The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-09
Foreign Vote. or Rea, Interest.

Tho Duke of Argyll has held his title for nifty years.
Liverpool has voted s2e, 900. 900 for the further
extension OF Its dock system.
Havre's Chamber or Commerce has p%etitioned the
French Parliament to make the town and barbor o
free port.
Naples University is to have new buildings. The
Prince and Princess of Naples have just laid the cor
n%crstones for them.
owing to tho failure OF the grain crop there 10 o
fodder famine In Russia and the peasants are selling
their cattle and horses for anything they can get.
Ferdinand Brunetiere. as editor Of the Rerue dee
Deur Mondes. must stand trial in Paris for refusing
to publish a reply to an unfavorable criticism of an
unsuccessful tragedy.
At a meeting of tho British and Foreign Bible So.
cIety at Birmingham the Bishop OF Coventry found
that his coat and umbrella had been stolen. Tho thief
turned out to be q local preacher.
Hansen. the engineer OF the excursion train that
was wrecked near Copenhagen last summer. having
becn held responsible for the disaster. has been sem
fenced to four months imprisonment and to O nno Of
1853 crowns, or el2.02G, 80.
Lady Erncstinc Brudenell. Bruce. daughter of the
Marquis Of .~Ailcsbury. wants to sail her own yacht,
and has applied to ihn Board of Trade to be examined
for a masters certificate. The board refuses to CT.
anime her because sho is a woman.
Buhonic plague threatens ali northern India now.
the enorts TO restrict It to the Bombay district hav-
Ing proved unsuccessful. 1t has broken out at Hurd.
war. a place OF pilgrimage on tho Gauges. frequented
by great crowds, among them many religious men.
dicants.
A new trade route between India and eastern Per
STA has been established. which runs for half the dis
lance through lands under British protection. and
Shortens the journey by a month. It runs from Duet
Ia TO heBhed. l.082 miles. Wells have been dug and
posts established along the read.
An unpopular divinity professor at Mareschai Col
l"ge OF Aberdeen University began his course OF Loo
lures recently by a prayer, He was interrupted ~
the students. who ut the end sp~plaudoI and onod
"Encore"' on beginning his lecture he was hooted
at until another professor, after finding that the stu.
dents would not Withdraw. took his manuscript from
him and walked out or the room.
oxford University has a freshmen class of 725 this
year. or these only 800 come from tho great public
schools. Eton sendirg AZ. Winchester so, Rugby,
Char;orhouse. Harrow. and marlborough over 20
each. AMI eleven other schools over 10 each. Tho
rest come from small grammar schools, only twenty
having been educated by private tutors. There are
only twenty students from the British colonies and =
fcF from American and German universities.
Da'chylides'S POEMS the papyr rus containing which
was acquired by the British Museum last wear. ara
about 10 bo published. Nearly twlcea as many lines
total Icing about a thousand. There are twenty
poems or pieces OF poems IA all. Fix being complete,
anu OF nine more substantial fragments being pro.
served Fourteen are In honor OF victories in the
olJmpian games, the roSt being psAus. dlthyrAmbG,
or hymns classes OF verse OF which there were -.
srto no complete spScimsnA