GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2094, 20 September 1875, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

There are now m Milan, as it is Si-id, throe hundred American girls studying singing with a view to operatic stage. Hussia, it is stated, has, with the support of Austria, and Germany, suggestedthat Turkey and Persia should refer theic frontier disputes to European arbitral tioq.

A curious coincidence is noted that the steamship Schiller was wrecked on the very anniversary of the death, in 1805, of the German poet whose name it bore.

Dr Yon Sybel, the famous Professor of History at Bonn, has been appointed Director of the Prussian State Archirea m at Berlin. ™ The Prince and Princess of Wales bar©

fixed the date of their visit to Sheffield for Monday, August 16. Their Royal 1 Highnesses will be accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Hamilton. The International Telegraph Conference has, it is said, decided in favour of 8Q words as the normal length of a message, and that additional words should be counted by five 3. Judgment has been given in favour of Japan by this Czar, as arbitrator in the dispute between that country and Peru, respecting the seizure of a Peruvian Teasel, and the release of the coolies on board.

M. Saree, a professor, Neufchatel, has, says the lievue Scientifique, found out a plan for keeping eggs. Whilst they aje fresh he coats them with paraffin,' and they are said to keep without any trace of change for two, years.

The rifle contest at Edinburgh fqr thie International Challenge Trophy which was won at the last Wimbledon meeting by the Scottish team, has resulted in another victory for Scotland by 20 points over England, and 139 over Ireland.

Old Ibon.—According to the Iron Age, a wedge or plate of iroa has been found imbedded in the masonry of the great Pyramid, the indications being that it must hare been wrought in the age qfCheop.s, placed /by some authorities as fajs back as 540Q years ago, This makes the use of iron 2500 years more ancient than it is supposed to be, and affords opportnnity for explaining the cutting of the sharp and well-declined hierogliphicr on pbr nyry, granite, and other hard stones employed in the construction of Egyptian pyramids, templesj and tombs.