Omaha daily bee., 1886-11-20
other Lands Than Ours.

deputation is to travel about to the courts
of Europe in search of ruler. The Dan
ish prince was an admirable choice, and
perhaps IL was surprise to the Tlrnova
assembly that one of King Christians
family should decline a proit'cred throne.
But the Bulgarian throne is not particu
larly comfortable just now. The ia
nous comparison of princes to "heav.
enly bodies, which have much vener.
alton but no rest, would include prince
who should rule just now at Sofia, and if
q mere cats paw of Russia he would
lack even the veneration. The subranjo
should not despair at the failure of its
first effort. Perhaps it will now come
down to practical politics" and sound
its candidate on the likelihood of accept.
ance before voting for him. England
and Austria could help Bulgaria in her
quandary by suggesting good candi.
date, since to chouse the Prince of Min.
grclia would be practically surrcndoring
TO the czar.
~
Prince Nicholas, OF Mingrelia, who is
said to have been named by Russia and
accepted by the other great powers of
Europe as the next prince of Bulgaria, is
an Asiatic by descent, the little princi-
pality from which he derives his title
lying between Mt. Caucasus and the
Black Sea. 1t is only about half as large
as Connecticut, and the suzerain rights
of the Dadian family, to which Prince
Nicholas belongs, were extinguished by
Russia twenty years ago. He is hanger
on of the Russian court, and is well
known in court society in the
principal capitals of Europe. The prince
has no fitness for the throne of
bulgaria except his complete subserviency
to Russia. He is about forty years of
age, and personally is considered good
fellow Prince Nicholas, of Mingrelia
was born December 90, 1916 (-January
4, 1S40. He is colonel and ade.de-camp
of the Emperor of Russia. He married
in 1874 the Princess Marie, daughter of
Alexander Adlerbcrg, general and min
ister Of the imperial court of Russia, and
OF the Countess Catherine nee Paltav-
zov, maid of honor of the Empress. Such
a choice ii accepted by the powers would
schemes. -
1t seems that the Due d. 'Aumale builded
better than he knew when he bequeathed
his estates at Chantllly to France, after he
had been banished from his country. NJ
Spuller, of the chamber of deputies,
states that, as it will be impossible for the
government to accept the gift and leave
No a ;,, ,1,t
the date when the decree accepting tho
gift is issued another will be issued Civ
ing the donor the liberty of France. NJ
Spuller also believes that the other eXiled
princes will soon be allowed to return to
their country, which would be wise
movement on the part of the French gov
crnment. Revolutions do not go back
ward, and ten times as many royalists as
were banished from France could not
turn tho tide of popular feeling in the
opposite direction from that in which 1t
sets at present.
Nv
The news comes that Jamaica is decay
ing. The sugar estates in the island of
Jamaica, the fairest and once the most
flourishing of Spain's possessions, haves
declined from 653 to 189 and the number
is being still further reduced. The ne
groes who once cultivated the largo and
productive estates have swarmed to the
towns, where they lead an indolent and
squalid life. Many of them, for want of
employment at nome, have gone to the
lsthmus of Panama to work and die in
the Lesseps canal. The low price of
sugar has well-nigh ruined Cuba ALSO
The once princely estates OF that beauti-
full and fertile island are degenerating to
planters who. twenty-five and thirty
years ago, were accustomed to visit New
York and dazzle even that great city with
of their opulence, have
become seedy bankrupts. What
the abolition of slavery left undone
has been accomplished by beet growing
in Europe. The beet root sugar has
broken down the price to One-hnlf the
former figure and thus destroyed the chief
source of prosperity in the West Indies.
Even in Louisiana the effect of this low
price of one Of the necessaries of life is
severely felt, in spite of the duty of q
cents a pound which partially protects
the home product from foreign competi-
ton. To the masses of mankind sugaris
both luxury and necessity, and the
of the price of it has cnor-
mously increased the consumption IN the
world; but this incalculabe general ad-
vantage has been purchis at the cost of
the cane-growing West India islands, and
has reduced the BTtish possessions in
that quarter to the verge of worthless
ness.
~.
The prediction of a hard winter in Ger
many by DantziG newspaper bodies Ill
for the governmentswhich are compelled
to be constantly on the watch against the
designs of the socialists and anarchists.
The same conditlQls that are felt there
may be expected to manifest themselves
elsewhere on the continent and reyolu.
tionary agitations are besides, as rule,
sympathetic in thqir progression, 1t is
PLAIN that in the dJbt-ridden countries of
Europe the forced equilibrium of the varl,
Gus classes cannot be forever maintained,
and that some cause, like the unusual dis
tress which is now anticipated, may at any
time precipitate desperate outbursts of
popular wrath. The cost of keeping up
immense standing armies is too tremend-