The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-29
THE TALK OF EUROPE.
Brief Reflections Upon Events Of Current
Interest Across the Ocean.

TIE AIN VT GOnOFEs
Brief Reflections Upon Events Of Current
Interest Across the Ocean.
Contrary to all expectation, the Amer
lean tourist season in Europe has been
the worst in many years. It had been
anticipated that the jubilees of Queen
Victoria and of King Oscar would at
tract large numbers Of transatlantic Wis
itors, but the shipping returns show a
decline of no less than so per cent in
first and second class passenger traffic
below the figures of the season of 1896,
which demonstrated that over $4,000
American tourists had been disembarked
at English ports alone, without taking
into account those who landed at con-
tinental ports. Assuming that American
tourists carry abroad an average of at
least 81, 900 each, it is manifest that
the falling off in the transatlantic pas
senger traffic during the summer must
have resulted in great benefit to the
United States, as the money remained
in the country instead of going abroad.
Baron Won Schaeffer, the new govern
or general of Crete nominated by the
great powers, whose appointment has
been sanctioned by the sultan, is ma
tive Of Luxembourg, was trained as a
lawyer and has served first of all in the
Turkish and then in the Egyptian ar
my, being attached to the headquarters
staff of Lord Wolseley during the lat
ter's last Nile campaign, with the rank
of colonel. For several years he was at
the head of the department Of public
safety and of the suppression of the slave
trade in Egypt, where he distinguished
himself by his independence of charac-
ter and his courage in arresting some of
the leading men of the country for pur-
chasing slaves from traders. He has in
herited large fortune from his mother
and is married to an Armenian princess
of the illustrious and formerly sover-
eign house of Dadian, through whom
he is related to several Of the principal
houses of the aristocracy at st. Peters
burg, as well as to some of the most in
fiuential personages in the encourage OF
the sultan. Few Europeans possess q
more profound knowledge of oriental
manner, life and language than this
gallant officer, who for three years has
been living upon his estate in Luxem.
burg.
One of the results of the establish
ment of the new terminus Of the Or
leans railroad on the site now occupied
by the ruins of the palace of the Coul
DIES Complies, which was destroyed by
the commune incendiaries in 1871, viii
be the dispersal of all those old book
stalls along the adjoining quays which
for nearly 200 years past have consti
tuted one of the most picturesque anC
characteristic features Of Partisan life
Nearly every savant of the present cen
| tury has found delightful recreation
among these treasured volumes, fore
most among them having been Mr.
| Gladstone, Dom Pedro of Brazil, Mas
sau Senior, Thackeray, Bulwer Lyttol
and in the last century Benjamin Frank
lin, Rousseau and Voltaire. The disap
pearance of the bookstalls will be wide
ly regretted.
| M. Osiris, the well known Frencl
philantbropist, has shown his interes
| in the Partisan exhibition of 1900 in
tangible way. He has just deposited a
| the Bank of France a sum of $40, 600
which he has placed at the disposal o
the Partisan press syndicate to reward
4 <ha h IF
work in the exhibition from an artistic
industrial or humanitarian point o
| view. M. Osiris prize will be wortl
competing for, and two purposes ar
served by his giving it: He provide
what will no doubt be an interestin,
| feature of the exhibition, and at tn
same time promotes objects in which b
himself is greatly interested.
! simultaneously with the starting o
the railroad at Bulawayo comes tn
news of the discovery of coal in larg
| quantities in the immediate neighbor
hood Of the place, the prospectors hav
ing been able to ascertain that the coal
fields in question cover an immens
area, extending indeed to the Zambez
| river. 1t is this discovery, destined t
play so great role in the commercial
and industrial development in the south
ern portion of the dark continent, tina
has led Cecil Rhodes to decide to con
tinue the railroad without delay to tn
Zambezi river, which will then be il
uninterrupted railroad communicated
with the Cape Apart from its CONNER
cial Importance, the finding OF coalfield
in Zambezi will doubtless afford scien
tific information of great interest
Africa, or, rather, its southern half, i
declared by biologists to be the oldes
continent of the world and the portion
of the globe which has been the longes
above water. The finding of coal there
fore gives promise of the discovery O
fossil and other relics, geological an
botanical, entirely new to the scientifi
world. New York Tribune.
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Hand In Hand From the Cradle.
At Fort Scott recently Mr.. and Mrs
d. @. Bondsteel celebrated with a fey