The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-03
Foreign Noteo or Real Interest.

Prof. Dubois Reymond's successor in the chair %
physiology at Berlin University is Prof. ". I. Engsr
mann of the University OF Utrecht.
collesio Beda is the name given to the new English
college at Rome by Pope Leo in honor OF st. Bede the
Venerable, He rejected the names Pho and Leontno.
Prince de Joinville is spoken of in Paris as the prob
able successor Of his brother. the late Due d'Aumale
in the French Academy. The Prince 10 20 yeas d
age. and has been stone deaf for some time.
Croquet seems to be really taking hold again in
England. They arc playing the game more this see
son than thoy did last, and important matches are
announced TO take place almost daily for the next
two months,
A Birmingham workingman made use OF the parcel
post recently TO send his 3.yearold boy home by mai.
The Post ONCE. under the rule regulating the convey.
ance OF live animals, was obliged to accept the child.
and charged ninepence for the service.
Konakry. on the west coast of Africa, has beea
reached by a French expedition In three weeks from
the Niger for the second time. This establishes the
advantage OF the route by way of Fula. Djaion, and
surveys for the road are being FASTENED.
Sir John Kirk. once British Consul.General nj zanKi.
bar. whose name Is associated with African discovery
from the days Of Livingstone, Burton. Spoke. and
Grant to those OF Stanley. has received the degree Of
doctor OF science from Cambridge University.
Sarah siddons's statue. the first erected to an actor
or actress in London. has at last been unveiled on
Il A'AtiA ~ W AhNah ~ nlNh H' ~ Wv ifH '"'N 80
Eleven of her descendants were present to listen to
Sir Henry IrvinS's speech. The sculptor Is NJ. Che
yalliAud, q Frcnchman.
Gen. Rebillot. n retired army of1cPr. as years OF age.
has Just fought a duel In Paris with a young Journal
list who had offended him by an article in Ia Pstrs
Rtpublfque F~rdncaise. The old gentleman insisted on
nghting with swords, and wanted to keep on after r-
ceiving a cash over his eyebrow.
Daniel oConnell, youngest and last surviving son
OF the Liberator. hHs Just died at Bedford. England.
aged 81 years. He was a renegade 20 the cause OF
Ireland. accepting the ONCE of Income Tax Connie
sioner from Palmerston forty years ago an subscrio-
ing regularly TO the Unionist funi to night home rule.
Emperor william II. seems to have b,en the only
person TO remember Waterloo In the hurry of the
Queens Jubilee. He sent o big wreath OF gilted and
green laurel boughs to tho First Dragon Guards, OF
which he Is honorary Colonel. to adorn its STANDARD.
Il " Gs tied up with n scarlet gold firing d ribbon, ono
end embroidered with = big W ant the imperial
crown. the other with the inscription. Waterloo.
june IL. 1875"
Sir Walter Scott's manuscript of "The Lady OF tho
Lake" has Just been sold in London for to.4oOI
thirty years ago II brought sl,3S5. The manuscript
OF "old Mortality sold for $4,000. Lord Nelson's
autograph memoir OF his own life with some auto
graph letters was sold for 5000; twenty three other
letters of his to TrowbridRe fetched 0 1,400. Robert
Burns's private journal begun In 1887, "Tho Edin.
bursh Commonplace Book brought ol.slb. Eight
manuscripts OF A. C. swipburne. poems publishsA
IN his nu' volume. cold for slss.