| Show CURRENT TOPICS IN EUROPE herr ludwig Bambe bamberger rEger 3 a liberal deputy of the german reichstag has jus just j t published pu bl is bed a pamphlet called the bismarck succession Y which is an elaborate criticism of the home policy of the great german chancellor during the past twenty years who is to hold the reins of government on prince Bis marcks demise is a question which is anxiously asked not only in germany but likewise in foreign countries without receiving a satisfactory answer he has trained up no statesman to succeed him even his son count herbert von bismarck is not likely to succeed to his fathers place the emperor of germany is naturally look jealous balous of his rights and is said to look with disfavor on the younger bismarck during his long lease of power prince bismarck has so carefully rully eliminated from the civil administration of the empire all pos sible rivals that is all men of superior abilities that in the event of his death the reins of the government must fall into inexperienced hands bands ono one of the advantages of parliamentary government is tb there is always a leader in reserves ready to carry forward the work ot of his predecessor but prince BW marcks personal system of govern g ment leaves the enao j ly to chance on the other hand band y prince Bisma Bis maicks policy seems seeing w j be the only one consistent with ger ewt man unity sectional or stat rights feelings as americans American 8 g would say are still stil I 1 ver very i strong in germany and B will require at least another anotn generation to weld all parts of the empire together even if pe 8 ce should continue ahl while ile 11 prince rince bw B marck holds power the great danger danz Z is that an incompetent would plunge germany into war a a relief against difficulties in bon government socialism is constan cons taO ly increasing it is only the ener eller getic measures of prince bismarck and the continuous emig emigration tion w some of the most able soc socialists w a other parts of the world that g IL temporary check to their dao 1 1 ments whenever a less d land hand than Bis marcks takes take B hold 4 the he reins of power the world nw fa w be e astonished some fine morning morill ag hear of deeds which they little OF su posed the socialists capable of doll many who have visited the F ea 3 have been not a little S to see the truly bonden bonde won den exhibit that the little northern the dom of denmark has made on ono champs de mars although 1 t mark proper contains only 4 of P wa two million inhabitants 4 more than one million are endig aji X i half 1 a in agriculture and more than million in manufactures and fore to and domestic commerce ye vet exhibits in the mechanical mechanic an and d ja arts have made good denion claim to an important rank b 0 the nations though denmark h but one large city and anis scarcely two hundred 10 it five thousand inhabitants yet y gg s we find a university established delOy far back as 1480 an acs of fine arts founded in 1754 back bior splendid museums dating olle centuries and two containing five hundred tb volumes and the other two 1111 alm f and seventy thousand vol u illes rt eDt many maldy other worthy and benea and worthy institutions the history of denmark Is iss of I 1 connected with the histories other european n many liberate us from the North men thon was the prayer of millions to n ta abro advancing hordes swept and france and spread to italy in spain a thousand years aa 0 1013 the danes conquered DB 0 and canute their wise and an ra king ruled over denmark and of north land they subdued the dome n tb the e prance france which still bears the of normandy in memory 0 conquerors one 0 ne of these CD chiw known as william the NOrl norman nl d possession of the throne of an fn EDO E DO of and from normans many beoo deac got 11 english nobility ty claim their to 10 their wild ferocity 1 seems soon subsided for in the tw iw t ir century they were no noted ted ioa ra learning foremost on oil the the illustrious danes stands brahe 3 who was waa born in 7 and nd became bem me famous not merely in astronomy nomy but likewise in many other branches of esperi m antel antal science steno romer bomer houke forstel madvig and eric awn conall all were danes danea who achieved a worldwide world wide 11 reputation and last but not who erha whop perhaps ps blight have bave justly claimed to be the the greatest sculptor of the present centory anim it t is ie therefore not surprising that mom athe the works of these great mend men as well as from the works of hundreds of 11 living v ing artists and artisans denmark has formed one ode of the moot beautiful and instructive actions of the great exposition the inauguration of a statue to admiral coligny in the rue de bllou paris is to a certain extent a sign of the ine times it shows that the protestants of arance france are stead steadily I 1 kr aud ad surely gaining ground a three centuries the name of w coligny has been held in ie atlon prom the time of the of st bartholem Bart holew until wy very lately the catholic sentiment hs been 10 strong that all other re were simply branded beretic ere tic during the stormy times when anen admiral coligny lived yram fast becoming protes tout the ideas taught by calvin re wherever the french way spoken coaly iMe