The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-12

Interesting Notes ON Matters Thss Are
Talked Of In Europe.
The Duke Of Noailles, Count James
de Pourtales and several other members
Of the great world at Paris who form
part Of the so called French Union Of
the American Universities, organized
recently by Baron Peter de Coubertin
for the purpose of promoting Gallo in
fuences in the intellectual and educa-
ional centcrs Of the United States, have
arranged to inaugurate the public career
Of their society by means of grand
banquet ON Washington 8 birthday. The
chair will be taken by the Duke OF
Noaillee, grandson Of that ducal acade-
mician whose magnum opus bears the
title, - Hundred Years Of Democracy
In the United States.
Committees are being formed in Eng
land for the purpose Of cooperating
with the Marquis Of Dufferin in his or
ganization Of a fitting celebration on
June "a next Of the quadricentennial
anniversary of the sailing from Bristol
of Giovanni Cabot, the Venetian ex-
plorer, in the service of the English
king, Henry VII, ON that memorable
voyage which resulted in the discovery
Of Newfoundland and Of the coast Of
Labrador.
Gear Nicholas has Just signed de-
cree sentencing the son Of Governor
General Karpoff to Punishment for life
in the remote Siberian province Of Ir-
kutsk for having killed an engineer
named Kurman. Young Karpoff, who
was a cavalry captain, entered, with a
couple of fellow officers, railroad car
riage while drunk, and so grossly in
suited two women passengers that they
appealed for protection to the only 9th
er occupant of the compartment, the
unarmed engineer Ku1man. On the lat
ter attempting to demonstrate with the
officers Karpoff drew his revolver and
fred three times at the unfortunate
man, killing him on the spot. The
court martial appointed to try the case
found the captain guilty Of homicide,
with extenuating circumstances, inflict-
ed small penalty and declined to or
der him to pay a sufficient sum to pro-
vide for the maintenance Of the widow
and orphans Of his victim. This, how
ever, the car has now compelled him
to do and has at the same time trans
formed the sentence Of the court mar
tial into one Of lifelong banishment.
Dr.. Grenier, the member Of the
French chamber Of deputies who created
conversion to Mohammedanism, is now
once more attracting attention in Paris
by his extravagant behavior. Arrayed
in the Slise of full fledged Turkish
mollah, or priest, he astonishes his
countrymen by prostratiAg himself in
true eastern fashion for the purpose Of
prayer at all sorts Of odd times and
places, such as, for instance, on the
roof of an omnibus, in the crowded lob
by of the legislature, or even in front
of some popular restaurant on the bOu-
levard The other day the services of a
large number of the Palais Bourbon po-
lice were rendered necessary to protect
him from curious and jeering crowd
while he was performing in the icy wa
ter of the Seine at the Quai d'Orsay the
ablutions prescribed for true believers
by the Koran.
With the object Of putting an end to
the strikes which have for the last two
years become SO serious an obstacle to
the development of Russian industry an
imperial commission, presided over by
Count de Witte, the energetic and broad
minded minister of finance, has elabo-
rated series of statutes, now about to
receive the signature of the cZar, the
main feature Of which is the regulation
of the hours Of labor. According to
these, the working day is fixed at II p
hours and the working night at hours.
Until now tb- working day has been in
many instances Of as much as 18 and
even 10 hours, and it is this in particu-
lar that has been the cause Of the re-
cent labor disturbances in the MuSco-
vite empire.
Deibler, the French state executioner,
has decided to retire from Office, during
the\ nure Of which he has chopped off
no las than 502 heads. His nerves are
now N,ginning to fail, and as he bun
gled the last two jobs the government
has RECOMMENDED him to resign ON a
pension. Deibler, in vidav Of the active
and widespread competition that has
arisen to secure his place, announces
that there is no one 20 well fitted for it
as his own son, who, according to him,
passed last year with flying colors "a
theoretical and practical examination
as executioner.
An immense amount of Importance
and interest is attached throughout the
Mohammedan world to the interchange
of civilities between the Turkish sultan
and the negus-civilities that are re-
sulting in the dispatch from CONSTANT
nople Of special embassy laden with
presents to Abyssinia According to
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