The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-20
ALL TALK G DEClLtN5E
NOT ALONE IN LONDON, BUT IN
OTHER EUROPEAN CAP
ITALS ALSO
MAsCAGNI's NEW OPERA OUT
Produced simultaneously in six Ital-
ian Cities - COIdIy Received,
Though Composer Expresses
Himself as Pleased.

LONDON, Jan 19.-Whatever The faults
of the British army may be, lack of cam
dor concerning their weaknesses is not
included among them. Depreciation of
British enterprises and British CONNER
cial and laborirg methods has become a
hobby with the speakers and newspapers
wherefore the reports of wave of COM
mercial depression sweeping over Ger
many and Russia falls on welcoming GAYS
here.
One Berlin correspondent paints the
situation somberly. He says the German
mortgage banks are in a bad way, also
the electrical industries and iron trade
and he adds that the slack wool spin
ming industry has almost been ruined He
describes the cities as full of unemployed
people and says that in view of this
calamity the magistrates are arranging
charitable and public works for their EN-
ployment.
The industrial world Of Odessa says:
sTAGNATION IN RUSSIA.
''It is ordinary temporary, f1eeting or
passing financial and industrial crisis
which Russia faces. Her staple indus
tries, for some time, have steadily Ian
rooted which it is the governments duty
to investigate. Money is daily becoming
scarcer. No year in forty has opened
under blacker auspices. The country is
an economic collapse
British newspapers point out the oppor-
tunities for comparing the ability of free
trade and the protective elective systems
to override the depression.
Mr.. TOM Johnson's reported acnuisi.
ton Of a railroad in the heart of London
furnishes a new text for newspaper ex,
hortations to Englishmen to raise them
selves, lest Great Britain pass into the
column Of commercially dying counties.
MAsCAGNI's NEW OPERA.
Mascagni's new opera, lie Maschere.,
was produced Thursday, simultaneously
in six Italian cities. Only at Rome.
where the composer conducted the or
cheStra, was the audience approving At
Milan it was received with jeers and
Kisses The second act, alone, is salts
factory. The audiences were everywhere
large and distinguished, but cold, Mas
cagni says the result exceeded his antici-
pations. He wished to revive the old
school Of lyrical opera and show the pub
lie they tolerated modern monstrosities
only because they. could find nothing bet.
ter. The music is reminiscent of "Cayal-
lerta Rusticana." The critics say there
are beautiful passages, but it lacks orig
inality.
Mr.. G. N. Jackson, treasurer of the OK
ford Athletic club, speaks hopefully of
the prospects of the Oxford-C Cambridge
and Harvard-Yale games in New York.
He informed a representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press that while the negotiations
have not been resumed they doubtless
will be this term I
George Manolesco, the society sharper,
who worked New York and European
capitals, and who was arrested recently
at Genoa while starting for CONSTANT.
ncple, selected Vienna as his last field for
operations He called himself Prince
George de la I5owari. He is charged with
stealing from q Russian grand duchess
valued at $4,000.
LIPTON'S SKIPPER.
Edward Sycamore, the captain of the
new challenger for the Americas cup.
has arrived in London from Glasgow.