Show foreign notes of leal interest Edinbur cb haa just received through its lord provost an offer of toward building a town ball from an anonymous private person in the daei few years ano city haa received 1900 in gifts there will be no performance in the orange theater this year as president faure cannot find time to attend next year however decinto de lisles Erinn yes and frederic 8 le beine jeanne will be performed by the artieta of the comedia francaise parisians who went to the czars coronation ona tion were astounded at the unpaved condition of moscow they found that it would cost francs to paye the town and that the work would practically have to be done every year on account of the effects of the frost among the fragments frag menta of egyptian papyri at dublin eighty unea or parts of lines of homera iliad have been identified from books 4 8 21 22 and 25 out of a manuscript oi the third century before christ before homer had been put in shape by the critics of alexandria in the eighty lines thirteen do not exist in the iliad as we nava it prof mahaffy asserts that the took great liberties with the text and that if an early edition of the Iliad turns up in egypt there will be an addition in quantity of fifteen per cent to what we have M doissan has found that when acetylene is allowed to impinge upon iron which has been reduced by at the lowest possible temperature the gas is decomposed with incandescence des cence into its constituents at the same time condensation takes a liquid hydrocarbon hydro carbon rich in benzine is produced the earns result is obtained if nickel or cobalt is sub for the iron corn pound of either metal is obtained and be concludes that the decomposition is due to physical causes A afo ufo ticket to the grand opera was recently sold by a decayed librettist librett iet to a gentleman of pane the purchaser assuming that it would admit him behind the the authorities of the theater however kept him out on the ground that admission to the salon de la danse was a personal privilege and could not be transferred in the lawsuit that followed the opera won the arico paid for the ticket being held to indicate that the green room privileges could not have been in the mind of the seller as a ticket admitting to that is worth i french admiration for victor hugo did not prevent his body from remaining unburied for ten years it will be 1900 before his statue is set up in bis native town besancon which has one luceo that is now called after the poet besancon however is the birthplace of another great frenchman pasteur and the town council recently hotly debated the question of changing tle name of the school to pasteur eur on the ground that pasteur had cured many people from the department whereas victor hugo had never done anything for them but the a partisans were steil in the majority goslings Sharpes bank in fleet street one of the oldest private banks in the city of london has been amalgamated together with a half a dozen less known firms with barclay bevan co the exact date of the banks foundation is unknown uh but it was in existence in 1650 as a goldsmiths hn shop with the sign of toe three squirrels the firm has all its ledgers 1715 and can show the bank accounts of warren hastings and lord clive of bishop percy alexander pope richardson the novelist tonson the publisher lord chancellors and lord chief justices like camden campbell ellenborough Ellen borough and denman they were the bankers of the times and of the societies for the propagation pa of the gospel and for promoting Cli ristian knowledge the title of the firm had remained unchanged for a hundred years |