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accidental death.
An Uusuline nun at Boulognc, whose
Tooth birthday is to be celebrated, en-
tered her convent eighty years ago and
has never set foot out of it since.
''Bradshaw's" originator, Robert Dig
giles Kay, has just died in Southport,
Eng. Though he edited the guide for
forty-One years, he lived to be eighty
seven years of age.
Count Boniface de Castellale, Anna
Gould's husband, is about to enter Ioli-
ties. He is a candidate for the -:haln-
Der of deputies for the department OF
the Bases Alps.
A tilemaker named Outlet. lis wife
and four children have committed sui
eide by the use of charcoal fumes, at
Choisey-leR France. Povcrly was
the cause.
Countess Samuel Gyula of Budapest,
who was Baroness Alice Becsly, is to
compete with the Princess de Chimay
by appearing at the Paris, Olympia in
poses plastigues"
A memorial to the late Guy de Maus-
SAINT, the novelist, was unveiled in the
Pare de Monceau, Paris. The memori-
al grafton was delivered by Emile
lola.
Hydrophobia, causing death, was
communicated to a Paris young woman
recently by her pet dogs tapping her
face before it was observed that it
had gone mad. The doctor could find
no trace of bite.
The United States embassy at Berlin
has been instructed to vigorously re-
new it's remonstrances against, and to
demand the repeal of the prohibition
against the importation of cattle and
fresh meat from America.
The negotiations of the Chinese gov
eminent with the Hooley syndicate for
a loan of $S0,00O,000 have been aband-
oned. The government is now negOti-
ating with the Hong Kong and Shang-
hal banks.
Two Mauritius postage stamps OF the
issue of 1858, belonging to DR.. Le-
grands collection, have been sold for
$4,000 francs to NJ. Bernichon of Paris.
There are only seventeen Impressions
of these stamps in existence.
Bismarcks name has been the sub
ject of an elaborate investigation by
DR.. LANCE, who concludes that it is n
contraction of Bischofsmark, and re-
iects the derivation from Blese, the lit
tie river that flows near the Brandcn-
burg town, Bismark.
The general disposition to increase
naval ornaments can be gagged by the
fact that eighty-seven warships are
building in Great Britain alone. They
aggregate a displacement of 318,Gl2
tons. OF these eighty-seyen warShips,
fhiYfu-fn1JI. 90 fn f0TniOT
The Prussian department of agricult-
ure has resolved to encourage fruit
growing, and is presenting fruit trees
to the farmers living along the public
roads and railways. Several of the
provincial chambers have adopted sim
liar resolutions.
The chamber of commerce of Reich
enberg, Bohemia, has passed a reSOlu
ton urging the government Of Austri-
Hungary to negotiate with the other
powers with the view Of taking con-
certed action against the new United
States customs tariff.
Leon Gutter, professor of paleogra-
graphy at the Paris Ecole DIES Charles,
is dead, at the age of siXty-fve years.
His edition of the ''Chanson Gle ROl
and'' was adopted by the French
schools, and served to populariZe the
study of old French literature in that
country.
Franz Betz, the baritone of the Ber-
lin Opera house, who was the original
Hans Sachs when the "Meistersinger''
was first performed at Munich, in 1868,
is about to retire. He has been men,
Der of the Berlin company for forty
eight years. He was the WOtam III
the first performance of the Neibelun-
gen triology at Bayreuth in 1876.
The United States embassy Will make
an application to the Erancn govern
ment for the extradition Of William L.
Foster, .Jr., who abscondad from New
York Sept 20, 1873, with $4,000 be-
longing to the gratuity fund of The
New York Produce exclang2, and who
was arrested at Neuilly l'g the French
police at the instance OF Scotland Yard
detectives.
Herr Liebnecht, the Social Democrat
leader, has had the sentence Of four
months Imprisonment for indirect lese
majestic, inflicted upon him by Bres-
lau Judge, confirmed by the supreme
court at Leipzig Although he did not
mention the kaiser, the court held that
some of his words might seem to the
hearers aimed at him, and by the doc
trine of the dolus eyentualiS it might
be held that in his thoughts he was in
sulting the ruler of free Germany.
Accidental Happenings.
The Commercial National Bank of
Union Civ Ind has beon aufhOriZpd