The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-16
FOREIGN NOTES OF REAL INTEREST.

An electrical engineer battalion has been added to
the volunteer corps OF royal engineers In England.
Tunis haI now Q new deep water harbor at sfax.
the channel having been excavared SO as to admis
vessels drawing twenty-five feet of water.
Rice is being exported.fr om India in spite Of the
famine. according 10 London Truth. $4,000 bags
being shipped I'm ono week TO Aauritius, while the
people of the neighooring districts were. appealing
TO England for food.
Prince Nicholas OF Montenegro has hac the luck
to dispose OF ali his grown.up pretty daughters II
tho engagement OF the King Of servia to the Prin-
cess Xenis turns out TO be a fact. He will then
have left only the ten.yeAr.oId Princess Vera.
Pavia's famous CarthuBiAn monastery. the Ger
tosa, which for many years has besn uIsd as an art
museum. is to 10 used once more. In part. at least,
for divine worship. MssA will be said daily In The
chapel by secular priests. as the. MONKS have been
dispcrsed.
BY the blrth.cf tho Duchess Of York's little girl
the number OF Queen victoriA's descendants rtssa
TO eighty, seventy OF whom are alive. She has
had nino children. four sons and nve daugnters,
forty.one grandchildren. and thirty great grand.
children. Two OF her children and eight grandchil.
dren have died.
FillAI regard is no: extinct in South London. A
young man charged with hitting q woman over the
head with . beer bone explained that she had been
fighting from o O'Clock IN the morning TIL noon
with his mother. and that he thought IL time to
STOP II. A policeman testified thas in the same
street TWO women once touRnt al DAY long, STOP
pirg only for moais, TIL one went.nome and died.
Her husband had looked on. calmly msnding shoes,
while the ngnt vent on.
The Rev. John vallancey, vicar OF Rosiiston, neaR
Burton.on.Trent, has been suspended for eighteen
months and ordered not to como within twenty
miles nf his parish or TO Interfere with its manage.
ment in any way durIIg that time. His offence
was violent ana Indecent behavior In his parish
churchyard. which lie treated as though IL were his
private garden, tearing up the flowers plant ID on
the graves by the relatives or the occupants and
using force 10 keep Inourners ont OF tho yard.
Australia, whion has led In many sociaiistic ox'
perlments made by the State, Is now considering
the question OF State pnysIc. The President OF the
Queensland Medical Association proposes that the
country be- divided into medical disITicts. under
doctors paid by the State TO LOOK after AL the In
habitanls. and that the money for the purpose DO
raised by q poll tax OF * q year. THIS would en-
abte Ihe state TO pay Si.oO0 for the lowest medical
salaries. A Sew south Wales labor league mas de.
national service"
Queen Vlcturla's watermen are diIgTuntled at
having no part In the Jubilee procession. ;he moro
so that The Queen has never made use OF nor state
bargeL. hne has two OF theln. kept. at 1eddingtUu.
which should be rowed with two wStermeu 10 All
oar. Tho uniform consists OF scarlet Jacket. waist.
coat. Dreeches. aud STOCKINGS. with . remarkable
black Jockey cap ana low shoes. On the front ami
back OF the JACKET 10 an enormous royal badge,
the barge hHS ouiy been uIed once. when the
Prince OF WaleS 1ud tho Khedivs lanai OF EgJk4
| were taken Ny water 70 hlcnInon9