The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-05
Foreign Notes Of Real Interost.

Alaw granting $500 to every burgher who IN the
father Of twelve boys has been introduced in the
Transvaal volksraad. ~.
Lord Montagu Of Beaulieu has turned himself and
his Honor Of Clitheroe with its manors, mines, and
privileges into a limited liability company.
Prof. Alphonse River. the Belgian authority on
international law. one of the arbitrators in the
Behring Sea dispute. died recently in Brussels.
Kaiser Wilhelm will appear In a new part on bis
Palestine journey, that of a Cooks tourist. He has
already bought the tickets for the journey up the
Nile.
Frohsdorf in Austria. the castle which was the
Comte de Chambord's home for more than thirty. Ave
years. and was beqaeathed by him TO Don Carlos, has
been bought by Emperor Francis Joseph for his
daughter. the Archduchess Valerie.
Sir Monier Monier- Williams, the veteran professor
of sanskrit at the University of Oxford, and his Wife
have celebrated their golden wedding. The pre-.
fessor. who is 30 years of ago, has just completed the
second edition OF his sanskrit dictionary.
Russia has curious proselyting methods. The Car
has presented the Bulgarian people with the com.
plete costumes for a hundred Russian plays taken
from the wRrdrobes Of the st. Petersburg and Mos
COW court theatres. They comprise $500 separate
articles OF dress, valued at 60. 900 roubles.
The AbatroEs. the second of EnRlAnd's fast tor
pedo-boRt destroyers, has Just been launched by the
Thorneycrofts with all her machinery on board
"S~NS W. 30 AinAo' oeA uhEAnJoc bpb6u IL Lnlrtys
two knots. When the Lairds launched the Express
recently the machinery was not in place. Neither
boat has been tried yet. -
N. Henri MoissAn has succeeded in obtaining ma.
talIc calcium free from impurities. He diss lives the
crudo metal In molten metallic sodium, matnt iined
at a red heat. On cooling the calcium crystslryea
and Is separated by te,ng treated with absolute Alco-
hol. The crystals are white and shining and belong
to the hexaGonRl system.
Cant RoitscheH prf,ca Eondto.na n--
former aide-de'camp and Project of Police Noveutch
have been hanged Mt Philippopolis for the murder Of
the singer, Anna SEimon, q year ago. Their nrst sen.
tence to death was commutedt 10 imprisonment for
hfe' but IA they appealed against II they were con-
demned n second ttme* Boitscheff raved like a ma
MAC ON being told that he was TO be executed, 40.
cused Prince Ferdinand Of abandoning him; refused
to listen to a priest. and had to be dragged to thu
scAnold by violence.
Experiments with plant seeds subjected TO extreme
cold have shown that the power of termination IN
not destroyed but merely suspended by the cold.
BY the use of liquid air. seeds OF barley, oats. SQUASH.
cucumber peas. sunfower and some other plants
were recently kept for ITO hours at q cold OF from
1889 70 1929 cenhgrade. They were then carefully
and slowly thawed for nifty hours. They werd then
planted and sprouted as we'll az II they had not been
frozen. The experiments were made by Messra.
Browne. Escombe and Koran In London.
Eiery human being has a specific odor Of his NV,
according TO A. Bethe in the ArcAtu der GesammteN
PAVs'oioGIe. by which he can be recognized not merely
by dogs but by persons with sensitive organs Of
smell. The case is mentioned OF a man who blind.
folded could pick out each individual in 4 company
Of twenty by his odor. The smell is not born with
us. but develops gradually till the age of puberty.
after which 1t remains unchanged. Memberu OF a
family have a kind of common odor. which persists
even when they have lived apart for a long time.
MAior-den, Crease of the British Royal Marine
Ina N uN2 m nA-
defence Of Britain. His plan is TO build eighteen
floating batteries OF 1880 tons each, thiekly ar
mored from deck to keel 80 as to be practically tor
podoiproof. but of such light draught that thoy can
night in shallow waters. They are to be armed each
with sixteen heavy guns in four two-story turrets.
ana manned by naval militia. He would have. DO.
sides, nine "battleship e1teminators, armored
destroyerS OF great speed. supplied With q ram, tor
pedo tubes and light guns. The cost would be
Sloo'ooo.ooo. Gen. Crease is now on the retired list.