The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-09

An eighteenvear.old English colonist in Australia
has been sent to Jail for a term of years for nosging
three native women servants to death.
Fritz Peters. the intimate friend Of Fritz Reuter-
and the prototype of Inspector BrRsig in 'Ut Mine
stromtId. has Just died at the age of 70 years.
Mgr. Algernon Stanley. brother OF Lord Stanley of
AIderley. and formerly an Anglican clergyman. has
been made u Prothonotary Apostolic by the Pope.
For half an hour 81. % knots was the rate OF speed
Of the Star. o new 30.knot torpedo.boat destroyer
built by tho Palmers. The average for the three.hour
trial was 800 knots.
Sir Edwin Arnold's Japanese bride, according to
the japanese newspapers. was once a Geisha, named
Tama, with whom the elderly poet became infatuated
during his last visit to Japan.
NJ. Camille ~Flammarion has undertaken to cinema
tograph the sky. He takes 5000 photographs .
night when II is clear and expects to show realistic
pictures of the movements of moon and stars.
A polar bear and a sloth bear from India got into q
Aght in an English menagerie recently. and after q
quarter OF an hours struggle. during which the keep.
ers were unable to get them apart. the sloth bear
killed its antagonist.
Theodor Mommscn. who has aiw avs been a radical
in politics, refused the title OF "Exceliency" offered
him by the Kaiser on the occasion OF his eightieth
birthday. Just as he refused the title OF "Geheim-
rath " a few years ago.
A driver on the Auteuil- Madeleine omnibus line In
Paris has drawn the 100. 900 franc prize in tho city
bond lottery. He declines to give UP his job. how
ever. as the interest on the money is not enough to
enable him TO live In Paris.
Greenwich Observatory complains that II has little
clear weather. Sun and stars are wholly invisible
every other day ia winter, ono day in four in fall.
one In eight In spring, and one in sixteen In summer.
In the twenty years ending with 1895 there wero
only eight instances OF sunlight for fourteen con.
tinuous hours.
Abyssinia Is likely to he conquered peacefully by
Italy. as over 4 1000 soldiers taken prisoners by None.
lex are said to have settled in the country, refusing
to go home. Meanwhile their families arc petition
ing the Government either to get back the men who
disappeared after Adana or to declare them dead
oniciaily, so that their affairs in Italy may be settled.
Professional delicacy has forced the sicilian brigsnd
chief Candino to write to the Palermo newspapers,
explaining that one member OF his band has been ex-
PEELED for "discourteous conduct In his dealings with
the public" Candiuo himself notifies the relatives of
his captives that a ransom is due by sending them
fingers, hands, and ears as preliminary hints OF the
captive's fate.
Marquis Carlo Aineri di sostcFno, who died re
Gently In Florence at the age OF 40 years. was the
last OF his name. He was u grandnephew OF the
poet, vittorio Alheri, and the son of the Piedmontese
minister who In Is4s framed the Italian Constitution.
He married Cayours niece, and his daughter is the
wife OF thu Italian foreign minister. MRrchese Wis.
conti-venosta-
Archduchess Elisabeth OF Austria, tho daughter of
she late Crown Prince Rudolf, Is now fifteen years OF
age. She VIII inherit the greater portion Of her
grandfather's private estate. Apart from the savings
of nifty years from his yearly allowance OF 100000
norins. Emperor Francis Joseph Inherited 200. 600,
900 norins worth OF property from his uncle and
predecessor. Emperor Ferdinand l..
Cinderella was the fayorite subject for Christmas
pantomime in London this year AZ 1t was last; tho
number OF plots a British audience will stand be.
ing limited. In twenty eight theatres pantDmimes
were given; OF these eight were CInderellas, four
each "Robinson CrusOc' and Dick Wilmington
two each +" Aladdin" " Red Riding Hood" and Babes
in the Wood" the Others being Beauty and the
Beast,""Jack and the Beanstalk, - Forty Thieves, 4"
"sindbAd," f" Yellow Dwarf" and +" VIII o. tho wisp."
In l6e8-04 Aladdin headed the list; In leel5
'BabeS in the Wood" and In 1860 Dick Whiting
ton."