Show LETTER FROM EUROPE the great strike of the vienna streetcar street car drivers during the past week has directed attention to that overworked over worked class of humanity and may lead to reforms in other places besides we the austrian ca capital ita it seems that these employed emp loyes tad had asked an amelioration of their terms of labor and particularly as to the hours during which they were compelled to be on duty these were not merely hard but positively exhausting hau sting many if not most of the poor 0 or men engaged in working the viennese ae anese streetcars street cars had to be on duty from six in the morning till midnight and sometimes later one man who had bad a wife and three children declared that for this toil his earnings averaged one florin and twenty kreuz ers equal to 62 and a half cents a day he took all his bis meals on the cars and was fined whenever he was two minutes late in completing a journey he said the constant strain upon the mind and the fatigue caused to the right arm by having to work the brake rendered an ordinary man unfit for work of any kind after ten years those who survived this kind of labor for ten years he said were exceptions while the street car company thus made slaves of its servants it likewise had been wronging the public and acquiring large sums of money by the overloading of its cars again and again the long buffering public of vienna have protested against being packed like herrings in fact the cup of the iniquities of vienna street cars seems to have been about full when the men unable to obtain fabir treatment from their employers went out on strike the inconvenience resulting to the public in a city like vienna was prodigious and this is all the more apparent when we consider that nearly all the business is in the heart of the city while the suburbs are scattered and distant but worse than inconvenience ensued the socialistic social and anti jewish elements took advantage of the occasion and for days together made the city a bear garden it is said that twenty thousand persons were con coll berned in the riot and of the police sent to clear the streets more than forty were injured the military were at length called balled out six squadrons of cavalry and ana four of infantry bivouacked bivouac ked in taft streets and portions of the city re a military camp indeed the entire garrison at vienna is kept in readiness for immediate service elf required meanwhile person have been arrested and the mob everywhere dispersed I 1 in these disturbances the street car drivers took no part in fact public opinion was alis them fruitt fro the outset as also the sympathy of 01 the the government the city it council of vienna unanimously decided to fine the street car company for the interruption of traffic caused g by the strike and an additional a day so long as traffic should remain interrupted the directors of the car company saved them em selves from paying the latter by taking back the men formerly it in their employ with the promise that twelve hours should constitute a legal days work thus the vienna street car strike came to an end in relation to the above the nord 6 dents ohe Alge meine makes the following sensible observation althe best work and the biggest dividends are not obtained by screwing the last drop of strength out of the willing or necessitous creatures count herbert von bismarck 6 recent visit to england has aguild become the subject of discussion iv it being now stated that the mission had an important political bearing it is rumored that germany fears that in the event of war with france she would run the risk of losing her newly acquired colonies colo nieth and therefore seeks for the coopers co opera tion of the british navy the truth is that the germans see in africa the makings of SW an other indian empire they remember what was wag done in the fast east indies by an english trading cow coin pany under the protection of a government which might yet be said to stand aloof from the whole business for many a year imagination shows them in the forests foreste and by the lakes of africa many a pagoda tree like that from which so rich neb X shower of gold was shaken by tb tho british in india and as the english managed to get the french alu out of one dominion and take it all themselves so will the germans strive for a great and unshared ew efer pire on the other that seems to be the intention at any rate and they are taking more ways than one to make it a grand reality we WAY may readily believe it is not for the los of the portuguese that germany so 00 strenuously upholds the claims ot of portugal claims so prodigious as to be almost laughable but because she evidently believes that at the tb proper time these claims may be e quietly transferred to herself signor crispi crispus Is declaration in 00 tn italian parliament with reference to abyssinia is an exceedingly cautious oaut ious one he disclaims all intention jn of profiting by the anoy and confusion into which bys sinla inia has fallen owing to the wath death of the negus l or monarch the dispersion of his armies by the oe but at the same time ue declares that italis engage ments must be respected a vague declaration which leaves the doors pen open for future operation should thay leybe be needed the Mah diste of the e soudan seem to be divided into pvn important bodies one on the abyssinian frontier and the other olt w some distance from khartoum while the on the abys anian 11 fronti frontier ex have been victorious ver the abyssinians Abyssinia ns the oar khartoum have been almost by el Senous the chief or of a religious sect located on the uw frontier of upper egypt and TrIP ripoli it la Is asserted that there e several claimants to the abys waa throne one of whom king enelia en elik is friendly to the italians at w Mas probably king menk liik will make it worth while for tile oe italians to come and aid him in conquering COU his hia enemies in abys ida nia it would be of great advantage to the italians at Mas to nave have a friendly instead of hostile ruler ler over abyssinia tile the duke of nassau has taken formal lornial possession of the regency of luxembourg this marks the be in f a L new period in the his tory wt of holland oll and it is true luxem burg was not of much value to holland ind but when a little nation uce begins to lose territory the process generally goes on al lough nominally an independent tuler er the duke of nassau is by his as much a prussian subject subas as if he was born at potsdam it if he is not aware of the fact he will ul soon boon be made to feel that he is e vassal and must in all things obey obe cy Y his berl berlin superiors probably the oe day is not tar far distant when the le force of independence will be E I 1 to an end and luxembourg will S incorporated with the german servia at the present moment mo has queen in involuntary exile at is and a kins king a voluntary dolunt exile at C constantinople Constantin opre the queen at aita has just informed the servian ants ts that she does not intend to interfere ler Iter fere with their management of all ue government and that her ap poaching caching Wo aching visit to belgrade will be ly one ene of maternal solicitude be nhe r the yo young un g prince in order to g out of the way of temptation the een Bi does not intend to reside at the ht I kona or palace but will con lier belf with a country villa hlll n walking distance from the ace in ila the ine meantime antime while matters al re apparently running smoothly for wv queen V natalie king milan is oyang oyt ng himself at constantinople 1 l ore 6 t the a sultan has given him a kiosk or palace and pays or is opposed AW opposed to pay for his board hodg act washing and other 4 aces of royalty constantinople is gradise dise for an impecunious ex ni mO llarch credit there being g unlimited and remorseless creditors wholly unknown the last of the species having been drowned in the many years ago it Is said J H WARD EUROPE may ath 1889 |