The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-06-28
FOREIGN NOTES.

| to follow the example OF their modern brethren 40
far as to adopt ermInc and TO carry II on their
| shoulders
Several daily papers have announced lately, on the
authority Of their correspondents at Berlin, that the
Princess Dolgorouk the widow Of the late Gar, Ia
now singing In pnbic at Berlin. II Is structh there
lsa Princess Dolgorouk who has been appearing
before berlin audiences, hut II Ia not the Cars
widow, hut tho wife OF her nephew, Prince Dolgo-
| rouki, VINO has lately sustained severe financial
hs was
| ment nj ~. Petersburg that she married Prince
polgorcakI; orc II was to ,ne last degree Improbable
take TO the stage, seeing that she Is OF the richest
women In Europe.-Truth.
The ecls Of the ponds In the woods of vlncennes
France, leave them every spring In large numbers,
making their way to the Seine or the Marnc, several
| Kilometres distant. They take advantage Of rainy
weather, when the herbagc Is wet and their Instinct
| guides them directly 10 their destination New
species have been repeatedly introduced into the
10 leave. Some have thought that the water OF these
ponds, having been collected by hydraulic engines,
| away. But the phenomenon OF such mlgraiions hy
cells aud some other fishes Is not uncommon. Thus
n IN ,he marshes OF rcardy cells are often found on
the grass, going from one pond 10 another
Lire, London, June II, says: "A most extraord-
nary incident In Prince diplomatic career
little known 10 the public was his duel with M
Gcrvois de Clancy while Secretary Of the Prussian
Legation at Frankfort. NJ de Clancy was dancing
practical oSc Herr ' von aVfI ssMarcR snew eMsn no.
better than To throw dozen coppers In the Frencl,-
mana hat while whrling round with his partner.
| NJ. de clancy let his hat drop with the money, and
attempted TO throttle the yonng German Secretary
Of Legation, fortunately protected by HIS friends
which the Frenchlnan was wounded, while Herr Won
bismarck remained unscathed. such Ia the irony Of
Gnss o e rsnsS s early Nr his
the result OF the above duel proved n bad omen for
the French nation"
"Thls," says the ran Man Gazette, "ls the age Of
universal whitewashing, rehabilitation and apothe-
osis The latest ject Of 1t is Jean Paul Marat Of in
famousmemory. lIehas had one apotheosls as every
one knows, already; hut his body was soon taken
back from the Pantheon to sewer, whence 1t is no
longer recoverable Daylds celebrated picture
| OF him, however, remains, and the Municipal
Council Of Paris now proposes to buy II and hang
az IN q place OF honor in the Council Chamber.
with which this proposition was accompanied, .to
do Justice to the heroes of the Revolution. who have
| 80 long been the victims OF calnmny. In buying
this picture Paris will possess at once q great Worf
of art ami the portrait of q great man.. There
is, aenny rate one comfort that though Ns Carlyle
apothcosis take place as the human genius can
devise, yei Marat himself returns no more to the
Exactly ten years ago the Dutch government com.
menced u war at Acheen, In the north Of Sumatra,
which has continued without interruption down to the
last MONTH The forces Of Holland have been perpetu-
ally engaged, mostly around the town OF Acheep hut
occasionally eisewhe IN northern sumatra. The
national budget OF which has shown an annual de-
fcit OF from nine TO fifteen millions OF norns caused
mainly by IT,. An army OF about twenty thousand
men has had to be maintained 1ghtlDg almost under
tue equator, by constant draits from Java and ult
mately from home. The result OF efforts OF such
magniinde continued over ten years has been moth.
Ing. The Acheeneese are still in arms and nnsub.
dned. by constant fighting they have been cleared
the port OF Acheen. This the butch will continue 10
hold BY means ms Of re.lounis and large force The
blockade 0f the other forts has been raised; two OF
them only, Oleleh and Pedis, are to be retained by
force said TO number $500 men. The rest of ihe
Dun iorces are 10 be withdrawn. aud the war is at
an end until the Sultan likes to resume his attacks on
| the fort.
Another consequence OF the death OF Lord Selkirk
is that II s necessary for the peers OF Scotland to
meet In due form at Iolyrood for the purpose of
elecnga new representative peer In his place. The
election. am told ia to he held this week or next,
unless there should be sudden dissolution, which
Is not very probable: hear that the only candidate
Is Lord Lindsay of the Byres. u nObleman whose
honors were revived in his favor only about nfteen
branch OF the great house Of Crawford, whose late
was better known by his former title q lord
his lordshlp will come In without oppos,ion It re-
mains to be seen what great laird TO the north of the
ana almost paramount influence which was eXerted
over these elections by the late Duke OF Bucceuch;
turn almost any nominee of his own, aud therefore
found most OF the Scotch peers his humble and duti
Ial servants ser i was on these grounds, as much as
his broad acres. that her Majesty used payfully to
style him the real King Of Scotland, and herself one
no more am told that the sovereignty is divided,
and and that IN all probability, that electoral influence
VIII he welded by the new Duke OF Buccleuch
jointly with Lord Lothlng and Lord Galoway.-LiIe
Notwithstanding the desire OF the Gladstone party
to prevent the further territorial expansion of the
British Empire the irresiatible tendency all civilized
powers to absorb tile territory of their barbarous
neghbors II too strong to he resised or the recent
annexation Of large tract by the British 10 South
Africa the InH MaH Gazette says: Liberal gov
ernments, We know, have long since fOreswOrn the
poicy OF anne xation and extension OF the Empire.
