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Show Frenohmen, all together make up an explosive magazine, ready upon the touch of a lighted match to envelope Europe in a flame of war, such bb the world has never before witnessed. Two millions of trained soldiers, armed with the most destructive engines of war, and directed by veteran officers, can bo hurled with terrible effect upon opposing columns at the word of king or kaiser. A few great battles will change the face of Europe, and go fur to realize the prediction of the great Nupoleon, that within the cen- tury, Europe would be either republican or Cossack. Men and nations live and move in one generation as fast and as far as they did in an old-time century. The great events of today are over-shadowed by the greator things of tomorrow. It is from no sensational standpoint that the watchmen on tho public battlements look for quick-coming events, which cast their shadows before; they simply ,n. ofrwit. tn nmiRe. and the crowing U1UVV vi ww 1 intelligence and thought cf the great mass of the producing people, work to the surface, it may be through revolution revolu-tion and bloodshed, and result in the overthrow of dynastios and effete sys-toms. sys-toms. - I WHAT WILL TIIKIIAKVKHTllli? j j! The Russian official paper at St. j ! rotersburgh well expressos tho growing j 4 unrest of Europe in connection with tho j resignation of Bismarck, followed so I !. closely by the retirement of his son Iler- 1 ' bjrt, from his post as imperial secretary i of foreign affairs. The Russian paper says: f ; "Bismarck's resignation inaugurated an I j era of fatalism, new idoas and unex- J '" pocted events, which will compel every- 1 I body to be on the alert." i 4,' Latest telegrams Fpeuk of a purchaso, I by Bismarck, of a villa in Sw itzerland, j ; with the understanding that he will I j shortly take up his residence thore. This, S h in connection wiih his reported deposit j I in a bank at Berlin, of all his stars, J crosses and medals with the exception of I u the Golden Fleece and Black Eagle, with j f the remark by tho ex-chancollor: "No I 4 more uniforms or medals for me. You ! I have forced me into retirement where I I j - shall wear a frock coat and only nood my i si iron cross," is rather significant. He ad- j t ded: "You will nover see mo in Berlin 1 I again." I All this may bo tor effect, but as Bis- inarck lias never before posed as a player, it would leera that a serious j , broach had occurred between himself j j and family and the Emperor William. J Time, pregnant with immediate events upon which the destiny of Europe may I I t mi, will settlo the question. Austria ! I- aid Italy, members of tlie triple alli- I ance with Germany, snuff danger in the j '. air. France, standing on too defensive, i yet willing, ou the first offensive move- I i inent, to measure swords with her old . J n Iversnry, Russia, ready to join in the '' f f ay rrd evidir.lly inclined to ceeistthe I 1 'j a .1. ' ft,- |