The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-19
FOREIGN Notes Of Real Interest.

Greece and Spain intend TO establish national thea
tres, King George has promised to provide the money
for the Greek theatre at Athens and is dra wing up
the regulations for It. The Spanish Minister Of Fine
Arts proposes TO encourage a national theatre a,
Madrid. by having the State offer $40, 900 a year IN
prizes for plays, operas and z~arzuelaS
When the DuFe OF the Abruzzl. who has spent IN. last
year in Franz Josef Land. gets his mail this summer.
he will probably swear at civilization. More than
seventytwo thousand letters and post cards for him
from all parts OF the world have accumulated In the
hands Of the Italian Consul at Christiania. who will
send a vhaler to tryto communicate with the exp.di
ton as soon as the ice breaks up.
Grimes Of violence. whose perpetrators have y.
maincd undiscovered. have become so common in
Berlin andtts neighborhood that the Prusslan Minis.
try Of the Interior has given orders that all violent
deaths shall be reported at once To a special bureau,
which shall decide whether the local or the berlin
police shall take up the case and In certain instances
shall set It's own detectives to work.
MainL has settled the programme for the Gutenberg
festival In June next The typographical exhibition
will open on Juno 20. and that evening Handel's
Judas Maccabaeus' will be performed. The next
day will be given up to the speeches June % Is set
apat, for tho great historical procession through the
town. winding up with a costume ball In the Town
Hall. and on June 90 there will be a procession II
boats on the Rhine.
leipzig compositor named Kruger. who has Just
celebrated his Nftieth year Of service, has been ocru-
pied with one book for nearly all thai, time. He has
set with his own hand almost all OF GTimm's great
German dictionary that has appeared since lakob
Grimm TUNED In the FIRST batch o' manuscript In De-
cember, 1851. Though $4,000 pages Of the wdrtor.
blch have been printed the work IS not hall done yet
and Herr KRUGER will have to live to be 100 years
old 20 see Il finished.
All the Papal troops recently turned out Tor rcvl-v
at the Vatican. The army consists Of 500 men mad,
up OF; /. The Guardla Mobile. commanded by Prince
Altcrl, and comprising so young men OF aistocratlo
clerical families. 2, the Swiss Guard. 100 strong,
supposed to be all Swiss. though some Of them are
Italian mountainecrs; ;. the GuArdla PAlatina and
! the Papal Gendarmes, each 100 strong. and An.
ally. 5. the 80 men OF the Papal nre brigade. This
little army has a weekly newspaper, la Fslsla
Cdrolicd.
Italian engineers have not lost the daring Of their
Roman fOrefathers. \ plan Is before the Italian Par
Lament for providing the three southeastern prov.
inces. Foggla. Bari aud Lecce. with water from cap
oSele In the a pennines by building an aqucduct lsI
miles long, with branches that will bring UP the 'ptl
length to 6s7 miles The land Is very produrt.vr but
suffers In summer from malaria and drought ~ ls
present water supply is drawn largely from ,uam9,
The projected ]aqueduct will cost sac, SOC. 900 and VII
supply 2SS towns and villages. with a population o,
800. 900,
King Alfonso's elder sister. the Princes, ~
AstlriaS, who for a few months before his hrh VS.
Queen Mercedes % Spain, Is nearly 90 year, Z
are and a husband Il being sought Tor her or"
candidate, whom she t. said 10 favor, IS Prince caro-
Of bourbon CaSer'n. brother u the head % the Sen
politan BourbonS, but objection I, made to him m ne
ground that N" blood relationship Is too clns" ard