The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-03
INTERESTING FOREIGN NOTES.

Inc Turkish minister Of marine is ne
gouatlng with the Italian firm Of Ansal
90, at Genoa, for the repair of a number
of cruisers.
during the past year nearly q. .OcO per-
sons paid for admission to Shakespeare's
birthplace. representing forty-one nation
aiues, and over 1l,0O0 visited Ann Hath
| away's cottage.
series of murders closely resembling
JACK the Rpper's" have lately been
committed on schoolgirls and young mar
ried women in Austria No trace can
be found of the murderer.
An Englishman got into trouble in Paris
py offering to pay for some cigarettes
with ticket for the exhibition. At the
police station he explained that he had
bought a number Of these tickets at Do
yer under the impression that thew were
French paper money, and he was ac-
cordingly liberated
Some Journeymen bakers In Deptford
england, threatened to strike because
their employers made it n custom to hold
prayers on Sunday night before prenarine,
the dough for Mondays bread, and re-
fused to pay for the time thus spent Thew
ask the public to boycott these bakers
and promise to let 1t be known who they
are through means of a brass band serc-
made.
On learning that the Rev Charles M.
Sheldon, author of "In His stems" was
crossing the Atlantic to engage in Il
preaching tour, and that he had booked
a luxurious saloon berth In a fashionable
Cunarder, an aged Liverpool minister,
with a slight stutter, was overheard to
say: "One w-w-would have thought that
the au-au-authOr of In His Steps wouId
have w-w-walked across"
The visit Of Emperor William to the
Holy Land appears to have brought
about a German postofflce MONOPOLY In
Palestine. German postofflce was es-
tablished at Jaffa on the occasion of the
Emperors visit 1t now carries the mails
between Jaffa and Jerusalem, has branch
offices in Jerusalem, Beyrout and Smyr-
ma, and advertises its willingness to re
ceive and transmit letters from all parts
of the world
Queen Victoria's recent visit to Ireland
Is to be cOmmemorated by the erection in
the grounds fronting Leinster House Kill
dare street, Dublin, Of an imposing stat
ue Of her majesty, to cost s35 900. Sir
Peter O'Brien Lord Chief Justice of Ire
land, has suggested that as her majesty's
recent visit had chiefly been a tribute to
lrishmen in the army, the design of the
statue should include, in the shape Of a
guard, typical carved figures Of Irish
soldiers.
a number OF the ladies and gentlemen
who always walk to church and home
again, and who refuse to eat anything
but timed meat on Sunday, lest its prep
aration should involve a fracture Of the
fourth commandment, met in Exeter hall,
London, recently to hold their annual
protest against Sabbath travelling 1t
was pointed out In the annual report
that the evil of journeying on the first
day Of the week by the public entailed
the employment of railway, bus, tram
and cabmen, thus causing them a great
Ill, physically, socially, morally and splr-
itually. During the year the report
added, many new members had been en-
rolled, which brought the number up to
25, 124.
Some North Sea fishermen made a haul
the other night of a royal sturgeon and
before 1t was successfully brought on
board the smack It succeeded in doing
something like $50 worth Of damage to
the nets. When weighed It turned the
scale al 525 pounds, and 1t is said to be-
the finest specimen of its kind ever
| caught. The fish came into the posses
sion of Harry Mills, PentonvilIe road,
London, who sent forty pounds of it to
Queen Victoria, at Windsor Castle. 1t
is but rarely that the sturgeon graces
the royal table of today although an
act of Edward II. assigns it to the SOW
ereign with all wrecks and whales" as
a royal perquisite. Nor does the lord
mayor of London ever taste sturgeon
unless he buys it, although his lOrdshlp
enjoys the right to confiscate every one
| caught above London bridge.