, 1890-09-18

dred and eighteen cases resulted in
death.
Germany Is determined to Christian.
izs the Africans. Two new Maxim guns
have been bought for service In the In
terror.
AS soon as Ito telephone between Lon
don and Paris Ia completed arrange
ments will be made to extend tho sys-
TEN to Brussels, Bordeaux and Mar
seilles.
A bell. cast recently for tho Kharkow
cathedral, contains BS per cent. of pure
silver. II weighs GAG English pounds
and its vibrations last several minutes.
England is said to be Just tritle an
noyed at the free and easy manner In
which tho Comte de Paris is carrying on
his conspiracy within hor borders.
The Italian government Is making en-
ergetic efforts to prevent emigration
from that country. Intending emigrants
are hnrasssd in every possible manner.
The cholera is preparing for the fall
bus ness In various European capitals.
But being better understood 1t Is no
longer regarded as tho dreadful disease
ii used to be.
The Anglo French agreement with
reference to the parceling out of African
territory seems to give mutual satisfac-
tion. Each country thinks 1t has the
better of the other.
One of the profitable papers In France
is the Paris Figaro. 1t makes an an
nual dividend of S500,0 This Is the
way the item has got started, but NOR.
likely the true figures are 800, 0Oo
| francs.
Archbishop Nicanor, OF st. Petersburg,
proposes to reply to Count Tolstol's :
"kreutzer Sonata" in u book which
Will be issued soon and which will be
entitled Marriage as Ordained by
Christ"
A committee has been formed in Ger.
many for the purpose of purchasing
| Moltke's birthplace, the object being To
present 1t to the nation on the occasion
OF the great warriors ninetieth birthday.
on and after October |, the Emperor
of Germany will publish newspaper, to
be inspired directly by himself and to
be the official exponent of his views on
all ubjects-nilltary, civil and political.
The Turks have begun fresh series
of outrages in Crete. evidently with the
intention of provoking an insurrection
which they can put down with bloody
| hand.
| A passenger elevator to the summit OF
Mount Blanc Is proposed by an Amsri-
of eight compartments, each six feet
square, intended to carry triple-decked
elevator for twenty-seven passengers.
DR.. Henry Muirhcad, the late presi.
dent of the Glasgow Philosophical So
ciety, has bequeathcd the sum OF S120, =
600 for the erection and endowment of q
college which will be entirely devoted to
the instruction of women in the theory
and practice of medicine.
The large sums of money that tho goy-
ernment of India devotes annually us
rewards for the destruction of snakes has
brought about an unexpected result.
The snakes are being bred and reared by
the natives for the purpose of obtaining
the usual head.money offered.
a boom has just struck Bona. They
have street railroads in Bona now, pa
latial hotels. with all the comforts of a
home" and business blocks. Bona is
the leading town of the Congo free state.
One of the wedding presents to Stan
ley was gold geographical watch from
a firm of watchmakers, the tirst of the
kind ever manufactured. 1t tells the
time In almost every important city in
the world,
Although the German emperor has
ordered that October 20, the birthday of
Field Marshal Won Moltke, be celebrated
throughout the empire, the silent field
nus btlIl tHiJ Will pass ~ IN
the mortuary chapel containing the
body of his wife.
The Duchess ofBuccleugh, with other
leaders of London fashion, has decided
that society must be protected from
the inroads of hnanciers and Americans.
Next year no American Is to be recog-
nized socially who is not properly intro
duced by the United States minister al
the court of st. James.
| The latest addition to the European
newspaper world is entirely in Latin,
advertisements and all, and its object is
to enforce the idea that Latin is again to
become the universal language, as it was
i'll the Middle Ages.
A practical exposition of Mr. Bel
lamy's ideas In 'Looking Backward" is
started IN London. The members of the
| society pay Cd "a month and labor, "
working for each other paying each
other with labor instead of money.
The Russian government has ordered
that all medical aud pharmaceutical
students shall be henceforth accustomed
to the decimal system of weights and
measures, with the view of making tn is
system the only legal one for prescrip-
tions to be written in after the lapse of
five years.
The British customs board has issued
an order declaring that any person dis
covered Offering money to a customs
officer shall be forth with arrested. taken
to police court and there charged with
an attempt at bribery. For this oitens Sc
a penalty is provided of heavy fine