The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
FonrreN WORKS or Rs1E rwrrREsr.

Jan 1 BY = recent ukase OF the Gar.
Mr. J.. L. TooIe. tho comedian. has had = successful
operation for cataract made upon his left eye.
oxford University has decreed that when men pre-
sent themselves 70 receive degrees they shall not
wear a n~-colored shoes.
IN. Theodcr Gsell .Fels. the compiler Of the Ad-
mirahle German guidsboot to Italy. died recently ~
Munich, AGED 10 years.
Carolus Duran has been elected President Of the
Champs dc Mars Salon Association Of Painters in
place Of tho late puvis de Chavannes.
HeidelberE University has struck = blow al The In
%atitution OF duellins by suspending eight "eorps"
studentsf for four acmesters, that IL. two year,.
This Manacle rocks, on which the Michigan was
wrecked. got their name from "Maen Fgios," the
Cornish for church stone There In q legend that
achtrch once stood on the spot.
Az . priEo contest for national music and dances.
held In the Norwegian town Of skien. the hrst priEs
for dancing was taken by an old gentleman Of 80,
who went through the HAlling dance.
Taddeo aaddia Ponts vocohio. built lin 1888. the
only MEDIEVAL bridge left In Florence. IL threatened
with destruction. The city authorities wish 70 put .
wooden suspension bridge in its place.
Great Britain has offered. according 10 the hndS-
psnd1nce Beios, to give up walAsch Bay, in South Az
RIGA, 10 Germany. in exchange for q strip through
German East Africa that will connect the British
territory with the Nile.
Moritz Frank, who rs = child was exhibited AZ .
mAthemAticali prodigy. recently tried to commit
suicide by jumping from a Vienna bridge into the
Danube. His power 10 add figures was failing and he
had learned no other means Of earning a living.
London's County Council has decided 10 assume
control OF the water supply Of the metropolitan dis
trict and will try to get a bill through Parliament to
enable It 10 purchase "by agreement or by compul-
SION the property of the eight companies that now
provide tho water.
OF 500 freshmen who matriculated NJ Oxford Uni
vorsity this fall, $50 or less than half came from the
great English public schools. Eton leads the other
schools with 90 students. then como st. Paul'a 20.
Charterhouse and winchester 10 each, Marlborough
and Harrow 10 each.
Mr.. Maskelyne. the London conjuror. has been
compelled by the courts to make good his offer OF
600 to any one Who could initiate successfuily his
boz trick. he had made the offer with impunity for
years In his speech Introducing the trick, hut, when
two young clerks took It up. refused to pay.
A dispensation has been granted by the Holy In
QUESTION permitting the wives of Italian soldiers re-
ported missing after tho battle of Adua, three years
ago. to marry again. /" in view Of the special circum-
stances and OF the valid presumption of death"
There will be lively times when the italian Enoch
Ardens return.
Ninety thousand pounds of stage scenery belong
ing to the Paris Grand Opera brought 5000 when
| sold lately by weight because 1t was somewhat
1 AuhSA. IL ia - "OAo bhO of-RS nNehbLb
of Les Huguenots,"> La Juive." Faust" Gull
lAume TELL "Le Prophetic" Ia FAvorita," aud
"LAfricaine.'
A good English word, bully" in its eighteenth
century signihcation, has been substituted for tho
French "souteneur" to describe men who live on
the earnings of prostitutes, now that English pru-
derry has conceded thatth practice exists in England.
and has made Il u misdemeanor, punishable with
Imprisonment.
| larrnan r,iIitarv artb1r{t{ou boyn RoY,rd apan1oy.
ment for the Mennonite private who refused to bear
arms through conscientious scruples by assigning
him to the company OF laborers at MaRdeburg. They
had tested his religious convictions previously by
keeping him in prison for nearly three years on
charges of characterization.
2India's tale Of persons killed by wild animals and
snakes In 1897 is 4,277 Of the former and 2o.95e Of
the latter. Nearly q thousand persons more were
killed by wild beasts than in the preceding year.
owing. IL is reported, to the famine. which drove
people into the jungle, while tho scarcity OF water
also forced tigers into the open country.
Heinrich Heine's sister. Frau Charlotte Won Emb-
den. has Just celebrated her ninety ninth birthday.
The Emperor of Austria. remembering the Empress
Elizaboth's admiration of Heine. sent Frau. Won
Embden n letter. o picture OF the murdered En-
press. and returned the letters OF Heine presented
I TO his wife ten years ago by the poets sister.
illustrated postal cards on which pictures Of fort.
fed places are represented have been prohibited in
Germany on tho ground that they betray military
secrets. Thousands Of cards with pictures of Posen.
Coblenz, Mainz. spandau. Magdeburg and other
towns have been eonhscated. and . hne of three
marks will be imposed on any one caught selling
these cards.
'Samory's capture raises the number of savage
monarchs held as personal prisoners by the French
republic to Ave. The others are King Behanzin of
Dahomey, now kept at Martinique; Queen Ranavalo
of Madagascar. Ham Nghi of AMMAN. and. Dinah
salifou. from the African west coast, who has taken
to drink. Samory. according to French accounts,
iathc father Of sixty-three children.
Glasgow University has given the late Principal
Cards successor. Principal Story, a stormy greet
ing. His inaugural address wasinterrupted by sing.
ing, whistlinR and stamping on the part Of the
undergraduates till the principal lost his temper,
and, declaring that he would not allow the uni.
Versity to be insulted in his person, Withdrew. DR..
Story was unpopular as a professor and his appoint
ment was looked upon as a job. he being one Of tho
Queens c~haplRins.
oratorio which has been set to music by N. Theodore
Dubois. director of the PAYS Conservatoire. and
will be performed In the Cathedral of Rheims in
December by an orchestra of 100 pieces and q
chorus Of 200 voices. The subject Of the oratorio is
THE Baptism of Clovis The Pope is also said to
be writing . Latin song on the worship of the Re.
deemer {" to celebrate the end of the century. and to
have selected the priest composer Perosi to compose
the music.
No lees than six expeditions are trying 10 reach
Lake Chad, according to the London Daily Mail.
Three. under MN. Behagle. Bonnet and Brettonet,
are working their way up from the French Congo.
while two others have started from the Senegal
region. one under NJ. Foureau. the other from Tim
buctoo following the track OF the late NJ. Cazemajon.
The Germans have sent a party under MAicr Won
Wilsmann from the CameroonB. Some. IL not all of
these parties. are pretty sure TO come into conflict