Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-22
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

There is, as usual, deficit in the Turkish
budget this time of $500 900.
Inc crown prince of Greece viii be married
to Emperor Williams sister Sophia in the first
week of MAY.
The duke of yeragna, lineal descendant of
Columbus, makes a fortune as a breeder Of
bulls for the Madrid arena.
Count.Non Waldersee. SAYS Henry Labou-
chere, will be the de facto ruler of the German
empire In conjunction with the kaiser before
another year has passed
Although no extra military credit has as vel
been presented in the German bundesrath
military circles consider it certain that loan
OF 36O UOO.O 600 marks will be demanded.
A procession of the London cabs would
stretch forty-five miles. There is only public
standing room for twenty-three miles of them.
The other twenty-five miles have to go wander
ing about the streets
They have started the story that Baldwin,
the aeronaut, now making himself famous in
London by dropping from balloons with par
achute. is none other than Lulu, who used to
be shot out of a cannon.
Sir L. Cecil Guinness. of london stout
fame, recently purchased Savernake, the an.
cestfaI seat OF the rowdy marquis of Ailesbury.
Tor S3,5oO,O OO. This is the largest real estate
transactlon Tor many years in England.
AT the papal consistory in December a num-
Der o. bishops will be created. The nomina-
ton OF cardinals has been postponed until the
March conslstory because of difficulty expert
enced in the creation of French cardinals.
emperor William is having a Pullman car
Dullt which Will cost So. 000 The emperor al
ways pays the expenses of his railway travel.
He pays mark and half (36 cents) per mile
Tor the locomotive and forty-two pfennigs a
mile for each pair of wheels.
The largest professional fee for limited service
IS SAID to have been paid to Surgeon Ma jor
freyer OF the Indian medical service, for treat
ing the nawab of Rampoor for three months
suffering from rheumatic fever The nawab
gave hlm lack of rupees, $4,000.
M. Numa Gilly. who was acquitted the other
day on the charge of libeling NJ Andrieux, a
fellow member of the French chamber of
deputies, has issued a pamphlet in which he
repeats his accusation of corruption against a
number of moderate republicans Deputies
Reache and Salio will sue Gilly for libel.
Many public and private buildings in Berlin
were decorated with flags yesterday in honor
of Empress Frederick's birthday. The Reich
s01tzeigey' says: with sincere sympathy for the
grief which, during the past year of her life
has fallen TO the lot of her majesty, are every
where mingled heartfelt wishes for her fu-
ture"
Forty-six workmen's societies of Milan. at a
meeting yesterday protested against the triple
alliance and against war in general A resolu-
ton was adopted declaring that they would not
support the Italian government in the event OF
war. The protest will be sent to workmen's
associations throughout Italy, and the work
men of France will be invited to adhere in the
name of the Brotherhood of Labor.
Speaking at the banquet given in his honor
at Liverpool last night, Mr.. Lowell said he
thought the recent tension between England
and America would result in little irritation
on both sides. But nothing was more foolish
or ought more rigidly to be left to children
than the expression. You're another" be-
cause there were occasions when these words
might be used with very disastrous effect. He
believed that civilization and freedom were
better married than divided. The duty of the
Enghsh-speaking races had ever been to carry
forward the great lessons of liberty combined
with order. That was the great secret of civil
ization.