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Show DIAZ MUCH INTERESTED TOROPE Former Mexican President Is Loaded Down With Flowers in Spain. PAR1H July 15. General Porflrio Dial has received many official honors In Iarls. Among the I-atln-Amerlcan residents resi-dents of tli capital his presence has been the occasion of a series of brilliant re-captions re-captions and fetes. The former president M Meslco was reeive1 hy President Ml-:ier-s at the K ysee am! later tl.w pr.-i-tnt paid a Murn visit t. i he Mfkii'.ni. Senora Olai bkI Mine. KaKlcr- aiai i-hanged Isi'K. (Several hlth-itn unrlir.inlvi.1 iiiftnen'h t the loin v.ivukc mi the man -ship Yphanga fiom JexVi" hive be-.i i oiji b 1c i low pHs"nKi's hn i n lrrisi nu HMHlnhtrt M tit- HX'i rri!iIIr'K prin ality. (li'fi-ml Olai mt:i;lea f 1 ? y wit n ail ami talked on a var.ety of a,i b ie- . ( utMtken thoiiKlils of hi. lerrmHt h h revolting fe.low fount rymi-n firml the ea-t piace in these taiks o etim-ry lr-riutK1' lr-riutK1' ty fej'nw uavelera, anxtou K't a elo to Imnd vlw of the man arrrnl-I arrrnl-I ted with tb building up of modern Mux tco. Interested in Europe. The great tonic of interest 0;ifin' T)taa ns thT o'd TrofT'Tr wTie-FTinrrr ti waa aunroai htng fur the Hist time In h life, lie wanted to know ail a In Jt tre nationa of Europe, and esp-ilj'iy t France and of J'ar's. Me recounted r.'i-n hla experiences wt'h the troops uf Napoleon Na-poleon Ml. to help the Maximilian cam- faign when b was made priaorr by tn rench officers, who treated him, miv-ever. miv-ever. with the greatest courtesy, more, indeed, as a frtettd. He waa fraatly affected by the demo'-st demo'-st rat ions of welmme at the Spith ports. I'nllka the times Taer when he waa officially sjreeted In Knciand and I Franca, ha waa mora at home thee---'r hoea about spoka hla own tspi:ilsh tnnaua. At Bantander hjafcds 1 enthusiastic en-thusiastic visitor brought him masses of beautiful flowers. The prea'der.t waa literally lit-erally burled under floral pieces mad up from the finest beds of Hpanlsh arder Homebody estimated these flowers as worth at lea I l-'uOO. flowers Go Overboard. The day after leaving 8antander General Gen-eral Waa saw tha purser. "Puraar," he ; said, '1 think wed batter throw 4hose flower overboard now. It waa very nl- to have given thtro to me. but 1 have no use for them." On tha way bark to his cabin ha said to a friend: "After a I. flowers are all humbug. It would hs .e been better to hav apwnt the money tu the poor." . , At Havre as be waa about to laud General Gen-eral Litaa said: "I am going Into a vaat country, whoa languages I do not know. Aas! I rear 1 am too old tu learn." Then, with a gleam In his eyes and a atraightenu g of ins shoulders, he sdtled: but Kf-rope Kf-rope has much to Interval me; 1 am sure 1 shall be happy her." To Invest Savings. ' The financier of New York and Berlin ar In acilv rivalry for opportunities to Invest French savings. wh. h amount to mur than 11 .eoo,0W.i00 yearly., tlrmn dtpiontat-y haa sought for ten years o Ut government bonds on the Paris a-etianae. a-etianae. but the French sjoternment I'a steadiastly refused thvir ajlmlssvr-. French 3 per -enta sell t M. white Imperial Im-perial Jerman S per cents ar usua .y at about ae. The tierman gofirtmeiit de-airea de-airea to aval) Itself of the French market, for an enormous numlter of murk it;, stale and imperial Issues, thus rtiwi: liertnan aavinas for invi-simeni tn ir.dua-trial ir.dua-trial and otume:cia undt-rtaki'igs. Benin bankers have been borrowing great sums rrom Paris reguiarlv tnr.-,M riwlss houses, but up to the present French government will not allow Oer-man Oer-man securities of any sort to he cpemy listed on the Paris tKurse. New V k has been able this year to make Us h'st official entry on the floor of the Pans stot-k exuhanae, where thre different Amricsn stocks are now admitted. Th probability la thai svme twenty other enmpaotea will receive within the nxl twelve months official recognition Soft Pedal on A nation. The great International av let loo contest just ended probably will be the last for this year, as the public lias been shocked by the recent fatalities. The deaths have caused much discussion, itot only In parliament, but In technical quart regarding th Impropriety of offering prise of from $4.U to $;.f.fH0. and thus attracting daring experiment, who are inadequately trained and using mactilte which have been subject to uo aulhod-tatlv aulhod-tatlv test or examinaticn. The effort to rdue weight by tightly constructed motor waa the proiah e cause of the burning lo death of Prince- ( teau and lndron ny bursting gasnllne tank. Monsieur Ernest Archdeacon of the A oro Club of F ran ce a d v oca tea an ufrtrlai examination of aeroplane motors as th only maaus of preventing too light I construction. |