The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-05
Foreign Notes OF Interest.

wfniam Biake's original drawings 10 IL
~lustrate Young's Might Thoughts" near
ly 900 I'm number. have been discovered In
a London lumber room and win soon be
offered for sale.
land. with a chance to shoot at lions and
other large game, are advertised by a
London tourist agency. The trip viii last
three months and cost 5000.
Bjorne Bjornson. Bjornsterne Bjornston's
son. who Is an actor and stage manager.
has been appointed director Of the new
theater at Christiania. His names Is q
shade less awful than his fathers.
Nine. Tfresias Simon Sam, wife of the
president of Hayti. is visiting Paris. She
is the daughter of the former dictator.
Solomon. and before marrying Mr.. sam
was the widow of General Anubio Ulysse.
Auguste Bracelet. whose little "Histori-
cal of the French Language
was one Of the chief Instruments in pop
ularizing the study of old French 80 years
ago. died recently at Cannes
British railroads have combined to stop
Saturday half holiday excursion trains
during the summer months on the ground
that they have their hands full with
the more profitable regular tranic.
EngIand's Grand Lodge of Freemasons
has severed its relations with the Grand
Lodge of Peru. owing to the latters re-
moval of the Book of the Law from Its
affairs and the word bible from its rit-
uaL.
London vestries are Directing to paying
burial fees to clergymen for services that
are never held, owing to the suppression
of parish burial grounds. In Lambeth
alone $4,000 has been paid out this way.
In five years.
Arthur Nikisch conducted MiIlocker's
''Beggar Student at the Leipzig Neues
thea ter recently. The performance was Tor
the benefit of the theatrical pension fund.
the parts being taken by the leading OPP
era singers.
Russia's cross on the st. Gothard. erect
ed to the memory of the Russians who
persisted in Suwaroffs passage Of the Alps
In 1893, is now completed. 1t stands on the
right bank Of the Reuss. opposite the
Devils bridge.
Oxford university this year for the first
| time had more candidates for honors in
modern history than in the l~assics, the
numbers being las for the former and rs
for the latter. The glory of a double
first" is departing.
unkac whose real name is Lieb, has
been declared insane officially by a Paris
court and his wife appointed guardian Of
his property. His pictures in his Paris
studio were sold recently, the highest
price being 81. 900, obtained for an "Ecce
Homo"
Sergeant Matthews OF the civil service
volunteer rifles has made a worlds rec
ord of los. all bullseyes, shooting from the
knee, under the Queens first stage condi-
tons of seven shots each at 200, 500 and
| 500 yards, in a recent regimental competi-
ton.
Apia in Samoa has been holding a crick-
ct match for the benefit of the church that
has lasted three months. There is no en-
trance fee for the spectators, but anyone
who chooses can bat by paying a shilling.
and when he Is bowled out can go In
| again on paying once more.
A Hanover postage stamp dealer named
| Decker, known throughout Germany as a
high philatelic authority, has been sem
fenced TO a months imprisonment for
embezzlement. He substituted less valu-
BILE stamps for those sent to him for his
expert opinion on their senuineness and
value.
Henry Perigal, treasurer OF the Royal
Meteorological society, died recently al
the age of 81 years. His father died al
99A years. and was one of 10 children, nv
of whom lived to be over so years old, the
average of the five being 1915 years. His
grandfather likewise lived TO be 80 years
of age.
Spitzbergen has reached the stage OF
becoming the subject of internationa
complications. Though Sweden claim;
suzerainty over the islands. M. Nossilof
the Russian explorer. is urging his gov
eminent to hoist the imperial standarc
over them before the Swedes Strengthen
their claim by erecting there an astro'
nomical observatory and rescue station