The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-04
FROM BEYOND THE SEA.

Brazil has ordered arms and war ma;o-
rial to the amount of $50OO,000 from the
Armstrong;. of Newcastle on Tyne.
General Pape, governor of Berlin, has
been relieved and General Baron Won l.oe
has been appointed TO succeed him.
The seamen and dock laborers who are
out on strike at Buenos Ayres are grow
ing turbulent. Acts of violence have been
reported.
Emperor William. of Germany, has sent
$1,000 for the inhabitants of Calabria and
Sicily who suffered by the recent earth
quake.
siam has sent a consulting engineer to
| India to inspect the irrigation and water
works with view to inaugurating Il sys-
TEN at home.
Fetes have been fixed for the coming
| season at Monaco Battles of flowers
will be held on Feb. 10 and April Is and
an international regatta on March II and
| ~.
| Lord Lorne has been appointed judge
In the thousand guineas competition OF
| the Statiet for the best plan of customs
! union between Great Britain and the col
| onieS.
At the fete of Revellon in Paris on
Christmas eve $1,000 dozen oysters, 1850
| kilos of fish, 1000 kilso of fowl, $4,000
plates of tripe and Is, 600 kilos of meat Were
| consumed
| In connection with the failure of the
potato crop in Ireland, the local govern
ment board has offered to advance money
| without interest for the purchase of seed
potatoes for poor tenants.
Car Nicholas has made reductions in
the establishment of the police charged
with the safe custody of his person, hut
has not, as recently reported. decided to
entirely abolish the secret police.
During recent hunt al Castel Poziano,
| King Humbert killed seventy odd wild
boars. Two were sent as II present 10
Signor Crispi, one to every other min
lister of state, ambassador and foreign
| minister, and the rest were given to civil
ana military officials of the royal house.
light and heat exhibition is to be
opened In London next May. All means
OF lighting and heating, civil. naval and
military, will be illustrated Photography
Will also be represented, and a historical
gallery Will furnish examples of lighting
from the earliest ages up to the present
time.
Thirty-three fatal accidents occurred in
the Alps last year. Three We're caused
by lightning, two by the fail of ava
lanches, two through the descent of heavy
stones, six from exposure and exhaustion
after snow storms, fourteen from falling
down precipices, six from pursuing dan
gerous paths and the other eight in the
course of ordinary climbing.
The number of divorce coses in the
Scottish courts durino ISqi is returnaa ,,s
13S n decrease of twaIva on tho nracad;np
wear Relatively to nonulation This MN
her is mucb hipba, than that in tba Enr
lisb courts which is exnlained nv the fact
thar Scottish law nlaces tbo seves an n
footing of equality and also Grants divorce
on the grornd Of dnsertion
,,,.. :, -. ,,.., !.
1, Is ~ III, u 'ue iale f-''iiie We
10 ''.e , ",eu L'eis luii comm ,o
Perdus of Jiege university in which he
was u professor At the iraururation IL
was announced thar tbe balance of he
suhscrintions amounting IN sioOO had
bee handed oyer tn tbe ACADEMY of Pei
pium for the nurnose of founding a prize
in honor of Af de Iayeleve
=. -, 49,,
.. IN tI,,,, ot 'i'e .,, .oMi9 W @ hs'.ia AuS
~. NJ i'i'S s'' w ~
i,o',i Iite Ju.s l'stS Vi tnio sei' NV
VI ai nv oi,'S h,o" liiel,
tois "c anu nuNe s eil'e'eu '"ose % oi'ls " i'o W
! ~ '''' '''' i''S ''So'