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belonged to Plus IN. has been author
lied by the Vatican authorities. French
museums are negotiating for them.
The British Government has
granted annual pensions of $4,000 to
the wife and $500 to the mother of Cav
agnari, who was murdered in the revolt
at Cabul a few months ago.
-Calcraft, for 46 years hangman in
England, is dead. He was the most
noted man who has filled that office,
both from his duration of service and
the number of unfortunates who have
Suffered at his hands the extreme pen
atty of the law. He retired from the
service several years ago, and was sue
ceeded by William MarwoOd. Cal
crafts office followed that of headsman,
the last of whom died in 1861.
The Duchess of Marlborough, wife
of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
writes that she intends to start a relief
fund for the sufferers in Ireland, and
appeals for contributions. She says
while the present distress, actual or pos
sible, is not for Il moment comparable
to that of 1871, still undoubtedly, in
parts of Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Mayo,
Roscommon, Donegal and Cork, there
will be extreme misery and suffering
among the poor.
Andrew Carnegie, citizen of the
United States, has offered the corpora
ton of his native city, Dunfermline,
Scotland, $4,000 for the establishment
of free public library and recreation
room The corporation is divided about
accepting the gift, and in the absence OF
knowledge whether Carnegie intends to
provide for permanent maintenance OF
the library the Provost declines to give
the casting vote.
Red lamps having been put on ev-
cry house in ST. Petersburg, as lurid
tokens of official panic, the next new re-
striction is that every cOachman, public
or private, must seryilely obey every or
der of policeman; so that if private
coachman, driving his master to the
doctors, or to church, is directed by a
policeman to drive him to a secret
prison, or into the country, or toward
Siberia, he must obey without hesita-
ton. Coachmen are also not to get off
their sledges. Thus the terror of the
royal household is to be visited on the
whole people.
Emperor William, though 81 years
of age, is still passionately fond of the
chase, and Is out hunting whenever he
finds it possible There is great deal
of sham and humbug about his Males
tvs shooting Etiquette demands that
he should kill more game than any body
else, and to make that certain, other
shots must refrain from hitting the
mark, and sometimes it is even neces-
sary that half-tamed deer and smaller
animals should he adrOitly, yet imper-
ceptibly, driven from neighboring re-
serves into the royal huntsman's path.
The result Of these exploits is always
published with much care, particularly
in the Empire and State Bulletin, as
though it were Il matter of national
concern.
The Archduchess Christine, now
Queen of Spain, was greatly beloved in
Vienna, and her departure has left Il
void in the circle in which she lived that
will not soon be filed. She is described
as gentle, graceful, tender, amiable, in
terested in music, the drama and the
fine arts, and often seen in public with
her mother, who is still q handsome and
majestic woman. with head like Ma
ria Theresa's. The Emperor was eX-
tremely fond of Christine fully as af-
fectionate, probably, as the father whom
she lost some years ago. At her de-
parture for Spain Christine wept bitter
". and would not be comforted; the
assembled Princes of her family en-
braced her with ill-repressed emotion,
and the Emperor had to withdraw
hastily to avoid giving way to an I'M
kingly exhibition of feeling.