The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-27

Enelish baronets have formed O sort Of trades union
to defend themselves against encroachments upon
their I. rights The list OF oficors. %puhlished in the
Times. is long enough to provide o place for nearly
every ono OF them.
An Englishman has Just completed Q journey o1
1000 miles ON q motor car through England and
Scotland. He was nve weeks travelling and used 1lA
gallons OF oil. which made his travelling cost him
three f~arthings. . cent and q half, Q milo.
wounded Hungarian bear came near rendering Q
service to Austria recently. 1t rushed upon the dis.
reputable Archduke Otto. next brother Of tho siokly
heir to tho throne. who, with a huntsman, stood in its
path. and toro the huntsman to pieces before It could
be shot.
Asharp-nosed Britou proposes that light buoys and
bell buoys be provided with evil-smelling chemical
mixtures as o means of warning to sailors in o fog.
The shipping World points out that. II the idea IL
adopted. the Board OF Trade will have to establiSh an
olfactory test.
Caldy Island. at the entrance to Caermarthen Bay,
Wales, containing $50 acres. has Just been sold. The
owner is free from all county and other land taxes.
The island was once the haunt of buccaneers and
pirates, and was O harbor of refuge for John Paul
Jones. whose name IL attached to its little bay.
Caldy has a lighthouse.
worcestershire's County Council is the nrst In
England to make use OF the power TO provide labor
era with land which the Agricultural Holdings act
gives 1t. A farm of las acres has been bought ana
broken up into smaller lots OF from 2a to 8 acres.
Purchasers must pay one.hfth down. but have forty
years in which to repay the other in~stallments.
Rousseau's tomb at Ermenonville was recently
taken to pieces in order to have the carving touched
up. 1t was found that the space within the tomb was
too small ever to have contained a comm. Rousseau's
remains were conveyed to the Pantheon during the
French Revolution. but 1T was believed had been
later replaced in tho tomb. The question now Les
where is Rousseau's COMM ?"
Another Roman villa has been dug up at Boscoreale,
on the slopes OF vesuvius. near Pompeii where the
great find OF silver ornaments was made two years
ago. The walls are covered with beautiful frescoos,
chiefly landscapes and marines. One represents .
bridge over a river. with an angler fishing with q line.
Four wine jars were In the cellar and seven skeletons
have been found in the excavation.
For some reason the Bohemians OF Prague under
took to celebrate the 250th anniversary Of the battle
on the Weissem0erg. which was tho first In the
thirty years war and in which the Bohemians, with
their elected King. Frederick OF the Palatinate. were
dlsastrously defeated. Tho outcome OF the celebra,
ton was a riot, in which the police were obliged to
use violence In scattering the crowd.
On a stone of the temple OF " wingless victoryS
on the Acropolis at Athens an Inscription has been
found stating that the monument was built by Kali
licrates. who was one of the architects OF the Par.
thenon at the beginning Of Percles's Government.
This hxes Its date at about $50 years before Christ
The Athens Archaeological Society is about to under
take the restoration and strengthening of the Par
thcnon. Marble from Pentelicos will be furnished
free for this by the company working the quarries.
Prince Bismarck's plan to Germanize Prussian
Poland by buying up Polish estates and settling Ger
mans on them has proved a failure. The Prussian
Chambers nine years ago established a fund of 100.
100000 marks for this purpose. The Polish mobiles
sold their heavily mortgaged estates 10 the Govern
ment readily. but. Instead OF emigrating. bought with
the money other estates in the country from Germans
and gathered around them Polish laborers. The only
result OF the experiments has been to benefit the
Polish landowners OF Posen.
Windsor Bridge across tho Thames has lust been
freed from Its ~twopenny toll through tho greed Of
the corporation. This had an undoubted right to
collect tolls from prescription as they had been taken
since the reign OF Henry vi. It asked Parliament in
1874. and again in 1919. for power TO charge addt-
tional tolls. and obtained 1t for a limited number OF
years. The privilege expired about ten years ago.
but the corporation continued to collect the money
till a litisious Briton refused to pay. thus bringing
the matter to the attention OF the courts.
Brgands in the Caucasus arc smulating the exploits
OF Dick TuTpin and Claude Duval. A band recently
stopped a coach containing the wife OF tho Erivan
Chief OF Police, with her daughter aud a police Of
ncisl sent To protect her. Immediately behind was .
carriage containing two men. The chief asked the
ladies. In this politest manner, for their yaluables.
and after receiving them wished them a pleasant
journey and that God might prosper them. asking
them TO present his respectful compliments TO the
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