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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS St. Petersburg. The czar has definitely defi-nitely decided to make a rather extended ex-tended -visit to Germany during the summer. With the czarina and their children they will go to the hunting lodge of Wolfsgarten, near Darmstadt, Darm-stadt, the property of the czarina, late in July or early in August. It is understood un-derstood that the German kaiser will visit them and that the two monarchs will discuss the program of the next Hague peace conference, particularly the question of the limitation of armaments. arm-aments. The czar Is believed in principle prin-ciple Inclined to favor the idea of limiting lim-iting warlike preparations, but is doubtful if at this time any satisfactory satisfac-tory agreement between the powers can be reached. He is not adverse, however, to have the matter discussed tuily and freely. The health of the czarina shows some improvement and it is hoped the stay in Darmstadt will greatly benefit her. St Petersburg. Appalling statistics, just published, regarding suicides in St. Petersburg in 1909, show that 1432 persons took their own lives. Of these 932 were males and 500 females. They include fifty-eight boys and seventy-seven seventy-seven girls of ages varying from 11 to 17 years. Cairo. The increasing cost of marriage mar-riage in the Soudan is causing serious complaint among would-be bridegrooms. bride-grooms. From 15 to f 30 is the sum usually demanded as the bride's dower among the well-to-do laboring classes in Omdurman and the northern provinces. prov-inces. Half the dower is paid before marriage and the other half becomes payable only in the event of divorce. The first half is paid to the father of the bride and is regarded as his property, prop-erty, though it is often spent on the wedding festivities. In addition to the dower the bridegroom makes considerable consider-able gifts to the bride and usually bears some part of the expense of the festivities. One of the most popular of the Mahdi's reforms was to fix the dower at 100 plasters (about $5) for a girl and $2.50 for a widow or di-1 vorced woman. Copenhagen. A memoir of the late Princess Waldemar of Denmark is being be-ing written, and the book will be published pub-lished at Copenhagen. Princess Waldemar Wal-demar was the only daughter of the Due and Duchesse de Chartres, and she was married in October, 1885, being be-ing then about twenty. This memoir will deal principally with her early life in England and France. Copenhagen. Whatever may be the truth of the claim of the anti-prohibitionists in the United States that the prohibition war is subsiding, there is no doubt in the world as to how Sweden Swe-den stands on the question. A plebiscite ple-biscite was recently held in the kingdom king-dom on the question of prohibition traffic through all Sweden. The vote showed 1,700,000 for prohibition and only 12,300 against, almost unanimous. The Swedes voted with knowledge, as the liquor laws in the northern kingdom king-dom are strictly enforced. Cape Town. General Botha, the first premier of the South African Union, is one of the most striking figures fig-ures in South Africa at the present time, and has won the confidence of British and Dutch alike. General Botha Bo-tha is a man of liberal and progressive progres-sive views and high principles, and has on his side the advantage of comparative compara-tive youth, being only 4 7 years of age. Born in 1863 at Greytown, Natal, Botha Bo-tha accompanied his family when a boy to the Orange Free State, thence to Vryheid, the then capital of the South African republic. He became a member of the progressive party in the first Volksraad, and vigorously opposed op-posed Mr. Kruger's policy, a policy which led to the Boer war. When the war broke out in 1899 he joined Lucas Meyer's commando, and on the death of General Joubert became be-came commandant general of the Boer forces. After the war, General Botha visited England with Generals De Wet and Delarey in 1902, and was received by the king and Mr. Chamberlain, who was at the time colonial secretary'. Upon the grant of self-government to the Transvaal in 1906, he organized with General Smuts and others Hot Volk (the People), for the first election elec-tion campaign, and led his party to victory at the polls. He became premier pre-mier and minister of agriculture in the Transvaal, which position he has held up to the present time. lie has since twice visited England in connection With the imperial conference con-ference of colonial premiers with the home government in 1907, and another anoth-er imperial conference in 1909, being accorded many popular ovations He has initiated and carried out in his own country some exceedingly useful measures for the development of agriculture. agri-culture. General Botha has taken a prominent part in bringing about the act of union and in arranging for imperial im-perial defense. 6 BnS-T.he hiSht bridge in the world has been opened recently it is the Fades railway viaduct, which is to carry the Paris main line between Montlucan and Clermont-Ferrand over the Sioule gorge. The viaduct, which iS,tUAate.d between Saint Priest Sauret and Aneiezs-Saint Georges, rises to a height of nearly 450 feet above the evel or the valley. The new bridge is a continuous steel girder structur and is supported on two enormous reel feetiih P1 masry over 300 feet high, which in turn rest on baes nearly seventy feet high. The 43 000 cubic yards of masonry upon whic,? Sh dgie 3 "PPrtel are founded on ?hidtJ0Ck; T1?e center sPan betwen the two piers is 470 feet long, and i f d & tW0 spans 300 feet in length. The center span was constructed con-structed in sections, some twenty to twenty-five feet long, which were built out, section by section, from each pier, N.'iMmw ... j AT 112-Uy 3."U. - .. ', ', until the two rams met and were joined. Vienna. Suicides of boys who have