The sun., 1896-03-01
FOREIGN NOTES.

| up IN the Royal Exchange the Queens birthday.
Lord wolsecy proposes To begin reform in the
British army by ahollshing the cooked hats and
feathers worn by staT officers
Irincc Boris ot Rugaria's baptism into tho ortho-
doN Church will bc celebrated 10y the issue of n
| postage stamp bearing his portrait.
| Russian naval Lieutenant at Scbastopoi who
| struck his Captain has been degraded from his
| rank and condemned to eighteen years hard labor
-rherc Is village In the canton of Berne In Switzer
| land named Montavon, where all tho inhabitants
| have the same family nanc which Is also the name
| OF the village.
NJ wicrokn, chief of police at Warsaw, hns died
OF strychninc poisoning. one OF his servants, who
| IA believed to ha,o relations with tho Nihists
| has been arrested ON suspicion.
| Mr.. Arthur Balrour 10 grief with his bicycle
IN Whtechapcl the other day. He got janmel in tho
! crowd OF vehicles and had TO take the pieces OF
his bicycle to Downing street In a hanson cab.
| Lord kanfurly recently had the Dungaunon town
council to dinner, and after they left found that
| valuable heirloom. a gold snurTboN presented to
john Earl of Butte by Gcorge H.. had disappeared.
| Lieut.. G"n. valcriano Wayicr de Niconu, Marquis
OF T"nerife il tho fun title of the Governor General
OF cuba. He is fourth tho list Lieutenant Gen.
| erals, above whom are six captain Generals OF tho
| kingdom. and is 81 years old
Six hines OF the lost carly English ralc OF Wade"
| which Chancer makes Pandarus tell Cressida be-
fore introducing TroIus TO her, have been discov-
cred in n Latin hnriily of the thirteenth century
!
Princess Lctitia, inwager Duchess OF AostA, has
! had a $50, 900 necklace. wedding present from
! King Humhert, stolen from her Several persons
belonging to her household In Turin have been ar
rested. The necklace has been sold In France.
Dogs not being allowed in German railway car
ringes Berlin owners OF pet dogs have taken to using
black leather hat boxes FOR their conveyance, the
sides OF which fall out pressing button. leaving
tho dog free when the guard has turned his back
Thirty.eiSht ccntennrlans were recorded In Great
Britain last year, fifteen men aud twenty three
en-. Tho oldest was Mrs. Henry OF Gortree who died
at 49, leaving daughter of q. In the last ten years
the 81. james, Ga-r''s has kept track OF 37s
:enarians, Of whom li3 were men and cas- women
NM. Le Barry and Re Feraudy have Just been
elected to full shares sociGtares OF the Comadio
FRANCHISE. The only other members of the
pany who have full shares Mounet-Suy,
Worms, Coquel;n, Cadet, and Silvain. Miles. Bran
des and Du Mnn have been promoted from pension
nnIres to soci4taires.
scrumpox Is ! new disease TO which football has
given rise In England 1t Is bad eruption, coming
Indirectly from dirty jerseys and affecting especially
the forwards in Rugby football, who have TO shove
In scriminaSes. II has been proved to be conta-
sious. Tho particular ncrobe to which tho eruption
IS due Is the Stoph vtococcus pvo1enes
Vercstchagin has been holding exhibitions of his
new paintings at Moscow and st. Petersburg md
has aroused great Indignation among Russians.
There eleven large representing In his
realistic manner Of the French invasion OF
1872, which offend Russian patriotism. while three
shock orthodox religious feeling by depicting the
French desecration OF churches.
Frances fastest express trains On tho Nord
Railway, tho Paris Lille train whose speed excud-
ing stops, is 523l miles hour tho Calais express
IL ..aA % ,''''e'' oa INC .s' of'eaiS' FaiS Lyon
.ie'iiteffahee' oho a'ui ra'"ays' the Trains from
."s " NaHcS' bora'auA' anu MAJ rseiiies anu from
Bordeaux to Cet.e, whose speed Is +5 miles, and
The Quest line, the Paris Havre express making
n.''es ine "a" OF 100" lil'ihs inc extreme speed
" ' P'"s '" '''s ''iiie' al n'ui - s''ii Al i'rce'
MascaSni's new opera, one act, "Zanetto,' taken
from Coppee's ''Le Fassant," is described by tho
composer as his most original work. It begins with
a chorus without orchestra behind the curtain
prelude. Tho scene Is the terrace OF q Florence
villa at night and there are but two parts, soprano
anu mezzo-soprano, one dressed aS a man. 1t Will
be given on March at Pesaro He Is writing an
other opera, "Festilla' one OF the scenes in which
will be Roman amphtheatre with the episode OF
| turning down the thumbs as the signal for death
Seville has been having picturesque and excis-
ing strike OF the 5000 cisarreras employed in tho
tobacco factory They rose In their wrath one
morning, smashed the windows and everything
they could lay hands on. and then paraded the
streets. For ten days the stores were closed, tho
women haransued and buttonholed the passers by.
and won tho whole town over to their side At
last the Government made some concessions and
the women went back to work before any blood
was spilled, though two officfals came near being
torn to pieces by the maddened "Carmens."
While the quality of bordeaux and burgundy
wines this year is unusually good the quantity
coo 40 ,l5 gallons is less than three fourth, Of
last years vintage and almost one half that Of
1893 IL +, the smallest vintage s,ncs 1850 Tho
yield OF the other European countries for 1898 is
Italy 55l $50 900 gallons: Spain 3s5 SIS 900,
Austria and Hungary 1871 oG2 900; Germany So .
900 900; Eoumania 700 SOC, ,OoOi Turkey 81 900.
OoOi Portugal ~ 600 900; and Greece swttzer.
land Bulgaria. scrvta and Russia between them
1873 s25 900 gallons Alser,a and Tuus produc.d
%. .OoO, 900 gallons OF wine
Paris artists have at last nterfered with the daily
sales of '.pictures', Mt the Hotel Drouo, Tbav ara
intended to sell the frames the rranemak.rx
paving as little as four cents for the uant,nrs
which are the common-work of several men ons
painting the sky another the foreground ar So
long ,s tha s,I.s x.ra hsL, ~, ~, p.-, No ,. ,,,