The herald., 1897-01-03
IN IN, QUEENS DOM|N|ONS
The Sliding Bog Still Frightens
Irish Citizens
ENGLISH SCHOOL CHILDREN
Will Be Made Patriotic by the American
Method
European Capitalists Greatly Feai
Spanish Bankruptcy and VIII At
tempt to Prevent Intervention.
Associated Press snecIal wire

Associated Press specia, Wire
| LONDON, Jan. 2 Copyright, 1S9O.-
| The weirdness of the bog slide into the
lakes of Killarney, which is the sensa-
| ton of the week, is enhanced by story
| that about a week previous uncanny
noises were heard in the valley at night
| time, which the peasants of that vicinity
| describe as resembling the wailings OF
| banshee These sounds, 1t appears
aroused a feeling of terror. and numbers
of the peasants consulted their priests,
who endeavored to reassure them. The
| calamity, however, caused universal
CONSERVATION among the peasantry, who
! are seemingly convinced that there was
| some supernatural connection between
! the two affairs. In the meanwhile a
great mass of bog, covering 700 acres,
! behind the portion which has already
| slipped into the lakes, has begun to slide,
and people are in dread of a still more
| terrible avalanche.
The letter which "Old-Fashioned Pa
triot" wrote to the Times early in De-
cember last, explaining the patriotic in
struction given American youth, aud
telling how not only the boys, but the
girls in the United States are drilled into
giving a military salute in the schools
to the stars and stripes, and suggesting
that the same system be introduced into
British schools, seems likely to bear
fruit Lord Meath now writes to the
Times in favor of patriotic displays in
| the public schools here, and suggests
| that in the commemoration of the
queens diamond jubilee next year, a por-
trait of her majesty and union jack be
placed in every school class which has
distinguished itself most during the past
year, and that it be made the custodian
of the flag and portrait for the following
year.
z. T. Hooley, the millionaire who has
attracted so much attention by his re-
cent purchases Of country seats, has ap-
peared in a new character, that of the
propounder of a great scheme for old
age pensions. He suggests that a fixed
duty of shillings ($1.25) per quarter be
levied on imported wheat, and 25 be in
vested in pension fund, to provide all
INDECENT persons above 60 years of age
with pension of Is shillings ($3i5)
weekly.
1t is stated that the British admiralty
intends to introduce new class of tor
pedo destroyers, with minimum speed
of SO knots. Twenty vessels, it seems,
will be ordered Immediately of this class
Nearly s1000,000 ($5,000, ,0O0) will be eX-
pended in extending the docks at Ant
werp in order to meet the increasing de-
1f. tt,ot
ports of the last decade have increased
a couple of million tons annually, ani
the minister of public works has decided
to extend the quay 5000 feet southwark.
and to make a channel 200 feet wide and
"a feet deep.
The estate of the late shah of Persia
is valued at s40,o00OOO (s20O, 900, ,OO0), of
which two-fifths is in cash and bullion.
1t is rumored that his successor will de-
vote $4,000, 900 to advancing the civiliza-
ton of Persia.
The Spectator in an article on the
position of the United States and Europe,
as affected by the Cuban question, after
remarking that the Washington govern
ment had an unpleasant surprise in the
attitude of the European powers, pro-
ceeds to explain the reasons for the Eu-
ropean antagonism to the United States,
and points out that the great financiers
of Paris, who hold Spanish bonds, are
alarmed at the possibility that Spain,
after fighting to the bitter end, might
be compelled to suspend payment, and,
consequently, they are urging the
French government TO intervene between
Washington and Madrid. Emperor Will
lam, it is also said, approves of this, for,
apart from his dreams of colonial ex-
pansion, which could best be gratified
in Brazil, he is not fond of American
diplomacy.
The Italian government, according to
the Spectator, will support Spain, "ow-
ing to the Italians in the United States
being treated as if they We're negroes OF
red Indians"
The Spectator then adds that the Aus
trian emperor Will support Germany in
maintaining the independence of Spain
for weighty family reasons, not wishing
to see the queen regent, who is an Aus
trian archduchess, and her son driven
out of Madrid by a popular revolt fol-
lowing the loss of Cuba.
The dreibund and, therefore, France
the Spectator says, are ready to counsel
President Cleveland to moderate and
"avoid threats, which Spain could not
tolerate, and which might lead to wide
spread maritime war;
The Spectator continues: 1.-THE United
States could conquer any American
state, and mgh1, if they eXerted them
selves, defeat a single European power
But they cannot defeat all Europe COM
bined, even if England, from reasons OF
kinship, remained neutral. The fact Is
patent 10 all that the United States VIII
not be allowed to order Spain out of he.
colony without a remonstrance from
continental Europe, which might be fol
lowed by the action of the combined
fleets of the five powers and the landing
of armies in Cuba and the French West
Indies"
The Speaker is deeply grieved at the
attacks on the United States ambassa-
DOR Thomas +. Bayard, which have ap.
peared in the Chronicle, and says he did
great service in pointing out the gray.
ty Of the situation, which the English
thought was only demonstration o.
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