The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-21
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Grand Duchess Victoria Meiita Of Hess Darn.
stadt, who 10 Q daughter of Prince Alfred OF Eng.
land. recently ned from her husband and cousin,
the Grand Duke. who 10 q son of the late Princess
Alice. and took refuge with her sister. the Crown
Princess of Roumania. az Bucharest, but was In.
duced to return TO her husband BY the interrenuoI
OF her family. Though the Grand Duchess ia
Guelph. brought mp a. the British court. the reason
given for her escapado 10 THAI Darmstadi il too
deadly dreary for her.
since 1877 there have been 400 theatre hrss
with 10 1000 fatalities. according 70 Mt. sAehIS
Fires and Public Entertainments,' 1uss published.
OF theee <oe tnok place In the United States. lsp 10
Great Britain, and ioI in Germany, France having
nearly the same number. London has had thirty
tres destroyed by IRE. .one-half were burned within
ten years after they were constructed, forty OF
them within the nrst year.
An interesting feature of the yachting exhibition
now being held in London. 10 the set OF cups won
by the old Arrow. which competed with tho America
in 1891 for tho Queens Cup and 10 probably the
oldsat British yacht in commission. being originally
built In 1879. It has been practically rebuilt sew
erai times without losing its identity. Among the
prizes are . later Queens Cup. the nrst and last
cups given by the Prince Consort. and the nrst os
given by the Prince OF WaleA.
An Italian actress named Mariani showed-an un'
Se~sS $50
del Vale ~ Rome. A three act farce by n. Saba
tiro Lopez was being performed for tho nrst time'
In which the principal female part was taken BY
her understudy, Nine. Mariani being Ill. The audi
ence hissed from the start. and the andsrstuuy
tainted st the end OF Tho nrst few scenes. when
Nine. Msriani took up her part and kept II 70 the
end, amid the bowls OF the spectators.
Paris, after rsyins impoteutiy because the city
Council has allowed street railroads 70 cross ths
Avenue des Champs Elysees, 10 now horrined At the
plan proposed for tho temporary quarters to bs
used for tho Two Salons till the exhibition build,
iugs are completed. onsstory buildings are 10 30
erected around the little gardens in the Louvre,
that extend from the Gambetta monument to the
galleries OF Egyptian AntiquitieS. The sheds will
DO lot for other shows when not used for the pic
turV exhibitions.
A play whose heroine is Aimee DsselSe. the
French actress, written by an Italian authore'',
Comma Fsrrugia, and recently produced al The
Teatro hanLoni In Milan. has aroused much I'M
favorable comment. a. persons: only recently dead
or stil living are presented on the stage. Tho
lover, though hia name Is chAnsed, 10 plainly Raron
dc RenLis. now Italian Ambassador AZ Madrid
while Alexaudre dumas MS. in whose play Pes
cleo FADE her last appearances In Paris. is repre-
sentod under his own name.
N. Bertholot. the chemist, who WAS FOREIGN In
lister in II. Bourgeois Government. reports TO me
Academic dss Sciences that the copper ooject'
found al NegGdAh aud AbydoS In Egypt by ~ 1'
Morgan are OF pure copper and no, OF broute'
Among them are an axehead. a curiously siHpe'
pair OF scissors. and some needles. The inscriptlo"
found on the tombs are so old that they have h'
yet been deciphered aud are believed TO date fro"
tue First Dynasty or earlier. NJ. Berthelo' thinA'
that the evidence for . copper age IL ooneluSi'~