The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-02
Foreign Notes.

In a recent test of speed at Gibraltar
the British squadron succeeded In putting
5000 tons of coal and getting ready for
sea In IS hours.
Opponents of high church practices. who
have been making trouble In st. Eth
elburga's. B~ishopgate. for some time past,
are preparing to make similar disturb
ances in the other ritualistic churches OF
London.
Three European heads will
celebrate their eightteth birthdays this
year-King Christian TX. of Denmark. on
April s: ex-Queen Marie of Hanover. wild
ow of the blind King George ", a prin-
cess of Saxe-Altenburg by birth, on April
IA. and Grand Duke Karl Alexander OF
Saxe-w eimar-E isenach. on June "a.
Princess valdemar of Denmark. daugh-
ter of the Due de Chartres. and sister of
Prince Henri Of Orleans. II exhibiting at
Copenhagen a collection of go water COL
ors by herself. which will be sold for the
beneft OF the poor. Not long ago 1t was
reported that the state Of the princess
health made IL necessary to confine her In
a sanitarium.
British respectability has been defined
In "A London police court by a prisoner
charged with begging, and the dennition
seems to have been accepted BY the mag
~istrate. for he discharged her. she SAID:
I'm a respectable woman. a tailoress.
Why. I make trousers for Mr.. Newton.
the magistrate. 1 mean. il I'm respect
able enough to make a magistrate $ trous-
ers. I'm good enough for anything.
Rome built roads and bridges to last.
The new bridge across the Danube, be-
tween Turn Severin. in Roumania. and
Kladoya, In Servia, will be built on the
pillars of the old bridge at the same
place. erected by the Emperor Trajan. the
Roumanian engineers having found that
the old Roman work will stand the strain
after 1.@ years. A statue OF Ira!ah
will be put up in the middle OF the
bridge.
At Adria. in the Italian province Of
Rovigo. IS miles from the Adriatic cea.
two ancient vessels hav been found.
which. from the thickness Of the planks.
must have been used In seafaring. vases,
bones and other objects were found In
them. The nails used were of iron. with
broad heads. One vessel Is "a feet long
and Is feet beam. In classical times
Adria was a seaport. but the Adriatic has
steadily receded.
Mile. Reichenberg the perennial ingenue
of the Coincide Franchise. has retired
after 80 years service and obtained a rec
ord sum-. $1,000 francs, at her farewell
performance. When Delaunay retired. In
1857, his benefit drew a 42,341-franc house.
Coauelin. in 1889. drew 1880 francs:
Got. in 1895. 36.s03 francs, and Febvre, in
1898. 30. AS francs. Twenty years ago the
sums obtained were smaller. Nine, Ar
~nould-Plessy. in 1876. drawing 1889
francs. and Bressant. in 1877, 90,2sl.
A root and branch elimination of Jews
from the electorate is demanded by a
law proposed by 16 anti-Semitic member
of the Landtag in lower Austria. Two
of the sections read as follows: All
baptized and ~unbaptized Jews all persons
who can be proved to descend from Jews,
as well as non-Jews married to persons
who can be proved of Jewish descent. are
excluded from both the active AND the
! massive right to vote" "Any influencing
Of the elections. whether by words or
writing, or by any other means that can
be proved against a Jew, or the descend
ant of a Jew, shall be punished by inn
prisonment OF not less than six months