The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
FOREIGN Notes Of Real Interest.

Eugene Lambert the painter OF cats. died reeentlyfD
Paris AZ the age Of rs years
Flo,ence Nightingale has completed her eishtets
year. She IS sn'invalld and confined to her room.
Mr.. eladstone's statue Is to be set up at Athens IN
the gardens Of the Zappeion. In recognition Of his
services TO Greek Independence
a floating variety theatre. To he lowed from ons
watering place TO another along the coast Is an Bns-
iish Idea for The coming summer season.
Dr.. julius von Payer. the Austrian Arctic explorer
and artist, has received a pension Of 5000 gulden .
year from Emperor Francis Joseph.
Canton's executioners baye gone on strike. They
now receive IS cents a head for their work. but they
say that on less than so cents they viii starve.
A woman Is alive In Vienna W ho sang In the chorus
at the nrst performance Of Beethoven's Choral Sym
phony. Her name Is Frau Gr.bner. and she Is 81
years old.
Three pri,es offered BY Usoer Land und Msw foe
shor, stories have all gone 10 women. The oompeu-
ton drew on, 800 stories and the Judges were unanl.
nous In their decision.
Mr.. Luke Green. a traveller in Rhqdexa. Asserts
that he drove Of a troop Of Ave lions and many
hyena,. which had attacked him and were not fright
ened By hi, gun. by hring En- lish periodicals stthem.
Livingstone enthusiasts ere p~repJlug 70 send int
the heart OF Africa a British monument 10 MARI the
spo, where the ex plorer died. Is Is an obelisk OF con-
crete blocks ,senty feet high, With metal panels On
the four sides.
Mon,martre has had Anotable Wedding. LA.
Goulue, the notorious tapcer Of the Moulin Rouge.
who Is nou In the lion tanning business, vas recently
married 10 q ~seightof- hand man. Her bridal Party
vas made up Of i,inerant showmen.
A substituted ~foreanser va, shown by q Koenigs
brig doctor AZ q surgical c ongre - In Berlin. He had
eu, of the patients second toe aud seved II 70 the
stump OF the missing nnser. Primary union followed
and the new finger could b moved by It's owner.
Navigation on the upper Nile 4, nov open 70
Uganda. as the E1glkh expedition under Major Peaks
has cleared away the Sud-. Major Psske took . gun
boa, to Lado. and from th'r. proceeded IN The
Uganda launch 70 Gondokcro and Fort Berkeley Ia
the Uganda protectora,r.
Mr.. N.,e OF Rouge Huis, Guernsey is ios years
old. She was brough, up at Bristol al school kept
By the sister Of Byron's Amos Co,ile. and. unlike most
cen,enanans. was acquainted with many celebrated
people, including Hannah More. Sir Humphrey
Davy and Gen. DumourieL When 90 years old shs
made a Journey 10 Krakow 10 visit kosciusko's tomb
Miss Frederick Perceval. daughter Of George Ills
Prime Minister, Spencer Pereeval HhO vas shot OF bN-
lngham in the House Of Commons eighty ii ght years
ago. has Just died A. Ealing al the AZ, Of sS years
She could remember very little Of her father. but she
had known every Premier who had held once since
his death from Lord Liverpool to. Lord Salisbury aud
Lord Roseb~ry.
British Pos. once savings Banks nov pay ~ per
cent on deposits. and In the past have paid 3 per
snt. but after 1908, as Sir Michael Hick<besch.
the Chancellor Of the Erehsauer. announced lately.
the rate OF interest ~jl vary from year to year. accord
Ing 70 the earning power Of money, This Is dsns 70
proven, the Government. from bling called upon 70
make UP deficiencies
Bavaria boasts lhs, IL has the longest lightning
conductor In the world. Il rises ONE yards soove the
top Of the meteorological station on the ZuespAtse.
the highes, point in the Gernan Empire. and runs
down The side Of the mountain to the bottom of the
Hollen,hJ. where ther, Is running water all ths ysG
round. The len 9Th Of the rod is Ave Aud Q Nm -.
metres, nearly hyee NILES and . haA