Arizona republican., 1898-07-05

large gold medal of the Vienna inter Hamlet" and F. A. Bridgeman the
 small gold medal for his ''The Ter
 race"
 Carbonic oxide being found normal
 ly in the blood of living beings exist ing in Paris, M. Nicioux has demon
 strated to the French academy of sci
 ence that the gas forms within the or
 ganism itself without external causes. Prince Ahmed Self Eddin's recent
 murderous attack on his brother-in-
 law, Fuad Pasha, at the Cairo Khedi-
 val club, has led to a curious suit. The club demands damages from the prince for the harm done to the clubs reputa- tion by the row.
 Labiche's farcical plays are coming
 into favor in Paris. The Comedie
 Franchise has taken up "Celimare le
 bien-aime," while the Varieties has re-
 vived "Le Chapeau de pa1lie dTtalie, D
 which in the English version is "The
 Wedding March"
 A Welshman has accomplished the
 feat of walking 4,0O0 quarter miles in
 4,000 successive periods of 9A minutes
 each at Leeds, worlds record Twen-
 ty thousand persons loked at the fin-
 ish. He had previously walked the
 distance in intervals of 91z minutes. When Eton college celebrated
 George HIS birthday (June 4) this
 year with the usual speeches and pro
 cession of the boats, w. AstOr, as cap
 tain of the boats, was stroke of the
 ten-oar barge Monarch that led the
 procession. He had acclaimed earlier
 in the day, taking part in a scene
 from French play.
 Liquor may be sold in the house of
 commons without a license, the police
 magistrate having dismissed the sum-
 mons against it's barkeeper. As the
 Daily News puts it, ''If the house of
 commons wants liquor, the house if commons will have liquor, and all the courts in England cannot control the
 legislative power"
 All the judges of England, after con- sidering the question for more than year, were unable to agree on a defi- milton of what a place" is, and now the London common council is obliged to ask legal advice as to the meaning of street The council recently sum- moned man before a police magis- trate for laying out street on his property without obtaining the coun- cil's consent His defence was that it was not street, but a courtyard for the use of his tenants, and the magis- trate said that he could not decide the point till the councils lawyers ob- tained an accurate definition of street from superior court.
 Reports have been received from Ra> bah, the Arab conqueror of the central Soudan, who seems to be alive again. After his conquest of Baghirmi and Bornou he invaded the Foulah state Of Sokoto, was at first defeated badly, when the report of his death arose, but got his forces together, overpowered the sultan of Sokoto and captured , Kano, the metropolis of the west cen tra1 Soudan. He is now recognized as king of Kano by the Sokoto sultan, acting on the advice of the British | Niger company. Should these reports prove true a new element is added to the British, French and German com plications in West Africa.
 Excavations have been made by Drs. i Wilhelm and Reichel of the Austrian | institute at the temple of Artemis, at Lusoi, in northern Ar cadia, discovered by Prof. Dorpfeld l last year. The terrace of the temple l was examined, and the runs of semi | circular building and a propyloeum | were found, which had been destroyed | by fire. Only part of the foundation of l the temple could be uncovered, as there are buildings on the site, but. ar chitectural fragments, votive offer ings, some novel terra cotas, small | bronzes and great many inscriptions | of the third and fourth centuries be- l fore Christ were found.
 Paris's 1900 exhibition will be the | sixteenth held in the city. The site of the first, in 1798, was the Champ de | Mars, where 110 exhibitors showed their wares in wooden booths and twenty-five medals were awarded. | Three successively larger exhibitions | followed in the Louvre in 1901, 1902 l and 1909. Under the Restoration there were exhibitions in 1919, 1922 and 1927, | also in the Louvre. They became more popular under Louis Philippe, the l of exhibitors making it nec- to use first the Place du Car rousel and in 1889 and 1844 the Champs Elysees. The 1849 exhibition in the Champs Elysee required 2,200 square metres of space and cost $120,- 900. The first international exhibition in 1855 brought about the construction of the Palais de l'Industrie. that has just been torn down, which was also used for the 1867 exhibition The 1878 exhibition, with 52,S35 exhibitors and 16,000,000 visitors, and that of 1889, | with 55,486 exhibitors and 32,500,000 visitors, were held on the Champs de Mars.