Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-06
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Reports have been received at Wady Halfa
that the white pasha "a advancing northward
The tories and hberal-unionists of Birming-
ham are preparing 20 give Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Chamberlain public welcome on their arrival.
The pope has sent to the Austrian emperor
jubilee gift a beautiful mosaic image Of
the Virgin. 1t was made at the vatican and il
valued at Sc, 900.
About forty petrifed bodies were recently
recovered from the Mike coal mine, in
Japan. They were those of workmen buried
alive in the mine several years ago.
Henry George, in lecture in London last
evening, said that poverty prevailed in London
to greater extent than in New York, impressing
a stranger with the fearful amount of degrade
ton in the English metropolis.
After an absence Of four years the Prince Of
Monaco has returned to his capital, and will
endeavor to revive the waning business of the
Casino by his personal presence and the re-
vival of court festivities long fallen into disuse.
General Boulanger and his wife again APP
peared before the tribunal in Paris yesterday
in connection with the threatened divorce pro-
ceedings. II is rumored that Nine. Boulanger
now consents to live with her husband. but
that their daughter insists upon becoming a
nun.
In the Spanish chamber of deputies yester-
day, Foreign Minister Armijo denied that the
government had ordered the payment of
Americas Cuban claim of 81 800, 900 on behalf
of Mora. The matter, he said, could not be
settled until a general arrangement had been
made of the claims between Spain and
America.
The French chamber of deputies yesterday
discussed the public worship budget. An
amendment reducing the number of bishops
was rejected. Previous to its rejection the
minister Of justice declared that the govern
m1nt favored a church
but that while the concordat existed it was
necessary to conform to its terms.
In debating the emigration bill in the italian
chamber of deputies yesterday Sgnor Ungaro
demanded that measures be taken to protect
Italian immigrants in America who might be
deceived upon the prospects of work. Pass
ports, he said, ought to be refused to persons
unable to pay their passage and to live for
some months without working after reaching
America
At Halle, Germany, the skeleton-like fbrous
covering of a species of tropical cucumber is
now being converted into a substitute for
sponge, and is already being exported in i'm
mense quantities to England and other
countries. The curious substance is known as
loofah. 1t is not only valuable as an adjunct
to the bath, but is found useful for making in
side soles for shoes, and is being applied to the
under side of saddles.
A search for ancestor of General Bou-
LANCER by Charles Benoist has produced n
General Boulanger, henceforth to be styled
Boulanger /. In May, 1898, when the council
of the general commons desired a provisional
commander Of the city seventy-four of the
seventy-fve members voted for citizen Bou-
longer. He was friend of Robespierre, but
he was finally arrested and condemned to be
guillotined as 'Boulanger, aged thirty-seven,
lourneyman jeweler, general of brigade"
Whether he is guillOtined or not is not said.
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