The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-14
STORIES OF TIE DAY.

STORIES OF TIE DAY.
Notes on Matters That Are
Talked of IN Europe.
Venice is about to celebrate the nine
hundredth anniversary of the first in
PRODUCTION Of the fork 81 table use. The
merit Of its adoptio,. belongs to the
doge Orsolo, who at tAc wedding of his
son produced a silver fork and a golden
spoon. 1t was not unt-i 800 years later
that the fork reached France, while it
was only in the year 1908 that it was
first adopted for table service in Eng
land.
To those who imagine that the very
name of Siberia is calculated to send
cold chill into the heart of a Russian,
by reason of its association with ideas
Of exile III its most harsh and cruel
form, the announcement that the Mus
covite government has been compelled
to stop summarily the emigration from
Russia i'll Europe to Siberia VII come
i'll the nature of surprise. 1t seems
ria has assumed such vast proportions
that the authorities began to fear that
north and east Russia would be COM
plotaly depopulated, the falling off in
revenue from the thus deserted portions
of the empire having been very marked.
The peasantry have now been ordered
to remain at home and not to emigrate
This may be regarded as equivalent to
a revival of the old law which compels
serfs to remain on the lands on which
they were born unless they received
special permission to emigrate. The on
ly difference is that, whereas in olden
times the power of retention was exer-
cised by the landowning nobility, it is
now monopOlized by the government.
Austria has just celebrated with be-
fitting ceremony the centenary Of her
national aI&ham. The principal feature
of the celebration was a state perform
ance of the drama entitled "Joseph
Haydn" who was the composer of the
grand song. The performance took the
form of a series Of biographical pictures
at the court theater i'll the presence of
the emperor, and every one of the scenes
represented phase of the great mu
sician's life.
To convey an idea of the terrorism
which has been inaugurated at Vienna
by the enormously powerful and fanatic
anti-Semite party it may be mentioned
that the management of the Carl thea
ter, which is achieving SO great sue
cess with "Trilby," has not dared to
make Svengali a Jew, but has convert
ed him into a Hungarian bandmaster.
The greatest pains are taken by the emil
nent actor who plays the part to lead
the audience to forget the Jew in the
gypsy.
Herr Krupp, the SO called cannon
king Of Essen, having acquired the Ger
mania companys dockyards at Kiel, is
now negotiating with the municipality
of that city for the purchase of an i'm
mense tract of adjoining land. Herr
Krupp proposes not only to move to
Kiel his great engine works at Tegel,
near Berlin, but to improve the present
dockyard accommodation at Kiel to such
an extent as to meet all modern require
ments Herr Krupps object is to make
his Kicl establishment the foremost in
Germany for the building Of German
warships as well as to be able to COM
pete successfully with any British ship
yard as far as the merchant marine is
concerned. The German government
has already given Herr Krupp an order
for new and fine cruiser.
Russia's government has just dis
patched one of it's shrewdest diplomats
to Cabul for the purpose of securing the
cooperation and sanction of the emir
of Afghanistan for the construction of
a branch railroad from the capital of
Afghanistan to a point where it would
tap the great Transsiberian line. Rus
STA looks forward to extending eventual
ly this branch road farther south until
it finally reaches the British Indian
railroad system. When that is COM
pleted, people will be able to go all the
way by rail from Paris to Calcutta
without leaving the railroad carriages
The construction Of trolley car line
from Cairo to the pyramids has now
been followed by the placing of steam
boat on the river Jordan, which makes
the journey from Jericho to Tiberias-
that is to say, from the Dead sea to the
lake of Galilee-in about seven hours
If matters 90 on at this rate We shall
before long witness the insta lttion of
electric light in the mysterious caves
beneath the mosque of Hebron and
Roentgen rays applied to the mummies
of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the other
patriarchs who are supposed to repose
there.
The Turkish colony at Paris, which
is both large and influential, has just
laid at the feet of Emperor William
fulsome address of gratitude for the
sympathy which he has manifested i'll
favor of the sublime porte i'll its conflict
with Greece That Emperor William
should have accepted it is surprising,
and even his best friends are of the opin-
ion that he has made political mis-
take in thus demonstrating to the world
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