The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-19
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

shin rats, which arc pfopek ttors VI pistue,
have been thoroughly ~exterminatod a. harseuies
by the use of liquid carbonic acid.
J.pan now possesses the heaviest and nnest
b~attIoship adoat, the Nrkasa. OF 10. 200 tons displace-
nent, bull, by yickers and Maxim 1t Harrow ln-
Furnes.
Mr.. Henry Biount. son OF Sir Edward Blount.
| recently took his thousAndth trip across tho British
Channel. lie Is q director OF the French Quest
raiirved.
Hanover. any. now has six football teams
that play the Rugby sams. They are tryine 70
carry gu, the Kaisers order not 20 uss English
sporting terms
svt,crisnd's aew President Is Joseph zsmp Of
| Fntlebuch, who was vlco President last year. He
Is n lawyer. es years of age. and has been forty
years In politics
In Airera the native population has ainoss
doubled In less than nfty years. rising from ?sO7.-
600 in 1855 TO 4.O7l. 900. The European population
Is less than ooo. 900. a little over half OF which Is OF
French extraction.
Russsn engineers are goins 10 raise the level Of
| the Sea OF Azot IL feet and 9 inches by building
q dam nine miles long az kertoh. There VIII b
great seagates for the passage OF ships. The cost
Is estimated al s2S.ooo.oU.
Bermuda's nrw floating dock has been completed
and is 10 be tested In the Midway before being towed
across the Atlantic IL Is s4S feet long and 100 feet
broad and can receive the largest and deepest
draught battleships In the British navy.
Uganda Is to build a cathedral. Por . founda-
ton stone the gravestone OF the Rev. Nj. Pnkins-
ton. who was killed by the BAsandA some
years ago. has been used. He Was Q graduate OF
Cambridge where he Distinguished himself a. an
athlete.
At RriAdels. near Saint Antique. In the south OF
France. a recent storm laid bare an immense ceme-
tery OF the Merovingihn period. The tombs are
formed OF slabs, arranged In many ways some
with Fat tops on vertical sides and Others arranged
like sheds.
FnglAnd's wesleyan Methodists have failed TO
raise the sum Of q million guineas they undertook
to get In order 10 celebrate the t%-enueth century
They have obtained. however. subscriptions
| amounting 20 H.sOoyOO0 Of which $4,000 have
been paid Ia.
Sir Albert de Rutren. who Is now ctiei Police
Magistrate OF London. rowed in the Cambridge
crew against oxford In iste. In the same boat
Was Washington Of Trinity. who became Prime
Minister Of France. and In the oxford boat Was the
later Lord Justice Chiity.
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes has bought a home for him
self In England, DalhAm Hall. near Newmarket.
for more than half a million dollars. The estate
contains s.l7s acres. 80 acres Of nno timber. and
had been In the possession OF the Ameck family
for over Two hundred years.
Herr sleblen Giebeler. a Neckienburg steel manu-
fncturer. has discovered a method OF working q
steel. witch. according to reports from the Chariot
,enhurg Techuical school. Is leo per cent stronge
and ~ per cent. lighter than Krpp. Harvey 90
Hohlen steel and costs one thlrd less.
French botAnists are endesvorng to vaeolnaie
plants against parasitic diseases. As the Gle
mentAfy functions are the sSme In animals and
plants there seems 10 be no reason Why theif dis
rases. whether arising from microbes OF fungus
should not be treated In the same Nay.
Gel. Emilio PAllAyicini. who commanded the
expedition that wounded and captured GsnbAldl
Al Aspromonts. Is dead al the arc Of u years lie
served a. a Lieutenant u hcrsAglien Ia the tnmeA'
fought 81 the bAtle Of san hAuino In lsSs and In
the later vars for tAe liberation Of ltAly
Srotsmen are indignant ~ the British war DE.
paumsnts assigning the pipes and the tartan 10
indian and 90 negro regiments Already the
Graham. Campbell. ud stuhH aud lfquhAN
tAnans nave been picked out fnf = poy regiments
which have plpsTs already while plPefs hereafter
ar 20 icAd ths Wcst African regiment recruited
a. sierra Leone
Kin. oscar ~ sweden has offered = reward Of
o. 90 fof a golden cradle that wAs sent IA l1pO b. a
German Prince o. queen IeAhofA ilTrA Of sScdsn
90 her BABY me ship bearing TIE cradle vas
wIocksd in a s,oTm on ths Alsnd ~ Tom And
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