New-York tribune., 1907-07-01
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

y1,ber = Chinese Emperor dies the intelligence is
announced by dspa tches 10 the several provinces.
Tbev are written with blue ink, the mourning color
An persons Of rank in China are required 10 take
red silk ornaments from their caps. with the oall
or button of rank All the millions Of subjects Of
China WITHOUT exception. are called on 10 torpear
shaving their heads for hundred days. During
that period may marry or perform any sacri-
fee or play on musical Instruments
The Oldest white race on record is said 10 be
the Berbers who live in Africa. They are as white
ee Europeans. II is not uncommon 10 find blue
eyes and fair hair among them Many OF them
have rosy cheeks and features 50 much like Euro
means that were they dressed like Americans.
they would easily pass as such Their religion is
Mahometan.
Pincers made Of oak about four feet long, were
used in the past by church sections in England and
Wales to pull dogs from under the pews. The dogs
of the past were accustomed TO follow their mas
tars "a church and when they could would slip
through the door and disturb the service When the
sexton tried to eject them they would hide under
the benches behind the pulpit and ne would
vank them forth squrmng and growing from
their hiding places with his long wooden pincers
CatuIe Mendes will establish open air theatre
in the forest of Saint German. where he has a
country seat. The model which he intends to imi-
tate is the open air theatre In which Goethe pro-
duced some OF his plays at Welmar- II Is to seat
twenty-seven hundred spectators, and to be COW
cred over in wet weather Inc h[st production
will probably be Mussets LIE Coupe ct les
I4vres" and after that some of the younger
dranatists, with whose work M Mendes sympa-
thizes, will nave chance
Switzerland has always prided Itself on It's lnde-
nendence and in fscal matters this proud spirit.
which viii brook interference with the rights Of
tho ndfvidual even by the State in search OF reve
nue has sometimes been exhibited in curious ways.
AZ the methods of income tax collectors are alb
horrent to the freedom loving Swiss, boxes were
once or twice set up in several cantons 10 receive
~ voluntary contributions Of loyal citizens. 1t
1rse boned that this method would prove success
Ell IN raising money for public ends. In the course
~ = few wears the collectors on opening the boxes
found nothing except trouser buttons The volun-
-, system had to be abandoned in favor of
daciaration of capital and income. which is liable
10 official investigation
,.ordA F1assnduer the Tyrolean giantess is said
o.. be the greatest woman who has ever lived
- baiebt she has had formidable predecessor in
irors a quarter of a century ago from altitude
- oicbt feet two inches. So long drawn OUT
ota,isn that a tall Life Guardsman. helmet and
al coIld walk comfortably under her outstretched
arm Anna II. Swan, the Nova Scotia giantess. was
only two inches short OF eight feet.
From, the earliest period of the white mans
,toa IN the shores of Botany Bay white ants
in u,aqed continuous against him by at
,acktng dismantling and in many cases devouring
20 boI,se Before the white mans advent houses
yuere unknown. The ahorlgines OF the territory
I,nau, nothing OF such structures But even then
I bite ants ate the standing in the forests
~, davoured fallen branches. From Port Darwin
-" the south of New South Wales evidences of
tHor activity in the far off times exist in the re-
airs or huge mounds. These fragile little Great
No ara unseen workers. They may have obtained
- Iodgpent in a house many years back; genera
,tons NJ the creatures may have lived and worked
- died without creating the slightest suspicion
- ,hefr nresence in the house. 1t is only when
o. o. hava consumed the substance underneath that
.I- sncn OF the wood falls in and the extent of
thejr work is shown. The Australian government
ha snent tens OF thousands Of dollars experiment
ing with preVenuvsS