Show EUROPEAN TOPICS among things not gener generally WIY known is the fact that man wt for man the north german consumes more meat annually than the englishman despite the beef eating celebrity enjoyed by the latter throughout the wide wide world the ibe national nickname john bulli has certainly something to do with the strong propensity for steaks and sirloins sir loins universally attributed to the E english yet more oxen are put away byle by the germans in a 12 month i by their english cousins across the channel A correct impression has prevailed for many years past that of the are mighty eaters or sausage which of course is chiefly meat though not always the particle parti cu lar sort it professes to be the german name for sausage w 16 unquestionably one of the favorite favorit viands of that sceptical but like w wise se eminently practical people p le W who whose se land it is said ire religion n Is aaa a but sausage ge is a fad fact when in imagination we picture to ou melves the average german aa a simulating simi lating uncounted yards of mett or leber aura wura we do not go far astray he resembles bleathe the venerable heroine of afa aw f nursery rhyme in that victuals and drink are the chief of bis diet and what is more sausage IS 18 chief of his hio victuals and beer chief abie of his drink whatever honor may be attached to a fine artistic passionate taste for sausage the gennana r have certainly a claim to that distine tion in regard to the real amount of s flesh of various kinds consumed vf by the germans it is evident that iba they equal or exceed every other oth european nation according to the official returns of prussia for the past year the berliners of the present day are the champion meat maff eaters of europe without attempt ing to enumerate the number of 01 pounds of beef mutton pork sud aw veal that find their way to w the a ables of the berliners there are j no less than horses slaughter met of ed yearly for the meat markets OI 01 ber berlin lin A large part of this abl is dherde fleisch 11 as it is called worked up into sausages a variety of which is cooked aa served up hot on the streets bete 8 specially ally late at evening T 10 horse meat sausage may be g a slid ally known hy bW its dark color strange to say it is called anglice A buist 11 1 1 or english sausage y SO of course these hearty repasts only the prelude to hearty drio d ing and in this respect the worthy the berliners seem to be equal to situation though there are ittai T 4 win w ine e drinkers among them yet b is the favorite beverage an and a as aa v drinkers they can fearlessly c loae ge all competition we may gather bather some bome idea of the vast amount of r beer co consumed ansu med from the fact that it t six each averages seventy gallons habitant annually babies and total abstainers abstain ers included what is Boulanger ism is a ques wn that has been asked count countless loss tirades mines during the past six months by 13 ay in all of the worlds great cap innumerable articles have beer deen written on this subject yet boy of these explanations have beell n written from a partisan view and have left the reader still worse confounded the truth is that no one ott can understand this question without some idea of the history of 0 f face nce during the last hund hundred red foam during that time there has wen in prance france three monarchies three e re rep and two empires empire s the cebu has been that the form of gov anent has been overturned on an average orage once every twelve years have the ae majority of living frenchmen e personally witnessed two u up hea arof of the political system e others aers have seen three of these bronal eruptions tile oe consequence is that among a y large proportion of the voting Pu lation of france there is no uw eel interest no abiding enthuse adlla for any particular party such awe 44 we perceive in great britain RU ng ary prussia or even in rus bus a where the great majority of the ae antry have unbounded faith irk in one oae who is to them a semi divine czar arin prance france there are a great laulu ber bler of individuals who live by bics lipics tics just as the blacksmith lives y his hammer or the shoemaker by Is last laet hence we see staunch I 1 m 1 lists ria lists and monarchists changed a u a 4 day to republicans and vice As A every y one knows the last un Phe upheaval aval took place about nineteen nin etoen years v eara ago and after the terrible scene through h which prance france had rv t ft d the third republic was voted 16 Y the national assembly by a ma jorty yonly of only one thus from the 0 outset the republic has had 0 it nlaly the nation arrayed against and as 88 a consequence the licano i cana have never been able to adopt 4 alere truly republican constitution we find one great cause of i discon discontent tont one half the jon halt chafes ceaf at the rule of the other t the imperial regime mili tary 0 y glory I 1 united france for a peri lie 4 since ince the advent of the orl party has held forth any absorbing idea equal to that thai aroused rio by the passion for military y fory many warlike spirits in carico love the idea of a republic yet sov deplore ep re the fact that the present P bunty tn nent give them less their th L to distinguish themselves in look lo 10 dav ivorite ori 11 be