The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-02-10

pObltOTS IL also causing some anxiety.
Conferences of employers and COM
positors have been held recently with
a view to adjusting their differences
and avoiding strike, but each ended
without an agreement having been
reached. The compositors demand
reduction in the hours of labor to
total of fifty hours week, while the
employers have offered to reduce the
weeks work to fifty.two hours. A
strike at this time would be most seri-
Gus and everyone is hoping for an
eleventh hour settlement tomorrow,
when the final meeting on the sub
ject is to be held
The festival of the empire, with its
imperial exhibition and pageant of
London which is to be held at the
Crystal palace from May to October,
under the patronage Of his majesty's
government will undoubtedly be the
greatest event of the coronation. The
festival which was originally arranged
for last year, was abandoned on &C.
count of King Edwards death, but the
reconstructed program far and away
outshines the original arrangements,
and will now be run on lines of broad,
comprehensive and imperial signiti-
canoe. 1t is important to bear in mind
that the festival of empire is not
commercial scheme for private gain.
The entire profits will be devoted to
King Edward Wis hospital fund.
The jewelers. are very busy adding
new touches of splendor to the coro-
nets to be worn by peers on the &C.
casiou of the coronation. These coro-
nets, it is not generally known, are
very much alike, varying according to
the rank of the owners, by the num-
Der of strawberry leaves and pearls
allowed on them, the lower in rank,
except, curiously enough in the case
of barons, having the more leaves and
pearls, the pearls" being really balls
of silver. A dukes coronet has eight
strawberry leaves, that of marquise
four strawberry leaves and four balls
of pearls, that of an earl, eight straw.
berry leaves with pearls between and
that of a viscount fourteen or sixteen
pearls. The baron's coronet has only
six pearls. The coronets of duchess
es, marchonesses, countesses, etc, are
in each the same as those of the peers.
An amendment of the German law
of 1898 against the betrayal of mill
no 10 a
is under consideration, but the mat
ter is said to have no connection with
the recent trial and conviction of Brit
ish military officers. The object is to
correct the present anomaly-due to
an error in drafting-by which the
court Is enabled to take mitigating cir
cumstances into consideration in the
case Of conviction for espionage or at
tempted espionage, but not in the case
of conviction for the minor offense OF
obtaining information with intention
to communicate it to some other per
SON"
Undoubtedly the spot most attrac
tive to visitors just now is the quiet
road on Richmond hill where the un
pretentious house called Abercorn is
situated and into which the deposed
Manuel of Portugal and his mother
recently moved with the intention oil
making it their future home. The
house has only two stories, but pro
vldes plenty of accommodation fol
the small court which it is understood
King Manuel intends to maintain. His
secretary, the Marquis de Lavradio
has taken a house near by, but the
Lord Chamberlain and Queen Amalie's
one lady in waiting are to reside al
Abercorn. 4 stan of servants has
been installed and already royal ap
pointments" have been distributed
among the tradespeople of the town
which means that certain butchers
grocers, bakers, etc, may put up sign:
to the effect that they are serving
the Portuguese royalties.
A reign of economy has set in a
the court of Vienna. The aged En-
peror Franz Josef is one OF the mos
unpretentious of men. He sleeps in 1
plain iron bedstead, and one of hi
oldest personal servants is CREDITED
with the remark that he would un
dertake to cover his majesty's dali!
expenses with ten kronen go" AnC
yet the emperor spends millions o
kronen every year, the greater part o
which is given to so-called represen
tation duties attached to his position
as monarch. The annual mainten
ance of his gardens, all open to tn,
public, cost him $4,000; the Schen
brunn park and the famous Thiergar
ten, 100000 the imperial museums
$4,000. and in addition to these ar,
the court theaters, the imperial Ii
brary, open to every one, charitabl,
institutions and appenages given t,
families who have lost their ances
trail wealth, needy officers, etc.
Monaco, the latest state to acquir
a constitution. small though it is, 1
not the smallest state in Europe. |