The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-03

the nneSt street in the new LudOVlSl
neighborhood.'
American improvements are more and
more attacking London. Westminster
and Waterloo bridges and the Victoria
embankment are to be lighted by cleo
tricity, and one of the reasons for it's
use, urged in the London Council, was
that it would make the city more at
tractive in the sight of rich Ameri-
cans. The proposed Improvement will
cost about $4,000.
A private letter from England re-
ceived in New York contains an inter-
eSting account of the celebration of the
jubilee at Burton on-Trent, famous for
it's great breweries. The brewers and
townsfolk spent several thousand
pounds for decorations and every effort
was made to have the occasion pass
off with particular eclat A feature
that had been talked of far and wide
around the countryside was a barbecue,
the OK to be roasted in one of the main
streets of the town. Preparations were
made and at the appointed time the
fire was lighted, a great crowd watch
ing the proceedings
All went we'll for a while, but after
the big carcass had become thorough
ly heated some of the fat ran out. and
in a trice the whole OK was ablaze
The flames scared nearly to the hight
of neighboring church, and in alarm
the local fire company was called upon
for help in extinguishing the miniature
confiagration. After considerable fuss
the fire was put out, amid the jeers
of the villagers who were keeniy dis
appointed over the loss of their pros
pective feast of beef.
The man in charge of the barbecue
who is we'll knwon in the town. has
since been the object of considerable
sarcasm. BY common consent. Burton
people are announcing that among the
jubilee honors conferred by the Queen
was the title for the barbecue man of
Baron Burnbull."
The true date of NJ. Jean de Reszke's
birth, which for some months past has
been discussed in the German papers,
has now been settled by the produc-
ton of the official certificate of bap-
tism. Groves Dictionary states that
the great tenor was born in 1852 but
he really is two years older He was
born January 3 Cd, 1850, at the house
No. 62o ZoZija street, Warsaw; his
father, Jan Reschke, Comptroller of the
Management of the Railroad then be-
ing 81, and his mother, Emilia. nee
Uiniaraskaja, being %. The vocalists
real name is Jan Meczislaw Reschke.
Night and day two policemen guard
the scene of the Paris fire at the Rue
Jean Goujon Fair. Even this place is
not sacred from the ravages of the
relic hunter, and people would have
swarmed over the ruins We're it not
for the police protection. Until early
in July no move had been made to
remove any of the debris Last week,
however, the last of the cinders and
the burned posts We're carried away,
and the ground was freshly dug over.
In the future a chapel will be erected
on the site and consecrated to the men,
Dry of those who persisted there.
At the great temperance fete held at
the Crystal Palace in London, last
week, 10000 trained singers, all of
them total abstainers, led the vest au-
dience in a song of praise. There are
in London alone no less than 2, 800 tenn
perance societies, and the number in
England, Scotland and Wales (exclu-
sive of London) numbers $4,000. This
tremendous showing has all grown dur
ing the Queens reign, for, in 1851 there