The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-18

Marseiles has Q lo7.yearold woman who stil earn0
her living by keeping . Newspaper kiosk
Rotten eggs used In making cake have cent o Lon.
don baker to jail He had i.oIb unused bad egg IN
his bakery.
Tranno on the railroad between Tientsin and pSldA
haa Increased 90 much that . double track muse b
laid At once.
opals Of nne quality and In large quantities have
been found in the. TairuA and ohinemuri valleys ID
New Zealand.
Bishop Creighton of London urges ladies whom width
ing the poor TO wear their best clothes and to be oAr0S
full not to look dowdy.
Sir John Everett Milais's biography 10 being writ.
ten by his younger son. John Millais. The book VIII
be profusely illustrated.
Donna Elvira de Bourbon. the slopinE daughter -
Don Carlos. is building . villa for herself near Save
ua, in the italian riviera
Coolgardie is putting up Q "Goldnelds" cathedral
though the minrrs are deserving the place for the new
stations deeper in the desert. from which unoocupied
gold claims are reached.
No parcel containing coin. Iewelry. or anything
made OF gold or silver will DO forwarded by the Brit
ish Post ofico hereafter to foreign countries or Brit
tsh colonies unless II Is insured. Any one detecte0
violating the rule will be fined.
Lord Mansfield is tho oldest member OF the Tory
Carleton Club. The next person on the roll would b0
Mr.. Gladstone. who was admitted in 1888. II he had
not cnauR'u nus pOlltiCb nj lOlufu Loru faiInorhtonb
MINISTRY in 1859. when he resigned from the club.
Nine. Lequeux. who recently died at the age OF 90
year,, was one OF the victims OF orsini's attempt -
blow up Napoleon III. in 1858. She wa hit By
twenty. two splinters Of the bomb. each inhicting Q
dangerous wound: her face was greatly disngured.
Russ'a's pro- censor varies his punishments IN.
gcniousiy. The Mirdpfva Ot0ossho NGrodo. tho syn
OIets'estuu and the 81, Petersburg zeffuno have been
forbidden to print advertisements. while tho Ruask1
IfsfOk. though IL NAV receive Advertisements. muaN
not be cold at retail.
Mr.. Ernest waterlow. A. R. A. the Landscape paint.
or. whose father is q former Lord Mayor OF London,
has been elected President or tho Royal Society %
Painters In Water Colors. in succession to the late
Sir John Gilbert. Two ballots were needed. as the
nrst resulted In q tie between Mr.. waterlow and Hu.
bert Herkomer.
The -four thousand Irish donkeys" case, now be-
fore the Queens Bench Court. is likely to become
famous. The donkeys were sent TO the TransvaaI 70
take the place OF mules, and, not proving erncient,
she consignees refused to pay on the ground thaa
they were asses OF inferior quality. Mr.. Bray. Q. O..
Is among the counsel employed.
Sir John Lubbock has gone to the ant again. and. n
he keeps up his visits and others initiate him. that in
teresting insect viii become useless for sunday school
purposes. Sir John succeeded In getting nrtv ants
helplessly drunk and then placed them outside an
ant'hilI. The sober ants came ont. picked up thoiS
friends, and put them 10 bed to sleep on the effects o.
Sir Johns liquor; the strangers. however. they stornly
rolled over into the ditch.
Bonivard's track worn In the pavement around the
p liar in tho castl OF Chiffon to which Byron asserts
that he was chained has been declared "a b, an i'm.
posture In the Geneva Cantonal Assembly. Complains
having been made that the historic footprints had
disappe red. a state Councillor explained that thry
had n yer really existed. but had b IN manufactured
from time To time to satisfy tue cravings Of travel.
ler'' and hat when repairs were made In tho castle
this year they had forgotten 10 renew the footprints.