The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-22

Kpitomixed Notes ON Events Rsnscting
Life Across the Atlantic.

Kpitomised Notes ON Events Rsnsoting
Life Across the Atlantic.
A few weeks ago the startling an
nouncement was made that the great
Eiffel tower, at Paris, which Is nearly
1000 feot high, had begun to bend. The
government Immediately delegated Colo
mel Bassot Of the engineers to make a
thorough examination of the structure,
and he reported that In consequence of the
expansion and contraction of the different
pieces of the enormous metallic mass the
tower Is In a state of perpetual movement
throughout the entire "a hours, which
leads French journal to suggest that the
tower Is simply breathing In spite Of
this perpetual motion, Colonel Bassot ex-
presses the opinion that the structure il In
no danger, and is as firm as ever.
Russia's candidate for the governor gen.
eralship OF Crete, who Is likely to receive
the appointment, is Bozo Petrovitch, the
cousin and prime minister of Prince Mich
olas of Montenegro. He Is about 60 years
of age, very shrewd, and has held his pres
emit post of primo minister and president
of the Montenegrin senate for over 20
years. He Is rather an easy going old man,
who does not know q word of Greek, al
faith, but who, on the other hand, has the
advantage of possessing a perfect knowl-
edge of the Turkish language and Of
Turkish ways.
Although the rival salons of Paris will
hold their annual exhibitions next spring
under the same roof, In the machine gal
lery of the Champs de Mars, and the sim
gle entrance fee of / franc will give adj
mission to both, each Is to retain its au-
tonomy, its separate regulations and its
separate exhibitions. The reports about
their complete reconciliation and amalga-
nation prove to have been premature.
Insurgent tribesmen on the northern
frontier of India are far from constituting
the only peril which the English are called
on to face in connection with their great
oriental dependency. The Russians have
just extended their navigation of the in
land waterways of central Asia by direct
ing that the flotilla Of steamers now plying
on the River ANU should hence
forth make Faizabad the caste terminus
of their trips. Faizabad is barely 10
miles as the crow flies from Peshawur, the
British headquarters in northern India,
| and it Is in the mountainous districts ly-
| the British conflict with the insurgent
tribesmen Is in progress.
Important changes are reported as i'm
| minent at Scotland Yard, owing to the
| lamentable failure Of the detective depart
ment of the English metropolitan police to
] bring to justice, or even to obtain any
| clew, to the perpetrators of no less than IL
1 lor hat hava Tn nlnCQ
| and around London during the last two
months. 1t is only fair to add that the po-
lice are not altogether to blame in the
| matter, since all the best men of the de-
partment, from Inspector Melville down,
| are engaged in watching foreign political
suspects in behalf of the government OF
| Russia, Spain and other continental pow
| ers. At the same time public sentiment
| In England Is so worked up at what 1t
considers to be the inefliciency of its police
| that a number of changes are about to be
made, and several heads Of departments
are to DO retired.
| Almost within sight of Gibraltar and
| certainly within gunshot of Europe
namely, at Saffi, on the Moorish coast
slaves are publicly bought and sold in the
open market, and, according to the Safi
correspondent of The Cronica, which IL
the Italian paper at Tangiers, women are
selling now ut s25, grown men for 500
while children bring from s. to $15. 1t Ii
merely the jealousy among the various
European governments with regard to the
possession Of predominant influence IN
Marocco that prevents any concerted ac
ton from being taken on the part Of the
great powers. Untold sums have beer
spent by civilized states to stop the slave
trade even in the interior OF Africa. Yet
1t Is tolerated within sight OF the bach
| windows of Europe. -New York Tribune