It is a bird OF good omen. In Russia ths
feathers are n charm against the evil eye. The early
Christians used the peacock as a symbol of immor-
tality. Louis TX. wore a peacock's feather in hs
helmet, and the early Italian and Flemish painters
placed them in their angels wings. The superstI-
ton that-thc feathers bring bad luck must be a very
modern one.
An "adventurer's share In the New River Com
pany was sold recently in London for 1925 .ooo.
The company was started in 1908 by Si- Hugh Myd-
dleton 10 supply London with water from the Hert-
fordshlre hills forty miles away. Half the shares
vent 10 James |. as the Kings mniety, the others 10
the thirty X advcntugers. Middleton was ruined
by the speculation. but the company owns a greas
deal OF property IN the city OF London and the
counties of MiddIescx and HEREFORD. The interest,"
II a share is about $4,000 IA year.
Aconcagua, the highest mountain on this hemi.
sphere. is to be thoroughly explored by AL expedi-
tion ntted out by sir. Z. A. Fitzgerald, the eE-
ploier OF TIE New Zealand Alps. which recently left