| Show FOREIGN FLASHES Brief and Kowsr Cables front All Portions oC This Torrential Sphere Berlin Feb 17Prince Bismarck has been elected an honorary member of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts Rome Feb 17The health of the pope shows improvement Today his holiness received 400 Italian pilgrims and spoke to each of them The reception lasted an hour London Feb 18A dispatch from Paris to the Times says that an opera bouffe by Bizett entitled Don Procopio has been discovered among the manuscripts left by Auber London Feb 17A Berlin dispatch to the Standard says that Munich Bavaria and seventyfive towns and cities m Saxony Sax-ony will confer their freedom on Prince I Bismarck on the occasion of the coming anniversary of his birth London Feb18 A dispatch to the Standard I Stan-dard from Odessa says that fearful snowstorms snow-storms aro prevailing along the Russo Austrian frontier The railroads are in j terrupted and many deaths have been caused by the extreme cold I London Feb 18Adispatch from Berlin Ber-lin to the Standard says that In view I of the adoption by the relchstng of the motion giving increased disciplinary power to the president over that body during the sittings Herr Von Levitzow has decided to retain the presidency Paris Feb HThe Republlquo Fran I caise the organ of M MeiSne leader of the French protectionists referring to the efforts to facilitate tho entry of American meats into France urges that immediate steps be taken to prevent the importation of American dead cattle London Feb l7A dispatch to the Chronicle from Rome says that negotiations negotia-tions are on foot in Italy and Germany to obtain Russian adhesion to the triple alliance The Pope has sent a protest to the Russian minister at the arrest of three Catholic priests in Poland who are I accused of antidynasty tendencies |
