The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-23
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A recent visitor TO tile Vatican says the
Court of Pope Lao XIII. comprises 1000
! persons. There are 20 Wallets. 1910 cham
beriains 300 extra honorary chamber.
lAins. 1870 supernumerary chamberiains.
80 officers OF the noble guard, ana 10
Ruardsmen; Ii officers of the swiss guard,
and Palace guard, honorary chapiains.
90 private secretaries. 10 stewards ana
masters OF the horse, and 90 doorkeepers.
The year 1896 was very rich in strikes.
In Germany the number during the hye
years from 1890 to 1895 was 100 with
PI2. 274 men affected but in 1896 alone 4o3
| strikes took place, affecting l2o, SOS per-
| sons. The strike funds paid out sum
which amounted to 3, 000 600 marks. sum
| not exceeded in all the preceding nve
years together. According TO Norwarts,
! 5Ols per cent OF the strikes In 1896 were
| successful, 26H per cent partly success
ful and 23 pei cent Issued with
| out success.
| Some Irish immigrants In Natal are
comingsback after an unfortunate expert
ence. They went out in charge OF DON
| keys upon an engagement made with
steamships captain at Waterford. Ireland,
| ara, in spite OF warnings az Durham, that
| in consequence OF the rinderpest, There Is
absolutely no opening for agricultural
laborers. who nave had 10 do with cattle
| they were eager 20 enter the colony.
| They found that the natives had been
| driven in shoals To take service with the
! farmers who had lost their cattle, ana
| that there was no work of any kind TO be
| had on the farms.
>, Francis pulsaky, the best knowh or
| Hungarian immigrants OF 1919 and ioi-
lowing years, next to kossuth, passed
away on sept y in Budapest IN con-
| sequence OF inflammation Of the lungs, at
tho advanced age OF eightv-three. lie De-
| longs 10 the almost extinct school OF those
| encyclopaedlans who knew everything,
were capable OF anything and were looked
upon by the younger generation as wan
| uerlng miracles. He will also be reinem-
| bered in Italy as former colonel In
| darlbaldls Southern army and as an
orator and journalist who mastered the
| Italian language so thoroughly that ne
! could use IL as accurately and tiuently as
his own. Both America AID England
| nave known him rs the faithful com
panion OF kossuth, who spoke ana wrote
English like Kossuth himself
The French engineers have lust COM
| pleted the construction of very impor-
| tant military tunnel on the Alpine from
| tier. lt Is through the peak Parpatillon,
| at height of over o. 600 feet and will
| establish communication between Fort
| Tournaux and the position OF km hrun.
| The length of the tunnel is sloui ave
| hundred yards only, and yet I'VE wears
have bsen occupied in its cOuStr1cIion-
| The delay was caused by the fact iA8i ihs
| work could only be carried or sE fhAt
elevated region for about foIr no1tks N
the year.
The International Medical Con eress has
| had successful sitting at Moscow no
| less than 1900 members being present
| The proceedings were opened by the
| Grand Duke SerRes, and Count Delisnoff
| gave an address Of welcome In Latin. TIE
| Municipality of Moscow has decided 10
| offer n triennial prize for a work on a
selected medical subject TO commemorate
| the event. One of the most noteworthy
| papers was that of Prof. Nirchow. on
| The Continuity Of Life as the Basis of
Biological Science"
| Until lately the trip from Loudon to
| Ianiger, one OF the most charming spots,
not only in Morocco. but in the whole of
! Northern Africs, took eight days. But by
| the new express railway service just es-
tablished at Gibraltcr. the traveller may
| reach 1aniger in 6i hours from Charing
| Cross these rapid Journeys across the
4 continent are very wonderful. But after
4 all you travel at "a Tremendous rate, with
| scarcely a halt, and are sent from place
10 place like bale of goods You only
| get blurred impression CT France and
Spain unless you break The journey.
| II Is reported from Paris that group
| Of German bankers are negotiating at the
| present time with the Rothsohilds con-
| cerning Brazilian railway loan Of 200,
| 900, 900 francs. A provisional contract is
/ said TO have been entered into between
| the representatives of the Brazilian gov
| ernment on the one hand and the Roths.
| child Brothers. the Disooun6 Bank of
| Berlin and the Compton National!
! d Escompte of Paris on the other. The
| contract refers to the forming OF the Bra
| lillian railways, ami the company will
| be constituted with a capital of nun
| dred million francs. Fifty per cont of
| tho issue will be reserved for the English
| financial group and 20 per cent each
for the financial groups of France and
| Germany.
Prof. Eltsr of Bonn. has discovered
! copy of the Ulm edition of ptolemy
| manuscript map by Henricus Grsreanus,
| In which the new world is designated in
| the handwriting of the Cartographer, as
| Terra America" Grareanus was horn
| in 1888. and it would seem that the date
| of the map. 1910. is the earliest example
| that has come down To us of the applioa-
| tion OF the word America to this CONT
| nent 1t is generally agreed that the first
suggestion of the name was made by
| Martin Woldseemuller, but 10 il uncer-
| tain when IL was first definitely estab-
i lish.l