The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-07-26
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Marquis of Salisbury is proud of being called
journalist. He was for long time on the staG of
the London Chronicle.
Emile de Girarjin the famous French editor, had
not the slightest faith In the power of journalism TO
influence public opinion. The ridicule which he
continually poured upon the idea that any man took
his ideas from the papers scandalized his more
earnest confreres.
The Saturday Rere,o has a savage attack on war
correspondents whom 1t calls the bagmen Journal
Ism. II says the next OF the tribe who imiNlgns
general officer should be sent back to the base of
operations and tied by the wrists TO the tail OF an
ammunition wagon.
1t Is stated that the Whitehall Repietc, of London
used to pay on an average from five to seven dollars
for one of Its society paragraphs, and that the World
paid three dollars for the few lines which caused Mr.
Yates's Imprisonment. II Is only scandal, however,
that comes high Rates for literary and journalistic
work In London are much lower than they are here.
The summer manGuvres OF the Austrian army will
take place during the last week OF August, between
Rokitzan and Harzowtz, in Bohemia. The concen-
tration OF the army corps is TO be effected by the
26th, and operations Will begin on the 2Ith. They
are to last four days. AT the same time other ma
npuvres will be heldbeween K.agenfurt and Volkcr-
markt, In Carntha.
The sugar planters of the northern part of Queens
land, Australia, raise their cane In the lowyng
fields only through kanaka labor The abuses at
tending the getting of this from neighboring islands,
and the condition OF slavery, in fact which resulted
when the kanaka agreed to come to work, have
caused the government TO make 1t Illegal for any
laborer to be brought from any other island except
In vessel accompanied by n government agent.
The kanakas are hired for three years, and when
they are sent back to their native islands their first
act Is TO throw of their clothing thus shedding all
civilization. and run, naked and rejoicing, into the
Jungle
Was II a "JOke or job: ?" asks an Indignant men,
Der OF Convocaton In the Forinighiiy, whereby
young Mr.. Napier, hitherto known to select (and
strictly limite circle OF German students, has been
suddenly made professor of English literature at
oxford9 We don't pretend to say; but we do not
think 1t was job. II was probably due to the ido-
syncracieS and preJuces of the odd little knot who
formed the electoral body In their anxiety to avoid
anybody who had the talnt OF being q writer In
newspapers, or an agreeable trier In modern litera-
ture, or hereto and scorner OF the earliest monu-
ments OF "old English" they selected young gen
tleman whose freedom from all these disadvantages
was quite notorious. We do not notice the Proies-
sors name among the contributors TO the great
History OF English Literature which Messrs. Mac
milan will publish. Messrs. Stopford Brooke,
Salisbury, GOsse, and Dowden win be responsible
for the four periods into which this work will be
divided; and there seems good hope that shall at
last have history OF our national literature which
Will be In some degree worthy of It's subJect.-.St.
Janess Gazette.