, 1891-04-11

Behring Sea were given or conceded to
Great Britain by the said treatyP Great
Britain has never suggested that any
rights were given to her or conceded to
her by the treaty. All that was done was
to recognise her natural right OF free
navigation and fishing in that as in all
other parts Uf the Pacific Ocean. Russia
did not give those rights 10 Great Britain,
because they were never hers to give
away.
The approach of death seems to be reu-
hitting the BoDaparte family. All hope
for the recovery of Prince Napoleon is
now given up. He ia suffering from cOn-
gestion of the lungs. His wife, the
Princess Clotilde, who has not seen him
for years, is at his bedside. His daugh-
tiers, Princess L@titia and Princess
Matilde, have both gone to see him. His
rival, Prince Victor Napoleon, who has
not been on speaking terms with him
for years, has voluntarily gone to Rome
to witness the last Of his relative. The
Emple sS Eugene, who is now at San
Reno, is also expected TO pay him a visit.
Prince Napoleon is six ty-nine. His name
il Jerome, but he ia hest known TO the
French by the mic kname Of "PlOn-
Plon."
London is now on Speaking terms with
Paris. The telephone, the construction of
which has been SO lOrg delayed, is at last
complete. The delay was cansed partly
Ivy the opposition of the Post Office,
partly through mechanical dificultieF.
There were difficulties to snrmOunt-nOt
because of the distance, 297 miles, leing
loo N1oro n~n NNpnl 1nunor n1Gpl nnIn
lines in operation but the sea placed
obstacles in the way. The difficulties
which arise in the construction Of a sub
marine telephone VIII ich will preserve the
sound clearly and di stinctly have been over
come, and it is ella lined for this new cable
that it would carry the sound were it three
times its present length. There are long
distance telephones at work in America a
thousand miles in length, and the time may
not be far distant when we shall be able to
hold conversations with friends across the
Atlantic Or at the AntipOdes.
An ex-COnsul has been arrested in Paris
on the charge of selling spurious orders aud
decorations, alleged to have been issued by
the Persian Government. The person i'll
question, had, in fact, obtained permission
from the Shah, when His Majesty NaSr-ed.
Din was in Paris during the Exhibition, to
act aS intermediary IOi Chc ulS'I loutIOh III
the order of the Lion and the Sun, and
for this purpose he was supplied with
several blank brevets, which were to be
signed by the Persian Minister in Paris
Recently the representative of the Shah,
General Nazare Aga, was surprised at the
number of brevets which were being con-
tlnually sent to him for his signature,
and he discovered, moreover, that one of
these documents was spnriOns. He ac-
cordingly communicated with the police,
and an inquiry took pace, This resulted
i'm the arrest of the ex-COnAul and of q
Belgian who acted in concert with him.
The brevets, it is said, were prepared in
London.
The other day DIR. WIndlhOrst express
ed his belief in the German Reichs'ag, to
the amusement of the House, that he
would be alive in 1895 to see the opening
Of the North Sea and Baltic Canal.
General Won Caprivi elected cries of
bravo I" when he expressed a hope that
the honorable member would SIC that
event; but only a week after this little
incident the subject thereof has been
anotched awav bv death. The doctor ex-