Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-15

EVERY week there is somegrand excitement on among the experimentation of antagonistic nations that crowd each other over on the Continent. This time it is between Turkey and Russia. Turkey is probably the poorest of all countries and her Sultan is the most shi1tless gentleman ever called upon to run @ nation. have frequently had occasion to deplore his goings on and to sympathize with him in difficulty, Now crisis has come, and the poor Sultan is in a most uncomfortable financial corner. He still owes the Czar O.OOO, part of the sum which the Russian bear charged for the time, trouble and ex- penses devoted to licking poor Turkey. Sud. denly Russia has demanded that the money he paid, and persists in tho demand, refusing to hearken to the Sultan's pleadings. There IS no use in Turkeys trying to pay, because sho can't and an attempt to raise a loan of a miserable e1OO, ,OOO sterling has inst proved a dismal failure. Russia knows money cannot be had. and so evidently is taking round- about way of getting something else. Terri. tory is all Turkey can give, and territory will probably be taken. A big piece of country, probably in Asia Minor, will be asked for. just to guarantee payment, and the poor Sultan will have to give it as Q reduced gentleman yields up favorite piece of furniture. A beautifully Oriental detail which crops up is that while Turkey and the Sultan have been getting so poor the Turkish Minister of Fi- nances has been getting very rioh at the ex- pense of the miserably paid ofioe-holders He has just betrayed himself by offering s50, 900 for tho palace and park of Q deceased Pasha. This gentleman, who has the Arabian Nights nama of Dielal cd Din will meet an Arabian Nights fate. He will be made to dfsgorge all, and then an example will be made of him hn Ni1 of NA course it is possible Djelal is innocent, and that tho Sultan, on learning that there was as much as E50.O00 left in Turkey, could not re- sist the temptation to have it, aud SO doomed his servant. That woNld also be distinctly Oriental.
 1t is stated that the members on tho Left intend to introduce to the French Chamber of Deputies, as a test measure bill forbidding any further recognition, in journals or official documents or heredi- tary titles. To be sure it seems a trifie an. omalous, the constant recurrance of the names of princes, dukes and counts in the reports of assemblies, marriages, and christ enings under a Republican regime. But as it is in many cases the only chain to consider ation which the bearer possesses, it would ap- pear rather hard to deprive tho decayed sprigs of nobility of the only insignia of SUD- eriority over the vulgar herd which they are ever likely to own. Reduced English noble men have been known to sink their titles when unable to support them in proper manner, but such an idea would never enter the Gslllic mind, particularly while the supply of American heiresses holds out as 1t does now. It would of course be possible to re- press the use of anything but proper names in legal documents of all kinds, and even to bury lifelong marquis or count under a plcbian designation, but it will be found diffl- cult to prevent the soleil or 0aulois from TO- ferring to the objects of their admiration un- der any other cognoments than those which they had always employed. It is not likely that the surrounding nations, despite the so- licitous editorials which grace their journals arc .t all .disp pleased to witness the diaplaSAor