the artisans the middle class S laid 1 many of the families among wench nobility became ardent dp of the reformers formers Be no pum or more heroic frenchman ever lived than SS admiral coligny and had ho be 8 been as ahrews a statesman i 88 ne be was a and pious man bm dier the history of france dureg the y 8 past three centuries might have 11 i s1 sa been different previous lous 8 t to very sa s1 the time tim of Coli gnys death h a civil war bad ad been I 1 prance nce after much blood ed sn a had compromise promise been effected djs between the catholics and protestants ote stants and as a 5 of ma peace C harles IX gave his S ite to henrie de jrsn 8 queen aleen of navarre who came to paris 18 for her sons ns fell III and died in a few the princ i pal protestant M were to the wedding and WS himself received on tahe ki a pressing g letter from several oared eral persons endear going to paris pa dissuade coligny W from some foul 8 1 as they y suspected after er the wedding 7 X aste vre was bolig i on leaving lea leavina vinh the shot 0 at and wounded by some one the asch church of sated at a window in days germain Ct ermain A few afterwards rf coligny ened in MB his by the 11 sound apartment of the ila the ahe louvre number of the tocsin when a the loom bags guards entered the duke and murdered him of in IB the guise who was court to know below 10 called caged out h heretic wh ether the arch waa done 00 and ala for terrible nive reply the mew then began of st bartholo betia coelo anen ea women and sady 0 murdered among the eims nl 0 w of some of the lead leading ing whom a goldsmith im af boasted that he had slain forty protestant te many of the slain were thrown into the seine and so great was the number that the waters of the river opposite the garden of the Tuille ries was dammed up by the accumulated bodies the following days more than corpses were taken from the river and buried in the vacant grounds adjacent how few among the gay throng who loiter in the garden of the Tuille ries or recline in the shade of its trees realize that every yard of earth there covers the remains of protestant martyrs the political drift in eastern affairs indicate the continued unrest and preparation for the coming storm that must soon break over these countries russia with keen foresight has been demanding the payment payment of the indemnity which is due due to her from turkey but tur key keyon on the other hand finding that germany ferniany Gerni any austria and italy are favorably disposed toward her has refused to make the payment at present meanwhile the insurrection in the island of crete goes on one portion of the population desires annexation to greece another wishes to remain under the control of turkey while still another is decidedly in favor of british occupation the prosperity of the neighboring island of cyprus under british rule greatly strengthens this third party arty in this connection lord r salisbury alis burys recent speech on cretan affairs is regarded by the french press as significant one journal says europe protects turkey only for the purpose of coming to an agreement about the plunder among those armed brigands brigande bri gands england stands in the front rank she has got cyprus and egypt and crete would woula suit her remarkably well crete isan is an island and england claims all islands by divine right crete is for the british an excellent advance post on the north borth of Egypt and on the route to the and to india the possession of gibraltar malta cyprus P rus egypt and crete will turn the mediterranean 01 into a british lake to those who think is destroyed the following may not be uninteresting 1 I am sent by god gd to conquer the world you can do nothing against me embrace the true faith and I 1 will protect you remember hicks and gordon such is the message sent by the chief wal el to general grenfell at on the south egyptian frontier the arrogant tone of the message shows first that this new outbreak of is a very formidable affair secondly that the egyptian forces accumulated on the frontier can barely keep their adversaries in check and thirdly that a campaign on a large scale will become necessary before is used up the telegrams that reach europe ab show ow that up to the present time there has been little more than mere skirmishing on either side there is the chance of a great battle being fought before the british troops in egypt can be reinforced EUROPE i uly july 1889 during the past month has occurred in italy a striking example of the widespread wide spread superstition that prevails in Ca catholic thelic countries As is well known the italian government has authorized for several years past a great national lottery the drawings take place weekly in eight of the principal cities or divisions of the kingdom viz at rome naples barri palermo genoa venice turin and ancona to an american this lottery business seems one of the greatest curses of italy it increases the gambling spirit it engenders superstition it foments quarrels but the most damaging of all Z results is the desire to gain money without mental or physical labor the receipts from this lottery business amount to more than seventy seven million francs per annum and the expenses and premiums amount to less than half that sum the apparent profit to the italian