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Show raoiis ' KI GERMANY POSTPONED Those to Have Been Held This Spring Put Off Until January. BEflLIN. . Mt 27. The rcictiitK. ' whieh reguttied its Benioni this month. i stall bogy with important legislation, including the bili to consolidate ths thro systems pf workmen's insuraace which was takes np on second reading after a loag year in committee. The forthcoming elections, however, over-shadow over-shadow every other interest and deliberations delib-erations . are being conducted and speeches made, according to the German Ger-man phrase, ."through the windows," with reference to their effect on the impendiag. struggle. The elections, which n few months ago were promised for this spring, have been- repeatedly put off, and according to present intimations in-timations will now be held at the latest ' possible dst. -tete fa January. The-pre-eat reiehstag being permitted to live out its entire constitutional term. It has had a most checkered career, Ifegin. ciag its existence under the suspires of the Liberal Coonervstirr "Unholy Alliance" Al-liance" of CoaserTatWes, Antisetnites and National Liberals, derised by Priace von Buelow to oppose the long dominant clerical eenter and carried on, after the collapse of this block -poa the inaneiaMegislatioa of 190V and the fall of Buelow, by the chancellor, too Bethmaan-Holiweg, with a loosely i sinted coalition of Conservatrea, Cler rals aad Antisemitee. This arraage- meat -baa worked fairly well, in spite of predictions of nn early -breakdown ' V nd dissolution two years ago. Political Sltaatton Mixed. - For sevnral months ' the various parties' have been nominating their candidates aad arranging alliances with other organisations. The National , Liberals aad the Radical Progresaivs party have arranged to support common com-mon candidates ia the greater part of ths empire, and to make their light on the so called "two front" basis la other words, opposing the Conservatives aid Clericals in one direction and the racialists in the ether. The Conservatives Conserva-tives aad Clericals win pull together, avoiding aseless nominations where they can secure the election of the other party's candidate bv assistaaca on the nrt ballot. Hebel baa announced the policy of the Socialism to be tbe nomt- nation of a eaadidate ia every district, ia order to get aa imposing a general ' vote aa possible, but in rehallota his party will evidently assist the Liberals as agaiast the government parties. It will be hotly toatested election. leal Invention of Telescope. Leonard Digges. aa Englishman, aad not Oalileo nor aav of the Dutch clai manta. is pat forward aa the real inventor in-ventor of the telescope by Count Carl von Kliackowstroem. a Munich scholar, ia a report just published. In it hs gives quotations from manuscript discovered dis-covered by him ia tbe British museum, written by ths mathematician. William Bourne, about 1575, aad citing qnota-tiona qnota-tiona showing thst Digges made use of the telescope at least forty years before be-fore Gslileo or the Hollsnd scientists. Isourn cites a loat treatise, published at London la 1 .'. 7 1 . entitled ''A Geo metrie Practice Named Pantoraetria, " ia which a full description ei the lenses , - used bv Diggee is given. - vie order to solve or make leaa vexing the household servaat problem in bar - In l composite committee reprvsasta live of the interests of mistress aad maid hat been selected under municipal empires at a mass meeting. It will draw up a formal agreement to serve , aa a general basis for the relations between be-tween em ol over and employee. Home of the questions usually leading te ' strifs which are to be dealt with are those of wagea. payment of board during dur-ing employer 'a absence, hours of lib-arty, lib-arty, compulsory references, summer vacations, treatment during Illness and the settlement of state insurance fees. |