The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19
OOINGS IN EUROPE.
Epitomized Notes on Events Rejecting
Life Across the Atlantic.

the governments OF England and the |
Transvaal at the time when DIR. jane |
son and his fellow raiders were turned |
over TO the British authorities at the |
latter request, to the effect that at any |
rate none of the leaders of the raid |
should be permitted to return to South
Africa, DIR. Jameson himself has just
been allowed to embark at Southamp-
ton for Cape Town. 1t is only fair to
add that his departure was attended by
much secrecy and was possibly ignored
by the British government until too
late. Meanwhile Cecil Rhodes is rapid
ly recovering the popularity, the pres
tige and the influence which he former.
~ enjoyed in South Africa, especially
among the Dutch population of the
Cape Colony, who constitute the agri
cultural element and whose interest 40
has all along strongly championed.
The Austrian government is con-
fronted with a strike of somewhat
novel character. So great is the exas-
peration in the German districts of Boz
hernia in connection with the recent
imperial decree which makes Czech
equally with German the official Ian.
guage that the municipalities of a nun.
Der of important cities and towns have
declined to perform any longer the
various duties which they have until
now been intrusted by the government.
such as, for instance, the collection or
certain taxes and the summoning of the
army reserve men. The government has
responded by dissolving number or
the municipalities, and matters are in
such critical condition that the sus-
pension of the national constitution is
being discussed as more than probable.
Russia is probably the only civilized
country in the world where tramps are
officially recognized and protected by
the government. This is especially the
| case with the tramps OF the important
province of Pensa, where they are or
! panized in guilds and start out every
spring to beg Systematically through
the other parts of the empire. They dc
SO we'll that on their return III the au'
tumn they are able to pass the winter
in ease and idleness with their wives
and children and are favored by the au
thorities because they happen to be
about the only inhabitants of the prov
ince who are able to pay their taxes IL
full. 1t is calculated that during thell
tours they are able to lay aside abou
$50 a month.
According to the returns just publish
ed by the Pasteur institute at Paris
fully 10 per cent of the patients treated
there owe their injuries to the bites o
cats afflicted with hydrophobia. Thes
wounds are considered by the medica
officers in attendance to present great
er degree of danger than the bites
mad dogs, not because there Is any Oil
ference in the virus, but because, III tn
first place, the teeth of cats, being NOR
pointed than those of dogs, infiict
deeper. wound, and also because ma
dog usually fastens his fangs into Tn
arm, the hand or the leg, while ca
invariably Jumps for the face OF tn
, person it attacks The nerve centers al
, far more exposed i'll the face than i
{ either the arms or legs, and hence IN
, | virus enters into the circulation moi
, rapidly by means of a bite III the fac
3 than through one elsewhere III the bod.
4 ! 1t may be added that the returns OF II
! Pasteur institute for the last year sho
| that per cent of the patients who hay
a submitted themselves to treatment hay
t been bitten by mad COWS.
9 France, and through France the who
v of the civilized world, is threatent
{ with an irreparable calamity, from
r gastronomic point of view. Roque1o
IS cheese is menaced with extinction. III
O milk of the sheep that browsed on q
f thyme clad banks of the Larnac and
IS the Aveyron has long since ceased
snffice for the market. Flocks have a
d cordingly been fed in grassy pastur
"a and have yielded larger quantity
a milk, but Of very inferior qualit
d Worse still, cows milk has been MI
" pled with that of the sheep, and {
% cheese being artificially ripened spee'
n deterioration ensued. Cheesemongt
70 now look askance at what is call
N Roouefort and hesitate to such an exte
70 to buy it that q business which In tim
5. past has been worth 100000 600 a
s. has afforded employment to over lO'
ID 600 people is at a standstill, with
IS prospect of revival, for name and
w art once lost are almost hey ond recover
an The Rus, one Of the most importa
at of the great metropolitan daily newsl
j. pers of st. Petersburg, has just stopl
IN publication and on the followi
crounds A short time ago the edi
he and proprietor, nj. Hadjeburoff, disco
en- cred that his principal assistant wa
@ police spy who had joined the stan
ed The Rus in order to keep the authorit
on thoroughly posted in what was gol
on in literary and journalistic circi
On learning this NJ. Hadjeburoff at OF
notified his assistant that he was
RIP missed, whereupon he himself was su
ny moned to the Office of the imperial G
pie sor of the press and notified that uni
Ter no consented to keep the spy In his