The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-25
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SIOntE0 VT. s'C 0~ts
Interesting Notes on Matsers That Ass
Talked OF In Europe.
Venice is about TO celebrate the nina
hundredth anniversary Of the first In
PRODUCTION of the fork for table use. The
merit Of its adoption belongs to the
doge Orsolo, who at the wedding OF his
son produced O silver fork and q golden
spoon 1t was not until 800 years Later
that the fork reached France, while 1t
was only in the year 1908 that 1t was
first adopted for table Sc-vice in Eng.
land.
To those who imagine that the very
name of Siberia is calculated to send a
cold chill into the heart of a Russian,
by reason of its association with ideas
of exile in its most harsh and cruel
form, the announcement that the Mus
covite government has been compelled
to stop summarily the emigration from
Russia in Europe to Siberia will come
in the nature of a surprise. 1t seems
that the exodus in the direction of Sibe-
ria has assumed such vast proportions
that the authorities began to fear that
north and east Russia would be com-
pleteiy 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
q 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
" difference is that, whereas in olden
times the power of retention was exer-
cised by the handwriting nobility, it is
now monopolized by the government.
Austria has just celebrated with be-
fitting ceremony the centenary of her
national anthem. 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 in the presence Of
the emperor, and every Il of the Genes
represented a phase of the great me-
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 80 great a sue
cess with "Trilby,' has not dared to
make Svengali a Jew, but has convert
ed him into q Hungarian bandmaster.
The greatest pains are taken by the emf
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 company's 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 O to
KEEL his great engine works at Tegel,
neal Berlin, but TO improve the present
dockyard accommodation at Kiel to such
an extent as to meet all modern require
ments. Herr Krupp's object is to make
his kiel 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 rs far as the merchant marine is
concerned. The German government
has already given Herr krupp an order
for a new and fine cruiser.
1t is reported that James s. Whallon
Of Burlington, VT, aged SO years, who
last Thursday took Miss Mabel McKin-
ney, the l7-year-old lass, for a bride,
won his wife ON an election bet. The
story runs as follows:
Whallon has a divorced wife, "Efle
Cox, who Is now serving q 20 year
sentence IN state prison for manslaugh-
ter, and, wanting to marry again, he won
the love Of Miss Mckinney. She being
under age, it was necessary to secure
the fathers consent before a marriage
license could be procured. So Whallon
began his pleading. The father was
somewhat loath to give up his daugh-
ter, but, believing in free silver and
Bryan, thought he would nave no fur
ther use for a family if sound money
So he made the offer that if
Mckinley were elected Whallon was to
have the girl, but if Bryan won he was
never to visit the house again. Whallon
accepted these terms, and as soon as
Jones gave up the fight led his prize to
the altar, where they We're married.
A scion of a prominent family paid a
freak bet the other afternoon by driv-
ing a dilapidated looking mule through
the principal streets Of st. Louis. The
mule was attached to one Of the swell.
est traps in town" The harness was