The morning call., 1891-10-10
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

In France they are now making umbrellas
OF paper
Another great lockers strike is imminent
in London.
The latest dispatches from Siberia report
that the railway strikes are assuming serl-
Gus aspect.
great system of railway robberies has
Just been discovered in Paris and broken up
by the police.
Kaiser Wilhelm has appointed the Grand
Duke of Hesse- Darmstadt general of in
fantry and field marshal of the empire.
Mr.. Hamo Thornycroft's statue Of John
Bright, which is to be erected in front of the
Town Hail at Rochdale, will be unveiled on
October oath.
Since the appointment of Sir James Fer
gusson to the Postmaster eneralship it has
been disclosed he holds place as director
in nine different companies.
Henry Labouchere thinks that it is much
to be regretted that the Indian Government
should have been permitted to choose o
child OF five as the future Rajah of Mani
pur
1t is said that Queen Christina of Spain
has been struck with n spasm OF reform and
is trying to remodel her household ON a
palmer and more sober basis, cutting off
many extravagances.
Further proof has been given OF the farci-
cal character of recent British army maneu-
FGIS III I1dUpSUlIb ny lu6 ui5tONsIyy ldEuuy
made and announced by the Lancet, that no
field hospitals were organized.
Very elaborate preparations are being
made for the silver wedding of the Car in
Denmark. In order to spare the slender
purse of the Danish king the Car has or
dered that the festal preparations be made
at his own expense.
To say that aristocratic circles are as
founded by the demand in the Liberal Fed
Grafton for the abolition of the House of
Lords is to put it mildly. The public decla-
ration that the Upper House shall be done
away with was discussed in the clubs as
nothing short Of treason.
The will of Mr.. Gladstone's deceased old
est son bequeaths the Hawarden estate and
his mining property TO such son Of his as at
tans the age of q years. He, however,
gives to his father and mother the possess
sion of Hawarden Castle during their lives,
| or the life OF either one of them.
The friends of Ashmead Bartlett enter
| tain very faint hopes OF his name being dis
ISOLATED from the Hozler divorce suit, al
| though there are other correspondents. Lady
| Blanche totally denies the charges made
| against her, which she says are entirely due
| to the unreaS0niDg jealousy Of her husband
He Thought the Barber Very Obtuse.
A certain young man of fuzzy countenance
recently moved from New York to this city
and secured r position In real estate office
| mere. n lew uayS albeT HIS change Oh resi-
dence he applied to his employer to "get
off" early, saying he wanted to go to New
York to get shave.
There are plenty Of good BARRIERS over
here" said the employer, somewhat amazed
| at the request
81 know It," replied the young man, "but
I've got barber in New York whom I've
broken in so that he doesn't laugh when he
shaves me-"
The youth went on to relate that when he
first thought he needed shave he sat down
In the BARRIERS chair without saying any
thing and the barber cut his hair. He sum
mOned up enough courage to return in day
or So and again had his hair cut.
Il had 1t cut three times In one week." he
concluded, before the blamed barber un-
derstood that l wanted shave, and it is ar
experience that don't want to repeat"
He received the desired leave of absence. -
BROOKLYN TimaS.