Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-05
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Lord Tennyson has been for the last month
seriously i'll with rheumatic govt. He is re-
garded now as convalescent, but his advancing
years are telling on him, and it is unlikely that
he will ever be an entirely well man again.
Signor Uncaro has given notice in the Italian
chamber of deputies that he will question
Prime Minister Crispi upon the subject OF Italian
emigration to America
The opposition party in the Danish folke-
thing are using every effort to defeat the gov
ernment's plan for the celebration OF the
twenty-hfth anniversary Of King Christians
accession to the throne on the 10th.
The Osserudtore Romano denies that the
vatlcan's note to the powers protested against
the toast proposed at the banquet given at the
quirinal to the emperor OF Germany.
Advices received in Paris from Saigon say
that pirates attacked post consisting of forty
men OF the Foreign Legion and seven pagodas
III Ionquin and killed all but one man.
The odd fashion of mismatching pairs OF
gloves seem to take in Paris. In the streets
Dad matches are less prominent than at the
opera or theater, where one may see lorgnette
held up by one hand gloved in white and
another in black. This disparity is not Of
fensive when the gloves follow the shade OF the
dress or OF its trimmings or go with the feathers
or flowers in the hair.
After the labors and expenditures Of eighteen
years the French war minister announces that
to put the frontier in proper state of defense
against Germany will require one billion or
francs more. All the forts that have been built
are useless against the new explosives.
Three young women were walking in kilkeel
when man suddenly appeared before them
brandishing a knife and declaring that he was
Jack the Ripper" the supposed Whitechapel
murderer. One of the young women died soon
afterward from the shock, and Jack the Rip
per- was bound over for good behavior for six
months.
Education has been carried to such an extent
In Germany that the government has felt itself
forced to step in and compel tightening of
the weight of school books carried by the
children. German children carry their books
in knapsack. The police are now ordered to
stop children weighted too heavily, get their
address, and bring their fathers to court to be
fined for overlooking.
Although there have been reports that bull
fighting in Spain showed tendency of declin-
ing, the facts are that more new rings have
been built and more plazas repaired during the
last twelve years than in the preceding twenty.
Seats bring higher prices than formerly. The
pay OF the espadas has risen. Frascuello and
LagartJo get @1,125 for each performance.
Out OF this they pay their two picadOres, three
Dandllleros, and puntillerO, the man who kills
the bull with dagger in case he refuses to rise
and face the espada
The announcement of the death of John NJ.
Schleyer, the inventor of ''Volapuk," is
contradicted by MIR. Schleyer himself in his
paper, the VoIdpukabLed ZenOdak. He says he
has been dangerously i'll and even received the
last sacraments of the church, but he has been
cured by the baths of Baden.
The report of an accident to Cardinal New
man Is cOntradicted by his doctors, who say
his illness is simply feebleness arising from adj
vanced age. He is so much better that, though
elghty-seven years old, his recovery is ex-
pected.
Mr.. Labouchere, in London Truth, strongly
opposes the project for putting up memorial
to Theodore Hook, whom he describes as a
most undesirable individual, with a taste for
vulgar and brutal practical jokes.
Nine. Marguerite Brun, very attractive
Marseilles actress, who was recently divorced,
committed suicide on Saturday at the Villa
Manosque by opening her veins with pair of
| scissors and bleeding herself to death.
The German government proposes to resu Q
the building of large irOn-clads, which was
stopped after the wreck of the GrOsser-Kur-
furst. A bill providing credit for the build
ing OF eight iron-clads will be sent to the reich
| stag.
The death of Prejevalsky, the Russian ex-
plOrer, was caused by typhus fever.
The press OF Berlin feel that if war with
France is to be averted it is necessary for the
French press to adopt less blatant tactics.
Many Germans may visit the Paris exhibition
next year, and unless the MEETINGS of French
public prints against Germany be abandoned
the Berlin writers believe the heat of public
feeling may lead to incidents which will culmi-
nate in casus belli
Apropos Of the story Of Mrs. Wetmore's re-
fusal to meet the prince under the terms of the
invitation extended to her, a well-known So
ciety woman writes from London: ''The Prince
Of Wales has been in the habit of treating
American women outrageously. don't mean
that his demeanor toward them is otherwise
than gallant, or that he offers to them any per-
sonal insult-further than that conveyed in his
assumption that he can make their acquaint-
ance at will, and that they ought to be glad to
be brought to him upon the slightest intima-
ton that he would like it, The bad point ia
that he draws a distinction between Americans
and ladies Of the Old World. If he sees by
chance pretty Yankee woman at the theater
in the park anywhere, and he happens to de-
sire an acquaintance, he sends one Of his min
ions or friend without any circumlocution to
let her know that he win make her acquaint-
| ance. There is a condescension in the whole
method-a humiliating sense Of being picked
up. This he doesn't do with women from any
other country. Too many Of us have encour-
aged him in this sort of thing by submitting to
it. Mrs. Wetmore is the first 1, think, to set q
good example. All hail to her. say :"