The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-05
Foreign Notes or Rea, Interest.

webers "Freyschiitz" has Just been performed for
the 6oOth time at the Berlin Royal Opera.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS as a title for
the German Kaiser feebly expresses one English.
mans rage.
Vienna is going to turn moral. too. The ballet corps
at the Imperial Opera House has received orders to
wear ''roomy white silk stockings over its tights
henceforth.
telegraph line recently run to coomassle from
the coast is highly appreciated by the Ashanti ma
tives. They cut or the wire in suitable lengths to
make armlets.
vaticana is the name given to one Of the latest
asteroids discovered, No. 4le. in honor of Father
Boccardi OF tho Vatican Observatory, who has com
puted its course.
Lord Alfred Rothschild sent a brace of pheasantS
to every one OF the $500 drivers and conductors of
the omnibus company in which he .s interested as Q
Christmas present.
Herr Dieden, the senior member Of the German
R%eichstag, is 81 years Of age and has sat in every SEES
sion since the empire was constituted. He has also
been a member OF the Prussian Laudtag continu-
ously since 1854.
Siegfried Wagner is in Rome at work on a comic
opera, the book being on a story OF the Thirty Years
War. His music Is said to be not OF the school of his
father but OF that of Humperdinck. the composer of
I" Eansel und Gretcl."
Princess Theresa of Bavaria. daughter OF the Prince
Regent. has been made an honorary doctor OF phi.
losophy by the University of Munich. She is also a
member OF the Royal Academy OF Sciences. Is 4S
years of age, and a spinster.
Paris's police is trying to discourage murder as .
business by showing that II does not pay. out of
twcniy.one recent murders the average profit to each
assassin was $40 81, aud in many OF these cases the
murderer was caught and executed.
A bill. posting combination has been turned into q
limited. liability corporation in London, with a capt.
tai OF Sl2, 10000. IL holds out as an inducemcnt TO
buy shares a number Of contracts It has for bill post
ing at the rate OF a penny a sheet per week.
Krefeld is henceforth the only correct spelling for
the manufacturing town near Dusseldorf, the form
Crefeld having been condemned unanimously by .
convention OF all the school teachers of the district.
to whom the Prussian Government referred the
question for final decision.
Princess TOno Marian of the FIJI Islands, according
to the Berlin B0rsrnbldtt. is about to visit Europe in
search OF n husband. She Is the heir to tho thronei
has an Income Of $4,000 a year from the British
Government. which will bo doubled on her accession.
besides her domain lands. and is looking for a we'll
educated man OF good birth. as the FIJI Queens coz
sort is her Chief Minister and Chicf Justice.
There was a hot time In Adelaide. Australia. On
Nov. 10. the temperature in the shade reaching 1902,
and In the sun 1874, The sky looked queer, tho sun was
blood red, and many people concluded that the world
was coming to an end. At one public school the chill
dren WIRE seized with a panic, which was stopped
with dlriculty by the head master. who later kept the
whole school In till 1t had made up the time lost in
the scare.
Earl Russell. freed from his divorce court troubles.
IL aRitating the zone man one bath" question In
British warehouses. Al Msidenhead. the scene OF the
recent typhoid fever outbreak. where the Earl Is one
of the Board Of Guardians, he discovered that they
had bathed forty trampS In six bathfnls OF water.
With some dinculty he put through a proposal TO use
the same water for only two or three persons. ono
oversper objectlng that The did not know when they
were going TO stop giving luxurles to tramps."
BY May l the Congo Railroad between Matadi and
Stanley Pool wi be completed aud open for trarnc.
In the middle OF Decembcr the rails had been laid for
84S kilometres OF the ass covered by the Inc, tho
roadbed for ten kilometres more wGs finished. and
men were ut work on the next ten kilometres, bring
ing the line TO Within thirteen miles OF st .nl"y Pool.
The IRON bridge over tho Iukis,i VIII he put In place
at the beginning Of Janu iry. The November receipts
from tranic on the part Of the road IN operation were
100000 francs.
"KokorI ko +" q dramatic review OF the year att
Paris variety hall, has led to a duel. The author
made fun Of the Catullc Mendh4.L ugue Poo encounter,
rcprcsrutlng the principal, a, Lc Prince d. hIcdTonf
and lie Dirccfeur die FEurrt drS I"'ns Fuudrds.
with DuSG ana TAmagnO as seconds for the lrst and
Sarah Bcnharlt rs one second for the other. A:
Lugne Pos. feeling Insultel, challenged the author,
and, .s IN this duel he did not keep out OF his oppo-
nent's reach. lie received two slight scratches aud ~
established his reputation for physical oouraSs.