The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04

daughter to see and study this most
graceful of women, and If the empress
approves of Isadora, she may be en-
gagged to give dancing lessons to little
Princess Louise.
Mighty Tired of Mascaqni.
ROME, Jan. S.-Prinetti and the
other ministers of state are disguised
with Mascagni's protracted kicking,
and have cabled him to cease his dis
patches, as his private grievances do
not concern the kingdom to the extent
the musician seems to think. Prinetti,
especially, is very wroth with the COM
poser. "He seems to think that the
government should furnish him With an
iron-clad train and a couple. of war
ships" he said.
Afraid of American Trust.
BERLIN, Jan. 3.-Hey, & Dol
phin's letter stamping machine may
not be adopted after all, al
though the trial service was most sat
isfactory, 10000 letters being stamped
per hour. The postmaster general
would like to buy the machines, but
Will not hire them as the Americans
propose. 1t is feared here that if the
machines were adopted on a royalty
basis the American inventors might
sell out to a trust which, in the nature
of things, would proceed to put the
screws on the kaiser's government and
squeeze it good and hard.
Hyena Kills American Grizzly.
PARIS, Jan. S.-Parisians speak
lightly of the American grizzly nova
days, doubling his courage as well as
his famed strength. At the Goulne
menagerie a newly imported grizzly
essayed to teach manners to a hyena
who occupied the same cage. He
he
being the hyena protested only by a
snarl, but a little later, while Mr.. GriZ-
Fly turned his back he jumped on his
neck, burying his long teeth in the
flesh. In vain did Bruin try to shake
off the ugly customer, while his life
blood was running away; in vain
were blind-loaded pistols, redhot pokerS
clubs and pitchforks used on the hy-
ena, he would not let go until the griz-
Fly had breathed his last.
New Chicago Archbishop.
ROME, Jan. S-The liberal press
comments on the fact that the sue
cessful candidate for the archbishopric
of Chicago, Monsignor Quigley, is a
friend of the Jesuits and defender of
their doctrines; his selection shows
that the real American brand is not
in favor at the vatican just now
Second Wife Murdered Like First.
KIEFF, Russia, Jan. 3.-The au-
thorities are puzzled by the mysterious
killing of a whole family atrociously
murdered in their house, which was
locked and barred and could not posi-
bly, have been entered from outside
The proprietor, a wealthy grocer, his
second wife, the wife's sister and two
little daughters of eleven and five
were found dead, the heads Of all be-
ing severed by axe or sword. Nothing
was stolen and, the chief of police
says it looks "as if the murderer had
risen from the ground and dropped
down again after his bloody work. The
murdered man lost his first wife also
by mysterious midnight assailant
who, on the same occasion, cut off his
the merchants ears. The occur
renee created wild excitement among
the lower classes who insist that the
murder was done by the devil.
Prince Max Promises to Make Trouble.
DRESDEN, Jan 9.-The king has
written to all the sovereigns of Ger
many and the pope asking them to
combine efforts to restrain his nephew,
Prince Max of Saxony, from making
trouble out of the crown princess af-
fair. Prince Max is a Catholic Pre-
late and it is said that he Joined the
church because the kaiser promised to
make him pope-after a while, of
course. Since then Max has developed
such mania for doing unconventional
things that he is thought to be de-
mented. His latest idea is to have the
children of the crown prince and
crown princess declared illegitimate,
as that would bring him in the line of
succession upon the crown princes
death. Max was, however, foolish
enough to let the cat out of the bag
by addressing a letter to the papers
explaining that, though he had re-
nounced his rights to succession
hood, he had reserved them
in case he happened to be at any time
the only remaining heir" King George
asked the pope, especially, to use his
fatherly influence with Max. Accord
ing to a rumor Max intends to leave
the church the moment old and de-
crepid King George dies and the pres
ent crown prince assumes the throne.
simultaneously he will bring suit to
have the new kings children declared
illegitimate and himself heir presump-
tive. And to make his candidacy the
more binding, the ex-priest proposes
to take wife Immediately.
MeneIik Coming to Europe.
ZURICH, Jan. 3.-The wife Of Prime
Minister -Ilg, of Abyssinia, expects her
husband in July or August next with
HIS majesty the emperor MSneHk, VINO
intends to visit all the capitals of Eu-
rope. Before returning to Abyssinia
Ilg procured considerable loan in
France and Belgium, the money to be
employed to finish the railway between
the Abyssinian capital, Addis-Abeba,
and the coast, also to furnish Menelik
with small change for his tour.
Clever RascaIs Sack a Village.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 3.--A tele-
gram from Verchotoguelnewo, a nota-
bly, rich village, tells of two bogus gen
erals who drove up at the mayors Of
flee the other day, introducing them
selves as military emissaries of the
government sent to verify, or disprove
the report that the village was a YER
liable nest of counterfeiters. AS the
rascals came in a gorgeous carriage,
four horses abreast, and were most
magnificently got up with colored rib
bons, crosses and stars, the mayor had
no doubt of their genuineness and al
lowed them to go ahead. The generals
went from house to house demanding
that the proprietors show their paper
money and coin, all OF which they