Show old world news LONDON june 9 1888 with the coming incoming in of june vi As I 1 n ted a development of enterprise which places england still farther ahead she has hitherto been of the nations of the world in regard to the pointon speed great northern company some bearg a go commenced running an express from london to edinburgh in nine hours and to glasgow in ten hours and twenty esit trunk lines connecting scotland with the english metropolis aion their mettle first the and then the london and north wegern trains to both edinburgh slid glasgow in ten hours but towards the end of bray tho hat framed announced that henceforth it would do the journey from london to those cities in an hour lops the challenge was promptly taken up by tile great northern which antl maw the very next day th atthe duration of the trip to edinburgh w from tile first of june be short on anda half title Is a truly marcelous ma relous speed and it to difficult to see how it can ma do more brief of course it reives v memories of bygone days alien journey to as con by q londonjr Lon donor to be done in really quick time it it came within a wee kand of those a little farther back when as handbills hand bills still ia exis once testify the running of a coach from york to london which occupied 0 rily four days on the road was co n a almost a miracle of speed with such examples before us even the handiest hardiest har diest prophet scarcely venture to foretell where this race will end one of those ao cilli questions which appear small when compared with me of the burning topics of the day but which are great in their effects upon a large number of people Is the employment of discharged soldiers in these days of short service the need of some organized system to the en d Is increasingly felt and a national association for the purpose wai a formed two years ago which by its latest report appears to be making fair head wa y though perhaps not great as the worth of its work deserves daring the past year it appears branches have been formed at chester liverpool nottingham hull and no castle upon tyne bile near men bad been registered regist erod by the va rious offsets of the association for over a thousand of whom employment had been found that being double the n umber the first year tile gov erni rient is assisting the movement w ith a small contribution from the imperial funda but what Is wanted ili amore general public recognition of its methods and alms are ma try situations a thoroughly trustworthy discharged soldier could excellently excellent fy fill and as long AS we have a volunteer army organized on the short servilia ser vicia system it Is feces a ry for its complete popularity that the public should assist in doing something for the men after they am dis c barged I 1 there Is trouble ahead in ireland notwithstanding the sire actions efforts and determination of the to carry out the letter of the law the rapal which in effat bans the plan of campaign boycotting and all the works of the nationalist party and its supporters Is in effect repudiated by the par kellites nel lites and that circumstance alone Is a serious one opening up ties of a conflict between popular I 1 opinion and the spiritual power ilia tory tells in terrible language what similar contests have in the past to then it his been considered necessary by the executive to proclaim dublin city and county and even severer acid more decisive nie are spoken of as likely to supervene what will bethe end of all this gladstone and the bulk of the diberal party range themselves on the side of the home rulers and in effect endorse their action en the other liand a have the conserva tives and those who are called variously liberal unionists or liberala the litter combination Is ina majority but how long will the status last the position cannot possibly become permanent for though chamberlain chief of the militant liberal unionists speaks of gladstone his old leader as past praying for he Is as u far off being at harmony with conservatism as he is being in touch A ith the ex premier truly the bbate of party government in england Is parl oils and the irish question vi far ait oit solution as ever Is entirely ia pon sible for the situation famine Is steadily doing its g rue some work in russia just now re cent reports show that the peas ant are suffering unheard of misery c h the government seems far more on I 1 corned to hide than to relieve run deeds aye thousands have died of hunger during the past six weeks and are being carried 0 ff every day though tile russia n peasantry are in the main characterized bi a degree or resignation and be if abnegation bordering on heroism or madness exceptions are n 0 t want ing to prove the rule and in several places the population are allowing tin mistakable signs of a deter m to fall back on the law of nat tire according to hobbes and struggle for their existence ili the lite M irease of tle expression thus ire quent of popular indignation which daring the pa st few weeks have been constantly disturbing the peace in the south leare no doubt in the minds of the authorities that oriental fatalism is fast hold on the little R of course them risings are final lyp though bever very a peed y stamped out and the last stathi of the unfortunate peasants is infinitely worse than the farat but on the other band their example Is contagious and the authorities are growing alarmed thu a I 1 n the district of government Govern men t of hie fr the peasant of makrin a took forcible of tile ca atle of ain rich set alre to their and k waya did them 11 1 I 1 il I 1 ia 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 r i 1 71 IT 11 I 1 lik 1 11 i damage tito local authorities here sent for and appeared on the ith all the paraphernalia of office but after a bloody skirmish were driven back by the pea ants A tie ac aliment of troops was sent for but t h e number available avAl lable wail probably I 1 for they tool two dayt ta cacir lie district jews are laving A hard time of it in ala bally in odessa where large numbers of thom have hitherto resided some of them having spent t enty years and more housos 14 ti to city and enjoyed the confidence bull respect of their fellow citizens but no entreaties on their part or on thop it t of their employers have tile test effect on tho authorities to foreign consuls there however have for gen eral ono of thom to have I 1 produced ax direct for the foreign on hwe behalf it wm m ade ila b cc allowed to remain A little clift has taken tier do from liverpool on a voyage to Bengt iella ili southwest africa th a vessel in question is thes tiam lonnie 6 feet long and her engines and boilers are thero fore quite exposed she laft tile cc burg dock liverpool a week ago but came to an aucher Eg romont this was owing to a a ift wind which was then blowing while off Egre the peculiar construction of the louise caused her to be an object of much ili dorest ifer side proper is only abo t a foot above the water and above ta 1 7 I 1 some thin iron failings railings rai lings ere placed people anderst do A th atthe craft in question was it bout to take a voyage ol 01 nearly 50 03 miles she was by five portuguese gal 1 ors lut her master is an englishman the greatest danger will be between liverpool and la delra but th 0 captala expressed his intention to go through tile sarajo and then make for the spanish an I clasta thought lie would bo able to perform tile voyage in about GO days her steaming power Is four knots and site only draws thre feet of water the king of the belgians recently sent to the sultan of rocco a pres out of a locomotive and a car the difficulty Is that there is no railway in morocco on which the car can be used it has been suggested that probably the got there might have the of mak ing a small line ant there tire obstacles in the way tile secretary of tile 11 treasury never bills except when lie has money in haild and as a rule lie never has any when he ia impecunious lie has tile and the bowstring quite handy for the contractors so that it is not expected that many railways will be made in lAfo rocco just yet awhile A curvous story Is related in a piper concerning tile experience of IF benchman hman ali 0 applied to a matri moncal agency to find a husband for his daughter the applicant it country tax collector explained to the matron who conducted the establishment under the name of a baroness that lie was growing old was ailing in health and therefore was to see ilia daughter comfortably settled tito young person in her 2 year wag he said an excellent housewife she understood the of jim mak ing and cooling could play well on the piano had received a good edn cation and would have a hundred thom tand francs on her wedding day but there was a drawback are had not endowed her with feminine charms bile was plain hopelessly plain not to say ugly tho reply was that she would nevertheless make an excellent wife for an dionest man and the happy thought struck the matri confal agent that there was a young man whom she knew nearly blind who would be a capital suitor since he would not perceive the plain face and ungraceful figure the affair was arranged the couple met at a moiree given by the agent and the wadding day was fixed unhappily however daring the leirer whilst the young people were alone a few ites 1 it occurred to the intended husband t feel since tie could n 6 a t he I 1 a and figure of his boar 0 abed to and his co sense cl to it being greatly de ve loped lie that site was more titan plain downright frightful in her appearance therefore There foie I 1 to broke the match and throat OnH the agent ulio deceived him with an action to recover money paid |