Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-10

chamber. In like manner the senate
can intervene In the present instaDcs
and the deputies will be powerlels to
deprive the Orleans princes OF their
Off rank and civic dignity. The
assumption tf the authority which
righ fdily belongs to it will be attended
with beneficial results. The President,
encouraged by tho action of the sen
a'e, may be dispoped to put himself
o'hInd his ministry, and when a su't.
able occasion arises, to dissolve The
chamber OF dupu,ies and appeal to the
country for the return Of a moro resa
enable b3dy of legislators.
Bismarck is again sick aud Elrop; IL
wondering what his latest threa q ci
'~ealgna'ion mean. The primes never
threatens to resign unless with q
obJsc'. What HIS object now is 10
' one seems to b. able to coniaotare. !
rhe R~eiohstag Ia all engaged ia DIS
o1as'ng the bpSget and So endeavo ring
70 '@erease the revenue. Among other
t'..hge it is proposed that hotel keep
crs and dealers shall pay in the future
z per cent on the amount Of braudy |
handled, j. per cant on tobacco, IA
per sent on wines, and l per cen on
Deer. Should the traffic in either
coma odity exceed 1909 marks, the
rate Is lafg. ly Increased. Even a
waiter, who In a German hotsl often
keeps box f cigars for guests, 10 to
pay 10 marks for the privilege in
towns Of 100000 inhabitants. even
though he might not sell 1000 in a
year. The smallest rates OF taxation
n country Villages are 8 marks for
beer, . for vice, 4 for tobacco, 6 for
oranoy, and in large towns IL, 16, 18
and q marks Tli, msa,ure 10 strong
y opposed by the progressis,s.
Alexander III. has finally Issued q
manifesto giving notice of his corona
ton at Moscow on the q h Ct May.
The manifesto ia Addressed to all Rus.
"ian subjects. The ukaze orders the
attendance of the maIshal,, of the no.
biltty, and the prefects Of provincial
capitals, except those in Siberia, |
whose attendance Is excused on &C
count OF distance, and tho presidents
Ut rural and urban administrations
Already there arc nihilistic threats
that the ceremony will never be- per
mitted to take place. The political
'gitation shows no sig of decrease
throughout the empire, and arreste
Tor 'magined offsnses gg inst the gov
eminent are d ly made, According
to a late report 10000 men and women
are now ia Russian prisons awsiting
trial The social condition of the
people is said to be ftightful beyond
description,
M. de Giers' visit to the capitals of
the continent has served to introduce
him to the ENJOYS extraordinary Of tho
press, if 1t has not promoted the ends
Ut European peace. Succeeding one
Of tho veteran diplomatists Of the con
t,nent, he was q new man In the Rus
stan foreign ,fice. lie had been
Prince Gortachakoii's deputy aud con-
ddential advises for many years, but
had not geld any diplomatic peat
more prominent than Stockholm or
c.>nersn n, and coma, quently was not 30
we'll known III the great capitals 8
either Count Schouvaloff CT Pri' q.
Lobanoff. Daring his recsr.t jor .rne,
from os.pital to capital ne b - .uo
'eede'. in making hts rlissic >, mysteri
Gus, aud has piqne'. the. curiosity O
Of ne special CO. resp1rdants. The,
o. mot heresft,.r leave him out of tn, i
lplou ATTIC Calculations. There Ia
NEW piece on the chess board, appar
d ently o. knight, for he zig z,gs from
one court TO another and invar,abl,
, causes q futter OF uueasines and ex
n peotstion.
81 An amusing dispatch from Psssh
/ announces that the imperial family O
y Austria Hungary are making a LON
stay at the Hungarian capital ant
~"talkipg Magyar" the native Ian
pusge of the Hungarian nobility
i Undear the circumstances ibis is equiv
n alent to talking "taffy," and the in
ference Is drawn at Pesth that tn,
d government wants the Magyars tt
consent to ian eventual extension o
the frontiers In the southeast, for tn,
realiz alton Of which project Hungsr.
Is will be the base of operation" Tn,
h Hungarians are good haters Of Russi,
lie and of all the Slsvs, and have Away
sympathizsd with Turkey and did no
1t share in the general complacency o
% Austria pom the acquisition of Bos
" MIA. If they can be won over by TIT
practice of the Magyar tongue by tn
imperial family, 1t shows the value Il
10 a European monarch of Q good lin
guistio education.
, The Russian postt fiji ,e guarantee
the safe delivery of any letter tor one
d eighth If one per CEN IF the declared
n value of the Enclosure. Bankers EN-
y ploy this safeguard largely, and sucI
a perfect co, f1dence Is felt in the ssf
a delivery If insured letters that mar,
persons tai G the rick Of sending large
" sums han they insure for. The fl
h Gals have seldom thought it wort
while to cerify the contents OF insured
>: letters, but their attention havinI
n been attracted by the smallncss of tn,
" values regularly declared by a certain
/ firm of bankers in st. Petersburg
they opened a letter Insured for l GO
d roubles aud found 1t to contain 120,
It 900 roubles. The law is that In cas-
!, of q false valuation the entire In
closure shall DO forfeited, aud In thi
instance their dishonest economy cos
d the bankers about $77, GOO.
A war against drunkenness Is helm
conducted In Copenhagen, the CAPT