Arizona republican., 1898-04-05
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Sir Richard Quain, president of the General Medical Council and editor of the Dictionary of Medicine" is dead at the age of S2 years.
 Admission to Holyrood palace and chapel will hereafter be free, the Brit ish government having decided to dis continue the taking of fees. James Doel, now 94 years of age, is l believed to be the oldest living actor in England. He was a general utility man, and acted in minor parts with the elder Kean.
 Bombay newspapers are responsible for the tale of a local crow which has l built it's nest of spectacle frames sto- len one by one from the stock of a Baboo optician.
 Italy has followed New York's lead in fighting the splitting habit. No f1ces in many street and railroad cars request passengers to abstain on the grounds of decency and health. MT. Lea of Worcestershire sauce fame left an estate of $5,350 0,OOO; his partner, Perrin, left nearly as much. They began life as druggists in small way in an English country town. Munster, in Westphalia, has a public school which has just celebrated the eleven hundredth anniversary of it's foundation. It is the St. Paul Gym nasium and was originally a convent school
 One French citizen is doing his best to save his country from depopula- tion. A new recruit in Paris startled the enrolment board by announcing that he was the thirty-fourth child of his father.
 Hunger stones" have been seen in the Rhine this winter They appear only when the river is very low. and the date of their appearance is then cut into them. They are believed to forebode year of bad crops
 During the academic year 1896-97 the tWenty-one German universities grant ed 2,371 doctors degrees, 1,1S7 of them in medicine, S29 in philosophy, 335 in law, and 20 in theology. Erlangen seems to be the favorite place for the final examination, 332 degrees having been taken there.
 England has learned a lesson from the Jameson raid. MT. H. Cavendish who was making preparations to lead large and heavily armed scientific" expedition into the country on the southern border of Abyssinia, has been Cy CHC that IL IS advisable for him to postpone his project.
 At Roubaix, one of the socialist strongholds of France, the II ,OO0 pub lie school children receive free food and clothing at the expense of the town. Their dinner at school consists of soup, bread, vegetables, meat, and a glass of beer. At the beginning of summer and of winter each child receives complete suit of clothes.
 Frascuelo, the bull fighter, the most famous of modern Spaniards, died re- gently of pneumonia. His name in private life was Salvador Sanchez He was the last representative of the old school of espadas, who fought the bull while he was fresh, and did not try to tire him out first by tricks. He is said to have left a fortune of several millions of pesetas.
 | Munich beer drinkers put away 5e6 l1tres of beer apiece during the year. which is less than four steins day TOT each man, woman and child. At Nuremberg the yearly consumption is 321 1itres, and at Vienna 142 Iitres The smallness of the Parisian "bocks'' is probably the reason for Paris's con- suming only II litres a head of beer during a whole year.
 Capt. Sverdrup will take with him