failed to pass their examinations on the day of the distribution of the half-yearly half-yearly certificates in the schools have become so increasingly common that the minister of education has become seriously alarmed. A boy's failure to pass his examination always suggests failure to pass the final matriculation, which means that the boy is forced to perform the full term of three years' military service. Rather than face their parents after a failure, many boys go out into the country and shoot themselves. An inquiry opened by the minister has resulted in orders being issued for the relaxing of the strain in the schools. Two half-holidays are to be granted each week to be devoted to games, rowing and shooting being especially es-pecially recommended. Berlin. Two choir boys in a reformatory re-formatory at Rosenf eld, near Munich, have been sentenced by the children's court to serve several years' imprisonment imprison-ment for poisoning sacramental wine. The elder boy stole some hydrochloric acid, and the younger, who was assisting as-sisting the priest at mass, poured the poison into the wine. New York. Theodora Elwell, grand niece of a Brooklyn philanthropist, James E. Elwell, daughter of J. D. Elwell, El-well, a member of a New York stock exchange firm, and a graduate of Rad-cliffe Rad-cliffe college, hanged herself in an abandoned gymnasium in Brooklyn. She had suffered from melancholia following an illness. Dublin. The American invasion is on in full swing. Hardly a steamer from across the Atlantic but brings its quota of Irish-Americans or the sons and daughters of Irish-Americans, all actuated by the desire to see the land of their fathers. In every section of the island family reunions are the order or-der of the day, and hundreds of visitors visit-ors are looking up old friends, family records and the like. While many of the visitors come in style and show every sign of prosperity, it is surprising surpris-ing the number who have come over third class, having evidently pinched and saved to make the visit. One effect ef-fect of this home-coming movement is going to be a boom in Irish manufactures. manu-factures. Not only are the visitors purchasing of Irish-made goods as bountifully as their purses permit, but they announce their intention on their return home to call for Irish goods, this making a permanent demand. It is also hoped that American capital may be interested in the development of the old country. The announcement of the death in Queensland of Mrs. Kevin Izod O'Do-herty, O'Do-herty, who gained fame by her poetic contributions under the name of "Eva" to Gavan Duffy's Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland movement in 1848, recalls a charming Irish romance. ro-mance. Mrs. O'Doherty was Miss Eva Mary Kelly, the daughter of a Galway gentleman, who, whe.i quite a young girl, contributed poems to the Nation which attracted wide attention. She had as a fellow-contributor "Speran-za," "Speran-za," the title chosen by Lady Wilde, mother of the late Oscar Wilde. Among the admirers of "Eva's" poetry was Kevin Izod O Doherty, a young medical student, who was also engaged en-gaged in the patriotic movement. From a literary admirer O'Doherty advanced to the position of "Eva's" lover. As registered proprietor of the Tribune, another Dublin paper of rebellious re-bellious tendencies, he was arrested for sedicious writing and sentenced to ten years' transportation. Before his deportation to Australia, "Eva" was allowed to see him in his cell. "Be you faithful," she said to O'Doherty; "I'll wait." O'Doherty was transported, but being allowed out on parole in Australia he was able to finish fin-ish his medical studies and take out his degree. Years passed and he returned re-turned to Ireland, where "Eva," true to her word in the prison cell, awaited him. Two days after his return to Dublin they Were married, and O'Doherty, O'Do-herty, with his bride, returned to Australia Aus-tralia as a volunteer exile. In 1885, O'Doherty came back to the old land and entered the house of commons as member for North Meath. He quickly tired of parliamentary life, however, and once more returned to Australia, where he survived until a few. years ago. London. A Liverpool Robinson Crusoe has just returned to the land of his birth. Thirty-three years ago Harry Brower, then a small boy of 12 years, ran away from home and went to sea as a cabin boy aboard a tiny sailing vessel bound for the Pacific. Now he is returning home wealthy, hoping perchance to find a younger brother and sister alive, whom he vaguely remembers as tiny children. All these long years he has lived among the natives of the island of Oahu, speaking their language and living liv-ing their life, supporting himself in various ways, until now he has forgotten for-gotten his mother tongue almost entirely. en-tirely. The art of writing English he, curiously enough, has not forgotten. It is his fixed intention, after visiting the land of his birth, and after traveling trav-eling around seeing the world which he left so long ago, in a year's time to return to the Pacific and spend the rest of his life among the people of his heart. Lord Kitchener, it is understood, received re-ceived a special invitation to attend the forthcoming maneuvers of the German army as the guest of his majesty, maj-esty, the kaiser. . Berlin is ready to take care of the fifth congress of Free Christianity and Religious Progress, which is to be held there, beginning August 6. There will be a large number of delegates from the various European countries, and the United States will be particu larly well represented. No royal lady of any time has been so intimately related to such a large number of kings and queens as the queen-mother of Great Britain, who has been the recipient of world-wide sympathy in her great grief and sorrow. sor-row. Her father and mother king and queen, her husband was a king, her mother-in-law was the late Queen