The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-24
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

Leoncavallo is at work on an opera. the teItd
which Is his own adaptation Of Du Msurier't "Trt-
by" Nine. Calve. It is believed, will take the title pat
Empress Augusta Victoria has sensibly insisted tha
the money subscribed for a statue 10 her father,
the late Duke Frederick OF s~chleswig. Hoistein. shall
be used for charitable purposes.
German toy factories have received so many orten
for Turkish and Greek lead soldiers for tho Christina
season that they are refusing to accept any more
they will be unable to deliver the goods.
Money for musicians monuments Is asked froa
many quarters. Statues are proposed for Wagne7 d
Munich, for ponizetti at Rerg imo, for Mozart d
Prague. and even for Mascagni at An ,ona.
Miss Ethel Rebecca Benjamin, L.. b., aged Is. d
Dunedin. New Zealand. having passed the har exam
nation. is tho first woman admitted 10 practise ai
barrster aud solicitor in Australasian courts.
Father Kenelm Vaughan. an English Catholic pret
has been gathering money In Spain for the new West
minister Cathedral. In Biscay alone he has raised
$4,000. II sounds like squeezing blood from u stons
All the vintage OF 1894 Chateau MarSaux, 29.SN
dozen bottles. wa, sold at a single sale in Londm
recently. together with 200 dozens OF Chateau Nor
trose. 1t " one OF the largest sales of clare; ever held
wilhelm Busch's Die fromme Helene has beel
turned into an opera boune. which Manager Pollini Of
Hamburg VIII bring out in the reu. The ~composcri
name is ieing kept secret, but he is said to be a we'll
known Frenchman.
Human pers2iratiou. II injected into do =. or rsS
bits, acts like a deadly poison. according 10 VI Ar
loing's OK experiments. Perspiration Slcre;ed during
hard muscular work has moro toxic power than no
ordinary kind, while that obtained from suhI"cA
whose secretion has been checked by cold is NrY
poisonous.
Cardinal di Rcnde's death. according to the Tatbt
has made the number Of foreign Cardinals grentri
than that Of the Italian for the second time withi'
twelve months. Thcr, are now thirty'one Of th'
former TO thirty of the latter, a state of things which
until within a few years, had not occurred FOR m"nJ
centuries.
Grrmany's highest bri &c Is over the wupperthalS
Mungstcn, near RemScheid, back OF Elberfcld. IL
800 feet high and 1850 feet long, the central ARD
having a span OF $40 feet. The only higher hrldgr .
Europe Ia the Garabit v:aduct, 4O5 feet hagh .
southern France. The Muugsten bridge will u
opened for railway traric on July l..
Hottentot Is hard TO pronounce n the graph ~
srriptlon OF DR.. Aurel schulz does 1t no injustice
81 can safely Iiken the Language to the click'nS -
multitude OF different rusty old gun lo'k' sim'''
neously set IN motion. II Is simply appallIng go Lear
the fatty click gut tEont, tirk Hex mktchuk 9Th '"A'O'
gtu.gkttgIkiJ accompanied by many %gurSliut.
Princess Pauline Mcttcrnich. whose rr ~ -
leader OF fashion In Napoleon MS court. "a"f" "'
husband was Austrian Ambassador, would haze ""''
the name famous even II the Chancellor had r''','
lived, has obtained leave from emperor F'a",'
Joseph to change her name. She viii hr ca'It' ~
Princess Motternich.SGndor. the latter her i"'Ao
name. to distinguish her from Princess Meii'rh'D
WinnoburE, the wife OF the present head I =
family. the younger son OF the famous ChAhcs"~
The Princess Pauline Is now 81 yeArS OF age