The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-12
Foreign Notes of Real 1n,ere.t.

Paris has q new Bonapa-tist club called the Petit
Chateau. OF which Marshal Ney'S GreAtGrandSop,
the Prince do Ia hoskowa, Is President
Nine tons weight OF eoppers are taken every week
from the London penny in the slot gas meters. 1t
ts proposed 10 supply electricity on the same plan.
roning. q new outdoor game, described as re.
semoling both golf and tennis, has drawn Princess
Beatrice of Battsnberg from her mourning ahd may
become fashionable in England.
Itaiy's exports for the nrst four months @. 1927
were 3S5 $50, $40 francs, while her imports were
87e, 794, 100 franco This is the FIRST time In TWEEN.
ty.six years that the ex ports exceed the imports
Harpignss, the landscape painter: Nathur!n No
reau, the sculptor. and Sirony, the Iitnograrner.
were tho recipients or the medals OF honor for the
1897 Salon. No medal of honor for architecture
was awarded.
BAT Motlioai wAdiA, . wealthy Parsee lazy of
Bombay, who died recently at the age OF So years,
left II iakhs OF rupees. or three.quarters OF a mil.
lion OF dollars, TO charity. Her son, AowroJes
Manockjse wadia. has given two more laEhs IN
memory OF his mother.
4 big tempest in a very little teapot. the sucres.
sion to the principally of Lippe Dermold. which
involves the principle OF feudAl and morGanaiio
rights OF German princelinEs. will be settled 10y
the King OF sAxony. a. referee, Al the end OF his
month.
Tho Duke of Ro1burghe comes OF age this sum
mer. His grandfather, the sixth pike, came OF age
sixty years ago when queen Victoria aScended th-
throne. She created him an Earl In the peerage Of
the United Kingdom, he being the nrst person on
whom the young Queen conferred q peerage.
A new repeating rife has been distributed to one
OF the battalions of rlnemen OF the guard at Pots
dam. Its mechanism Is kept secret, but tho cart.
riuEe cases are so elected automatically that m.
ing can be continued without disturbing the aim.
The stock OF the new rifle is as long as the barrel.
Countess Kiimannsegs, Wits OF the stattholier of
Lower Austria, having caused the police re,ttIc'
lions on bicycling in Vienna TO DO removed and
licenses for cyclists to be abolished, the Vienna
whesimen celebrated the event by a flower corso
in the frater. Several thousand bicyclStS IN fancy
dress took part In the parade.
Princess Isabella dc Bourbon y Bourbon, who iIci
recently In Paris at the age OF 20 years. was the
heroine in en- %elopoment that caused as much srAn
Dial atty odd years ago as did that OF the IrlH r."
Elvira last year. She was the sister OF Don iran
cisco de Assist, Isabella lis cousin aud Kills Goa
sort. and in 1871 eloped with = handsome lo.sh
Advsnturer named Gurowsti. TheJ were married IN
England. but soon separated. and the Princess Nr"i
In ooscurity with her two daughters on a 'waI
pension paid TO her by the spanish royal family.
A curious combination OF logic with lack Of grin
ciple has sent q French medical student Of sod
family 10 jail for ten years. He had failed IN h'
examinations ana thereby lost his exemption from
military service. II obrred TO serve Two years Doe
saw no way OF making up his deficiencies IN ''.
arShip. but he knew that a widows son wurli -
exempt from the conscription. lie proyeeieh
therefore. TO make his mother . widow by shooting
his father, with whom he was on perfectly Eooi
terms. twice in the head. The father recovered iHa
sueessded In getting his sons sentence reduced