The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-30
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST,

King Edward has taken renewed inter
est in golf, says Modern Society. and he
ana his guests have spent much time re-
Gently on the new links near Old Wind
sor Castle. The Kings sudden activity
III the direction of golf is due to the fact
that his physicians advised more exer-
else for His Majesty.
Seven hundred and fifty carrier pigeons
carried the news of the birth of Italv's
Frhlcess to the various parts of the king
dom. and the King, in honor of the oc-
casion. granted pardons to 500 prisoners
He also opened a savings bank account
Win a deposit of so each in favor of the
thrty-flve children born in Rome on the
date of the little Princess entrance into
the world.
The administration of the Monte Carlo
casino has taken active measures to pre-
vent the taking of tips by the officials in
charge of the gaming tables. Disputes
frequently arise as to which player plac-
ed stake on certain number, if that
number happens to win, and an appeal
TO the presiding croupier too often re-
suits in a decision in favor of the person
who has given him a tip. The admins
tratfon has decided to dismiss a number
OF croupers and to apply disciplinary
measures to number of the stan in or
der to put stop to unfair methods.
According to the London express, there
is boom in emigration to Canada among
the British farm hands, the great demand
for laborers in the Dominion being the
cause of the exodus from the mother
country. Some time ago the farmers of
Manitoba, finding themselves short of
Workmen, Offered special inducements to
the Br1tons, and since that time the emf
| grafton has greatly increased. In fact it
is stated that the movement to Canada
has been so pronounced that the British
agrlculturists find themselves decidedly
| short of hands.
The elaborate police espionage in all
the great factories and workshops in
Southern Russia is said to have become
almost intolerable to employees and to
have aggravated rather than allayed the
| discontent and disaffection which are
| spreading among the industrial classes
The trade artels or combinations among
| the skilled workmen are closely watched
| by the government, and every attempt of
the employees to improve their condition
is suppressed by the police.
A@NS A1obAOAfS VI Europe SpcnQ IOT mill
tary and naval purposes $50, 100000 They
keep under arms continually 5000 900 men.
with six times as many in readiness for
emergencies. 1t is estimated that each
community loses at least 500 year for
each man who is kept under arms and is
therefore unproductive. This loss, for all
Europe, would amount to 5000, 900, 900 which
added to the $3.50, 200 paid out for mill
tary and naval purposes, would make
grand total OF 1850, 100000.
A canary which hangs outside house
near st. James Hall in London upsets the
musicians at the afternoon concerts by
its warbling. Whe nit hears high tenor
note the bird takes it up and pipes away
until the musicians have to stop. Some
distinguished performers actually refuse
TO appear at the hall on account of the
yellow terror" as he is called.
There is man in London whose trade
consists in supplying would-be society
people with the outward and visible sign
that they move about in the upper circles
His business consists of making bogus
cards and note paper purporting to come
from people of title. These he sells to a
certain class of persons who attempt to
make their callers believe that the mem
bers of the nobility are often their guests
This sometimes results in ignominious
failure, but the aspirants for high social
position are willing to take the risk
M. Standfuss of Zurich, says the Ber-
lin correspondent of the London Daily
Mail, has been studying the effects CT
solar heat and temperature upon butter
flies. with some very extraordinary re-
suits. Over 1900 butterflies were subject
ed to close examination. Some degrees
more or less change the nature and looks
so much that they take on every appear
ance of having been born in a warmer or
colder climate
On one occasion, 1t being very cold in
Switzerland, a butterfly common there
suddenly began to hook like a butterfly
from Lapland. Others subjected to a
higher solar temperature changed, and
looked like butterflies from Corsica or
Syria.
A fire recently broke out in a village in
Austria near the Bavarian frontier and,
a Bavarian fire brigade, which was sta
toned only three miles away hastened to
the rescue, but the Austrian custom
house authorities refused 10 allow the fire
engines to pass the frontier before the
usual tax on imported machinery was
paid. The Bavarian fremen naturally
turned back, and half the village was
burnt down before the nearest Austrian
fire brigade was on the scene.
The little Princess Yolanda Margherita,
who has recently added much brightness
to somber old Quirinal palace in Italy, is
the first Princess, with one exception, in
the House of Savoy since the birth of her
grandmother, Queen Margherita, fifty
years ago. and she is the first baby ever
born in the Quirinal
Count Bobrynsky, a descendant of Cath
crime the Great of Russia, and a son-in-
law of Prince Galitsyn, the mayor of Mos
cow, has been sent to Kola, Lapp VII
lage on the Arctic ocean, as punishment
for some unknown crime against the gov
ornament He was seized in the streets of
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