The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-10
Foreign Notes of Real Interest.

Robertson %southey. an elocutionist. described AZ q
grandson of the poet. has been arrested at Llanelly
for fraud.
For a2b years. since its foundation. the J,nais.h.
Zt'tu"o Of Jena. which has lust celebrated its ami.
versary. has been the property Of ono family.
German Anthony Comstooks have had Photographic
OF Lucas Cranach's adam and Eve" and Adrian
Van der werffs Diana and Callisto" removed
from Stuttgart shop windows.
Duke Karl Theodor Of Bavaria, the oculis, and
brother OF the late Empress OF Austria and of the eI.
Queen of Naples. has Just celebrated his silver wed.
ding at the castle OF Tegernsee.
Klaus Groth. the Plattdeutsch poet whose verses
encouraged Fritz Reuter- to write in his native dia.
lect. recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. II 10
twenty Ave years since Reuter- died.
A gold cross OF honor has been given TO a Berlin
cook johanna Mock. by the Empress Augusta for
htty'hve years faithful service lin ono family.
She was passed on from mother to daughter.
Hans Richter has decided to stay in Vienna. his
salaries having been raised so that he will receive
1000 forms 5000 a year. He has leave to
attend to the engagements he has made for this
year in England.
Heinrich Kiepert. tho greatest authority on the
geography OF antiquity. ia dead at the age Of Al
years. He was professor at the University OF Berlin.
His Atlas Of HellAs" began TO appear In parts in
1910. His greatest work is his map OF Asia Minor.
o Abo puoisueu = general atlas OF the world, which
ranks as the best modern German atlas.
Contrary to the general belief. Oxford has moro
representatives on the English bench than Cam
bridge. OF the forty Judges OF tho High Courts Of
Justice, fourteen are graduates OF Oxford, nine ot
Cambridge, four Of Trinity College. Dublin. hve IT
London. three of Scotch universities. and sir are not
college men. So says the SATURDAY. Rtview.
III. Moissan takes exception TO the sweeping con-
demnation by 81. Ditto ~ tho aluminium utensils
used by the French Army in the Madagascar erpedi.
ton. The aluminium used was not as pure AZ II 10
made now and very slight impurities affect it's dura-
bility. Moreover. qualities should not be Sough. for
in the metal which it does not possess. II has tho
advantages OF being light. Of being easily worked
into shape by stamping thus doing away with joints
and leAkA. and above all Of being harmless when It
oIidiLes. He thinks it likely that timed utensils
subjected to the same tests would have proved
equally unsatisfactory.
Two street porters in Bonn got into A row lately.
and instead OF punching each others heads, were
persuaded to night aduel =" under severe conditions"
They were stripped to the waist. blndfoldcd. aud
armed with revolvers. Ono shot wa. to be hred at
fifteen PAGES. blindfolded; then the conbatauts were
to raise the bAndage. advance to ten PAGES distance,
and hre again. Two rounds were Aired IN this way
without damage to any one. not even the four see
onds. The latter then decided that honor was sats.
ned. All the parties To the anAir have been arrested,
the authorities apparently being furious at the ridi-
cule brought upon duelling by the low rank Of th0
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