u tey ever slip Into these anilquated evil 1t
Is only as the exception that proves the rule such
an exception has just occurred in South Africa,
where sir g. Warren has recently added to the
AMI Wales. In extending our authority In South
Africa to the twenty second parallel Of south lati
tude we have made another enormous stride In our
| march from Table Bay to the Zambes, and commit
ted ourselves beyond recall to great South African
dominion. What makes the step even more serious
Is the fact that the country now occupied Is OF value
not 80 much IN itself, but as the road to still more
the country to the NORTH and mOIe especially TO the
northeast, OF our new annexatl0nthec country north
OF me lransyaai and west OF the Portuguese do
portion OF Southeastern Africa, and the question
whether our new dominion is to be blessing or a
establish with the people Of this territory, and es
pecially with the great chief Lobengule. IL we can
/
dominion in Africa Ia to be maintained in his de-
| spite. we have job on our hands compared with
winch our Zuln troubles were a mere pin prick"
As comparison with the feeble results reached In
the Dolphin 1t Ii well to note the features of the
fastest British despatch boat, of which Iron says
Our fastest cruiser In the squadron 70 be c0ncen-
trated under the command Of Admiral Hornby IL the
Mercury and we are right In saying that she Ia the
fastest fullsIzed ship adoat The vessel has attained
hour and this surpasses6y by half knot the ChIlian
cruiser Esmeraida, US knots and the French cruiser
the PaeiOn and the iris the latter ner sister ship
ens launched q ed s year before her, a. isI As the
dfaught OF water OF 2s feet this In an exceedingly
high speed for so lareea vessel. She and the iris
TINS stand unrivaled regards speed by any vessel
length while the French vessel has aiengih OF sos feet
nut beam OF only 53 feet An authority on these
the nrst OF type designed for high speed as the
pre-emnent requisite. All other requirements have
been saoordlnated 70 this important element. They
| present beautifully sharp how aud long, ex-
ceptonaly clean run. and are altogether admirable
specimens Of design for swift and lightly spared
are unarmored of course The Mercury, 'R %Rieh Il
70 ION Admiral iornby'a squadron, has All armament
portion TO her tonnage, has been one Of the most
costly vessels alloai. Her hull and machinery cost
eO,Ooo or eb00o OF the Iris, which has been sai TO
DE ~ costly per ton M the ronclad Inaexlbe Not
witasiandng what has been written and said to the
| contrary the above statement shows that England
bll slanua IN 'he front rank M regards naval
| sructlOn."
| As to the Dalai Lama, the head OF the Aslatc re-
liglon, never DYING yet being successively buried
ana horn anew, he In installed In PotO La no veri-
table an infant that his mother necessarily accom-
panies him In order to snckle him, but, being de-
barred from the sacred premises OF the Poto La on
account Of her sex, she Is lodged In the vicinity at
Shyo, ahd permitted 10 ylAt her only between
the hours Otp A. NJ. ana l.. NJ, Whatever ACCOM-
plishInentH Ne may acquire, the Dalai Lama, need
never exhibit then Tor he IL taught To be cary OF
speech, and, Indeed necessity coInpels this course
since hia worshippers are In thoiisands, and IL Ii
only 10 those who are wealthy OF high degree thai
ne can aiiord to atdreas even % brief sentence or
two. This IL always done IN deep, hOarse voice
acquired by training In order 10 convey the idea that
II einanaies from maturity and Wisdom, Seated
croas4egged on platform some six feet high,
he Is dressed to he worshlpped In The usi,al
colors Of the priesihood-iliat Is, red and
yellow, and with bore arms, as required
oi all buddhist priests, and holds a rod,
from the end OF which hang strips OF silk
whlte, red, yellow, green, AMI blue. The pilgrim
coming In at the entrance door advances with folded
na1ds as II IN prayer, and resting his head against
| the edge OF The platform above him mentally ana
hastily repeats the petitions he would have granted
Ihese unnitered prayers the Dalai Lama Ii under
! siooi TO comprehend intuitlvely. lie touches the
pigrlms head with the bunch OF SILK In token OF his
blessing, and the wOrshipper II hurried out II the
exit door by attendants, only too happy n Le has