pursuit hence th they ey ni to gen xen boulanger as one who wh 0 nt L gov em ort a republican ortirio glora irIt t with a fair share of military let us imagine that in the cou had aft of one hundred years there occurred in the united states eight kot cag chg changes 1918 in the form of govern beba and that the constitution had n completely transformed traus formed by in amendments end ments it is quite possible ate that under the circumstances americans would be as discontented as frenchmen are reputed to be ministerial instability is another great cause of Boulanger ism which so far as it has any meaning at all signifies the grouping around the name of a popular general of every kind of discontent no matter from what quarter it springs the last week of mr Glad stones stay in italy was truly one continuous ovation and his journey from naples to the north of italy wag waa in some respects a triumphal march when he arrived in rome helas he was met at the station by signor signer cris crispi the italian premier who saluted t the e grand old man in the name of king humbert and the italian government the remarks between the two statesmen wore were most cordial for an hour they held converse together and many romans heard with astonishment the great commoner conversing in their own language and speaking enthusiastically of italy from rome he journeyed northward the weather was stormy but it did not prevent him from ascending the heights of ravello in the cathedral of which nicholas breakspeare the only pope of english birth adrian TV IV once addressed six hundred knights of st john on their way to join the crusaders in pal palestine estine mr gladstone was entertained here at the home of mr nevill reid who has for many years inhabited the old castle or palace of the counts of rufolo this is in the same castle where dwelt nicholas breakspeare adrian IV and likewise some of the famous kings of the an jovine dynasty in medieval times the height on which it stands is one thousand two hundred feet above the sea there beneath you lies the blue valernian Saler nian bay as longfellow calls it while on the other hand can be seen the distant peaks of the App enines which so often form a background for the jainti paintings 1 of salvator rossa and claude lorrain this ancient castle of the rufolo family though the tower is somewhat in ruins is imposing in size and a fine specimen of gothic having been built in the palmy days of the great mohammedan empire not far distant from the castle are the famous vineyards of ravello bavello aher the famous wine is made which bears the name of episcopo probably 0 bably because the episcopacy or gr higher ig her clergy love so well to drink it from ravello bavello mr gladstone returns to his native land may he long I 1 live ve too to battle for the right during the put past two weeks rome has witnessed a demonstration which has not happened lately in the ancient city with all its ambition to be a first class claas power italy cannot do everything and there are many laborers in rome who cannot today find broad bread for their dependant ones the result has been a popular uprising and a destruction d est ruction of the property of many innocent sho shopkeepers kee era the govern government m ent which had ha been repeatedly warned wa actually delayed all action until the riotous assembly had had three hours of liberty the result is that the track of their procession is a scene of devastation principally of plate glass lass windows and their contents re the animosity of the insurgents seemed principally directed against coffee houses which are frequented bya by a class who toll not neither do they spin but live on the toll toil of others nin quiet it has now been entirely restored J H WARD EUROPE march 4 1889 it has for some time been rumored that the death of the present king of holland which may happen at any moment will lead to grave complications germany it is said mid is not satisfied with the arrangements made for the king of hollands holland succession and is desirous of incorporating incorporate ag holland in the german confederation prince bismarck has at different times declared that the annexation of holland would be a desirable thing and that it would round off germanys germanas Germ anys frontier in a wonderful manner besides div giata JN J 0 germany ermany fleets commerce and monies it is one ot of the great chancellors peculiarities to state plainly what lie he wants and what he is driving at and then to trust to time and diplomacy for securing the coveted prize the annexation of holland to germany is no doubt at this precise p c ise moment something me like a v wild I 1 d dream but so was the unification of germany at a period not beyond living memory there them are however obstacles in the way of annexation which are even more difficult to overcome than those which stood in the way of german unity holland for example has made desperate endeavors in in times past to preserve her independence and it is is quite possible that she may do so again if it is absolutely necessary the spain spain of phillip 11 II and the france of louis XIV were quite as formidable in their day as prince Bis marcks germany is now and yet holland held her own against these formidable empires and issued victorious from the struggle rolland