Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-17
GOSSIP OF A CONTINENT.

GOSSIP OF A CONTINENT.
Facts Rejecting the Public and Social Life
SsE Of Europe. r@#a b,
Investigation OF theopart Of the mem-
bers Of the Opposition at Madrid has
brought to light the fact that only l47
Cuban prisoners have been set ut liberty
In connection with the amnesty proclaimed
last spring on the occasion Of the young
kings eleventh birthday, and that no lesa
than $500 men and women deported from
the Antilles by order of Captain General
;veyler without any form Of trial or even
hearing, arrested In most cases on mere
suspicion or on strength OF calumny, re-
main incarcerated in the convict prisons
in Spain and In the penal establishments
of Ceuta on the Moorish coast and Of Fer
nando Pc In the pestileDtial gulf Of g uinea.
DEGREES have just been issued at Paris
for the government Of various French uni
versities. Each of these seats OF learning
Is to have council, consisting OF the REQ
tor, the heads of faculties ond two dele
gates Of each faculty elected triennially by
the professors. The council, subject to
the supervision Of the minister Of educa-
ton, will have control over the discipline,
teaching and Of the property OF the uni
versity, which latter comprises the endow-
ments and students fees. The state takes,
however, the examination and diploma
fees, pays all stiponds and creates, abo]ishes
or transforms professorsh'ps. Students
will honceforth be able to migrate from
one university to another without length
ening their studies or delaying their de-
gree.
According to the statements current In
official circles ut Madrid, Spain originally
intended to deport to this country the on
archists who In spite of their being inno-
cent of any actual crime have been con-
delnned to exile from tho land of their
birth, and who are now in London. It Is
said that the United States government,
however, intimated that under no oiroum-
stances would they he permitted to land,
on the ground that they were "undesira-
Bile immigrants" IN which the Washing
ton authorities merely followed the exam
pie of Germany, France, Russia and
l5uly, all Ct whiuh countries declined to b.
made the dun ping ground of individuals
whose character was such that their own
people declined to keep them at home or
regard them any longer US fellow citizens.
The car has given orders for the imme-
date survey and the early construction OF
n line connecting the important city and
port of Archangel with the railroad sys-
tenn at Vologda, which Is situated 500
miles from the former. At present the
journey from Archangel to St. Petersburg
or Moscow takes almost an entire week 8
constant travelling.
Japan Is about to place contract in
this country for the rails and material re-
quired for the 1 300 miles of railroad which
1t is about to construct In Formosa, with
the object of opening up to trade the phe-
nomsnal and as yet totally undeveloped
resources Of that formerly Chinese island.
Japan itself has already $500 miles of
railroad In operation and Is rapidly ex
tending the system. The Importance Of
the mikado's empire to the United States
as market for American goods is demon
strated by the fact that the returns Just
issued at Tokyo show that the imports In
1896 exceeded those Of the previous year
by no less than 97,OOO,OOO. The imports
are larger than the exports by $50, 0O0, 900.
Japan has now mercantile marine OF
800, GOO tons In steamers and 900 tons
In seagoing sailers. ..
General Baratieri, the Italian command.
or. who has until now borne the odium of
the terrible defeat and humiliation Of his
army at Aboucarina. Is on the eve Of pub
fishing a book full of facsimile letters of
Crispi and of confidential dispatches, des-
tined to show that 1t is the ex- premier who
was mainly responsible for the disaster.
The general adds that he would have re-
msined silent had not Crispi, formerly bis
most intimate friend, gone out Of bis way
during the last few months to assail him
on every possible occasion, both In speech
and In print.
As the result of long and careful expert
ment, the governor Of the Bank of France
has now intrusted the work OF detection
Of forged banknotes and of debentures
with altered numbers entirely to a special
corps of women clerks He declares that
the keen sensibility Of their finger tips en-
ables them In handling a note to distin-
guish the difference, however slight, be-
tween the forged and the real article. The
means adopted for bringing to light the
falsihed numbers on debentures are rather
moro elaborate, and consist mainly in the
distinction Of the difference in the SYM
metry Of the figures and Of the ink used,
magnifying glasses being used for the
former and chemical preparations for the
latter.
Pestered beyond all endurance by the
numerous foreign visitors from every
quarter of the globe Emperor Menelek has
now made known that no one will be al
lowed to enter or travel in Abyssinia un-
less intrusted with some official mission
BY bis government to the court Of tho Ne
gus or else provided with permit by the
latter, which will only be granted In cases
where tho traveller is properly Endorsed and
warmly recommended by the recognized
executive Of his native country. '~.'' 40
The widespread impression which pre-
walls, especially among the more ignorant
GLASSES, to the effect that usury Is, II not
sanctioned, at any rate tolerated
by the Jewish faith, should be dispelled by
the announcements that not only has the
great English money lender Isaac Gordon,
recently before the house Of commons for
been expelled from the sypa-
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