Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-13

returns just collected show this not to be so. In population of rather more than six millions, 2,744. .271 of the inhabitants speak Flemish only, while French only Is spoken by but 9, 4s5 ,07s, Q proportion of 45 per cent. Flemish and fl per cent. French. Over 10000 people speak both lsngusgea. There are in Belgium, in round numbers. 38,000 German, GA. 900 French, and 1, 900 English residents.
 Queen Viotoria's conservative fondness for the things che is used to Is shown in the fact that the little ivory paper knife with which to this day she cuts the pages of her new books was in her possession when she was little princess. The cab ins of the royal yacht are still frightened with the same old fashioned rosebud chintz which her dead husband liked. The queen has particular love for fresh air and sits in rooms SO cold that no American woman could endure them. A fortnight ago she had her summer garden tent taken out of its winter quarters and sat In 1t in the garden for two hours or more for several consecutive days signing official docu- ments.
 Two Oriental rulers will visit Europe this year-the Khsdive of Egypt and the Shah of Persia. The freedom of London will be conferred upon the Khedive. The Shah will be in Berlin in July, much to the regret of the Emperor, it Is said, and go thence to London. The visit of the Per sian monarch is an expensive luxury, ss many European rulers have found to their sorrow. In St. Petersburg, a few years ago, the apartments of the Winter Palace occupied by the Shah could not be used for months by the Imperial family. All the costly furniture had to be sold. The Shah travels with large suite, and lives in &C., cordance with the customs of hts country.
 About eight thousand square kilometre. of territory have just been added to France, not by annexation, but by an area of the republic. Some years ago a Russian, General Stebnitzki, created @ sen- sation by asserting that the actual sixs of most European countries differed widely from their published areas, France and Italy the most of any. The geogrsph- ical department of the French Govern ment inquired into the matter, and a re- calculation has yielded the gratifying re- suit mentioned above. The method adopted was to cut the country up into curvilinear qusdrangles by the meridians and parallels of ten minutes. The coast lines and frontier boundaries required evaluation by 8 planimeter. The area has been increased from 52s. 900 square kilos to 556, ,4e4 to 53s,6Os kilos, the experts can't quite decide which.
 Henry wasterson doesn't appear to like the Wilson bill: This is the way he talks about it: No unsslfsh, thoughtful Democrat can believe that the government has any contitutional or equitable right to tax people, except to raise the money needed for its own support. It would not be free nor just government If 1t pos sessed such a right. It has undoubtedly exercised 1t, lsgislating through It's reye- nue e.raising power money out of one mans pocket into another mans pocket, but the right has never been conceded by the people, and has been expressly denied by the supreme court. After ten years of in- cessant agitation, it was distinctly repudi- ated by the Democratic party, in national convention, and on that repudiation the Democrats swept the country. The Demo- cratic ways and means committee had nothing to do but to carry out the orders of the party, ratified by the people. The decree was equally conclusive and manda- tory, and when MT. Wilson allowed 1t to be set aside in fsyor of tbe Republican theory of class discrimination, he opened the door to all the disasters which his measure Is now encountering, to gay noth- ing of the universal disappointment which has taken possession of the Democratic mind and paraly zsd the Democratic heart.