New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-23
RUSSIAN LIFE DEPICTED
AN AsIATIC PANORAMA IN PARIS
'00iAN INDICATIONS OF FRIESDLISEss IN
FRANCE FOR RussIA-BEouEsrs OF
INTEREST TO ASTRONOMERS

peru ~ i''hoon, almost as an ally OF his grand
mother, queen Victoria, make Russia more popu-
lar IN france The opening Of the new panorama
Inc russians In Asia has been drawing all the
world, fashionable and Questionable II was
opened by President and Madame Carnot who
| get through the ceremonial duties arising ont
of the headship Of the State Just as well as Though
born in the purple. The Russian Ambassador and
| Baroness Mohrenheim came TO meet them. NJ
| Laboulaye, outgoing Ambassador TO the Court Of
| st. Petersburg, General Annenkof Cantain
| Burger, the African explorer, NJ Bouvalot the
| Asiatic explorer, whose exhibition Of Thibethn
curiosities will next winter be on view In Lon
| don, were also among the company The painter
| is NJ Roubaud. He over the sites which he
represents in his figure and saw how the Russians
construct railways in Central Asia The panorama
might be called From Sebastopol to Merv' 1t
represents many stirring incidents Of Russian ad-
vance toward the northern slopes Of the Hima-
! layas hut | think II is less interesting than the
| Bouvalot exhibition. which is rich in instanta-
| neous photographs casts OF heads, articles of
| clothing personal adornment, and objects of re-
| Hgious TOR supersttious) worship that throw O
| singuary vivid light upon Central Asia, Tibet
and the Valley of the Red River now held by the
| French. NJ. Roubaud explained the panorama to
| the President and Nine. Carnot who conqratu-
lated him frequently upon the impression he con-
veyed Of a Wild East, quite stirring as that of
Colonel Cody, though entirely different 1ndivid-
| ual settlers were the pioneers in the United
States, whereas in Asia the Russian Government
| and the forces it disposes Of open the way for
| European civilization. Russia is forced onward by
| the aggressveness Of barbarian peoples.
The panorama reproduces also Siberian sights
and scenes but it does not in doing this cast any
dar Mr. mi
recognize some Siberian features. But they have
| little in common with the ones to which he gave
prominence in writing his work, and come in
rather with the impressions Of NJ. jules Verne as
expressed in Michael Strogoff. The moral Of the
panorama is that Czarisn is salutary institution,
al any rate in Asia, and that Russia is going to
rule that continent.
The death of Prince Dolgorouky afforded another
| opportunity 20 express pro-Russian sympathy His
funeral at the Orthodox Church, in the Rue Darn.
was attended by men prominent in the clubs and in
the political world and the attendance Of regi-
ment which filed past the church door and saluted
the corpse as il was taken 70 the hearse gave
military aspect to the ceremony. Prince Dogorouky
was brother of the three sisters who successfully
| filed the place of favorite TO the Car. lie
greatly aided in getting up that forward movement
| in Central Asia which General Annenkoh enlarged
| by creating his transCaspan railway. 1t was The
policy of the Dolgorouky family TO go in for Holy
Russia and her civilizng mission in Asia. They
were Muscovite as opposed TO the German wife OF
Alexander II.
The Czarina and Czarewitch are to visit Paris.
She will play the part of guardian angel and see
that her son keeps no wild company. and does not
visit low dancing gardens, as in Japan.
A French squadron on its way to Cronstadt
halted for few days at Copenhagen, whittier the
court went to bid it welcome. This was TO be
expected, the King of Denmark being devoted to
his Imperial son-n-aw, and the Queen more So
They also believe that the safety OF their crown
lies in the friendship of Alexander H. The King
and Queen visited the squadron. couple OF
torpedo boats escorted them from the stairs where
they descended from their barge 20 the French flag
Ship and back The King also received in state ten
officers of the squadron and dlned with them on
board the Marengo.
The Gar and Czarina will return from their
sailing excursion to the coast of Finland to wei
come the French squadron at Cronstadt. This
event is to come off on July %. The large French
vessels will be obliged to stand out some distance
in the Baltic their draft Of water being too great
to admit of their entering that port. The Gar
and Czarina are TO go on board the Neagenter, and
the officers of the squadron will be splendidly
entertained.
The Monte7uma dynasty, which was reigning
over Mexico when the Spanish adventurer
Cortez took possession CT it in the
name of the King of Spain, is not yet extinct.
1t receives the pension for which its
rights were committed. This annuity was at first
paid TO the head member of the dynasty, TO he
subdivided, and was great one The Council
of the Indies, which sat at Madrid, found the
il nv fba nv
eminent, which pays it 10 a multitude of annui-
tants The head of the family is the Duke Of
Montezuma. The lesser lights are the Marquis
of Aguile Fuerte, the Marquis de Castellanos
for whom Queen Isabella had a tenderness, and
the Count Of Mrovele. Some Of the Montezuma
Castellanos are engaged in farming ranches in
Argentine There others in the United States
and there a Mexican Of this dynastic family
who few years ago broke so often the BANK
at a South American gambling resort in Paris as
to be excluded from play. lie performed similar
feats at Nice and Monaco.
The legal profession have the prospect before |
them Of a mOney-making lawsuit which must give |
prominence 70 the advocates who may be engaged |
TO plead Ia il. The proceedings on one side |
on the other TO uphold it. The testatrix was |
Nine Gautier who habitually resided in the |
convent Of the Sisters Of Hope az Pau. She re-
GENTLY died there at the age OF eghty-two years |
The Sisters either did not attempt 10 exert their
Influence over her in their own favor or she must |
have been a strong-minded old lady. She had |
qgreat are did not dispel Most of her requests |
wore for scientific foundations One Of them will |
narticuIarly interest the astronomers. II is a |
sum Of 500, 900 which the Institute Of France is |
10 nav 10 the person, no matter what his ma |
tionalltv mny be. who, within ten years discovers |
the means Of communicating with some planet |
and receiving an answer The testatrix sqsgests |
that the planet Mars be the special subject OF |
experiment Should the Institute OF France be
inviting TO adjudge Tie $50, 0oO it is 70 90 70 |
the Institute Of Milan and that one falling, to the
Scientific Institute Of New-fork.. The sum OF |
cmc of Medicine Nine. Gauter directs that 1t
he given TO the discOverer Of the best method for
curing diseases Of the heart
4 BELLIGEREyT RAG4PIcKER C4PTURED.
Word was received at the jersey City Police Head
uartrs last evening Frank Romanello. who stabbed