The Washington times., 1901-11-06
FOREIGN TOPICS.


'rozier. Director of the Protocol: NJ. OPP
penheim, financier. and the actors Du-
nos, Nobet and Cooper NJ. Sardou is
honorary chairman. The members are
supposed 20 have been addicted to the use
OIL ether but they bind themselves to take
the stun no more. NJ. Crozier appeared
Ut supper lately wearing all his orders,
as ne mad come away from an official re-
ception. He was Immediately censured
py M Noblet, and was sentenced to eat
ms supper alone at a separate table. NJ.
o'ozler, py the way. has been subjected
70 much banter ofslate owing to the null
tlp-lcity of his decorations. A caricatur
Isl represented him covered with tin
plates and crosses from head to foot The
director of the Protocol enjoyed the joke,
ana admitted that he had so many deco
rations from foreign sovereigns and heads
OF states that he did not know where to
put them all.
William Makepeace Thack eray's old
house, Palace Green, London, which the
novelist built in accordance with his ideas
and where hei- passed his last days is TO
be sold at auctionl
Palace Green is part of the fashionable
district at the. .extrsme upper end of Hyde
Park. and gets its name from The fact
that II is close to old Kensington palace,
where Queen Victoria was born and spent
her childhood. No is a picturesque
dwelling, set well back from the street
and almost hidden by the trees by which
it is surrounded
This is not one of the several London
houses in which Thackeray's best known
novels were written, but was built by him
IN his more prosperous old age. The
circumstances of the transaction reveal
the author of Vanity Fair in rather
new light, that of a careful proyider. He
wanted not only to buy a house where
ne could spend his last days quietly, but
10 make speculation that would even
tuaily benefit those whom he left behind,
ana fancying that property in the dis
tr1ct would increase in value as time
went on he took a long lease of the site,
upon which at the time there stood an
old and somewhat dilapidated family man
sion.
Thackerays first idea was to repair and
alter this house. but he afterward decid
ed to pull it down altogether. The an
nual rental of the Palace Green property
was $500. a figure which Thackeray's
friends thought rather beyond his means.
and when he began his building operations
they Were aghast at his extravaganza.
The authors judgment was vindicated
eventually. however, for when the house
was sold after his death it brought $4,000
more than it had cost.
The medical world in Vienna is greatly
three, the son of a well-known brewer.
who, after six months painful illness,
which puzzled all the doctors consulted,
including specialists from Germany, died
a few days ago from the consequences of
having swallowed living blue-bottle fly,
which laid its eggs in his intestines, the
eggs developing into maggots. which as
the post-mortem examination showed,
riddled q part of the large Intestine
either by causing ulcers there or by eat
ing their way through. The original fly
is said to have been found In the stom-
acb; but whether this is so or not will
be known after the publica ton of a paper
shortly to he read before the Society OF
Physicians by Prof. Nothnagel. When
the cause OF the patients ailment became
known. he was too weak from NAL
nutrition and loss of blood for an opera
ton to be risked. No such case has oc-
CURED before in Vienna. but one or two
are mentioned in medical literature.
The recent speech on inter Germanic re-
lations delivered before the Reichsrath in
Vienna by DR.. Won Korber. the Austrian
Premier, has been well received through
out the Dual Monarchy. Even journals
representing such opposite opinions as the
Clerical Vaterland and the Pan-Germanic
ostdeutsche Rundschau praise it. partic
ularly In regard to its sentiments for Aus
tro-Hungarian integrity against Ger
many.
The ''Vaterland" says: THE Prime Min
lister, DIR. Won Eorber, addressed an ap-
peal to the Chamber of Representatives
which will attract attention beyond the
frontiers of the Monarchy. With deep
and impressive earnestness, Dr. Won kor-
ber set forth the economic and at the
same time the political situation of the
Monarchy. and explained what great and
decisive interests were at stake for the
country. In the presence Of the
broad and lofty standpoint from which
DR.. Won korber spoke. we will confine
ourselves to expressing the warmest and
sincerest wish for its triumph
The "Ostdeutsche Rundschau' observes
that lit is seldom that a German poli
tician in Austria has the pleasure of be-
Ing able to agree With a statement pro-
ceeding from the Government bench. DR..
Won korber has afforded US that pleas
ure."
The Wiener Tagblatt' recalls an old
saying that nowhere is there so much
dormant energy that is utterly ignored
as in Austria. 1t goes on to say that we
have too little confidence iEi--44rSelves, and
resign ourselves too easily to fate. We
do not know our own worth. and foreign
ers have grown to underestimate us.
The Prime Minister told us that
we can find all we want in our own house,
and that We can have confidence in our
selves. This Imperialism will
not lead to war, but to peace with honor
In the light of recent official an
nouncement in St Petersburg that Rus
sia and China had concluded an agree
ment as to the status of Manchurla. It is
interesting to note a recent observation
of the Novoe Vremya, of st. Petersburg
concerning the subject The Novoe
Vremya, it seems. recently startled many
Russians by it's evident anxiety to see
the last of the Manchurian difficulty.
and Manchuria itself handed over to what
it termed its Legitimate owner" While
insisting on the necessity of continuing
the Russian occupation of that province
until order should have been completelv
restored and a guarantee for its future
tranquility given by an Imperial Court in
Peking capable not only of issuing edicts.
but Of insuring their execution. the Rus
sian organ was most eager to direct the
attention OF its readers to the fact that
difficulties such as those thrust on Russia
by ManchuTia S disatfection We're ruinous
in their effect on her economic position.
The present returns show an eXtraordi-
nary falling OFF solely in consequence of
the decrease Of imports of Chinese goods
into Russia. The figures for the four
months Of last year and the year current
are 6 500 900 and 10000 rublcs respectively.
As far as the exports from Russia into
China via Kiakhta are concerned the
aggregate returns show balance of
about $1,000 rubles in favor of the first
four months of the current year, the ap-
proximate figures for the latter being 100
900 rubles, as against $50 600 rubles for the
corresponding period of 1890
The moGernization of Europe is strIc-
ingly Illustrated by the announcement
that a trolley road is now building up
the slope of the volcano of Vesuvius for
the accommodation OF tourists who 0nd
mountain climbing distastefully arduous.
The trolley line starts at the foot of the
mountain and connects with cable road,