The morning call., 1891-08-07
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

NJ. Grebaut. a French Psychologist, is
busy upeaing 160 sarcOphagi recently Giscov-
cred al Thebes.
King Charles of Wurtemberg has had
another serious attack of illness, but is
not believed 10 be in danger.
The Spanish Government has prohibited
gambling in tie casinos at the watering
places Ia the north of Spain.
The republican movement in Portugal is
active, and has gained strength from tile
suffeTlngS OF the unemployed at Lisbon and
Oporto.
sentenced Wilhelm Thomson to pay fiue
OF 500 kroner for making fun" Of the
Lords supper.
Experiments are being made at Ports
mouth with view OF determining the value
Of pigeons in conveying messages from ships
at sea to the shore.
The Continental hotel-keepers are report
ing season OF disaster. 1t is many years
since business has been SO bad, and they
are at a loss to explain it.
The pilgrimages to Canterbury, which
CHANGER has immortaliZed in verse and
which have been discontinued for SO many
centuries, are being revived.
Russian Jews are said to be fiocking in
great numbers into Asia Minor. Some of
the refugees have carried typhus fever into
the Armenian province of Van.
King Otto Of Bavaria has shown of late
such symptoms of impTos ement that he is
allowed to take long jaunts, with only one
attendant, IN the vicinity OF his castle at
Furstrnreid.
King Alfonso OF Spain assisted his mother
at San Sebastian to receive the ambassadors
sent by the Sultan OF Morocco TO remove the
Observation-Disclosures which have recently
arisen between the two countries.
John Conway, the steamship fireman who
WAS found guilty of numbering the fifteen
Vear-OiQ nov whose hn1V funDd Hpatinn
IN Sailors bag in Harndon dock, Liver
pool, Oh May 18th last, has been sentenced
to death.
The young Cossack, Lieutenant Montoff,
who walked from Nladvostock to 81. Peters
burg in thirteen months, is now on his way
| on foot from the Russian capital to Paris
| accompanied by the small gray dog which
| tfanped with him across Siberia and back.
A recent outbreak of smallpox in Aarhus.
| Denmark, went unheedsd by The local
| physicians, who failed to recognize the true
character OF the disease until three persons
| lay desperately Ill, one in a restaurant where
a iol oil soldiers from the garrison ats their
meals.
The boy King of Seryia is being treated
with as much ceremony and more cordialty
IMAM the German Kaiser on the occasion OF
MS visit to Russia. There is a Possibility
| that the young King may take back to Bel
| grade the premise of the hand of a Russian
| Grand Duchess.
1t is learned from trustworthy source
that at the recent conference at GaStein the
British ambassador assured Prince Ferdi-
nanu oil bulgaria that II Turkey did not op-
pose 1t, England would not object to Bul-
gaFla'S declaring her independence and max
ing Ferdinand King.
Henrik 1bsen, the author, is enjoying
brief summer rest at Malieniyst, at Elsi-
more. where Hamlets grave looks down
from the bluff on waters that are nowhere SO
blue and bounding as where the tides of the
North Sea- and the Baltic meet under the
walls of borg Castle.
A fly caused the death of man at Vienna.
He was walking the street when the insect
suddenly took a position on his forehead
As soon as 1t left a swelling appeared which
soon after gave the man such a pain that he
went to physician. The doctors said blood
poisoning had set in, and the man died dur
ing the night.
The Guelph question is not by any means
the. only indication of trouble with the
kaiser's empire. Particularism, as they
call il in Germany, or separate State soyer-
eighty, as they would call it in America, is
asserting itself in Bavaria, in Mecklenourg-
Strelltz and to some degree in other States
of the federation.
On the statements of man named Brat
wiesz. Peter Papst, from Lasen, Upper Aus
tria, was in 1890 found guilty of arson and
was sentenced to term of twelve years
imprisonment in the penitentiary, A few
months ago 1t was discovered that Papst
was entirely innocent, and that BratwiesZ
himself had been the incendiary.
An Amager Oenmark) farmer, going to
town with his load of cabbages, ran into a
troop Of mounted artillery marching out to
drill and scattered panic In the ranks The
Warehouses raw away, leaving the guns in
the road, and one of the artillerymen who
lei on was dragged along by the strrups.
The farmer, who was as badly scared as the
rest, was made prisoner and fined