The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-23
Foreign Notes Of Renl In,eres,.

A twelve-year-old child named ~Spillberg has been
burned to death in Fryingpan alley. London.
Milk is dcarer than whiskey in RhodesIa, owing to
the rtnderpest. The price is now S. 10 q quart.
An epidemic Of measles is spreading over England.
tho disease growing moro malignant as it spreads.
Atwenty.one-pound baby. lately born to a farmers
wife at La Hulpe. near Brussels. holds the Belgian
record for weight.
Rome's catacomb Of st. Calixtus is now lighted by
electricity. and the system will soon be extended to
all the catacombs.
Tristan d'Acunhas yearly mail has been despatched
from st. Helena. II consists OF ten letters, three
newspapers. aud two packages OF books.
Father Kavanagh. who was parish priest at Knock
when the miraculous cures made that village famous
eight years ago. has just died at the age OF 81 years.
Frances Treasury Department benefited greatly by
the Charity Bazaar disaster. as the duties paid on the
inherItances 1t caused amounted TO g. 200. 900 francs.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has promised to write a secular
cantata for the Leeds musical festival next October.
The subject he has selected IL said to be 1.-THE Vicar
OF Wakefield"
All sword bayonets OF the British troops In ireland
are being s%harpened as fast as possible by order Of
the War Department. Such an order is said TO be
unprecedented.
Londoners are upset by the transfer Of the stamp
and telegraph onices of the General Post onioe at
ST. Martins 10 Grand. used for twenty-five years
past. to a new building across the street.
Michael Angeles poems have just been published
by Prof. Frey of Berlin, the first complete and authen.
tic edition over issued. He had access to the family
archives, which had been closed to scholars.
Women in France have Just secured a slight addt
tion to their legal rights. They may henceforth b.
valid witnesses to registration OF births, marriaeea.
and deaths, and to the signatures in legal documents.
ArfstOcrdts d Ia ~ldnterne would be no meaningless
cry II a revolution were to break out in Paris. as the
city still keeps up 28o oil lamps, suspended by ropes
TO g~allows'like posts. such a. were found convenient
in 1893.
A European has been sentenced at Bulawayo to
ak years Imprisonment with hard labor for defrsud-
ing the natives OF their cattle. He pretended TO be Q
Government inspector. and seized tho cattle for sup
posed violations OF law.
Two glasses of q temperance drink served to q Lon.
don doctor by a teetotal family contained SO much
alcohol that the doctor was unable TO walk STRAIGHT
across the room. He IL now lecturing against ginger
ale and root beer as intoxicants.
Human heads formed a collection recently sold M
public auction In Londcn. There were twelve OF
them, from Ecuador. Now Guinea. New Zealand. and
other places, A "tattoOed Maori head with n curioua
smcll' brought seventeen guineas.
Major.Gen. Bengough OF the British army, who died
recently, became famous In India for a divisional
order commanding the medical stan to pare the corna
and cut the toe nails OF the men. In order to Improve
the marching efficiency OF the uivis,eu. 4
Grand opera in Paris. according to onncial acoount.
has been given az an expenditure over receipts Of
$500. 900 francs in five years. an average loss thar IA
OF 81 ~, 900 a year, The subventlon OF 800, 900 franc.
year reduces the annual deficit to $50. 600. lint thors
is u further yearly deficit OF $50. 900 on the ope.a
concerts.
Stealing telephone service Is a new form OF mis-.
demeanor In London. claSsed by the CROYDON Poiica
Magistrate as petty larceny, and punished by him
with a hne OF fve shillIngs. An ingenious young
man had made 4 false key admitting him 10 the pub.
lie telephones OF the NationL Company, which hs
used without paying.
E'creSnt east side lovers are not the only ones who
try to get back their ante-nuptial gifts. Mr.. Al.
Walker. the y~achtsman. owner Of tho Ail,A. havina
sued his wife. who had obtained a judicial separation
from him. Tor the return or the Jewels he had given
her as wedding preSents, the Court Of Queen'a Bench
has decided that the presents are her property.
A new Lion OF saint Mark. with his pa0 ON IN.
open Gospel and the Doge kneeling In prayer bv his
SIDE Is being put up In the middle gallery ON the
west side OF the pogs's palace In Venice. the nIaca
formerly held by DoEe GrlttI's lion, set up in iban
This was torn down when the republic fell, . hundrsa
years ago ana is place has been empty tn nSW.