Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-15
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The chamber Of deputies committee on the
revision of the French constitution has adopt
ed "a resolution in favor of abolishing the sem
ate and the presidency.
Messengers who have arrived at Waday
Halfa report that the mysterious white pasha
in the Bahr-el-Gazel district has fought a great
battle and killed many dervishes.
The Tagus, Duoro and LiZo rivers in Portu-
gal have overfowed their banks, flooding the
surrounding country.
The Eiffel tower in Paris is now $50 feet high.
The remaining 400 will be completed in Janu-
airy.
A new price for gas on the north side of the
Thames IN London will be half a crown, fifty
cents. per thousand
The Pasteur institute was formally opened in
Paris Yesterday, in the presence of President
Carnot, several government ministers, the for
elSn ambassadors and the Russian grand dukes
who are visiting Paris. NJ. Pasteur received an
ovation from the people present. In an adj
dress he expressed his thanks for the support
he had received in fulfilling humane task.
In his speech at the non-conformist banquet,
given IN honor of Lords Salisbury and Harting-
! ton, IN London last night, the former said that
| short time ago it would have been impossible
for those present to have met at a public din.
ner. The change was subject for congratul-
latlon. because it showed the public danger
| they had to face. He looked with terror al
the insanity which had seized English states
men. The Gladstonans were sailing under
sealed orders until they arrived in the con-
genial zone of office. Whatever policy was
| then declared could be made consistent with
some portion of Mr.. Gladstone's career.
The Russian minister of railways has issued
an order that in future all passengers who
play cards will be ''judicially pursued
The new Italian penal code provides that
such an assertion as that the pope has q right
TO Rome as his seat Of government is punisha-
BILE as a crime.
Well-informed persons at st. Petersburg
deprecate the suggestion of certain news
papers that Russia aims at rapprochement
Win the vatican involving an inimical policy
toward Italy and renewed GOODNESS between
the vatican and Germany
1t has hitherto been thought that Buenos
Ayres was one of the most expensive cities to
i've IN, a medium-sized house renting there for
81, 500 year. 1t is learned, though that an
elght-room house in the outskirts of SYDNEY
brings S1,750 year.
Inc Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland at
their last quarterly meeting considered the ex-
puislon OF two brothers for admitting couple
ot ladies to lodge, meeting last May, where
| they could see and hear considerable norton
OF the proceedings while the lodge was 'tyled
IN the third degree" They were let into the
organ lott. The committee recommended that
one OF the brothers be expelled.
Mr.: Phelps, the American minister. was en-
sefsaihed by the corporation of Glasgow at a
banquet last night. In response to a toast Mr.
Phelps said that SO long as Scotland sent the
class OF men she had hitherto sent to his country
the doors of America. so far as Scotchmen were
concerned, would swing on their hinges from
Maine to California America was now more
particular as regards immigration. She did
not intend to allow her people to be contami-
| mated by the leprosy of Asia or the off-scour-
ings of Europe.
So bitter is the radical opposition in Denmark
that the folkthlng has been unable to adopt a
jubilee address to King Christian. which it was
intended to present to him to-day ON the occa-
sion Of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ac-
cessiOn to the throne
There is no truth in the report that an at
tempt was recently made on the life of Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
In Paris yesterday Prado, the man who muir
dered Marie Aquetant for her jewels. was SEN
fenced to death, no extenuating Circumstance
being found in his favor. The murderer re-
ceived the sentence in iaunty manner
The municipal council of Paris has decided
to take part in the demonstration at the tomb
OF the revolutiOnist Baudin on December 2
Vienna dispatch says: Emperor William
desires that Emperor Francis Joseph and the
Car shall visit Berlin at the same time. The
Austrian Emperor refused to meet the Gar un-
less he withdraws his troops from the Austrian
frontier. Emperor William is trying to per-
suade the Car to withdraw his troops"
The Americans, jackson, Hendry and Wood
cock. having decided to leave Wurtemburg
teiegraphed their decision to the king who re-