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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5963, 16 October 1890, Page 4

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Tbe Shorthand Congrecs is in session at Munich. ' he monument erected to the memory of Gab-lsherger, tho inventor of tho popular system of shorthand in Gormimy, was "unveiled on Aug. 10 by the Burgomaster of Munich.

Six of tho Paris betting asreuts who refused to close their offices in compliance with the Ministerial . decree suppressing then., wero brought before the Correctional pclice-court on Aug. 11, and fined m sums varying from ono hundred to five hundred francs. Iho Grange Betting Agency in Paris has just becomo bankrupt.

It is a remarkable fact that Drury Lane Theatre, which is now seventy-ono years old, is not aud never has been insured against destruction by firo. Perhips this very circumstance compels greater caution and" circumspection than would bo otherwise oxorcised ; and thus it has escapnd tho fate of two of its predecessors on the same site

An interesting item of news reaches a correspondent of the Central News from Florence. " Ouida," who is staying in that delightful city of love and intrigue, is about to mako a new departure. Her mind and time are being sriven to a drama which she is writing for Mdme. Sarah Bernhardt. Its title—snirgostive of medifcval roraanco— will be " Helen of Toledo."

The first bull fitfht that ha« taken place iv Naples for two centuries was held in an arena near tho church of the Carmine on Sunday, tho 13th of July, iv the presence of at least 10,000 spectators. This viol.nt and savage recreation is to be indulged in twice a week for the rest of the season, and only ono journal in Southern Italy, II Pugnolo has ventured to raise its voice in protes against it

How successful the lato Spanish tenor Senor Gazarru was in transmuting his notes into "old may bo inferred from tho fact that, "although he died a comparatively young man, he left behind him a fortune of not less than £100,000. This when computed in the coins of his country, must appear enormous to his compatriots, for it represents upwards of three hundred million maravedis, or about ten million reals.

Apait from the trouble arising from tho relations of tho ox-Queen Natalie and exKing Milan, the relations between Scrvia and Austria are said to bo growing worse every day. The general attitude of the Government and tho pro* have given great umbrage in Vienna. The Odjek, tho organ of the Radical., raises the Bosnian question savins that it must bo accepted as an established fact that Austria's mission thero is finished, and that it is time to purge Bosnia of the Austrian intrulers.

Apropos of the recent production in Melbourne of a piece founded mi the classical letreiid of " Hero and Leander," recent researches among the Parliamentary archives in Paris have brought, to light a written imthority from the administrators of the Hotel Die" to the King's architect and painter, to rmrctaaso a hoifcr and a calf, •'to oerve as'vic'ims in tho representation of the history of Hero and Leander," given nt th« gr.'lit theatre in the Tuilenes in 177G, Modern realism could scarcely go further than this.

Modern English dramas and comedies arc be/inning to find increasing appreciation on tho Continental stage. A German version of "The Magistrate' m very popular in the Austrian theatres, and is bciii" translated into the Bohemian hingungo for jr-formam . i" tin- National Theatre at Pni'Mi.' •* Swift Lavender" bus just been produ--d in Germany, and is being prepared for pivcutation to playu-ers m Italy Dr Blumenthal, a well-known man of letters imd theatrical manager in Berlin. i« now eimanc-d on " The I'roflij-ato." which is shortly to sco tho light in a German dress in that city.

Fifty-six members of the German party bclotr'ing to Heilbronn wero received by Prince Bi-marck at Kissingen on Sunday (Au"nst -1). A deep impression was nrido on tho hearers when, in reply to a remark by one of the guests, tho ex-Chancellor _„;,1 "Mv only ambition now is a good fpSpb I hope and beg for thta." What the papers wrote was to him as mere dust, which oral- b, swept away with a brush. Ho awaited the verdict ot history. To a lady who accompanied tho visitors, and whom tho Princo humorously addressed ns ''Kitchen yon Heilbronn," he gave tho yellow rose which he wore in his buttonhole.

Further details of the hailstorms and inntidations which have recently visited several part- of Austria depict the deplor„We stato of the districts concerned. Iho dama,c done near Prague is enormous. In X - rnvi „p (l H of Moravia, Siles.a. and lower Au-trin, the Rivers Danube and i, ; i,|, t „„d "fliers are overflowing lb„ !owvilla".-!* At Nic-olslmrir. in Moravia, ♦he flood- r.,s" co rapidly thnt the nhubitl n,t,MWrr..in*be _r< ato.t danger. Ka.l'v,v tn.frie was impeded -'('id several f!l( . t ,„.; f . s „t .T.L'.-ru.lorf, Sil»-i«. were forced In c'oso their do-.rs. From all parts „f tT.m_.irv m-ws h'.s also arrive I of d,sP . fl , r „..- fir-- T...m-..«' sforey.f con, have heen destroyed, aud nunc thousands of cattle have also periled.

