Connecticut western news., 1890-03-19
Foreign.

Sir William Henry Houldsworth, Conserva- tive member of the House of Commons for the Northwest Division of Manchester, has been appointed the second delegate to repre- sent Great Britain at the International Labor Conference at Ber.in.
 The Prince of Wales will start for Berlin. He will be guest of Emperor William for g week.
 Count Tolstors latest work, entitled s'The Kreutzer Sonata" is being translated into French, German and English by translation bureau on the Continent, and will appear in should be warned against this translation, which is not the story in the form in which the great author will give it to the wor d, but of new rough draft now circulating in St. Petersburg and Moscow, which has been Autographed without the authors permission and greatly to his annoyance.
 Libraries have been the latest subject that has interested Mir. Gladstone, and he has contributed an entertaining article to the Nineteenth Century on the means of "pre- venting the population of Great Britain from belng extruded some centuries hence into the surrounding waters by the exor6itant dimen. if the public libraries go on increasing on their present ample scale they will come to occupy, not buildings and museums, but whole villages and towns.
 President Carnot says, or some one says that ne says, AmerlcanS are the most 1nter- esting foreigners who visit Paris.
 The Empress Frederick has become an en- thusiastic archaeological student at Athens. Dr. Schliemann superintends her studies, and with him she has visited both Olympus and the ancient ruins of Mycena.
 The Queen of Italy told lady at recent reception that she had lately received letter from America, from lady, who asked her for one of her cast-off jewels. She had also had this one asked merely for complete col.ec- tion of Italian postage stamps.
 The veteran American potrait painter Healy has painted Minister Reid's portrait, and it will be exhibited in the old Salon this year.
 Cardinal Pecci, brother of the Pope, who died the other day, belonged to the order of the Jesuits. He was n man of very simple habits, great learning and exemplary charac- ter, but trife eccentric. After Leo XIII. had been elected he sent for his brother and told him that he had decided to confer upon him the dignity of Moisignor. 'Very well, I thank yon," he said: "But mind, want no more honors, nor will I accept them." And it was only with the greatest difficulty that he could afterwards be persuaded to be- come Cardinal.
 Sir Edward Watkin, who has been very unpopular of late years, will suddenly become popular in England now that his borings for the Channel Tunnel have been the means of discovering new coal fields. Beneath Shake speare's Cliff at Dover lie untold riches in coal, and it is thought that this Is prolonga- tion of the coal basins of France and Belgium underne tn the Channel on to the English coast. This new discovery will result in changing the seat of the coal mining industry in Great Britian, and will materially modify the conditions under which England will hereafter compete with foreign coal miners. There is great delight among the owners of steamships. for it promises perpetuation of the carrying trade.