The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-24
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Interesting ropics That Engross the A.
teutiou of Europe.

| According 20 recent report made by
III. Bieuler. the commissioner OF educa'
tion in Switzerland. there are now ola
young women taking courses in Swiss
universities. Geneva has S3l female
students. Zurich id6. Lausanne and
Bern each 60. Hale 2, while the uni.
vsrsities Of Necfchatel and Freihurg
have ncae,
While frsncc is eongratulatiirr her
self en- the increase OF her population
ever her death rates condition shcwn
by the last census that had not been
eqraled fer naay ycars-Eelgium has
Gene cut with most rcmarkable figures
concerniag her population. The last ma
| ticnal ccasVS IN Lvlgicm WAS completed
in Nay. 1891, aud iSs figures have re-
Gently been mace putlic Within the
last IS years the population Of Belgium
has doubled itself. rising from 5000, :
coo 10 6, coo, OO0 But the records OF
the larger cities make still more in
tereS,ing showing. Antwerp in a CEN
fury mas risen from 5S, 900 to 257. 0o0,
an increase Of $50 per cent. Liege has
advanced from 10000 to 100, 900;
Client, from 55. 600 to l55, 600; Brus-
sells. from GO, 000 to lS7, 900.
The Politische Corresponding of Wen
na recently published Il letter from a
parsonage high in court circles in st.
Petersburg saying that the physicians
in the suit of Grand Duke George, heir
presumptive to the throne Of Russia,
now had every hope of the permanent
recovery Of the duke. His improvement
is SO marked as fairly TO astonish the
doctors. The czarowitz has been spend
ing a few months at Batoum, on the
Black sea. He will shortly leave that
place on his yacht and go to the French
Riviera While there he will be visited
by his mother, the Dowager Czarina
Maria Feodorovna Together they will
proceed on the yacht to Ajaccio. in Cor
sica, where they will pass the early
spring months. Toward the end of May
the grand dukes party will start by slow
stages for st. Petersburg, going by the
way of Marseilles and Paris.
evidence on the improvident old age of
the inhabitants of New Zealand and
Victoria. with the idea of providing for
the old and poor. In New Zealand q
law has recently been passed to devote
5000, 600 yearly to the aged poor. But
citizens who would be provided for in
this way must not only be poor and
hnf x,trf all
To have been convicted. for example,
of drunkenness four times in four years
before reaching the age of SO will cost
New Zealand citizen bis pension. The
maximum pension is 800 year. 1t is to
be reduced by 50 per annum for every
So of private income in excess of Sl70 per
annum which the pensioner possesses.
In Victoria the law is similar, but the
age limit is placed at 60. In each col
ony the number of citizens entitled to
these pensions is about 10000.
While the bubonic plague seems to be
spreading in India and threatens almost
to equal in fatality the epidemic of a
year ago, the French physicians in AL
geria have discovered disease in Africa
which, if the meager reports which
have been received prove true, is none
the less fatal. 1t is mysterious disease.
and no satisfactory diagnosis has yet
been made OF it. 1t first shows itself by
the patient having an inordinate desire
to sleep. Its symptoms resemble those
manifested in laudanum poisoning. If
the patient be not at once aroused, he
soon falls into stupor, which is sue.
ceeded by death. From it's symptoms it
has been called by the correspondents of
French medical journals in Algeria
''la maladie du sommeil" (the disease
Of sleep. Europeans are not susceptible
to il, Arabs only slightly, but the negro
falls ready victini. Two doctors of the
University Ct Coimbe have theory
that the disease is microbic. With some
baciili in scram obtained from tho blood
of a young negro who had died from the
disease they inoculated half dozen
rabbits. The little animals became
drovs y and soon died, betraying all the
symptoms Of the disease
The chamber of deputies of the grand
duchy OF Luxembourg has recently voted
the budget for 1898, which makes the
receipts 800, 600 francs and expenses
to the amount of 8, 500, 600 francs The
Ii,tle ducby owes it's financial prosperity
to participation in the German reve-
nues, Certain parts Of which were allot-
ted to it by treaty under conditions
that have now become obsolete. Luxem-
burg had population in 1895 Of 49,.
5S3. Of which l09,2 were males and
los, 30l females. The budgets of the
last four years have been as remarkable
as that of 1898. In 1898 the receipts ex-
ceeded the expenses by l,572,31 francs;
in 1894 by 1928, 1873 francs, in 1895 by
l,S41, 526 francs and in 1897 by ], l45,-
900 francs. In 1859 the public debt
amounted to 5000, 600 francs and bore
interest at 8 per cent. Now it is IL, 00O,-
600 francs, and bears interest at 3 y per
cent. The army is composed Of 100 men,
three horses and a hand ~ ,ppo;c Me-,