The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-25
Foreign Notes OF Real Interest.

American Tories managed to raise cal. 500 for the
Victoria Jubilee fund.
Charles Darwins statue in bronze has been Get uD
in his native town, Shrewsbury.
Gift enterprises by Paris newspapers have been
stopped by the courts as arrangements OF the Govern
ment's lottery monopoly.
walther's "Preislied," from 1.-THE Meisterstneer."
was the song which took nrst prize at the recent
Welsh Eisteddfod at Pontypool.
Fontainebleau's forest is on FIRE, over 600 hectares
having already burned down. The whole garrison OF
the town has turned out to fight the nre. but It seems
unable to check II.
Prof. Victor Meyer Of Heidelberg. the physiological
chemist whose death was announced recently. is said
to have committed suicide by taking prussic acid. on
account OF domestic troubles.
Prince Macmillan OF saxony. who two years ago he.
came a Catholic priest and took charge of a parish in
London. is about to go TO Eichstatt to pass the exam.
ination for the degree OF Doctor of Divinity. At the
Saxon court 1t Is asserted that he Wishes to enter the
Capuchin order.
Elberfeld's oberbGrgermeister astonished the dis
tinguished guests invited to the opening Of the new
Remscheid- solinsen bridge by driving TO the railroad
station in the "Black Maria" He had been unable to
fnd a cab and had used the only onicial convey anoo
that was ready.
Abel and Rockwell. professional cricketers OF tho
Surrey team. have broken the record for 4 partner
ship" by scoring $40 runs In a recent match with
Hampshire. Abel. the first man in. made 73 runs be-
fore he was out. to Brockweli's ?02, the latter's full
score being 225.
English parties have multiplied since Mr.. Gladstone
took up home rule. His former followers are now
divided into Liberal Unionists, Roseberyites. Har-
~courtitcs. Laboucherians. Dillonites. Parnellites. and
Healyitss. Some one in the Times calls him the Grand
Old Party splitter.
Gen. Morozzo della Rocca, the senior on1cer in tho
Italian Army, Is dead at the age OF over 90 years. He
entered the Piedmontese service eiShty.three years
ago. as page to the Prince OF Savoy.Carignano was
King Carlo Alberto's personal aide'de camp, and was
| chief of the general stan during the campaign OF
1850. He had begun to publish his memoirs.
An old lady who, in the great Sapoleon's time. uu.
consciously saved a French flag from the enemy. hiss
just died in Paris. Her father was an oficer at Toni
during the Cent Jours. and when the place capitu.
lated managed to save the colors OF the Twenty
seventh Infantry by using them as n swadd'ing band
for his baby girl. THY were afterward restored 20
the regiment.
Precipitation from a healthy man when injected into
a dog will xiii him In from one to tAr, g days. IN"
dose Is 10 cubic ceutim3tres to 'aCh kilCg;an ~ c..
The effect Is also fatal on rabbits. though they re-
quire n larger dose. % cubic centimctrrs SwFa!
sccreted during severe muscular labor is from one
fourth TO one third more poisonous. such are the re-
suits Of expe riments by NJ, Arloing, communicated 70
the Paris Academy OF Sciences.
King Oscar II. OF Sweden and NORWAY isr - mti'
a"doctor quadruplex - OF the Univcrsitg N'""na
ON Sept. Is. the tw nty-tlfth anniversary ~ .,
sion TO the throne, receiving the honura'l a..""'
doctor from each OF the four faculties ~ ir .r'"r
sty. theology. law, medicine. and philospI .'. II "'A
he the FIRST time that Vienna has granted rW" fHra''
grers at once to the same person, and aprcia. pern''
sion had TO be obtained from Emperor Frauri'J"'"lh n
1t Is asserted that the only other occasion on which =
university has granted Its four degrees at on"" was
when Jena honored Goethe in 1898, at IN" "clr'ra'''a
! OF the nftieth anniversary OF his arrival III WeinAf'