government is therefore nearly thirty nine million fra fran csor about eight million dollars but there are some persistent folks in this world who keep on thinking and thinking and asking ing for the abolition of this great moral evil in italy what is the good of forty million francs paid by the government for public tion if seventy seven million francs are invested in this debauching debau ching state lottery one might naturally expect that the clergy would raise their voices against it but it is a lamentable fact that vast numbers of the priests invest regularly in lottery tickets in naples where the population is about five hundred thousand and there are more than th an five thousand priests the lottery has the greatest success cess in all the countries of southern europe therease there ther eare are lottery books and dream books to be found in a large majority of the families they form a part of the stock in trade of the little shops or stores of every village in these them books are described hundreds of objects animate and inanimate such as houses ships birds beasts men women C hildren children hunchbacks hunchback hunch backs 8 dwarfs etc some of these objects are considered lucky and some unlucky the lucky ones are marked with numbers and if a person dreams of a lucky object he will invariably invest in a lottery ticket bearing the corresponding number it is on such unsubstantial stuff that the lottery gambler builds his hopes that he will win some time ago a in naples by the name of gianone Gio none dreamt that he saw a hunchback make three somersaults in the morning he told his dream to his neighbors they consulted their dream books and found that a hunchback was considered lucky and that the corresponding number was 57 the three somersaults were interpreted to mean that on the third drawing in the month july no 57 would be very lucky and would likely take the grand prize the dream of gianone took like wildfire wild fire the excitement increased daily and soon became intense many of the poor people sold their furniture and kitchen aten utensils raen men pawned their coats coate and women their jewels als that they might buy a chance in the magical no 57 in one day no less than seven thousand telegrams were received askin asking g for chances in the supposed lucky number up to the time of drawing there were sold no less than one million nine hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and forty hazards on no 57 at length some began to fear that the business might be overdone or that it might go wrong after all terrible were the threats that were made against the poor in case they were unsuccessful owing to these threats and for fear of a riot the police were all ordered on duty and a company of soldiers was placed in position in various parts of the city when the drawing took place lace ll 11 it was found that 56 was the F lucky u number and that 57 drew no DO prize e whatever who can depict L the the tg grief rief the despair of the poor degraded superstitious priest rid den peo people le or the curses loud and deep of those who consider themselves high in society but who are given to pernicious gambling in this connection how and yet how grand is pauls description of a apostate christendom and they agall shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables nothing shows better the frailty of the thread on which the peace ol of europe hangs than the ill con cealey anxiety in diplomatic circles in respect to the affairs of crete this island has barely inhabitants pretty equally divided as regards religion into madans and nominal christians but all belonging to the greek race however the cretan mohammed ans like their co religionists in bos nia have become converts to islam only to gain the favor of the sultan from time immemorial the cretans caetans have been hard bard to govern they have an unconquerable aversion to paying taxes and an extreme fondness for faction fights which have been quite frequent since they have had their own legislative assembly in former times whenever the cre tans showed themselves too boisterous the sultan sent an army to crete and settled the matter by cutting off offa a number of infidel heads this time honored custom cannot now dow be indulged in as the events of the last russo turkish war convinced the porte that there is danger in employing these highhanded measures towards its christian subjects under these circumstances the porte seems now willing to sell the island to whoever is disposed to buy the only buyer bow ever is the greek government which is not overburdened over burdened with a supply of ready cash if there was not such a vast amount of inflammable material in europe the troubles in crete would attract small attention the most natural solution of the problem would be to transfer the island to greece which is its manifest destiny at present it seems quite possible that british capitalists VP tf may become guarantees cath to the porte 0 for r the purchase money and thus avoid a premature open ing of the eastern question while at the same time strengthening british influence in the mediterranean the rush to the paris exposition still continues it seems impossible to give an adequate idea of the vast numbers that swarm over 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