Arizona republican., 1898-03-22

with regard to the use of bicycles by inc clergy. Considerable confusion prevails upon the subject, the cardi- nals and bishops all laying down the law in different fashion. Thus the cardinal archbishops Of Milan, Venice and Paris. as well as the bishops of Nancy and Grenoble, have forbidden the use of the pastoral wheel under any pretext whatsoever. The bishop of Pavia goes still further. He fines his already impecunious clergy the sum of ten lire-that is to say, about $2-for every ride they take. The cardinal archbishop of Milan, wishing to have the views of the pope upon the subject, asked recently for an ofi1- cial pronouncement, but received 1n reply nothing but an unofficial mes sage in Latin to the effect, Non sunt inquietandi," which may be interpret ed as Let them alone"-an indica- tion, therefore, that Leo XIII sees no objection to priests wheeling.
 A Paradise for the POor.-London will soon become the ideal home of the poor man. Lord Rowton, the well known private secretary of the late Lord Beaconsfeld. is extending in evry direction in the vast British metropo- lis his eminently successful scheme Of cheap hotels, built and run on the same lines as the Mills hotels in New York, and now Sir Thomas Lipton has made arrangements to follow suit by establishing all over London restau- rants of an analogous character, where substantial and good meals can be ob- ta1ned for cost price. It is not pro posed to run these restaurants at a loss, but neither is it intended to run them at a profit.
 Brigands Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor are an institution in Sicily, as we'll as in more civilized countries, and one which has just ap- peared in the leading papers of Paler- mo IS worthy of note. It bears the signature of Candino. the most feared and murderous of Sicilian brigands, and is destined to inform the readers that he has expelled from his band notorious robber named Galbo, as having been guilty of "discourteous and unmannerly conduct in his deal 1ngs with the public" The letter ends with the words "kindest greet ings of friendship" for the editors, which must not be construed as a re f1ection on the proverbial honesty of the Sicilian press
 Baby Law in France.-A law has just been passed in France forbidding any one to give solid food of any kind to infants under a year without the written authority of a qualified me1i- cal man. If there were a similar pro- vision for the protection of infants elsewhere, those frequent verdicts of Died from improper food" would not be returned. In France too, the long rubber tubes to feeding bottles are for bldden under heavy penalties. Every where people are warned not to use them. the reason being that it is inn possible to keep them properly ster- iliZed.
 Discontented Officials-Among the many dangers with which the French republic is now confronted is the in tense discontent of the army of off, clals of high and low degree who complain bitterly of insufficient pay, their remuneration, it must be con fessed, being very small and alto gether insufficient to maintain them in the degree of responsibility required by their places. This is perhaps due to their excessive number, which bor- ders close upon a million. A host of salaried servants of this kind consti- tute a terrible drain upon the re sources of a country even so rich as France, and when they are discon- tented, as they are :low, they cannot but form a grave menace to the state.
 French Ministers Monkev-M Hanotaux has narrowly escaped pros ecution for cruelty to animals. A monkey, which had been presented to him by the minister of the colonies, and which was too savage for the house, was chained up in the court yard, where an inspector of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami mals discovered that the chain to which it was attached had chafed the monkeys leg.