The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-24
FoRErex NOrEs OF REAL INrEnEsr.

wv ehNs sh"AH 49, AN' ~ $500 NAA' iNNAA wv 49,
experiments made TO extinguish 1t failed.
Cardinal stelnhuber. Project Of the Congregation
Of the Index, has undertaken 10 revise the condemna-
tons Of books dccrced in the last 400 years,
Sir Henry 1ryiny's next shakespearCan revival will
be Richard H." which II is asserted has not been
presented in n London theatre in forty years.
copenhaGen's Round Tower, built In the eleventh
century and 100 feet high. is to he moved bodily n
distance OF 100 feet to widen a business street.
subcutancous injections of essences OF violetS or
other flowers. giving the body the scent required. are
reported rs a recent Partisan freak OF fashion i'm.
ported from Russia.
Retired chief gunnors in tho British Navy who have
received advantageous offers Of service in the Argen.
tine fleet have been forbidden by the Admiralty TO
accept the positions.
England 10 being driven by tho continuance n tho
South wales coal strike to consider the desIrabillty Of
the Governments buying mines in order 20 be sure
of a supply in case of war.
Abad shot while pheasant shooting has cost the
Hon. John Tuition. eldest son Of Lord Hothheld,
$4,000. He nrcd the charge into the face OF one of
his heaters. rendering the man totally blind.
Between the acts ut Coqnelin's performance Of 81 Cy-
rano de BeigerNc" at the Lyceum Theatre In London
hHwkers went about among the audience selling rub
Der models Of the nctors face with the Cyrdno nose.
In tho new Roichstag there are only eighty. eight
mobiles. The number has steadily diminished since
| 1911 ntn II lNu. lneTe ~ falU 70 e only
seven Jews elected TO the Rcichstag. all OF them Social
Democrats.
Abroad new street IL to be run from Holborn. OPP
posite Southampton row. TO the Strand Mt the Church
Of st. Mary lie Strand, in London. the County Coun-
Gil having voted tho Improvement after considering
the matter for nine years.
Kite telephones for torpedo boat destroyers are be-
ing tried by the British Navy. kite is Rent up held
by two strings. each attached to n destroyer. along
i which the mnseape is epnt. or what nrartical ,,Cs I'm
warfare this device IL expected 10 no no information
is given.
omitting Herr and "Hochwohlgeb'oren" in nd.
dressing an ofncial in writing IL no longer an insult
in Germany. as these words form no part Of any
legal title. This ia the decision tho Appeal Cont Of
the Empire at Leipzig has been obliged to render IN
recent case.
Austr4a's kreuzor ia doomed. It was Withdrawn
from commercial circulation on July /, and will not
be accepted even by the Government after Dec. 81,
1899. The coin has been in existence since the r.
teenth century and took Its name from the cross
marked upon II.
Queen victoria's oficinl baRpipe maker Ia dead. HI
also made bagpipes for the households Of the Prince
OF Wales. Of the Duke Of Saxe-Cohurg. and of tho
Duke Of Fife. His Nom was Pipe. Major Duncan
McDougall, and he represented the third generation
Of a family that had made the instruments at Perth.
Baron Won stumm, who has been nicknamNh Tho
King of the Saar. was so angry at not being elected
TO the ReichstaG on the first ballot that he put up
this notice on his factory gates: " "A the Netfrkirch,u
Zeitung has slanderrd me, I consider II a matter Of
course that no workman shall tolerate that sheet in
his family"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
siliogogogoch appears in the British Post Office
guide az the name Of n post and telegraph ONCE in
the island Of Anglesey. It is said to mean "The
Church Of Saint Mary in a hollow OF white hazel near
to the rapid whirlpool and to Saint Dislio's Church
near to a red cave"
Limoges has Just held its human hair market. wo-
men from all the country round coming there to sell
their hraids. The price is now on the average S. n
pound; twenty years ago It was $40. When a bar
gain has been struck the woman is taken to the near.
est inn and shorn. At the last market 81 900 worth
Of hair was bought.
Three French officers propose TO carry out Jules
Verne's idea, and explore the Sahara in a balloon.
!, Their plan is to 40 mp at the Gulf Of Gabes. on the
! Mediterranean. TO he carried along by the regular
9 northeast trade winds. and to land somewhere in the
l Niger basin. They have asked the Paris Municipal
p Council for a grant of 90, 1000 for their enterprise.
a Paris Is cniovinG the visit of an Abyssinian en-.
4 bassy from Negus Menelek. consisting Of three
Princes. Woldic. Likamakuas Nado and Ras Makon.
n uen's nephew, Dediazmatch Berato. with thirty fol.
( lowers. They appear in the streets in their native
o costume. None can speak n word Of French. They
? are said to bring a promise from Mcnelek that he will
attend the exhibition Of 1900.
A bid for American custom was mado by the Arm.
n strongs in christening a now armorch cruiser they
have built the Fourth Of July. She Is 800 feet long
. 46H feet broad. with a mean drausht Of II feet and
a displacement Of 4.18o tons. Her engines will be
10000 horse power and her speed 22& knots. She
9 ia intended to carry an armament Of two s.inch and
g ten 4.7-inch guns. besides quick hrers and Eve tor
d pedo tubes.
y A steam engine. the oldest in the world. built by
Q Boulton 4 Watt in ITT7 for the Birmingham Cana
y Nayigatpna which had 1nan xrppEipr rovplarIv 10,
800 years at Smethwick, In the pumping works, has
g Just been put aside for a more powerful engine buil
0 for the anne company by the same firm. The old
4 engine will be set mp again at another station as
memorial Of what can be done with good machinery
9 by careful management.
o sprottau. in sileEia, has n cautious postmaster with
asense of good manners. Some drunken students in
n BreslAu addressed a postal card ITO the most bcauti
full girl In Sprottau. - with the statement: Beautiful
unknown, we are drinking your health till we car
a drink no longer" The card was returned to Brcslar
q with the statement; There are many beautiful girls
o in Sprottau, but beauty being a matter Of individual
taste. the Post Office cannot undertake to deliver THU
communication"
Germany's twenty-one universities had 80, 2ao SIN
dents during the summer semester, Berlin. Municf
and Leipzig being well in the lead. Paris. alone witt
its 1000 students. half Of all the university stu
" dents in France, has as many as these three put to
gether, or tho other French universities. Lyons ha'
1886 students. Bordeaux 2,173. Toulouse, Mont
pelier. lille. Rennes, and Nancy about 1000 each
Ak, Poitiers. Dion, Caen, and Grenoble between
Is 500 and 1000, while Besancou has only 1917.
Prot. Leo OF Berlin, the Shakespeare collector. 4
!" dead. His real name was Levi, and his marrIar,
with a daughter OF the rich Hamburg Hoines, tn
bankers, enabled him to indulge many costly ecron
t%rioities. He was professor by the grace OF the Duk'
q Of SaIe-Cohurg. having never taught in a university
W He thought he looked like Shakespeare and once sen
his photograph. gotten mp in EliZabethRn dress. Il
st Prot. Delius Of Bonn. as a copy Of a genuine portrait
Is Delius thanked him for the gift. saying that II wa
u a revelation to him. as he had no idea that Shake
speare looked so confoundedly Ike a jew.
n A sudden drop in the price Of English paintings I
or noted in London. Sir i, Burne Jones's four picture
Of the PyRmalion series, THE Heart Desires" "Th
Hand Refrairs, - The Godhead Fires" "The Sou
" Attains." were sold for sl4. OBS; at the Craven sale