The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-10
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Two young men were trosen to death In ryroi In
the last weeks OF June.
Frog have been raining down In thick shower %
RiEertA in Tunis. The largest wers The size Of Q
mans thumb.
Franchetti. the banker composer. 70 building an
opera house at his country seat. where he can have
his own works performed without sub1ecung them 70
the Judgment OF managers.
Italy is puzzled over the prohibition By the censor
ship of the performance of Dcniretti's La Pavonta-
at Turin and OF Rossini's LA Cenerentola" 1t Naples
during the recent visits to those cities of the Prince
and Princess of Napies.
A chime made OF eighteen bronze tubes arranged
In two parallel rows and struck by hammers work.
ing from a keyboard has been set up in the Town
Hall OF Levaiiois 'Perret, near Paris. Tho tubes vA5
in length from IA TO Q feet and In weight from 81 to
100 pounds.
Rnbelais's birthplace at chinon. or rather the sire
of the apcthecary's shop where he was born, has been
discovered by NJ. Grimaud. q French Ant,ouary. and
the house standing there. II Rue de la Lamproie. will
be marked by a tablet, The shop was replaced by
tavern. and that In its turn by a tennis court.
The Theatre International. founded in Paris ny
Nine. RataZzi de Rute. FrancisQue Sarcey, and Others,
and OF which NJ. Got. late OF the Com&die Francatse.is
director. will present Tirso de Moiina's "seducer Il
Seville" Torrilla's Don Juan Tenorio,'' and tho
Duke Of Rvas's :" The Force OF Fate" during the next
winter.
A strange comm, said TO be Intended for a British
Admiral OF the Fleet, is on exhibition at Liverpool.
1t is In the shape OF n double ended Nfeboat, seven
feet long. and painted with white portfolios Ike An
old ashioned battleship. 1t is nted with life lines.
oars and a rudder. and is made seaworthy In every
respect.
One shilling and four penoe a head was the allow.
ance made by the British Treasury for the lunch "
the House OF Commons when tho members went TO
Sc" the naval review at Portsmouth on the Cam
panin' The Cunard Company refused the orer. and
nlled the representatives with champagne at It's own
expense
Prince Henri OF Orleans. who mas been attacking in
the press NJ. Bonvalot and tho oncial expedition to
King MeneliE. has In turn been attacked by the on
Bias. From information which II asserts comes from
the Colonial once the Gu Mas declares that Prince
Henri's Asiatic discoveries are a fiction. and that 10
never was In the Laos country or spent siI months
shooting Ia the delta Of the Gangcs.
81 Mohammed ben MouSsa, the giant Moor. sent aS
the chief OF the Moroccan mission to Queen yictorta'1
jubilee. never reached London. having gone mad in
Paris on his way there. and then having been sent
home, His madness took a very queer form; he
thought he was Montjarrot, the chief ortrider who
precedes the President OF tho French republic on
state occasions, and insisted on being dressed In livery.
with riding hreeches and high boots,
VeTsaill,s has been the scene Of a strange religious
riot. ON Corpus Christi day the Republicans had ar
ranged to have a celebration In honor OF Gen. Hochr,
while the cure Of the Church OF ST. Louis. who Ind
been unable 10 obtain permission 10 lead q religious
procession, determined TO carry the Host through tho
streets all the same. The town was crowded win
bicyc!.sts out for tho holiday. Whom the priest ap
peared at the church door with the monstrancc. some
theological students tried to force people who re-
manned standing to kneel. when a scrimmAgs 10
which 1000 persons took part ensued. The ponSS
arrested f0rT't"o DerSonI. including i've DTsstA