The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-10
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST


At a Christmas sale OF curlcs al
Christio's. in London. Il pair of very rare
Chinese vases fetched something over
Sl&OJ0
4 few days before Christmas. and a
little more than q week before her death.
the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts made
an urgent appeal 20 the public in behalf
Of one of her many phIlanthropies-th
Destitute Childreu's Society-which was
under her protection. and. aided by dona-
tionS. carried ON for forty years The work
OF providing poor children with simple
warm, nourishing dinners at cents per
head.
Few people who have heard Of the death
% Dean Randall, OF Clifton, Sussex. Eng
land. viii associate his name with the bolt
from the blue that fell on the Church Of
England when Archdeacon Manning Sc
coded and went over to Rome. In the
silence that followed that explosion Rev
Richard William Randall was appointed
ito succeed Manning in his pleasant Sussex
beneice.
The Archbishop of Paris. Cardinal
Richard. viii occupy the Hotel de Jean de
Jolly, which has been assigned him when
ne leaves the residence Of NJ. Denys
Cochin. The Hotel de Jean de Jolly was
built by that architect fer himself in 1772
and has not been altered since its con-
struction.
The requests made by Lord Cromer
lately to the hhedive. and especially the
demand that the Egyptian army shall be
reduced and the British army Of occupa-
ton strengthened. convince every one con-
cerned that England considers that the
time has now arrived for Egypt TO dis
appear entirely into her pocket
The Queen OF Spain won all hearts in
Madrid during the holiday season by the
way she went about distributing toys and
presents to the children Of the poor.
Princess Henry of Battenberg is to go
TO Spain at Eastertide to be with her
daughter in her hour Of need.
Signor Biancheri the venerable presi-
dent of the Italian chamber finds Il
hobby in horticulture He is devoted to
his garden az Nentinigii3. on the Riviera.
where he grows magnificent roses and
carnations. Every Christmas his finest
specimens are sent to the Queen Of Italy.
Amateur gardeners alone can appreciate
the self-denial with which Signor Bian-
cheri, at the age of eighty-three. left his
beloved gardens in obedience to an in
vitation which reached him last spring
to go once more to Rome and assume
direction Of the debates in the chamber.
An interesting and amusing application
of the doctrine Of suggestive therapeutics
happened lately in Paris. As 4 rule men
do not use vitriol. and for this reason
undoubtedly a merchant in the Rue St.
Honore was very. much surprised to see
man enter his shop and demand with a
tragic air half liter Of vitriol. The
dealer went into the back Of his shop
and in few moments reappeared with
the corrosive his singular customer had
asked for The man left perfectly salts
fed. That evening. in the Rue de la Pals.
he threw the contents Of the bottle in the
fac, Of young girl with whom he had
been living. This girl, with her face
streaming with the fluid and screaming
with pain, attracted great crowd, who
conducted her to a neighboring phar-
macy. There II was Immediately discov-
cred that the young woman had been
''vitriolized by suggestion" The shop
keeper of the Rue ST Honore was wiley;
he had given his customer, with re-
vengeful intentions. a bottle Of pure
water. slightly tinted. This affair, which
had caused great excitement among the
working girls in the Place Vendome
where SO many of them are employed
by the celebrated dressmakers of Paris.
terminated in great laughter. Unhappily.
all the dramas in which vitriol plays the
leading part do not end in so amusing
manner.
The most fashionable form of hospital
ity at the moment is said 10 be the
bachelors tea party. This is not as