The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-16
Foreign Notes or Real Interest.

Golf links have been opened on the grounds Of the
villa Panphili- Doria at Rome.
Boards are taxed 10 yen Q year In a Japanse vii.
lage in Ava county. Chiba Ken.
A little hot sealing wax dropped on his hand las
just killed the Earl of C!onmeli. blood poisoning hay.
ing set In.
DIR. schweninger, B'smarck's physician. ia going 10
lecture at Vienna on n novel plan. He will appear On
the stage with a Berlin editor. who will put questions
which the doctor will answer.
Victor Ballot. who fought at Waterloo ana was
subsequently discharged from the French Army AZ
the age OF 22 years az a %consumptive, died recently
at La Roche.sur.Yon. aged l05 years and 10 months.
Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany found 10
German servant girls last year to whom she could
give the golden servants cross for having lived forty
years with one family. Only one was found in
Berlin.
Three travelled welshmen gave a horscacsh ban,
quet ut a Rhondda Valley hotel recently, to whirh
they invited eighty. -four persons. Only seven, however,
presented themselves to feast on a "sirloin OF four.
year old horse"
A case of leprosy In Its worst form has been dis.
covered In London. No hospital or hom' for ~.
cura6les Will take the patient IN and no means 4
isolating him from contact with other persons has
been found yet.
For preventing a railroad disaster by the timely
discovery OF a broken rail and the stopping OF AN ap.
preaching train a locomotive engineer at Halle N
the saaio received n reward OF g marks go cents
from the railroad company.
II is the wife OF Folchi, the painter who clopct
with the Princess Elvira OF Bourbon. who ha. on.
tanned a divorce from her husband, with 800 francs
a month alimony. and not the Princess, who was
never married to her lover.
Col. Ibbetson, who died recently in England, wii
the hero OF the last sensational elOpement To urrtna.
Green. He ran on fOFty-fOur yeArs MA with Lady,
Adela Viniera, daughter OF tbs Earl Of Jersey. 80
died SIX years after they were married.
Whether "Hoch - or "Hurrah - is the proper
ejaculation after a toast Is proposed Is a Qur,tva
that is disturbing Germany. Prince Ludwig OF U4vs.
ria at the Munich banquet in honor OF the Kals.r.
birthday avoided the point by shouting "IlosI,
hurrah -
Oxford University has been obliged to lock uP tbs
books In the Radcliffe Camera. where the References
books OF the library are K pit, owing to so many vol.
umes being stolen. Tho worst onaRdarS ere said o
be undergraduates preparing for examination, and
the greatest sufferer the department OF history,
Trunies viii soon be cultivated on scientific prime.
pies and are likely TO become cheaper. N. Chat r,
who discovered that the trurfe is a mushroom. ~,
announced TO the Academic DIES Sciences at Paris maj;
the Due de lesparre, brother OF tho Due de GrawnUi,
has found out how It terminates and on what Iea,es
Its spores will become fruitful,
s'o 80 OkAtl HHAli.H''
A handsome spanish adventures, who kept q lar
and gambling house freqncnted by the most fashion
able set In the city. having been arrested for u.urv
made q confession to the police. As a result rc,nT
divorce suits were begun the day the divorce ruuri
opened, and the Belgian Attorney. General has urra
forced 10 resign.
France has a curious custom OF distrbuting us
tobacco shops, which are Government onices. t. mo
widows and other needy relatives OF her dis,r'
guished' Among the recipients OF the 2Ol bureaus
de fGbdo given last year are NINE. jules simon,
widow OF the Academician. Senator and Minister, ll'
widows OF q General OF division, OF four Generals -
brigade. and OF a Rear Admiral and the daughters u
q professor at the sorbonne.
Two strange tales come from the antIpode5. "a
Nov ~ The Catholic church at Minyip, Victoria, wA'
partly ploWn over by a storm. and, pTOpped ~ y
heavy tinbers, spiked TO tho ground. A few dArs
later another storm aross and blew the church piguD
on Us Foundation again. The ship Nelson arrived a
Wellington having struck on q rocky point. and had
several holes In her bottom. Divers found one hol1
stopped up by = large piece OF rock. and another hsl4
oAiked By . nsh that had been squeezed In tail nnG I