The sun., 1898-01-03
Foreign Notes or Real Interest.

Foreign Sotee 'oI heai intsree.
The Eorl of Devon ss years of age. stl preaches
and attends to all his duties prebendary OF
Exeter Cathedral.
Berlin's servant girls losing the steady habits
Of the German Dfenstmddchen; their average time
OF service in place is only nine months and half
A British Admiral has come to grief horseback.
Admiral Sir E. r. Fremantle who is in command at
Devonport. while riding recently was severely wound.
ed in the leg by being into bv passing carriage.
Capt. James Brown. commander OF the windward.
lately pr scented to Lieut. Peary by Mr.. Harmsworth,
has spent thirty-nine and made thirty voyages
In Arctic waters. His father and grandfather were
engaged in Arctic work before him.
Southampton Is now ready for attack by soa, tho
ave gunboats that carry the defence boom having
been placed in their stations. The boom consists Of
network Of wire hawsers running from ship to ship
and connected with heavy balks OF spiked timber
and to submarine mines
Twenty bicyclists having been killed during tho
past year on q bridge at a sharp turn at tho bottom
OF hill on the road between Mentone and Nice,
netting has been put at the dangerous point by the
Touring Club of France to catch reckless who
are hurled over the parapet.
English wreckers who were trying to rave the
cargo Of the steamer Aden which went ashore the
Island of socora last June, after being driven OF
forciby by the natives discovered that the socorans
right to wreckage cast upon their coast had been
recognized by Great Britain by treaty.
Prussias paternal Government has ordered two
private schools in little town Potsdsm to DO
closed because they interfere with rival establish
ment. One may be kept open for year longer pro-
vded the proprietor engages to take in only twenty
pupils and to teach them no foreign languages.
A great Improvement has been made in Parisian
duels. The seconds in affair of honor between o
dramatic author and one OF his critics made mis-
take In the place of meeting, thereby sending their
principals TO opposite ends Of Paris. This made o
subsequent meeting at close quarters unnecessary
Princess Thyra OF Cumbe rland. sister OF the Prtnr
cess OF wales and the EN- press Dowager Of Russia,
who has been recently in private asylum. has far
recovered her mind and health owing to the improve
ment OF her eldest sons condition that she will be
present when her daughter out at the Austrian
court in January.
II took seventy shots at close range. including
number from the 9.2.inch ca ibre gun. before tho
Briti.h cruiser Edgar could sink a derect tank
steamer In the Red Sea. Naval men are trying to
figure out how many shots would have boen needed
II the Edgar had been dealing with hostile cruiser
OF her owl class
Frances Chamber OF Deputies is examining seri.
ousy a curious project for diminishing child murder
by making the punishment ~ the crime. M. Lautiers
proposes that mothers convicted OF nfantcidc shall
be sentenced to transportation and compelled to
one three children according to the do
gree Of the crme.
Dum.dum bullets work both ways the Indian
frontiers the Afridi tribesmen are blu0ting the
bullet tips. The two pIpers of the Gordon High.
landerS, who distinguished themselves at Dnrgai.
lost his leg. the 9th his foot. owing to the ter
rlble spliDt ring OF the BONE caused by the modt
fed" Lee-Metford missiles
Cricket has not abolished the color line in South
A rica Though the blacks play the game well they
cannot play in teams with white men. and when the
All England eleven goes to Cape Town on It's return
IA. ha gai
to play The objection to half breeds is even stronger
than that against the pure blacks.
Another British Institution, tho domestic servants
right to fortniGhts notice of dismissal. has been
overthrown by higher law than that OF the Queens
Bench, which rendered the decision. The Judges in
giving their opinions. stated that being In doubt as
to the existence OF the custom thy had taken tho
opinion OF "their domestic advisers" on the point.
MIssal. a Book OF Hours, AMI Psalter, which
had been in the possession or vsconnt Arhuth'
nots family for 400 years, were recently sold at
auction in London for $4,000 The ssal Is the only
one extAnt, according TO the Scottish use. The manu-
scripts written ami decorat 10y his vicar ifor
Sir Robert Arbuthnot between l+ss and liSl.
While circus was parading on Totteuham road In
tho sutskirH OF London baker gave one oi tne es-
phAnts = couple OF loavcs Of stale bread. few
nights the elephant broke from Its fastenngs In
the town where the circus then was. got away from
its keepers and made Its way back to the bakers
shop. whore II broke In the plate glass windows and
ate up the bread exposed for sale II then allowed
itself to be led quietly back to Its stable.
Extravagant prices being paid In London for
pictures by early English painters portrait by Ii.
r. Morland the almost unknown father OF George
Morland whose pictures have usually sold for
few guneas, brought In $4,000 at recent auction
sale. Il represents young woman ironing In blue
and white dress with white cap and blue ribbons
her head and Is usually called portrait OF Maria,
Countess OF Coventry. ono OF tho beautiful hiAs
0unnings Several copies OF the picture by AorlA2A
himself are In sxiStonOa.