The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13

tung ana the Berlin Nossiche. Indeed,
both in the two German empires and IN
France, IL may be said that such sympathy
as exists for the Armenians is almost
wholly created by what Edward Drumont
calls the Semitic press"
The Norwegians in London are getting
letters from home telling of a remarkable
new outburst there OF hostility toward
King Oscar. There was great rage while
ago when be knocked off the hat of a
peasant standing near him at railway
station. and the Norwegian radical papers
IN discussing the affair very frankly i'm
puted lntoxication TO his Majesty. Now,
II seems, the King took um bragg at the
national character given to the reception
OF DIR. Nansen at Christiania, and in which
oscar bore an unconscious part. 1t was
quite Natural that on such an occasion
there should be a good deal of patriotic
efferyescence, and equally so that when
the reports reached Sweden they should
evoke angry comments from the Swedish
prese. These two nations have been
wrangling so long that there is nothing
new in this. What really is new is the
fact that the King arranged to be inter-
viewed by two Berlin journalists and gave
them a long and violent TRADE against
the Norwegian people in general and DR..
Nansen in particular.
He is described as trem bling with pas
sion as he spoke, and certainly the ac-
counts OF his remarks given by those who
heard them contain denunclatlons ana
threats of an extraordinary character.
The King intends to quit Christiania at
once, though his accustomed term OF
residence there is not nearly ended, and
apparently he will leave his Norwegian
subjects in almost as great state OF ex-
citement as he is in himself
curious conflict has arisen between
the Berlin Municipal Council, which Is an
advanced radical body, and the Prussian
Evangelical Consistory, and the trouble
is likely TO develop into a fight between
the Kaiser and his capital. Under VIII
hams direct influence there has lately
been tremendous squirt OF activity in the
building OF new churches all over Berlin,
and in numerous speeches the Kaiser has
Iauded this work and declared that moth
ing else could crafty him so much. The
Municipal Council made its disapproba-
ton manifest, but the church Authorities
produced an ancient Brandenburg ordi-
nance of 1878. providing that there must
be new churches according to the growth
OF population in Berlin. and they got the
Supreme Court at Leipsic to declare the
law still binding.
They then adopted the ratio of ore
church for 10000 souls as the proper thing,
and as this showed Berlin to be twenty
nine churches short they proceeded to
build them. Now, the Municipal Council
has not only refused to sanction the out
lay already incurred, but 1t has appointed
a committee TO inquire whether the coun-
ciIs legal adviser should not be punished
for having presumed to listen to the con-
sistory's absurd propositions. No power
can force the council to vote money if it
remains firm in refusal, but as the Kaiser
has been so heated a sponsor of the con-
sistory's action 1t is assumed that he will
treat the matter as personal defiance and
exhaust his resources an the efforts to ter
rify or crush the council. The Berliners
as whole would like nothing better than
such contest, and if il comes one may be
certain that it will not be the council that
first cries quits
The Chronicle has a long interview
with John DAILY, who mas been resting in
Paris most of the time since his release,
but who to-day went to Ireland He was
good deal daZed when first released from
Portland prison, but has now regained
complete control of himself, and his
friends are no longer afraid of his break
ing down. Rather to their surprise DAILY
maintains resoiutely that he never favored
the dynamite policy, much less had any
part in IL, and be is going to speak in Ire
land against the whole idea OF the physi-
cal force party. His narrative of official
efforts in the time of the ParneiI commits
sion to bribe or scare him into giving evil
dence to support Pigott contains much
that was hitherto unknown, and IL may
SOGuS l4f6SblSAIAOn necessary. but
the pubic has more concern IN his de-
tailed account of the horror of penal ser
yitude, which subject is Just now exciting
q growing amount of feeling. DAILY saws
that the dynamiters were treated worse
than the other convicts, in that they were
searched twice as often, and that the
warders behaved toward them with excep-
tional severity, never once in the whole
period OF their imprisonment indulging
the Ir1shmen in a little furtivz chat. as
they occasionally do with ordinary con-
victs.
The unprecedented continuance of cold
rains which have now prevailed for nearly
SIX weeks Is likely much to reduce tne first
estimates of the English hop crop. 1 have
been for two days down in the Kentish
wealds, where thousands of poor hop
pIckeTs from the London sIums are hud-
died in wet tents or in vile shanties far
more squaIid than the East End ever inn
posed upon them. They are unable TO
earn enough even for food owing to the
incessant rains, while TIE country about
them IS one vast sea of mud. The sickness
and deaths among them are becoming a
grave matter, quite beyond the powers of
the local authorities to deal with. A month
ago it was thought the crop would be only
q third less than that OF 1895 but now.
what with the mold and wet rot, it is
doubtful it even half a crop will be saved.
Baden has been celebrating with great
heartiness this week the SEVENTEEN birth
day of its good Grand Duke, who is proba-
bly, the most popular and respected of all
the German princes
At the small but very attractive inter-
national exhibition at Carlsruhe, which
forms the main feature of the celebration,
quite unexpected thing has happened in
making the awards. There was a very
full display of beers, including the most
celebrated brews of Bavaria and Bohemia,
but the gold medal was won by the beer
OF Xertigny, little village in the French
Vosges OF which hardly anybody had ever
heard before. This beer is called La
Lorraine" and Paris is already greatly ex-
cited over the idea of taking it up and
making it the vogue in France, instead of
the present Munich or pseudo Munich
''rocke." Already there are many excel
lent French beers, but patriotism has
hitherto appealed in vain in their behalf
Parisians would not drink them unless
sold under German names. Now it is
hoped, however, that this German gold
MEAL Will give LA Lorraine a chance.
The unlooked-for death of James Lewis
has been treated by the press here quite
as domestic calamity, and the warmest
Klnd Of h1th h4g