The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-22
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

AdelinR Patti is now an English woman. having
recently taken out her naturalization papers.
The Earl OF CarnArvon has been fined E5 At the
Newbury Petty Sessions for s~corching on the high
way in his motor car.
Australian orange growers have struck the London
market at last by getting in o cargo OF good oranges
in the middle Of the recent hot spell.
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man who drives three horses. This pathological fact
came out at 4 recent Coroners inquest.
club at Trarbach. which offered a prize Of q bar
rel Of wine for the best song in praise OF Mosello
wine. has received 2,1%o compositions to choose
from.
Hamuda KAsdarlI. o Turk Of Porto FarinA, near
Tunis. weighs 694 pounds. He had religious scruples
against being weighed. but was enticed without
knowing It to the platform OF . scale.
Lieut.. Won BrHsewitz. who was sentenced to only
three years imprisonment for the oowardly murder
of an unarmed civilian at Carlsruhe, has been par
doned and set free after two years by the Kaiser.
sappho's personal reputation is improved By the
poem recently discovered in some Egyptian pApyn
and published by Grenfell and Hume. In Il Sha
scolds her brother for his relations with an Egyptian
slave.
Rome's trades unions have taken . sensible Wow
of tine Cars proposal for general disarmament and
have voted to begin by putting down the practice
among Italian workmen Of carrying and using knives.
Paul bADAuer, hntnor OF y NE Ot 81. ErAnolA OF
Assist. has discovered the Latin original OF The Lit
tie FLOWERS of St. Francis in the works OF Fra Ugo.
limo dA Monte GiorVio. He will soon publish the
text. which bears the date of 1924.
Princess sybille OF Hesso CAASel, who IL closely ro-
lated to tie German imperial house and to half the
royal families OF Europe. has chosen 10 marry = COM
moner. Freiherr Won Vincke, She had previously
refused to NAN King Alexander OF eeryia.
Benin's eI-King. who is detained Is . prisoner By
~. -ftN "a ola T.IaLaa hawtn- 49, AGO. A.
three wives instead OF the three hundred he had be-
fore has taken TO smoking . briArWood pipe and At
tending services at the Presbyterian mission.
King Humbert has decreed that the Milan Con-
~seryatory OF Music shall hereafter be called Con.
servatorio Giuseppe Verdi. When Verdi applied for
admission TO the school he was rejected after eI.
animation on the ground OF absolute lack OF
musical faculty"
Liverpool has started the Idea OF giving concerts in
the courtyards OF the worst quarters Of the city. Mu.
sicians have volunteered and the people for whom
the concartS are given have cleaned up and deco
rated the courts. The experiment. has been initiated
at wolverhAmpton aud will DO soon in Manchester.
Rector AhlwardL tho JewbAiter. has come to grief
financially. His cigar store in Berlin has been closed
by the Sheriff for non.payment OF rent The saloons
run by his son in-lAw in his name were sold out
some time ago. He intends TO start in business again
at Frledeberg, the chief town Of the district that
elected him to the Reichstag.
Among the Fast Indian potentates at Queen Wilhsl.
minA's coronation was his royal highneSS the sultan
Of Ternate. He received the order OF the Lion Of
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