The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29
Foreign Notes Of Interest.

Mr. Jamsetsji Tata has offered the In
| dian government $1,250,000 for the estab-
| lishment in India of a university for re-
search on the model of Johns Hopkins.
| Victoria, a lioness in Sanger's circus,
| near London, has given birth to six cubs.
This is believed to be the largest number
| born at one time in captivity. The cubs
have been named after Queen Victoria's
children.
pension of 5000 year. granted to the
Earl of Surrey in 1913 for his victory over
the Scots at Flodden Field. and drawn
| regularly by the Howard family ever
| since, has just been compounded by the
Duke of Norfolk, the earrs representative,
for $4,000 in cash.
Elena SAM, the Spanish contralto. who
sang for many years at the Paris Grand
OPERA died recently at Nice at the age of
As years. Her retirement from the stage
was said at the time to have been due to
the attachment that the late King AL
phonso XII. Of Spain showed for her.
Belgium has passed a law that railroad
stations shall have but one name. Flem-
ish or French, according to the language
of the province. Henceforth Courtrai
will be Kortrijk; Tirlemont Thienen; Ter
monde Dendermonde; Louvain. Leuven;
Malines: Machelen. Client and Antwerp
are excepted and will preserve both
names, Gent and Gand. and Antwerpen
and Anvers.
Puvis de Chavanne's heirs have offered
the city of Paris 1G3 of his drawings, on
condition that they be always exhibited
on the line in the new art palace now
building in the Champs Elysees A great
number of drawings by the late Charles
GARNER, the architect of the Grand Ope-
ra, taken from all the monuments of the
IN Of 1,Ia f0r hat
the Due de Luynes intended to write, has
been presented to the Ecole des Beaux
Arts.
Lord Salisbury in the three years and
half of his present ministry has be-
slowed on conservative members of the
house of commons, peerages 10 privy
ecuncilorships 10 barone'tcies and IL
knighthoods, thereby providing handle
to the name of one in eight of his sup
porters. If this parliament lasts seven
years and the prime minister keeps up
the proportion every fourth member of
the house of commons will have received
a distinction of title.
Adolf Menzel, the octogenarian painter
of Hohenzollern glories. has received for
New Years gift the order of the Black
Eagle the highest decoration in the gift
of the kaiser. No artist before him had
ever received such an honor in Germany.
This highest honor ever bestowed on an
artist" says the kaiser modestly, sis in
tended to be a mark of my thankfuness
for the services he has rendered to my
house by his art an incentive to the dis
ciples of the art of painting to likewise
| follow in the path trodden by Mcneil and
| to strive as he has DONE"
Lieutenant Geza Won Matassich-Kegle-
witch, the officer who eloped last year with
| the Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg,
| daughter of the king of the Belgians and
| mother of Kaiser Wilhelm's sister-in-law,
| the Duchess Dorothea of Schleswig-Hol
n-Sonderburg-A ugustenburg, has been
sentenced to five years Imprisonment in
a military prison. He pleaded guilty to
| forging the name of the Crown Princess
| Stephanie of Austria, who is sister of
| the Princess Louise, to bills of exchange
| for 100000 forms. The princess Is detain-
ed in private asylum near Vienna.