The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-11-29
FOREIGN NOTES.


regular system Of fencing practice and gymnas-
tics has just been introduced into the Russian army,
beginning with the Guards in ST. Petersburg.
Hitherto gymnastics have been taught, II at a, In
very irregular fashion and on very small scale.
had not inc least Idea OF anything ike pnysica train
ing beyond his ordinary dri, and up to the present
day among Russians generally, although they have
mind almost to mbccility, there is not yet the faint
est notion Of the necessity OF any physical exercise
athletes, and the want Of muscle has often been
sadly felt. Indeed, one OF their own countrymen
has called then" jelly people"
"Lord salisbury says the London World, "nas
led Sir +. Thornton sad dance. Before the change
Of government Sir Edward was appointed British
Ambassador to the Porte, and a few weeks ago no
left St Petersburg for his post. When he had got
as far as Odessa he received orders from Lord
structed to repair to the English metropolis. Lord
Salisbury wishes that Sir w. White rather than SIT
on ssqs ans IN nS
II Sir L. Thornton had gone to Constantinople. he
would necessarily have superseded Sir w. White.
White has long been resident at Constantnople and
knows great deal about the condition Of the Balkan
BEEN oSaea At e Without
tlon which has unnecessarily been indicted on Sir e.
Thornton
and have devised various ingenious expedents for
making the public believe that his experiments were
| not conclusive. But the public answers very much
In the words Of the Figaro, which said the other
day: "whaiever the envious opponents Of NJ. Pas.
eu curl human beings Of nydrophoba, they are
obliged to recognize that pasteur has found the
means of preserving dogs from the disease. This
being the case. the problem OF the suppression OF
hydrophobIa appears to be solved. All that is neces-
sary g police ordinance prescribing incubation OF
dog which after certain time has not been vacci-
nated-we must use this term until we get better
onemconld be seized, inoculate1 sold, and the mas
Ing dogs from tho malady Pasteur also preserves
men, II the police authorities VIII only take hold of
the matter"
"Thera is something OF the shrewd humor OF the
Oriental cazi,r says the Pal Mall Gdzette In the
decision OF a Russian stipendiary magistrate, re-
port OF which has Just reached us from odessa 1t
appears that new cemetery Is about to be opened
near that city, and that two Greek merchants, each
anxious to secure the most comfortable or most dis
iingnished resting place, were allowed by some OIL
clal bunder to buy the same allotment; When the
mistake was discovered neither would yield his
claim, and the matter was referred TO the district
Judge. Greek had met Greek, and the tug of war
an astutcness worthy of solomon arranged the mat
ter In the simplest way possible by applying the rule
ever died nrst should have the right to the coveted
resting place. The parties went away reconced
appy Is n1.
unfair advantage Of the other by committing suicide"
Edmund Yates in the London World gives the fol-
lowing home estimate Of Stead: "When Mr.. Yates
Thompson brought MIR. Stead from Darlington and
made him editor Of the Pal Mall Gazette he placed
dangerous weapon in the hands of an cgreyiously
conceited fanatic. MIR. Stead's defenders speak of
him as a clever man; the easy way in which he was
gulled by an old London harrdan like Jarrett proves
that he was gushing provincial idiot. Nobody be-
leves Mr.. Stead TO be rogue; everybody ia con-
vlnced that he is fool. Relying on the purchased
confessions Of one OF the basest Of her sex, Mr..
Stead pulls up the sluice-gates, let's loose the
"poached Nth that floods " not merely the mid.
die street, but the entire Kingdom, and personally
antee he has had to withdraw. 1t wonld he inter-
esing TO know what the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Mns a s q n sy nra ns osf
not too much to say Mr.. stead, blinded by self-con-
celt and besotted with emotional gush, has by the
publications of his maiden tribute "revelations"
slckencd and disguised more decent people and given
greater impulse to the sale of utterly bestal tera
ture than any man OF the century,
London Engineering says: " correspondent of
the Nouos Tremva at vladivostock has provoked a
sensatlon in Russian naval circles by disclosing the
following Incident: few weeks ago The German
steamer China set out for Port POssiett, unaware
that the harbor was closed by double row of
torpedoes, which had been placed there during the
stationed to warn OF vessels was not in It's place,
and the German captain did not observe the red nag
ho!sted on shore, where also the naval picket was
absent Two or three people, observing the danger
into which the vessel was running, shouted out,
Mint! mimi! cMines! mines y but the captain did
not realize what they meant until close to the first
torpedo barrier 1t was then too late to reverse the
engines, and amid panic among the passengers on
board he decided to trust TO luck and steam full
speed ahead. A terrible pause followed, succeeded
by feeling of establishment when the steamer was
seen to have traversed both rows of submarine
mines and to be calmly making her way into the
harbor. The torpedoes were supposed to be OF the
best quality, received from Russia last spring, and
they were laid down by experienced officers who had
reported that 1t was impossible for even the smallest
fishing smack TO enter the harbor without being
blown to pieces. None the less they proved dismal
failure when tested by the China. and the Russian
Admiralty have telegraphed that the most searching
investigation shall be made into the affair. At ST.
Petersburg 1t is not believed that the officers bungcd
In laying them down, hut that the mishap was due to
a repetition of what occurred more than once with
the submarine mines Russia used against Sir Charles
Napier In the Baltic Failing to check that gallant
officers operations, they were hauled up and ex-
amIned, when 1t was found that the rascay officials
ashore had purolned the gunpowder and replaced II