The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-13
DolNos IN EUROPE.
Epitomiged Notes ON Events RedsstIng
Life Asrsss the Atlantic.

King Oscars recent efforts to propi-
tate the Norwegians and the concilia-
tory attitude of the Swedes do not ap-
pear to have had the desired effect The
results OF the general election, which
has just taken place in Norway, show
that whereas in the late parliament
there were So pro-SwediSh members to
80 antidynastic and anti-Swedish legis-
lators, in the new storthing the sup.
porters of Sweden and Of her king num-
Der only 35 against 70 deputies who
are opposed to the throne and the union
with the sister kingdom.
IL should be thoroughly understood
in connection with the dispatches con-
corning the disturbances at Vienna that
when the announcement is made that a
given newspaper is "confiscated' by
the police it means merely that the one
edition Of the journal containing the
article objected to by the authorities
has been confscated. Indeed, there is
nothing to prevent the newspaper in
question from issuing another edition
ton" does not as some people seem to
imagine, extend to the offices and presses
of the paper, but merely to the one edi-
ton.
The Palais de lIndustrie, in the
Champs Elysees, having been torn down
in connection with the preparations for
the international exhibition of 1900,
the government has assigned the great
Machinery hall Of the 1889 exhibition
in the Champ de Mars to the use of the
annual concours hippique, or horse
show, the agricultural show and the
salon or picture exhibition, all of which
have hitherto been housed in the Palais
de PIndustrie. The government has
likewise devoted sum of $780, 600 to
putting the Machinery hall in proper
the other buildings in the Champ de
Mars, in which the dissident salon has
for the past ten years held its annual
shows, are likewise doomed, the two
rival salons have been compelled to set
tie their long standing differences and
will once more exhibit jointly and un-
der the same roof.
Japan's railroad companies are to
duplicate their lines early in the new
year. In consequence arrangements are
about to be made by which great in
creases Of rolling stock, locomotives and
other material will be made every year
to 1908. In the case Of one company
alone it is estimated that the duplica
tion, with the extra rolling stock, ETC.,
will cost $15, 600, 600, as no less than
800 locomotives and 1900 passenger
and freight cars will be required. Much
Of this material is to be purchased in
the United States.
Owing to the existence Of a peculiar
law in France which exacts that "any
person named or referred to in any Pc
riodical publication shall have the right
to reply in the next number in the same
place and in the same type, providing
the reply does not extend to more than
twice the length of the offending arti-
cle," one of the forthcoming numbers
most important and influential monthly
review in France, will contain an arti-
Gle of unusual length, and couched in
extravagant language, which will ap-
pear in its pages in spite of the opposi-
! ton Of the editor. 1t will bear the sig
| nature of dramatic author who, in
furiated by the nature of the criticism
| passed by the Revue on one OF his plays,
| has invoked his rights under article IL
of the press laws, rights which W III
vain contested by the editor.
If the Zaimis cabinet remains in Office
long enough to put into execution the
various reforms comprised in its politi-
cal programme, it will have contributed
more toward the redemption of the Hell
lenic kingdom than any previous ad-
ministration. One Of the most impor-
tant measures to which the new prime
| minister has committed himself since
| his advent to power is the thorough re-
organization of the civil service by dis
missing all the officials and reappoint-
| ing only those who are fitted for the
places which they now hold. Hitherto
the rule has been that the spoils belong
ed to the victors, aud that places were
only held as long as the cabinet OF the
day remained in power. 1t is intended
that from henceforth officials shall re-
tain their offices during good behavior
and be exempt from dismissal except
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