The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-14
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

Mr.. Richard lie Gallienne threatens to turn his
Quest Of the Golden Girl into an opera libretto,
Don Lorenzo Perosi's ~oratorio, THE Resurrection
Of Lazarus. !" will be performed in London next MAY.
Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul will deliver ths
panegyric on Joan of Arc in the Cathedral at or.
leans next May.
Robert schumann's son Ludwig who was smitten
with insanity as his father was. died recently in the
Kolditz madhouse.
Thirty years ago the first postal card was made in
Vienna at the suggestion of Prof. Hermann OF the
Technical Institute.
An English burglar. who slammed insanity in
order to escape trial, after keeping up the pretencs
for ak months has become really mad.
Sir Sydney waterlow. a former Lord Mayor OF
London. who married an American wife. Ia writing
his memoirs. He is now IT years of age.
Bergen. Norway, is going to facilitate the entrance
OF vessels into the harbor In stormy weather by
placing tanks of oil on the breakwAter and spreading
the oil on the water by means of small pipes.
Kaiser Wilhelm distributed 2.4s7 orders through.
out Germany on New Years Day. Last year tho
number was 2 .oo9. and the year before l.9l6.
sAmory, the West African King recently captured
by the French. after requesting his captors to shoot
him. recently tried to kill himself with a knife.
II. Anatole Deibler. late assistant to his father.
has been appointed Chief Exetutioner OF France.
His hrst appearance as chief at the guillotining Of
murderer at Troyes made a favorable impression.
Newton's law of Gravitation will have to he modi'
ned. NJ. Maurain. in the Journal ne Wysiqnr, As.
serts that careful measurements show that the in
tcnsity Of gravitatiou in islands is greater than on
continents.
Chrysanthemums are going ont Of fashion in Eng
land. One society for raising the flowers, after haT'
ing had ten prosperous years. has been obliged 10
wind up its affairs owing to the bad business of the
last two years,
Tho Hon. Charles +. Parsons. who built the TNl'
binia' is now ready to apply his turbine engines IN
passenger vessels, guaranteeing increased speed,
absence Of vibration and economy OF fuel sHd
working expenses.
Lord %Jefrics's bloody Assilo' has been outdope
by Mr.. Bonner, an English lawyer sent 10 Sierra
Leone to try the natives who rebelled last year. He
condemned l5l men 10 death. of whom 81 have
been executed already,
Russia has taken mp the Italian idea Il using the
army ms a means Of education. All C IN scripts are n
be taught reading and writing during their FIX
years service, and whore II is necessary will I've
trained for trades as well.
Gerhardt Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann HensChNl
has received the Grillparzer prizo Of .. 400 forms
from the Vienna Academy of Sciences as being "tle
best German dramatic work performed on any stage
within the last three ye ans"
Mile. Couesdon, tho proph etess, has been left n
tho inrch by the Angel Gabriel. and has lost two
cases where she was sued for debt. One creditor was
q masseuse' who had advanced money to set her up
III the prophet business. The other was her servant,
VINO sued for wages. Mlle. Couesdon's plea heiua
'h@i tue woman was not a servant but her pupil u
prophecy.