Show LENT 9 T TO TOPICS kb A t A r p on slon aibe b fren fr ae 1 r R 0 on 0 8 via with the e opening ening 0 e commission Par carnellis nellis and the dional league are on their trial little to say that no such uch interest inheres has been shown in court proceedings in london gince the famous tichborne trial for weeks past the probate court has been showered with letters to the secreta secretary ry of the commission pleading plea dine for seats sea to they were couched couche d is in every term of persuasive wording known to the ladies dies and gentlemen who wrote them some even offered heavy briberies bribe bri berles ries and seats if put up at auction would have fetched at least two hundred d ollars dollars apiece the case being undecided d ed no opinion can be expressed as to its probable result tile the task which t the he times has undertaken will settle ettle i the question of the nature ot of the national nation a I 1 league one way or the other the issues are in no wise narrow or technical and the progress of the trial will bertal certainly aly be watched with most intense interest throughout the empire A proposal has been made and is likely to take place jor or ba building ia ing an addition to westminster abbey the resting place of glands En great dead the supply of ancient and modern worthies which her exhaustless bosom bears has outrun the lor for dust in a word westminster abbey is full and some other central resting place must be found tar for the great and illustrious of En glands dead who is there that would dispute luence ute the vast and commanding influence of the abbey as a national a mausoleum aus oleum nelson exclaimed in the hour of crisis victory or westminster abbey the peerless sea chief was after all never burled buried there and many a good and gifted son of of britain rests in those shadows who never expected that distinction but bat not net merely to the poets and warriors the statesmen philosophers and discoverers who have won the supreme tribute of interment with the kings land gheens of england but likewise to all classes the aspect and majesty of the abbey has been from generation to generation a profound and silent lesson to each age no country in the world has such a visible record of its history as england has in westminster abbey no country in the world possesses in truth such a grand and perfect illustration of its chronicle blazoned by such a galani galaxy of illustrious sons and daughters for or six or seven centuries past p ast britain has kept a record of her growth th within those antique walls by adal groag adding with loving hands age af after ter age and reign alter reign more and more to those who already consecrated the soil of her central abbey who would wish the continuity pa the he record broken who would nag bof wish wish that present and future times may add their achievements to the past and the ancient minster remain what it has so long been the central shrine of glands En imperial story the silent and and ever suggestive chronicle of tombs and tablets and epitaphs of those the record of whose actions form the greatest of all histories yet if westminster abbey is still to remain the mausoleum of british worthies something must be done and quickly done the ancient fane to is full to its ita very doore doors there is actually room for only two iwo or three more mere statues the friends of the poet mathew arnold will have to be content to place the bust of the poet in an out of ef the cornera corner a tar far less prominent place than they would wish even the remains of the good earl of shaftesbury could not find a resting place in the abbey in a word the little island has been so prolific of famous men and women that she has filled to te very nigh the last tomb space in the vast area of the minister notwithstanding so many illustrious dead have either been laid to rest in st pauls cathedral or in local cathedrals churches or graveyards the name of this im imposing osing addition to the abbey will be known as the victorian chapel and thus another band will link the name of glands En illustrious queen to future generations i la in france k M de reports on the defenses of his country jas as been beebi an unpleasant surprise fot boomis leia countrymen for the last elgh eighteen years france has been spending spendin not aund hundreds reds but thousands of millions millions of francs on her de defenses lenses and it was generally believed that her frostier defenses were complete this confidence has received a rude shock by the demand of the war minister for two hundred millions of dollars that this enormous sum will be cheerfully given no one doubts for since the of 1870 no is considered toor high 0 to o pay for the safety of et the country but the question naturally su suggests bests itself where will all this expenditure expenditure end it appears that the progress made in the manufacture of explosives has rendered useless the de tenses of several forts and they will practically have to be reconstructed As these have all been built since 1870 it is quite likely that the fortifications of other nations are equally defective before the assaults of modern artillery mow how long this state