Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-13
Other Lands Than Ours.

IL SIdIc VI tLllES III L arts IoUhS ulOTc dlu
more ominous, and at any moment news may
come of bread riots which may start a revo-
luton whose end no mar can ~foresee. France
is a pretectionist country, and imposes a
heavy duty upon wheat from which the gov
eminent derives considerable revenue, and
as the harvests of wheat in every part Of the
country are short, to the amount of forty or
fifty million bushels, the price of -four has
gone up very seriously. In Paris and all the
large cities the bakers are compelled to fur.
nish lOaves Of a certain weight at the rate
fixed by the government, and this is known
as pain de reggie. The bakers have remon-
strated with the administration and have
asked for an increase in the rate for this
bread on account Of the rise in -four, but the
government has refused to listen to them.
Some bakers have resorted to adulteration,
and others have made an exceedingly limited
amount of government bread. So great has
been the suffering in consequence that it has
been found possible to make a profit IN the
importation of bread from Belgium, which
country imposes no duty on imported wheat.
There are many stores in Paris where Bel
giau bread is sold in large quantities and the
anomaly exists of a government taxing
heavily a raw material and admitting duty
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same product. The government winks at it,
because a hoarse murmur is going up among
the workmen of the faubourg st. Antoine
and every Partisan knows well enough what
that preludes.
The Mexican government is considering a
proposition made by a syndicate Of Mexicans
and Americans to establish a gaming resort
in tho cfyla Of Mnpfn- ~ rln ~ tho J;r,;,,,
tive possessions Of the Prince of Monaco.
The syndicate wishes to locate it in the City
of Mexico, but the president, Porfrio Diaz,
is opposed to this. He has stated that he
sees no objection to the scheme so long as
the gaming halls are in some place where
the population is limited, and where there
is little commerce.. He has suggested differ
ent localities in the northern provinces of
Mexico, but this does not meet the views of
the syndicate, and it is probable that the
matter will be allowed to drop.
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Lord Ronald Cover, the sculptor Of the
statue Of Shakespeare which was unveiled
recently at Standardization is brother to
the Duke of Sutherland, the head of the
house of Levison-Gower The family has an
undoubted strain of Jewish blood, which
probably accounts for the artistic feeling
| which has now distinguished them for five
| generations. The country seat Of the Duke
OF Sutherland is a perfect museum, for
almost everything in it in this age of MACH,
merry is hand 1t has been the custom
| of the Levison- Covers to wait until they
could catch a genius in wood-carving, or
ceramics. or in mosaic, or stone-carving, and
engage his services at the nest liberal rates
for the decoration of their palace. They
have not been collectors in the ordinary sense
Of the word, but the beautiful objects which
in other great houses are gathered into one
room and labelled, have been put to use, and
form a real part Of the furniture and decora-
tons.
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Bismarck is more than ever the prime fac
tor In European politics, and the French
papers in the interest of Boulanger are at
tributing to him a new scheme for the ag-
grandizement Of the German empire, which
would be fatal TO French Interests, and
would reduce that country to a second rate
power. The old king Of Holland is nearing
his end, and Bismarok's policy oontemplates
the annexation Of his kingdom after his
death. Besides Holland it is thought he in
tends to consolidate and round off Germany
by the seizure Of Luxembourg, and either all
or part of Belgium, according as France is