The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-22


allied head of their clan.
MIR. Henry Irving has been offered
4lo,OOO for four months visit to the
Australian capitals.
doubtless our Australian brothers
anu sisters would accord as hearty a
welcome to Irving and Ellen Terry as
they have just given to Sarah Bern
hardt.
The new Italian opera "Cavalleria
Rustlcana," produced last week in Lon.
don, has been enthusiastically received.
Inc composer, Mascogni, is 80 years
old, and, like Verdi, a child of the
people.
The naval exhibition was closed on
Saturday with a turnstile record of
almost two millions and half. From
first to last the undertaking has been
much indebted for its great success to
the Prince of Wales. 1t has made the
general public familiar with the British
navy in all its departments
Much interest is taken here in the
American rain-making experiments.
Unfortunately England will not need
American aid in this particular branch
OF science. During the past few weeks
we have had deluges of rain, and in
many parts of the country there are
serious floods. One begins to wonder
whether these experiments in America
are reactlng in some mysterious man
ner on our too liberal cloud system.
Had MIR. Faine, the witty Frenchman,
been in England this October he would
have been still moro decidedly con-
firmed in his opinion that 1.-THE English
Climate is made for wild ducks"
Hearing so much OF the Jews being
expelled from Russia, people wonder
how it is Russia cannot get on with her
jewish element in the population SO
well as western nations do. The answer
IL, that the conditions of life in Russia
are different from those in western
countries. Russia has more Jews than
any other European ration; she has,
also, an enormous population, consisting
almost entirely of an ignorant, SUPER
stitious, improvident, but generous
hearted, peasantry, where, elsewhere in
Europe the majority of the population
is more or less civilized and educated;
and not, therefore, SO easy a prey to
the evil influence of the lows.
In Russia the slow-witted. ignorant
peasant is no match for the cute, alert,
educated, INSCRIPTIONS Hebrew and If
Russia does not protect her peasantry
from tho Jews, she will always be in an
lnsolvent condition. The Jews do not
by production contribute to the wealth
OF the country; they are middlemen,
pawnbrokers, usurers, or drink re-
tallers; they will not dig, and where
ever they settle, they manage, by trad
ing on the vices of those who do dig, to
get in their hands any profit that is
made out Of the land Russia has
never interfered with the jewish re-
ligion; the Government is only con.
cerned at the decentralization which
they have observed taking place in the
character OF the peasantry wherever
the Jews settle.
1t is sad to think that in this nine
teenth century Of the Christian religion
there should remain in Europe nation
like Russia. which in some respects is
as backward as England was in the DAYS
OF Richard Cour de Lion. That the
Russian government cannot trust its law
courts to defend the subjects from the
capacity of the Jews, but has to adopt
the policy of expulsion as in the middle
ages-is tantamount to confessing that
the administrators of tho Russian law
are SO corrupt that they are enabled to
cope with the evil and check it by legal
measures. The Jewish question can
only he solved in n Christian spirit, viz:
BY the Christians in name becoming
Christians indeed, and the Hebrews
more governed by the spirit of Cristt
anity and the brotherhood Of humanity
Professor Macmillan, lecturing at
bombay on Heredity and Regeneration
of India, asked why India has, for tho
last 1000 years, been in a backward
condition, having produced no great
name in literature since the days of
Sanskrit literature He attributes the
cause of this decline to the introduction
OF female seclusion, which must con-
stantly tend to national deterioration,
and to diminution of physical intellect
ual and moral strength, which are
principally dependent on active out
door exercise for development. But
any change in the present condition of
India life should be gradual. Truly,
she will never arise from her state of
lethargy until the women are emanci-
pated from their narrow limits.
The honor conferred on Prof. Helm
holtZ by the German emperor fulfills
Disraeli's dictum that ga government
should recognize intellect 1t elevates
and sustains the tone OF a nation"
Writing to Helmholtz. the emperor
says: Your great mind always en-
gagged in the pursuit. of the purest and
highest ideals. has in it's lofty flight
left politics and the party intrigues
connected with them FIR behind it. |
and my people arc proud To be able to
call SO eminent man as yourself ours"
Very thick wooden materials are
fashionable in Paris, principally
striped and always with a rough. hairy
surface. Gowns are made with the
stripes meeting diagonally ir front, and
going straight down the back draperv.
Grey and brown are favorite colors.
Gauntlet gloves are worn, and long,
thre e'qnarter length capes or jackets.
All dresses, over ball dresses. are
trimmed with fur, and corselet belts are