| Show EUROPEAN TOPICS bulgarian troubles Pro prospects of 01 peace Beet hovens burial memories of mozart current gossip in this part of the world where kings an and princes aces ta take a such a large part tl it public ab c attention as was to be expected the journals would be occupied and still are mostly devoted to imperial matters at berlin the affairs of those these principalities bordering on austria and russia have been suffered to drop for a moment into oblivion the ministerial crisis in bulgaria has scarcely been noticed and yet it is liable at alit aey moment to break out anew and shake to tae foundations the not too firmly established throne of ferdinand bismarck bisin in arck has just oat succeeded in preventing th the a marriage of alexander of blattenburg bu r with the young princess victoria he a doubtless hoped to stop all alliances that might live give offense to the ruling powers but scarcely is this settled before trouble commences in another direction prince ferdinand has felt himself compelled to make a journey to Philip and virtually place himself under of of the russian bismarck M Stam buloff tb the feeling feeling of the bulgarian populace may be understood as well as the danger in which ferdinand is placed from the tact that at the very time ferdinand was in council with the wily russian three bulgarian army officers tired shots against the memorial chapel of the czar alexander thea facts might not signify much in and of themselves hut when we remember that on june the hungarian diet voted unanimously to increase the war expenses by a sum equal to twenty nine million dollars it is evident that in austro hungarian circles there is a feeling of unrest the dreue presses presse in protesting against the utterances of various rua bus elan journals remarks that however peaceful Rus sias intentions may bo be the concentration of troops in poland is a ket feet of which austria is obliged to take account ic count of all va the thousands of pages that have bave been written concerning the late emperor frederick the few lines by mrs bloomfield Bloom neld moore are among the best now are his is sufferings Buffe an fieri rings at an end why if the soul can fling the dust duel aside and naked on the air of beaven heaven heavenridge ride not a sin deret not a sin for win him in teis clay carcase crippled to abide the policy of germany is to 0 maintain peace and this the young youn g E emperor emperor has once more emphasized in his speech from the throne the report of an intended meeting mee of the czar with the emperor though much desired by komg bom is as mere conjecture nobody believes that william the second will succeed in bringing about a lasting friendship between vienna berlin and S st petersburg an ad effort in which even his grandfather and prince bismarck failed aslar as the relations of germany with its western neighbor are concerned these depend almost wholly on fra france e itself prince bismarck wants nothing more from the republic than a tacit recognition of the treaty ratified seventeen seve teen eteen years ago the expulsion from berlin of two french journalists na lists which has followed swiftly the commencement of the new rei reign us will no doubt be more quickly taeg taken en lad and more sharply resented so long as france persists in hating germany any with a fierce and deadly hatred because of the defeat in a 1870 and the price exacted for it the e de demeanor of the victor to the vanquished must remain one of haughty def defiance tuce the good wishes that have beet exchanged between germanys germanas Germ anys emperor m eror and the president of the fre french republic should not be mistaken ta ken as anything more than a timely t tribute ore or civil language at the time of gnat a national ional lamity calamity it is not improta improbable able that the german government 0 v will select as the date tor for f the h e coronation of the emperor wil liam ciara aad his bis consort the of octo is at once the anniversary of the battle of leipsig the birthday of the deceased emperor frederick and the emperor king kine william 1 I when he was wals crowned browned at konigsberg in 1861 hitherto only two kings at prussia have yet been crowned or have crowned themselves namely frederick frederi ck I 1 and william 1 I the intervening monarchs including the great frederick have contented themselves with a solemn declaration of homage from the representatives of the realm the old kaiser who died this spring was desirous of his victories by a royal coronation and accordingly was crowned the young emperor who looked upon his imperial grandfather as the ideal of a sovereign naturally wishes to be honored with a similar ceremony the admirers of beethoven and lovers of music generally have shown their devotion to the great composer by erecting a magnificent tomb and memorial where may repose his bis ashes in the cottral ral cemetery of vienna the of transferring his bis remains took pa place on june what newton is to the man of science what shakespeare is to 16 the poet or napoleon to the soldier such is beethoven to the lover of music A very painful incident in connection with the removal of the remains from the bahring wahring ceifie demetry try was a quarrel between the authorities aud and certain persons who desired for scientific purposes to make an examination ot Beet hovens skull this ultimately was allowed but in some as yet unexplained manner the skull was nearly broken in two and iland two of the teeth all of which were well preserved disappeared having no doubt been stolen although Alto ough beethoven only died in 1827 this i is the second time his remains have been disturbed by the zeal of his friends while the Yien Vien neese deserve a certain amount of sympathy for their efforts to erect a fitting mona ment to the great composer still to the far greater number of bin bid friends who never knew him there is a distressing element of fussiness in all this it may be that the former tomb was not worthy of the illustrious dead it was a stone with but one name upon it no date of birta or death no word of praise or regret it contained butone word B 11 there was a certain appropriateness in all this to any one oae who realized that the greatest attribute of true art is its universality time and place were fittingly omitted in the case of that supreme genius after all it is not the a spot ot or the monument that can add d dignity to man in a case like this mozart ozar t the king of german musicians was carried to his grave in a blinding snowstorm snow storm and was laid in I 1 a common grave when next day his sorrowing friends sought tor for the spot in order get that they might place a cross above it there was no one who could point out where the dead was wa lying somewhere unknown clothed clothed in the black dress of the masonic brotherhood he be lies in the cemetery of vienna but what of that t the monument of his bis lifework life work will long outlive the celebrated statue tardily raised to his bis memory by posterity it is equally impossible to add anything more to the fame of beethoven by the long deferred ceremonies just abken place in vienna the man as well as the musician has written an enduring record in the hearts of millions at an early age he was smitten with deafness but still continued to produce one masterpiece after another to the delight and astonishment oi of every man who ylo has hag music in bit bis soul what could have been more affecting than the spectacle of the deaf beethoven bowing to the audience but hearing bearing not one sound of the thunderous applause ia u se which greeted his compositions oraf n s nor a single note of the music his bis inspired brain had bad produced among other topics that receive the attention of the public here way may be mentioned the projected conference of the european powers with regard to the opening up of Morr OrcO to european manufactures and colonists the emperor of hassan seems inclined incline d to bollow follow a chinese policy of kee keeping ing his bis people unacquainted with tl europeans uro and their merchandise the project of tunneling the straits of dover is again revived four years ago a majority of the house of commons declared against the scheme inasmuch as the highest naval and military authorities asserted that the successful execution of the tunnel would entail upon england greater dangers than any commercial advantages it might secure sir Edward Watkin has never ceased to advocate the scheme and now that the membership of the house of commons is greatly changed from what it was in 1884 tile the project is again brought forward and this time it is said mr gladstone will advocate it the shipping interests of european nations is ever a prominent topic for discussion it is now conceded that the merchant vessels of sweden rolland holland italy spain and austria are dei creasing crea aine while those of russia germany denmark belgium find and france have slightly increased norway has climbed ito to the second place among the tile nations of europe her tonnage is now nearly halt half a million ii tons in advance of that of the ger ger 1 man empire J H W |
