The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-11
Foreign Notes Of Interest.

Chaucer enthusiasts are preparing
Tor a celebration In 1900 of the 500th
anniversary OF the poets death.
The Laird" OF TriIby has Just died
OF He was Du Maurier's
friend. T. r.. Lamont. an associate of
the Royal Water CsIor society.
Salvini reappeared on the stage for
one night at the yespucci and Toscap-
ELL celebration in Florence. He played
the title part in Alnerf's Saul"
Michael Angeles book of medical
recipes has been discovered In the vat
ican- The recipes are mainly those
prescribed by the 18th century doctors
for h artists sore eyes.
Women bicyclists in st. Petersburg
are ordered by the police TO veal
bloomers or rational dress. a. h wind
blows too capriciously In Russia's cap
ital for skirts to be worn with decency.
The Hon. John Tyrwhitt. youngest
son of Baroness Berners. IL under ar
rest in London charged with having
raised a money ender's check and OBJ
tanning money on II. He II % years of
age
In the palace of the senate In the
capitol at Rome q number OF medieval
frescoes were discovered recently by
| workmen who were tearing down q
partition wall. The colors are bright
and the pictures well preserved.
Friedrich Nietxche 10 reported to b.
improving. He listens now with ap-
parent interest to the reading of
French novels n moves about q
great deal. The doctors have some
hope of his recovering his mind event.
ually.
Frankfort and Paris pawnbrokers
nave found II necessary TO enlarge
their premises for the storage of bicy-
cles. The Paris municipality has voted
s., 900 to convert m of the halls u
the Mont de Piete Into q bicycle store
room.
Colonel Shervinton. the English ad-
venturer who commanded the Mala-
gasy forces against the French In 1885
and who withdrew from Madagascar
when France again invaded h island
ten years later. shot himself In Lon
don recently.
Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg's
creditors at Nice having failed to make
her father. the king Of the Belgians.
trunk n clothes OF ner husband.
Princ Philip. who is trying to obtain
a divorce from her.
A daughter of the Due de P~ersigny.
Napoleon Ills accomplice in the coup
d'etat and minister OF the interior, has
committed suicide at Nice. Her hus-
band recently divorced her after fight
lnE II uuel WIFI n young lieutenant VINO
was her lover. She tried to make the
latter leave the army and marry her,
and on his refusal shot herself through
the heart.
A remarkable tale Of human fecund-
ity is told by the london Daily News.
An Italian peasant woman named
Granata, married at rs. has borne 60
children. h began with a single
daughter, followed by six boys at a
birth. then by FIVE more. and these by
triplets twice and four at a birth. At
ter this she limited herself like ordin-
airy women to single baples and twins,
but wound up with another batch Of
four.
Brugsch Bey has dicovered the ear
lest records of illustrated comic liter
allure in a papyrus of the 22d dynasty
recently our at Tonnah. The draw
ings are colored and represent animals
performing curious antics. In one pic
ture a rat. dressed as a grand lady, is
waited upon by a cat as lady's maid,
who holds up a mirror to her mistress.
In another, a rat appears as a young
Egyptian dandy, whose ceremonial
peruke is being dressed by an obse-
quious cat as barber. In a third. a cat
figures as a nurse. tenderly carrying
a rat in her arms. In a fourth. two
jackals wait upon a cow: n 5ackal
carries two milk pals suspended from
a yoke across the shoulders, the other
empties a pail into a trough over which
the COW is bending.