The record-union., 1897-08-08
Many Sunstrokes and General Dis
comfort Experienced.
Two Hundred Prostratons Treated at Hos
pitfalls in One Day.
The Spell Broken by a Thunder
Storm, in Which Several Per-
sons Were Killed, a Number of
Buildings Damaged and Crops
In the Country Seriously In
jured.

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in the Country Seriously In
| jured.
LONDON, Aug. IA long spell of
! not weather was broken by severe thun-
derStorms on Thursday and Friday, in
which several persons were killed and a
number of buildings We're damaged. and
the crops sustained serious injury
The thermometer registered 80 degrees
ON Wednesday, and at Cambridge the
heat was Is degrees above the av-
erage, which has only thrice been re-
ported during the last quarter of a
century. There We're over 200 prostra-
uons from the heat treated in six Lon
don hospitals ON Thursday There was
only one-third of an inch of rainfall
in July. The crops are seriously threat
ened, and the experiences of the 1896
water famine in the East End of Lon
don are already looming up.
The heat, which has been unusually
prolonged, has affected the London
death rate. There were 2,203 deaths
last week, of which 1,205 We're chill
dren, bringing up the death rate to 23.6
per 1000. There We're many sunsrtokes,
and general discomfort was experience
ed. The judges and counsel in the law
courts doffed their wigs and gowns
The waning season has been marked
by rather stupid Cowes week Only
the most languid interest in yachting
was felt outside of the strictly fash
ionable circle, and the absence of En-
peror William, though he is detested by
many members of the Royal Yacht
Squadron, deprived the week of the
brilliancy of 1896, the presence of the
Kings of Belgium and Siam failing to
fill the void.
The members of the House of Com
mons have gone home, after placing an
unusual strain upon the Kitchen Com
mittee, which reports having served a
total of 16.15O meals. The master of
the House of Commons also records a
big achievement, $4,000 letters having
been posted S66,370 letters being re-
ceived, and 76,10S kilograms being
handed to members or sent by them
from the House.
Referring to the reply of A. J. Bal
four, the Government leader and First
Lord of the Treasury in the House of
Commons ON Thursday last, when Mr..
Balfour said Her Majesty's Government
would consider the advisability of pros
ecution on the charge of obtaining
money ON false pretenses the agents
of the National University of Chicago
for Offering to confer degrees for So
each, Truth calls the attention of the
American public to the bogusneSs of
the London Society of Science, Letters
and Art" which is selling degrees
with a gown, hood and rank of NJ A,
to unsuspecting Americans, and quoted
the "Churchnan' of New York as say
ing that such a degree, with a silver
medal for merit, had been acquired by
the Rev. John Wright of ST. Paul,
Mimi
Much interest is taken in French ma
val circles at the discovery of a COM
position which is alleged to have the
marvellous property of rendering YES
sells invisible beneath the rays of cleo
trio searchlights. 1t is stated that
at the naval maneuvers off Brest tor
pedo boat No. 81, representing the en-
emy, succeeded in traversing unseen
the luminous zone produced by the
electric protector, thanks to having
been coaled with the new composition.
Though other jubilee peerages have
been gazetted. that of Sir Donald
Smith, the Canadian High Commission
er. hangs fire. He desired to assume
the title of Lord Glencoe, but it is un-
derstood that his intention caused live
1y Indignation among the McConals,
who were owners of Glencoe centuries
before Sir Donald Smith bought the
property. These objections, and those
of the Argyils are causing Sir Donald
to reconsider the matter.
Nofalia oe boc
joined the ranks of authors, publishing
book of aphorisms, some of which
are interesting, as they are evidently
learned from her own sufferings. She
says: "The dream of every brave SOL
dier is to die for something great and
to live for something NICE In every
country the army is like angels before
the throne of God" "A girl is an an
gel Take care that when she becomes
wife she is not changed into a DEVIL"
THE heart tried too far no longer
knows how to be happy" and "a mo-
ment OF apathy may render superf1uous
whole existence of the greatest en-
ergy''
There has been a veritable epidemic
of suicide in Paris for some weeks past.
the recent tropical heat adding to the
HuInDef Oh cases. me tfaSeOleS ccIn-
menced with the self-destruction on
July 7th last of the four young dress
makers in the poisonoire quarter of
Paris, who suffocated themselves in
small room with the fumes of char
coal, dying together. Since then al
most daily one or more women have
committed suicide and the self murder
Of men has been equally numerous.
The bodies of men are found daily
hanging to trees in the Bois De Vim
cennes. In one alley Of that park alone
six bodies of suicides were found dur
ing the past week, and the morgue is
so full of dead bodies found in the
River Seine that there is no further
room for them.
Many Students Arrested.
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