Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-16
THE CARNIVAL OF VENICE HAD A REPU-
TATION


as being amusing by its dances and songs.
ButGoethe gave the palm to Rome. Roger
Ascham, the tutor OF Queen Bess, avowed
he only remained nine days al Venice and
saw in that time more liberty for sin than
in London during nine years. Perhaps
in point of downright fun, and superior
to Nice and her bdtdiIle de feurS and con-
fetti, Buenos Ayres and MOntevideO carry
off the palm. There eggs filled with water
the perf0ration being closed by wax. are
freely thrown by ladies at the passers-bv,
and they are most deXterous at this
hydraulic amusement.
1t has been said that 0ne-half of hui
manlty is Knocked by the other half. The
blacks of Hayti, if revolutionary engage
ments permit, wear white masks during
carnival, and similar colored chemises,
closely fitting the waist and from which
bells are suspended-they then dance
prettily. The Arabs for DISCUSSES wear
the ordinary clothing of the Western ma
tions. In Bohemia bears are led about
from house to house, when the smallest
contribution is thankfully accepted to
drink bruin's-bRuf qrdS-health. And
should q marriage take place during
the carnival a fat cock is dressed
in white with red riding
hood and, solemnly arraigned by
two public prosecutors, condemned to be
executed, Chandelier is marched, pre-
coded by music, to the public market
place and beheaded. He is then roasted
and presented to the bridegroom, while
the head is handed to the prosecutors for
their fee. In Moldayia the carnival opens
by the funeral of bass fiddle. The cords
having been removed the case is enveloped
in a winding sheet-buried with mock
sOlemnity-men, women and children cry
ing like the chOristers at Roman inter-
ment.
The French, dissatisfied at the slowness
OF applying the winding-up act to Bac-
nlnh, Gen. MillOt has received a hint not
to take for model the Dutch and their
Atchean war. 1t is felt that the honor Of
the flag necessitates Englands making
q demonstration somewhere near Osman
Digna's whereabouts; at least invite him
to trample on the tail Of coat, like the
Irishmen at DonnybroOk fair.
Since the Forty-four Committee has
taken the Industrial crisis in hand, there
is less complaining of want of work. Pol
itics doubtless had much to do with the
cry of the sovereign people being starving.
M. de Clemenceau has not yet opened his
wallet ofcures that he has brought from the
English trades unions. In the meantime
the strike has rebroken out at tue famous
Min collieries, near Valenciennes. The
men accuse the directors of not having
kept faith with them.
The anti-English SueZ bondholders rep
resent q, 900 votes. Each shareholder has
only single vote, whether he has one
share, or, like John Bull, 175, 600. Not too
much Importance ought to be attached to
this clique, ostensibly intended as a spec
tire for British shipowners.
PRINCE KRAPOTKINE is UNDOUBTEDLY
SINKING
fast in his prison at Clairvaux. How
ever. he has only himself to blame. He
is treated with special favors he has a
room to himself-can write and read; he
receives all the newspapers, and can order
his meals as he pleases from an hotel.
But he insists. like Blanqui, on living as
the other prisoners, and Will not petition
for release. The only obstacle, then, to
his discharge is his obstinacy. Blanqui
declined to leave ClairVauX till Napoleon
III. came and apologiZed for incarcerat-
| ing him. Prince krapotkine is very
wealthy, and though only AZ years of age
is now looking an old man OF 20. His hair
has come out in handfuls; his teeth are
nearly all gone-but then he suffers from
scurvy, caught some years ago in Russia.
His young wife passes her days studying
medicine in Paris and travelling to see her
husband. She has a strange, weird-like
loaded revolver as a pocket companion,
should her husband succumb.
Marie, the Queen Of Tahiti, is in our
midst incognitO. She is a good looking
Creole, of twenty-five, but appears on the
shady side Of thirty. Her mother is the