holland could if she desired to do so ao break down her dykes and restore holland to the sea as she did in her contest with the grand mon arche 11 nor would she be alone in her defense on the other hand she would have numerous allies the next obstacle is that in the public mind of europe there to is so much jealousy any further extension of the german empire would be sure to raise a host of enemies on all sides military empires have collapsed before now and may do so again and it must not be forgotten that the armies of the first napoleon were in their time thought to be quite as formidable as ae germany today we may therefore feel assured that nothing will be done by violence or in haste there may however bo be a series of diplomatic intrigues tending to annexation and against these holland seems to be fully aware queen emma of holland may turn out aut to be just as vigilant a guardian of her childs interests as is the queen ot of spain in similar simbar circumstances it j t is said by certain journals that the Bis marcks both father and son do not like the interference of women in politics and there are those in europe who would be rather amused to see the great chancellor successfully foiled by one ot of the sex he scorns so much the dutch of today have only to resemble their ancestors of two centuries ago and they need not fear annexation to germany public interest has been again aroused in england by the stran strange events which have been b brought ug t about bythe by the parnell comm commission ion after having spent enormous sums to prove the authenticity of the infamous letters of which mr mf parnell was said to be the writer the times has been obliged to admit that the precious epistles were the handiwork of an able forger named pigott and to apologize this catastrophe has gone the round of the Eu european eurstean roTean press and everywhere provoked surprise r millions of readers have read about these letters the times yn never the least doubt never mac slightest reservation respecting what was called the criminal connection of mr parnell and his colleagues with revolutionists it defied them to re reply ply it proclaimed itself ready to undergo all the consequences or of its attitude if the falsity of its assertions were proved the times never thought that the irish members would consent to an english inquiry or that the truth would be finally discovered it boasted of the precautions it had taken to prove the authenticity of these letters which it was using to throw dirt on a party and on a nation and yet these much boasted precautions consisted only in financial cial truckling with the estimable pigott mr Glad stones speech march lot in the british house of commons showed that he had not lost any of his old time eloquence by his sojourn under italian skies for an hour and forty minutes he eloquently advocated his policy and it is safe to say that copies of this address will make their way to every village of the united kingdom mr parnell has also shown that he be can speak with eloquence when occasion requires and the enthusiastic reception accorded to him by his political friends will not be grudged CM him by any honorable foe abe the juvenile hands that now conduct the tunes seem unable to sustain its weight and to be paralyzed I 1 zed 1 by this incident in the conduct yu ct or of newspapers as well as nations the pitts are few and the im beccles legion from paris to peking aeki ng in in twenty days over the great russian ray railways via the caspian sea and samarcand Sam arcand such is the announcement for the tourists of 1889 it is nothing very strange to go from paris to peking thousands have done so already but make the journey through the heart of asia to ride in a railway carriage over the desert plains of turkestan Turk estan and mongolia is ia another and a very different thing altogether the building of this system of railways marks an epoch in the history of those coun tries it means a revolution in the ideas of those people cities will be built along these highways of traffic new industries will be developed and ma markets bets opened for the commerce of the world in connection with this rapid railroad development may be noticed the efforts that are being made to secure more rapid transit across the oceans mr brice douglass Dou glase the famous shipbuilder and architect of those splendid and lately built ocean steamers alaska oregon umbria druria the north german lloyd fleet and the last australian racers cormuss and brimba is now making a tour through some of the leading capitals of europe he says the public is demanding vessels of increased speed the governments of the united states england englan d and canada are demanding that the mail service should be accelerated and in view of the next mail contracts new and faster steamers will have to be built to insure comfort with increased speed vessels especially ally constructed to meet the heavy gales f the atlantic winter season must be built on quite a different model from what they have hitherto been the length should be at least feet 9 beam 62 feet and the engines ines driving twin screws of at least horse power such a vessel could easily make 24 knots an hour or miles per day and the whole voyage between queens town 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