Tlie 'ale NTr Dion TSone.ie.<m!t may he y.-iid to. have died in the fill! flush of succe-s us ft dramntie aurW, for only six weeks before l,is de Uh lie had the (.ratification of kuuwintr tW bis Utest plnv. •' The Talc of a 0,. Nt,» produced at tlie Rich street Theatre, Phila--1 dnhi'i was erected with enthu .asm by a T,''enorn'eTo!llv crowded house, and that, too, n'tl.el.ottesM-i"^' ftl ™» P'"* i-aw.medv. hut a eomedv full of the profmiud«'st pathos. Dh bero is a tailor, named Te.i mv Watt, who i* made I" illustrate the 1 i ~,f . Hs of self-s.ieririr-o in a strong and "?,,',X nahire! and th- p-.-rfnrmniipr, isdes- ' il„.d :is bavin- bo«n "a s.ir.ees.s from Wi„,,in_ to end " D i<> * -reelv necessary ...l. tli-it half a eenturv separates to renin."- tnai n.i.i <» . "London Assurance " from "The Tale of a ( < ~t " *nH what, intellertunl activity was. eroded into those fifty year, !

•Friends -md 'vlmirers of the lato Wilk io r(l ,li„s v,ill be pleased to learn that a neat unadorned marble cross has been erected over the novelist remains ,„ the northern ™rt of l_»iisal-t.'reen Cemetery. On Urn L, v . of the memnri il, underneath the ntnio •md date of birth and decease appear the ' d„ --" Author of 'The Woman in White ' and 0t.1.0- Works of Fiction."' Tho ' _ n.,lv Ke.>-ir.iled by a few yards from wWnh, likn that of T'ei-'bHunt-, also situated in the north side if t V,e -rounds, gives evidence of faithful t-i dm" On the monument ot the latter tho full name - the pint, is inscribedTmnes Henry Leigh Hunt-Wlth tlie 1111----conventional and unique epitaph : "Write „ K . ils one that, loves his fellow-men.'

T.idv Violet Orovill-. who is both a di-iuiatii- authored and a pretty regular Til'ivof-r has been writing an es*ay on Vnafrfbfloall-th- " Cotfoo and Cigarette Drama " in which sho say« somo unpalatable thin--* to the occupants of the -tailin the Loudon theatre*, whom sho holds rt.-p-i-.hl" to a irmit extant for tho suppredion of imaginative- work upon the l i n ,, p » Tbo stalls," she remarks, " don t want'to think, and the pit and the gallery 7r incapable of it. The effort on a hot nm.* oxhaustHtho former and puzzles the UH >r ° Thoy are agreed, therefore, on m_,r pointe. only that tho smarter people nr for v «.»*» of impropriety, and a wVua."> which, as was said in a play the _er n%Z jokinaly of the German lan!<«L U on« where every word has two ..ni,Vrq Thfn, and then only, as they to *«_*!«_, aro thoy really aud truly amused

With reference to the health of our fair American cousins, Mrs Kendal remarked : __moii-_»' _,_ mnn ~_,. paler ana moro "American women iv- i> Yn-ilo than English women, -hat is to savoy are shorter in stature, and more p&to _. form ; they have not our tendency ? 0(r ot stout as they grow older. But the whole, they may be as health) . 1 hey "vc a sort of wiry Btrength, if one may use the expression." On the quwtion of the employment of women, tho distinguished Stress said: " I am in favor of every profession being opened to women in which ♦I,'r.v can earn a (rood and honest hvlihood. For instance, why fhonW a girl who can wri to shorthand as fast and as well as men Z, excluded from tho Reporter's Gallery in Parliament, simply because she wears a petticoat !"

" T-o T_eli_ious Tract Society has brought Jpo d edition of the Rev J. White* out a 011 " , ,< pilgrim's Progress." It translation ot o J Hubbßt 3 f th _ fo _. contain.-, a p; r • T„ e hook i.s illusaSd to itH interest in Lor,do,, tratp' , ami ;' „ r np(inC w B . " EvanS;:?^y:rS.eold.!} n pane,n clad in I- i_rr. "Christian's" hsrht with native nl tin. tllo footof p-jj. cUd in Jnpa_™ armot.u. - , ~,-,, Infr n. and all tl „. scenes or •'t o( . 1 ._, „,„ hrt „ CoJie , type. 1 11 L ■ s ip,,ves is sucoounn<r _iiiis..i.iu . . aro we ij o" . to p ovo L_..l aa a hoi., to the a Sop . f'.t '>*' l »" ini.irinal.ivn powers of tho .TaP -<> ... Tho Bcli S .ouHTract Society i !0«i.1i..«' its «»»«cv wirtSy in repr ? rliicmg !„ tinan'-H"- Rtandard book- of this kind, in--1 'of printing littlo goody atones aoout angelic oWlta* that never live to gvovr up.