Show SPARKS FROM TIlE WIRE Count Lamrilorff Russian Minister of Foreign Affair left Vienna last evening for St Petersburg Tim Now Years reception at theE > sec palaco Parts was attended by the for uJlM diplomats Government officials and members of the Chamber of Deputies There was a brilliant scone at Tn Palace Pal-ace Mexico City when President Dlaa received re-ceived the diplomatic corps Consul of leers of tho armv and navy members of the Senate and House of Deputies and Icadhi r citizens TJie Berlin Tugliche Hundechau denIes that the recent article by I Gen Von lio guslawbkl wart Inspired Tho paper says that tho General being retired docs not have to get the permission of the Govern meat to express his views publicly Ho Is one of the editors of the Rundschau For some days no report warranting1 new quarantine measures have been rn calved in connect ion with till foot and mouth disease mnong Maysnchusetta cat tic The fact has atretiglhoncd tho con vlclloi of Dr Peters chief of the animal bureau that the flls aue has passed ill dangerouu point in that t State While ivierve Is maintained at the Ital ian Foreign offlco toward the Venezuelan matter It ha boon learned that this For eign office considers the additional pro vision made by President Castro an not likely or acceptance Communications on tills tiubject are now bolntr exchanged with Germany and Great Iln tutu Practically lho entire American colony In Paris attended the New Years recoil tion of Embasnailor Porter I In Paris A number oC vlsltlnc Americana rcprcHimi Ing almost pvcry aiate In the Union were present and many Parisians of social prominence were among the throng 1 which tilled tho ualoiis of the embassy Emperor William received the New Tears 1 congratulations 01 the foreign Emit fcuitsadoiH yesterday and saId to LJmbas stulor Tower that In selecting the com mission lo present the stntue of Frederick the Glut to the United States ho Intend ed to Include lu il descendants of Gorman ofllccrs who had fought under Washing tonIn In St Paul yesterday the Minnesota Educational association continued Its aog glon The event of tho evening session watt a lecture at the Central Prcubyterlan church by David Starr Jordan lrJld lIt of Lclaml Stanford university of Califor nia Ills nuhjccl was The Demand of the Twentieth Century for Effectiveness in Education |