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KhArtoum Doctor of Laws. -s-rtA
Single eyeglasses worn By women is the Form
taken by the latest London fashionable insanity
All Of the New Testament has been translated for
the FIRST time into OF the Australian nauvS diar
lccts by two German missionaries.
Catulls Mendes has been commissioned By the
French Government to write report the pfogrts1
Of French poetry for the 1900 exhibition. -
King Charles rs pale blue silk undershirt, worn
by him the scAffold and stained with his blood.
brought 81 .o2a at auction In London recently.
ManK IL tho best tongue for courtinR As II has
ninety.soven ways In which to say MY dear" This
| is the opinion OF tho London ManI Society. ..
Queen victoriA has conferred on the Twenty>hrsA
Lanoers. who made the charge at omdur1nan, tho
designation Of The Empress Of Indias" LAncera.
They were known unotlciAlly as tho "Dumptes."
Municipal honors have palod on the British peers.
Only tvo-tho Earl Of Sandwich and Lord Forester
have accepted MayorNltes this year; three Ago
the once OF Mayor was hlled by eleven peers
Two crooodiles in circus at BaJeuI. France. got
into nsht IN which hind leg Of Of the beasts
was badly lacerated veterinary surgeon Was
chilled in who amputated the leg successfully, the
| crocodile being as lively as ever. ...t
In the archives Of the Duo dc Ia Tremoulls have
been found the minute books OF the Sorbonne. the
ecclesiastical court. from 1908 TO 1888. the period
of the strongest struggle against Professionalism IN
France. They in the Paris National Library.
President Faures daily mail Ia said 10 contain on
the average 700 letters. of which $50 are begging
letter $50 petitions political matters, 100 pei-
tions from criminals. complaints against officials.
| go an onymous insults. and 20 threats Of death.
Major Count stolberg. .wernigerode. who klled.A
Sergeant with blow of his sabre last fall account
of hitch in the camp cooking. has been sontenced
| by cour-mhrtial TO be dismissed from the German
| ARMY and to be imprisoned for forty months,
| Japan with population of as 900 900 has 27o
,rratb hat have tbsr, tpha In
| 1896 the number of such towns III. OSAKA has
creased from 100000 900 inhabitants In ten
y, ars, Yokohama from 900 to 1870 ooo Kobe from
| $4,000 to 1876 ooo Toxic has now population OF
| 100000 "s'.N
Count Michele stetano de- Rossi. who died recently
| at Rocca d. Papa, practically made sesmology
science by his observations and work on earthquakes
| and the Instruments he devised TO measure them
He brother Of the late Giamb mbattistA de- Ross
the greatest authority of the century on Christian
! antiquities.
King Charles OF RoumAnlns Rembrandt, Father,
Hamsn and Ahasuerus," lent to the coronation. ex-
hibition at Amsterdam, had nail driven through u
by the carelessness of the hangers An attempt has
been made TO repair it and the sum of $4,000 has
been sent to the King to compensate him for tho
damage done. .-.F.s ...t.r 8.
license forstage plays granted to the Cripplesats
Institute Is the first such permission given by
the Lord Chamberlain's ofice to aplAee within tho
limits of the city of London The old City of London
Theatre stood outside the boundaries. while IN
Shakespeare time the Lord Chamberlain had moth
ing 10 do with the theatres.
Attinghausen. village In the Swiss canton Of uri,
of the homes of William Tell tries to keep up
its reputation for shooting straight Out of 500
habltants 1874. men and women. skilled rife
shots. The first prize in the last schntzenfest
carried of by 15.year-old girl. Her father seven
brothers and three sisters all shot, the family taking
nine prizes.
"Cyrano de Bergerac" at the 2Gsth performances
at the Porte SantMartin Theatre broke all records
for Paris theatre receipts, having brought in 2ooo.
600 francs For the same length OF time g. Michael
Strogof" in 1sso-s1 drew 1.94s o56 francs TO tn o
Chatelet while Round the World in Eighty Days.
at the Porte saintMartin in Is74.75 brought in
l,e3e.3oo francs. 'H-'@ -
Birmingham has received the offer OF several i'm.
portant modern English paintings ontcondtion that
suitable gallery be built for them. Thev include
George Frederick wattss Aspiration" and his por-
trait of BurneJones. Holman Hunts " The Triumph
OF the Innocents' and BurneJones's 'The Merciful
, Knight" The Garden of the Hesperides'' and the
"Pygmalion" SERIES q -
Mrs. Ann Smith of Worcester. England. 40 years
of age. has spent hundred OF her life in
travelling from fair to fair in van. She has had
sixteen children, and of her daughters,
years of age. has also had sixteen. Mrs Smith eats
four meals day, drinks sparingly OF intoricants.
smokes a clay pipe steadily and attends to all her
, household duties herself. r-r.;
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Y,h.., =, r,,-,.n,, ~, ,,.a J,...r., =. ~ - -
"a ve.r. va. tic driven or, ~ hsr dorn,niors o.,
! 1s4a and 1859. She was the mother of the lost
Archduke Johann Salvador who. as Capt John orth.
disappeared with his vessel some She was
never convinced Of his death, but kept his rooms
and belongings always ready for his return. ..s
An English defaulting bank manager who had
euded the police for three years by staying in sea.
side village near Plymouth has been discovered by
! n strange accident While strolling on the beach
with young woman watching the warships A sailor
3 on board cruiser who happened to come from the
I town whence the oeiAui'er hAd Aosconeea' iooAeo
throngh teiescoPe' Feeosni@eu hiin' ana iniorneo
, inc Pohee' .,.7.
Following on the Mohegan wreck comes another