of affairs affair can possibly continue no fore see but with the war bui bu very haq staf in europe ris rising 1 and th the ed ca 0 e off bith the 10 of la 0 P will lose tience n C unc the c cr jh bur den bof ot heir beir military tary servitude se and d arill appear to f fo aca acq C of 0 arms a eme to pu end to an a tolerable toler detate a s else se a ru 0 and c uen in ill t place B choi choice is n 0 biting vil on one fro pot f v vi ut at the mutual d dast st ol 01 tateo drope ur seems to P S er on AO the diffin difficult at the he pr present e t alm no opportunity is lost in prance fince I 1 in showing a attention ution mir to russian officers who ho make ake appearance pe arance in n the country at cherbourg Cher bourg the otter other evening there was a a rala gala performance 1 mance at the principal theatre re followed 1 1 ed by a grand supper in dionot at the three men of war then anchored in the roadstead during daring the festivities the mayor of cherbourg Cher bourg drank to the union of the two nations the naval prefect toasted the czars azars fleet beet lathe general beneral in command paid a like compliment compliment to te the Russia marmy the commander of the russian war ship ili Nakhim Nak himoff of delivered a very cordial speech in reply toasting the president of the republic and the french army and navy large la e crowds assembled in the fe cry crying afu lg vive ilive la Is russel russe I 1 vive la Is france r nomadic russians with beetling eyebrows shaggy hair and a general greasy appearance may sometimes be seen wandering in droves along the brilliant boulevards of paris one to is often surprised to see these children of the snow and the steppes so bo faraway tar away from home and are to their business in the most expensive city of the world some interesting particulars however Bo flo wever of the life of these russians have been brought to light through the registration ox of foreigners now going on in prance france they live it seems exclusively in the latin quarter where they have a rendezvous in the rue saint jaques at the house bouse of an old Russ russian fan peter lavroff some of his rooms are piled from floor to ceiling with books and here these russians us who by the way are mostly students conae come together to discuss politics literature and philosophy with their patriarchal compatriot many of these students gail gathered ered roudi round lavroff make their living by teaching translating and copying and sometimes they have a severe struggle to make both ends meet they live very cheaply by means of operation cooperation co the prices of their meals are reduced to the lowest figure only cheap bread vegetables and horse flesh being consumed r very few of these slavonic people eo I 1 e settle down in paris but after t having evyln 9 completed their scientific or artistic stu studies diesi they make their way back to their native land of lat late eyears years since the russian alliance has been a fet pet dream of preach french statesmen and c cm zens the muscovites in parts paris are treated with every possible consideration I 1 the great city of ham hamburg arg in accordance cor dance with the convention of 1831 1881 has ceased to exist as a free city and along with the sister port bremen has passed under the direct control of the imperial authorities as an integ integral Kal part of the north german empire the event is interesting for it constitutes what one may fairly term a crowning act in the accomplishment of german unity and marks the end of the old league that has played so important a part in the development of transoceanic trans oceanic commerce long before a prussian kingdom was dreamed of or a brandenburger duke figured in the pages of history the ancient free port on the banks of the elbe was a notable place and a centre oi of commercial enterprise second only to its friendly rivals bremen and lubec even after the establishment of a new germanic empire hamburg maintained its former position outside the customs union of the federated states in 1879 prince bismarck invited the free city to join the zoll gerein the agreement was ratified by the senate of the city in 1881 and by the reichstag in 1882 by this agreement hamburg waste was to cease to ta be a tree free port in 1888 and definitely enter the ein after that date accordingly on an octo october ber 15 or to be more precise at the stroke of twelve midnight of oct 14 1888 the old city so many centuries free and famous started anew on what is bored hoped may prove a fresh career of prosper prosperity I 1 ty as the leading port of the great Germanic Federation russia and austria are both keenly alive to servian affairs and are eagerly watching the rapidity with which king troubles are increasing for seven years past the policy has bag been reconciliation with austria and hostility to russia now this policy is reversal and efforts are made to obtain the friendship of russia the populace favor austria and are so much more indignant at the king thus a revolution may break out at any moment and of course this means austrian occupation which would be immediately followed by russian occupation c cu pation aaion of bulgaria J H W trope europe nov |