Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-25

stand lsden with over-ripe and unpicked
 berries, each one an oleaginous protest | against the "Drie-Bund" France was It. aly's best market. Now France shuts her ports in self defence. The inhsbitants of
 Niece and Savoy, who ten years ago de plored separation from Italy, are now re- | ioicing in their good fortune. What is to
 be donei Italy is too proud, or pig head | ed, or blind, to acknowledge the fatal CT | TOT, and what good would do the acknowl- | edgnentl Germany and Austria will not | remove the exhausting burdens. Should Italy dare to drop them in six months she
 would have German gsrrisons in every one | of her cities. Rudini, the late prime min
 ister, has just been hurled from power be- | cause he dared to expose, but partially, the imminency of disaster. And no one | can be found to take his place who is will
 ling to face the music. If Italy were 6
 railroad it would be put into the hands of
 receivel. Unfortunately there is no in- ternationsl court with power to issue the necessary writ.
 There is always fun in the midst of | diversity, and there are lots of fun in Rome just now over the performances of Prince Sciara. To understand the situation you must know that the only industry
 still fourishing in Italy is the hotel bust | ness. If it were not for visitors Italy "oata Aafc 1cCh obAAscl bo euQL Np tQOp and sell out years ago. To attract visitors
 it is absolutely necessary that the Attrsc- tions be kept in the country. If enter prising Chicagoians were allowed to take down the colosseum and secret it in one of their parks, there would be 6 perceptible loss of yearly visitors to Rome. There are therefore stringent laws against the ex- portation of works of art, and awful penalties for those caught exporting them. If 2 perty has A picture or a stAtue which he is too poor to hold he must first make known his condition to the government. The government then appoints a commit tee to exsmine his possessions and to sp- praise them. The government will take them of his hands st the appraised value. Or he may sell with the consent of the
 government to another party. The result is that sales are partial consscations A picture worth one hundred thousand francs in Paris will not sell in Rome under Italian restrictions for quarter the sum- Now 1t happens that Prince Sciara has succeeded in getting away from Rome, and from his creditors, ten very valuable pie tures and his own most precious self The prince is in Paris and the pictures are probably there too. The prince will ur, doubtedly sell them and settle down com fortably for the rest of his life on the pro- ceeds. The Italian government Is in very flaming state of mind; is holding courts, passing sentences and doing all
 sorts of tremendous and bustling things.
 But how to get al the pictures is the ques- tion. Treaties with France ars at an end, and the French government is not exactly iu the state of mind just now to give the
 Italian government any extra help in the matter. The worst of it is that if Prince Scisra get of scot-free his example will
 undoubtedly be followed by other impecu- nious Italian noblemen. and where will be the hotel businessl The poor king wrings his small hands and wonders what is to
 become of himself snd family. He has grown very old and forlorn. His white
 hair sticks all over his head. His fiaring
 white moustache would look fierce enough on a bigger man. His eyes are round and
 staring but weak and watery. He is shrunken and played out, looks like the end of an exhausted race, or like & scare crow 'tauser Diunst." The crown prince is an effeminste and weak little body with all the defects and none of the virtues of his ancestors. It will require the prop ping of many German bayonets to keep him on the throne. The queen has gone the way of all Italian women who have plenty to eat and are no longer young.
 l See by the papers of this morning that the rival Athenian factions have ac- tually come to blows, and that the police put out their ardor by turning on them rhe squirt of the new Athenian steam fire engine. Good. Very good. Perhaps when they have been thoroughly soused aud cleaned they will make irst-class poli- ticians and learn to run their respective wards on business principles
 PERIANpKR.