The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-21
Foreign Notes Of Interest,

| single eyeglasses worn by women u the
form taken by the latest London fashion,
able insanity.
All OF the New Testament has been
translated for the first time into one OF
the Australian native dialects by two Ger
man missionaries.
Catulle Mendee has been commissioned
By the French government to write a re-
port on the progress Of French poetry for
the 1890 exhibition.
King Charles Us pale blue silk under
shirt. worn by him on the scaffold and
stained with his blood. brought $l.o22 at
auction in London recently.
Manx is the best tongue for counting.
as IL has 81 ways In which to say M
dear" This Is the opinion of the London
Manx society.
Queen Victoria has conferred on the
21st Lancers. who made the charge at
Omdurman. the designation of The En-
press of India's' Lancers. They were
known unoficially as the ~"Dumpties."
Municipal honors have palied on the
British peers. Only two-the Earl Of Sand
witch and Lord Forester-have accepted
mayoralties this year; three years ago the
office OF mayor was flled by IL peers.
Two crocodiles in n circus at Bayeux.
France. got into a fight in which a hind
leg of one of the beasts was badly lacer-
ated. "a veterinary surgeon was called in.
who amputated the leg successfully, the
crocodile being as lively as ever.
In the archives OF the Duo de la Ire
mouille have been found the minute books
of the Sorbonne, the ecclesiastical court,
from 1906 to 1888. the period of the strong
est struggle against Professionalism In
France. They are now in the Par.s Ma
tiona library.
President Faure's daily mail is said to
contain on the average 200 letters. of
which go are begging letters, $50 petitions
on political matters. 100 petitions from
criminals. 100 complaints against officials,
50 anonymous insults. and 20 threats OF
death.
Major Count acknowledgements. who
killed a sergeant with a blow Of his saber
last fail on account of a hitch in the
camp cooking, has been sentenced by
court martial to be dismissed from the
German army and to be imprisoned for
10 months.
Japan with n population of 4 ,0Oo,Ooo has
22) towns that have more than 100. G0 in
habitants. In 1856 the number of such
towns was III. Osaka has increased from
800. 900 to 5l0.O 600 inhabitants in 10 years,
Yokohama from s.. 900 to $780, 200. Kobe from
$4,000 to $4,000. Toxic has now a popula-
ton OF 100000
Count Michele Stefano de- Rossi. who
died recently at Rocca di Papa, practical
ly made seismoloGy a science by his OBJ
%servations and work on earthquakes and
the instruments he devised to measure
them. He was a brother of the late Clam
battista de- Rossi. the greatest authority
of the century on Christian antiquities.
King Charles of Roumania's Rembrandt.
ESTHER. Hannah and Ahasuerus," lent to
tho coronation exhibition at Amsterdam,
had a nail driven through IL by the care
lessness of the hangers. An attempt has
been made to repair II and the sum of
s.. 500 has been sent to the king to COM
pensate him for the damage done.
A license for stage plays. granted to the
Cripplegate institute. is the first such per-
mission ever given by the lord chamber
lain's office to a place within the limits of
the city of London. The old City of Lon
don theater stood outside the boundaries,
while in Shakespeare's time the lord
chamberlain had nothing to do with the
theaters.
Attinghausen. a village in the Swiss cam
ton of Uri. as one of the homes of WILL
lam Tell. tries to keepup its reputation for
shooting straight. out of 500 inhabitants
IS4, men and women, are skilled rifle
shots. The first prize I'm the last schutzen-
fest was carried off by a 15-year-old girl
Her father. seven brothers and three sis
tiers all shot. the family taking nine prizes.
"Cyrano de Bergerac.' at the 2i6th per-
Torrance at the Porte Saint Martin thea
| ter, blOht All TttoTuS lot fdIlS lhtdlei
receipts. having brought in 2,OOO.O 900 francs.
For the same length of time Michael
Sarogoff' in 1SSO-s1 drew 1,94s, 056 francs to
fe Chatelet. while Round the World I'm
| Eighty days at the Porte Saint Martin i'm
1S1I-5 brought I'm 1,636,50O francs.
Birmingham has received the offer of
several important modern English paint
ings on condition that n suitable gallery
be built for them. They include George
Frederick Watts Aspiration and his
portrait of Burne-Jones, Holman Hunts
1.-The Triumph of the Innocents" and
Burne-Jones' The Merciful Knight"
1.-THE Garden of the Hesperides" and the
"Pygmalion" series.
Mrs. Ann Smith of Worcester. England,
10 years of age. has spent over a hundred
years of her life in travelling from fair 90
fair in a van. She has had 16 children,
and one of her daughters, now 80 years
of age. has also had 10 children. Mrs.
Smith eats four meals a day, drinks s-ar-
ingly of intoxicants. smokes a clay rire
steadily, and attends TO all her household
duties herself.
Archduchess Maria Antonio. the former
grand duchess of Tuscany, who died 90
Gently at the age OF 81 years, vas twice
driven out of her dominions, in iS@ AMI
1859. She was the mother of he lost
Archduke Johann Salvador. who, as Cap
tain John Orth, disappeared with ms ves-
sci some years ago. She was never c"B-
WINGED of his death, but kept his rooms
and belongings always ready for mis- re-
turn.
An English defaulting bank manage
who had eluded the police for thee years
by staying in a seaside village near Ply
mouth, has been discovered by a siranre
| accident. While strolling on TIE bca~n
with a young woman watching the war
ships a sailor on board a cruiser, who
happened to come from the town whence
the dcfaulter had absconded. looked
| through a telescope, recognized him. and
Informed the police.
Following on the Michigan wreck comes
another strange disaster on the Cornish
coast. The cargo steamer Bluetacket,
bound from Plymouth to Cardiff, on a
clear night, ran into the L~ongships light