The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-03
Foreign Note. of Real Interest.

A Polish waiter in Posen has been fined $50 marks
by a German court for signing his name sdndler In
stead Of Schlinder.
DR.. Garnett. keeper OF the printed books in the
British Museum and editor Of the great catalogue.
has resigned after forty eight years service.
Nine. wadin. a canalboat woman on the Seine. who
has lived all her life on the river, having attained
the age of 1o2 years. has retired to a home on the
river bank.
Charterhouse Schools Oldest scholar is Mr.. Charles
Abbott of Ipswich. aged 1o1 years, and still active
and sound. He has survived twenty-five brothers
and sisters and all his six children.
Reuss has a musical composer among It's Prince
Henrys. The Third Symphony" by Prince
Heinrich XXIY. of Reuss-Schleiz X ostritz, is TO BIO
performed at the Munich Royal Academy OF Music.
"Birchthirsty'' is 4 recent contribution to the
English language by a woman member Of tho Lon
don School Board. who objected to tho boards attt-
tude toward the corporal punishment of schoolboya.
Ernest Legouve. the senior member Of the French
Academy. has entered upon his ninety.third year.
He received a prize from the academy for q poem
seventy years ago, and has been a member OF that
body since 1854.
People with conscientious objections to yacc.na-
ton are now allowed to expose their children to
smallpox in England. The argument of a recent
objector in the Marylebone police court was that
"if God Almighty thought that vaccination WAS
necessary or even desirable He would have per
formed the operation before the child was born
Mammon is highly honored by some portions Of
the Church Of England. At a recent Liverpool
church conference one clergyman opposed FREQ sit
tings in churches on the ground that II places sidn
by side those whom God has made TO differ and de
prives the wealthy of that Difference and respect
which is their divine right and is accorded to them
in all the walks of life"
Nine. Demont Breton received 284 votes at tho
election of tho painters jury for the Champs Elys6cS
salon, being the first woman honored with a nomi-
nation. She was not elected, the persons chosen he'
ing NM. Bonnat. 'Cormon. ]. p. Laurens. Detaille.
Henper. Jules Lefebyre. Benjamin Constant. Bou'
guerean. Harpignics and Ger6me. In 1897 tho
s~culptors not only nominated but elected a woman.
Nine. Leon BertauN.
Mr.. Parson-'s new Turbinia will. It Is hoped. be
ready for trial in two months. Sho is 22o feet long
and of $50 tons burden. more than double the sl'o
Of the first boat. The chief interest. however, Will
be in the result of Mr.. Parsonss notifications in the
machinery and his new arrangements for obtaining
greater speed in going aBteru. The new boat Wall
have eight propellers actiI q on tonr cranks inSteal
of nine propellers on three cranks. as in tho FIRST
Turbinia.
Lady wimborne's donkey has become a parsonage
second only to Mr.. Kensit in the antrrituahst as
turbRnce in England. Lady wimborno wrote TO tho
newspapers u story OF a donkey's being used IN a
procession on Palm Sunday inside OF a rituaAsiln
church lately, without naming the church. lndig'
nant denials OF the truth ot the story were th'h
printed from several churches which had been "c-
cused at some time or other since the early Htua''
IL ic days of being the scene or tho occurrence
Since then belief or disbelief in the authenticity of
the donkey has become a touchstone or TtI'G'"us
opinion among the contestants
Nine tons of poultry. consisting Of 2.l'a goose.
turkeys, chickens and ducks. from Boston. were
landed recently at a London dock, where II was