Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15
ACROSS THE WATERS.
All Hope of the Royalist Party in
France Must be Abandoned.
AMERICANS VISIT A FINE ART SALE
But Fail to Carry off Any of the Costly and
Coveted Paintings.
REAL INVENTOR OF THE TELEPHONE.

PARIS, June 14-The speech Of the Count
of Paris at Richmond on Thursday evening,
praising the action of his son, the Duke of
Orleans in returning to France in spite of
the decree of exile against the Orleans
family and seeking to serve his time in the
French army provokes no feeling here, not
teyen in Government circles. Neither has
1t aroused any enthusiasm among the Roy
alists.
Some of the Royallst papers of the widest
circulation and influence 60 so far as to say
that for the present, at least, all hope of the
re-establishment of the monarchy must be
abandoned. The duty now incumbent on
the Royalist party, they urge, is to try and
adapt itself to the republic, to increase its
influence in politics and to gain control of
the Government. The Figaro has recently
published several strong articles in which
it urges this policy upon the Royalists.
MORE FAVORABLE VIEW.
Indeed, the newspapers find in q speech
delivered the other day by M. Constans
Minister Of the Interior, disposition to
take a more favorable view of the tendencies
OF the Royalist party.
Mr.. Bursunal, the French Electrician, has
been presented to NJ. Jules Roche. Minister
of Commerce. NJ. Roche declares that NJ.
Bursunal, is q rival OF Edison, and that he
is the real inventor of the telephone, having
discovered and applied the principle 20
wears in advance of either Edison or Bell.
M. Roche has instructed NJ. Bursunal to
undertake the improvement of the ex-
ltremely defective telephone service of Paris
and the Provinces.
BEAT THE AMERICANS BID.
The pictures owned by the late NJ.
iCrabbe, Belgian senator, which were sold
in this city on Thursday brought unprece-
dented prices. Mr.. Morris K. Jessup and
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt, representing the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Mr.. Hutchinson, President of the Chicago
Art Museum; Mr.. William c. Whitney,
and number of the most prominent Amer
ican art dealers were either present or were
represented bv agents. The French buyers
outbid the Americans Although the sale
was the most important since the sale of
the Secretan collection, scarcely single
canvas is going to America.
The vote in the Chamber of Deputies this
week in favor of preserving the famous ma
chinery hall of the late exposition building
will probably prove final. This will leave
three permanent buildings, besides the
EifeI tower, as memorials OF the exposition,
against one permanent building left after
the exposition of 1S78-the Trocadero.
THE PASSPORT TROUBLE.
The recent debate in the German Reich
stag on the continued exaction OF passports
from travellers in Alsace-Lorraines shows that
no relief from this vexatious annoyance to
Americans can be expected. The severity
OF the rule enforced on the frontier has
within the last year or two more than
doubled the passport business of the Ameri-
can legation here. Americans who have for
q long time been residents abroad, and who
are unable to swear to any fixed intention o,
returning home within reasonable number
of wears, continue to find difficulty in get
ging passports under the instructions is