The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-19
FOREIGN NOTES OF REAL 1NrBnEs,

A collection of a7e letters by and 20 Sir Philip
Francis. after being offered In one block for 6U0
guineas in London, was sold at auction. tho separate
lots bringing a total Of %. 100.
After having been sold twice to be broken up, and
having resisted the gales Of q year on the Biaokpool
rocks. Nelson's Foudroyant was 1t last broken to
pieces by the severe storms that visited England at
the beginning OF this month.
The Dean Of st. Asaph delighted q London crowd
recently by %sprinting after o pickpocket and catch
ing him. The thief had stolen the Deans wife's
pocketbook in church while she was watching her
husband perform q marriage ceremony.
A woman of San Casciano. near Florence, who at -
had murdered her husband. has Just been set FREQ az.
ter forty years. imprisonment at hard labor. Her
life sentence was committed owing to her having
never received q black mark in that time.
Ono result Of the engineers strike in England has
been q rise in freights, as ships cannot be repaired, and
the output OF new tonnage has ceased for nearly
six months. Mediterranean freights have increased
from six or seven shillings q ton to ten or eleven
shillings.
s~trasburg University students have combined in
forming Q good resolution that has startled Germany.
They have abolished the ErlhscLoppen and will
drink no beer save in the afternoon and evening, a.
morning beer prevents them from following lectures
inteligently.
Lord Dorchester. the grandson Of Sir Guy Carleton,
who commanded the British forces in Canada in tho
"At VI nofoiulous Iuht uiou WITHOUT mao
heirs. The title. which was granted in consider Itlon
OF 1ervices against tho American colonists, becomes
therefore extinct.
Prince Oscar OF Sweden. who some time ago gave
up his royal rank to marry Nus Ebba Munck and 10
now known "a Cunt of Wisborg. has decided to 60
to Africa as q missionary, together with his wife.
They have been p~racticing on savages who have visit
ea Stockholm with travelling shows.
At windisch. In the Swiss canton OF AarRau, the
site of the Roman colony vindonissa. the most i'm.
portant archaeological discovery since the finding OF
the Hildesheim treasure has been made. An amphi.
theatre, several large Roman villas, and q great many
coins. pottery. bronze. silver and iron vessels and i'm.
PIGMENTS have been found.
France's wine crop this year. according to the
Excise once estimate. amounts to TIE, 900, 900
gallons. l.0o0,0 900 less than last years vintage and
9.775.000 gallons less than the average wine crop of
the last ten years. With the addition Of 81, $50. 900
gallons Of Algerian wines and $500. 900 gallons In
Corsica. the value 10 set at s21. 752. 900 francs.
Mainz is to be dismantled or Its Notifications and
the ground they occupy Will be turned over by the
German Government to the city authorities for 4, 0oo,-
600 marks. The place will be protected by o moro
modern system of defences, like those at Cologne,
which are far out in the country and disguised.
Mainz, ns q fortress, has been an objective point In
nearly every great European war since Roman times.
Acane owned by Chief Justice Way Of South Aus
tralia seems to carry o Prtvy Councillors place with
it. II belonged originally to Mr.. DALEY, the arst
Australian Privy Councillor; he gave It to Sir Alfred
Stephrn. the next Australian admitted to the PrIvy
Council, and tho latter bequeathed it to ths Chief
Justice q few months before the Queen called Mr..
Way to the Council.
An unauthorized miracle has brought about the
closing of o church at Giulis Nova. ON the Adriatic.
A crucined figure Of Christ on the altar Jled from it's
wounds at stated intervals. and. as the peasants
crowded to the sanctuary in spite OF the Bishop's
declaration that the miracle did not exist. the Italian