Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21
FROM over
THE OCEAN
Topics That Are Interesting
Old World People.
HIS PLAN NOT FEASIBLE
Car Wants to Do Too Many ThingS--
Revision of Army Law is
Necessary--Other Notes.

! London, Jan. 21.-(Copyrighted, 1898,
by the Associated Press )-Judging from
the official returns, London might just
now be successfully doomed as a winter
health resort. Influenza has relaxed it's
grip here and the total number of deaf tbs
last week was only 1853, being over 100
daily below the average rate of mortal
lty and being 10 per 200 below the nor
NAL rate of the past decade.
Vanity Fair this week publishes an in
teresting article on the change which
has taken place in society of late years,
owing to the introduction of what is
known as the money element. 1t says:
! The great people of today do not en-
tertain as formerly. They do not care
TO compete with the millionaire brewer,
the Jew tinancier or the American whose
concerts or parties cost $4,000 or even
more. A quarter of a century ago all
the great houses were regularly thrown
open each season. Now it is the excep-
ton when big bugs entertain. Another
unfortunate phase has made it's appear
ance in another set i. e., for a society
aspirant to get a great lady to ask the
guests to her first party and thus give
hef start. OF course, very handsome
douceur is given the lady for doing so.'
! The Anglesy family appears to be very
unfortunate in it's matrimonial arrange
ments, the widow of the fourth Marquis
of Anglesy, formerly Mary Livingstone,
daughter of Mr.. j. p. King of Sand Hills,
Ga, is living in Paris, having separated
from her husband some time before his
death. Now the present marquis, after
less than years trial of welded life,
has separated from his wife, who is a
daughter of Sir George Chetwynd. The
imarchioness, 1T appears, has rather eX-
I travagant tastes. According to the ar
arrangement Of the separation she received
il,560 to pay her debts and f3 900 yearly,
which will be increased fl 900 yearly if
/ they remain separated until it reaches an
allowance of 10000 yearly.
The Rothschilds family had another
| blow this week in serious accident to
Mr. Leopold de Rothschild. Mr.. de
Rothschild was hunting near Windsor
when the branch of a tree struck him
across the face broke his nose and in
jured one of his eyes.
! The Infanta Eulalie aunt of the king of
SPAN, IS visiting England. She was the
guest of the Prince of Wales at Sandring-
ham this week.
Even warm supporters of the czar's
peace appeal are astounded at the in
feasibility of several items which ar-
I
minister of foreign affairs, Count Mura- :
vieff, published this week, will be sub
m1tted to the congress, and they predict
! a fasco for that part of the programme
which includes proposals to veto the use
! OF any new weapon or explosive, to place
Ia restriction upon the use of existing
! high explosives and to put veto upOn
submarine boats and rams All these
proposals are regarded as simply imprac-
! ticable. The idea of the exclusion of the
use of submarine boats is secuted in
/ France, where the alleged success of the
I GustaVe ZOdo has caused great Ella
Z tion' has conjured up visions of terrible
havoc among the British ironclads in case
/ Of war, and the French papers call for
the creation of a swarm of submarine
boats. one paper the Matin of Paris
started subscription to build a second
, Gustav, and the scheme has been en-
Enthusiastically taken up. The sum Of
lz6'7OS francs had been subscribed when
! this dispatch was sent. The British
naval authorities do not seem to be seri-
ously alarmed by the French invention.
which, they claim, has not solved the
difficulty Of directing a course under
water. 1t is persistently alleged, more
over, that in spite of the glowing reports
sent to the French press, the French
naval authorities are not yet satisfied
and that experiments lasting several
more months will have to be made before
they are justified in building number Of
these boats.
! A great sensation has been caused in
financial circles by a great blunder in
;the announcement of the dividend of the
southeastern railroad, which on Monday
was given al Ga On Thursday it was
iannounced that owing to a mistake of
1.-THE accountants the dividend should
have been 6l2. Many holders, however.
on the first announcement, disappointed
al the poor dividend, sold their stock at
les. Then strange undercurrent of buy-
ing set in, which was explained bv a
jump in the stock to 1121a when the cor
People are now asking who were the
mysterious buyers who were aware of
the blunder and who made nearly per
cent on the transaction. As an outcome
'of strong representations on the subject,
the stock exchange committee has de-
cided to fully investigate the matter.
The directors of the company are ac-
quilted of blame, but every jobber will
be required to produce his book and dis
close the names of clients who purchased
Southeasterns between the two an
nouncements.
The question of over-crowding street
cars has become quite as acute here as in
American cities. Breaches of the police
regulations have reached such propor-
tions, that the authorities have decided
upon heroic measures. They have or
ganized a systematic overhaul of all the
main routes with the result that the cur
ious spectacle was presented this week of
,tr.nf oorS looda1 with oitv man haipu