New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-16

where he was employed IN the organHeton Oh
the first European railway service ana nexr az,
peared in Algeria and became captain -
The French service receiving IN appointment III
the clothing department Of the Foreign Legion
Finally NJ Francois lola settled down at Mar
settles civil engineer In 1888; Inc noVe ,.
describes his fathers big projects for the m
movement Of Marseilles and or other places,
shows that Francois lola led Ire OF marc
work and that after he died suddenly in lc1' ne
was buried with great religious soiennlty d,
AK In the aforementioned town q canal ana
a boulevard are called after FRANCOIS Zoia' IN
remembrance OF what he did for the town. IN
the conclusion Of his essay In defence OF MS
father NJ lola remarks that if perchance ne
should find that FRANCOIS ZOla was guilty OF any
shortcomings during his adventurous youth nc
Will clear him by showing him 10 De gOou seH
erous and great NJ Judet replies TO all this TO-
day in his most inclsive manner. and MAINTAINS
what he has written about the character Vi
the noveists father and the causes OF ms 80, t
parture from the French military service sih'y-
six years ago
The hundredth anniversary Of the Russian
poet A. Pushkin is TO be celebrated IN Russia
next wear on a grand scale This man has been
called the Russian Byron. though this was
nisnomer He was only child when he began
to write and at nineteen he was famous lie
had African blood In his ancestry, his maternal
great grandfather having been a favorite negro
OF Peter the Great. The marriage Of this black
VIZ
lost sea song by Robert Louis Stevenson,
which is 70 be found In an old Sign OF the
Ship article by Andrew Lang. bur in no volume
OF Stevenson's works Is reprinted by The Lon
don Academy" Mr.. Langs Introduction runs
thus: The next sea song came TO us from the
sea in an envelope, with the postmark Talohae
Taiti. q Ao0t 49, The handwriting OF the ad-
dress appears 10 be that Of the redouoted VIKING
who sailed in John Silver's crew, who winged
the Black Arrow. and who wandered IN the
heather with Alan Brock. Aut Rooertus buoo-
vicus aut Diabolus sent the song, presume
but whether he really heard Il sung NJ hoth-
erhithe or whether he is tho builder OF the lofty
rhyme is between himself and and his con-
science"
This is the song;
THE FINE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
Heard in public-house at Rotherhithe)
The jolly English Yeiiowboy
Is a 'ansome coin when new
The Yankee Double-eagle
Is large enough for two.
O these may do for seaport towns,
For cities these may 90;
But the dibbs that takes the Hislands
Are the dollars OF Peru:
O. the fine Pacific hsianoA
O. the dollars OF PERU
It's there we buy the coooanuts
Mast 'eaded IN the blue;
It's there we trap the lasses
All awaiting for the crew;
It's there we buy the traders rum
What bores q seaman through
In the hne Pacific Hislands
with the dollars Of Peru:
In the fine Pacific HislandA
With the dollars Of Perul
Now rnessmates. when my watch IS up
And I am quite preached 10.
TIL give tip TO Ewing
Of the 'andsome thing TO DO
Let 'em just refit this sailor man
And launch him off anew,
To cruse among the Hislands
OF the dollars Of Peru:
In the fine Pacific Hislands,
with the dollars OF Perul