Victoria, Vic-toria, her son is now king of Great Britain, her daughter is queen of Norway, Nor-way, a sister was for some years czarina of Russia and is now dowager empress, one brother is king of Denmark, Den-mark, another brother king of the Hellenes, one of her nephews Is czar of Russia, and another nephew, who is also her son-in-law, is king of Norway, while a third and fourth are destined to be king of Denmark and king of the Hellenes, respectively. Berlin. The Passion Play at Obe-rammergau Obe-rammergau Is now In full swing, and the little vlllage in the Bavarian highlands, high-lands, which' for nine years in each decade de-cade differs little from the other little villages in that part of the world, Is crowded to its capacity with visitors and will be until the cool days come in September. It is safe to say that every American tourist in Europe this summer has Oberammergau in his itinerary. So much has been written about the place and the play that I do not intend to bore you with any de- scriptlon, but I had a talk recently with Fraulein Helene Lang, sister of i the man who plays the part of Christ, and to whom is assigned the task of dressing the play, and from her secured sec-ured some information which, I think, will prove interesting. I found that she cuts out every single garment worn in the play, and that each garment gar-ment Is made by Bavarian peasant women wo-men under her immediate supervision. Fraulein Lang did not understand much English, but she kindly took me to some of the women who were at work on the garments. Perhaps it may interest you to know exactly what is done with the proceeds of the Passion Play. Many persons seem to Imagine that the villagers are fat and flourishing. This Is not the case. The play sadly dislocates business. busi-ness. Many of the players can do no regular work for six months before the performances, for they have so many rhearsals to attend. The Bavarian Ba-varian government has made a condition condi-tion that full third of the clear profits should be used, after all payments of costs, for the general and public welfare wel-fare of the Inhabitants of the village. The new theatre has Just cost Oberammergau Oberam-mergau the sum of $80,000. Calcutta. The Hindu demonstration demonstra-tion in memory of King Edward closed with a peculiarly Hindu ceremony. Nearly 20,000 poor were fed, seated in two rows on either side af the public streets for over a mile. The menu consisted of a delicious and sumptuous Bengalee, dinner. The maharajah of Darbhanga acted as president, and the dinner concluded with the gift of a piece of cloth to every person. . The ceremony passed off without a hitch. The chief justice and other prominent English residents visited the scene, and the streets were crowded with tens of thousands of spectators. The poor dispersed shouting "GlDre to the British Brit-ish Raj!" . Paris. At a banquet in Paris the other day the menu included an omelette of ostricn egg-, pyothons, African gazelles and porcupines. Several Sev-eral women were Induced to try ty-phon ty-phon ragout, which they pronounced delicious. New York. Walking in his sleep P. T. Brudder, a retired business man, 70 years old, fell through an open window in his sixth-floor apartment on Forty-sixth street and was instantly instant-ly killed. Relatives said that Brudder had been a somnambulist since childhood, child-hood, but had never before suffered any accident while walking in his sleep. , Helena. A.. C. Gowney and R. C. Soper, assistant engineers; Don Cal-klna Cal-klna and a laborer named Soul Wall connected with the reclamation service, serv-ice, were drowned at Shoshone as the result of a pleasure boat capsizing. Kansas City. Rev. Thomas A. Fitzgerald, Fitz-gerald, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church at Independence, Mo., and vicar vi-car general of the diocese of Kansas City, died Friday at his home at nlde-pendence, nlde-pendence, of heart disease. Sydney, N. S. W. The . all-Ameri-can Rugby football team, composed of students from the UnlversiUea of California Cali-fornia and Nevada and of Leland Stanford university, were defeated by the Sydney university team, 17 to 6. Dusseldorf, Germany. The first regular airship passenger service was inaugurated Wednesday when Count Zeppelin's, great craft, the Deutcha-land, Deutcha-land, carrying twenty passengers, successfully suc-cessfully made the first scheduled trip from Friederlchshafen to this city, a distance of 300 miles, in nine hours. The weather was perfect and the motors worked faultlessly. The average aver-age time maintained for the complete course was approximately thirty-three miles an hour, but between Friedericb-shafen Friedericb-shafen and Stuttgart, the 124 miles were covered at an average rate of forty-one miles an hour. The best speed for a single hour was forty-three forty-three and one-half miles Count Zeppelin was at the helm when the Deutchsland left Frederich-shafen Frederich-shafen at 3 o'clock and sailed away on the trip that was to mark "Ji ;ioch in aviation. The passengers were some of the directors of the Ha.nburg-Amer-ican Steamship company and the German Ger-man Airship Stock company, joint owners of the dirigible, and guests. Sydney, Australia, In the inter-university athletic meet on Monday, Sydney Syd-ney university defeated the all-Amerl- can team made up of the University of California, Stanford and University of Nevada men, 48 to 27. Sydney university uni-versity defeated the American college men in Rugby football, 10 to 9. Livingston, Mont One of the most remarkable and puzzling of the natural nat-ural phenomena in the Yellowstone park has recently been 'discovered by Winter Keeper Buzen of Norris. It Is a geyser which played recently every twenty-four hours and throws a stream 135 feet high, but the water is ice cold instead of scalding hot. The geyser is called the Valentine. It has been the accepted hypothesis of geyser formation that subterranean subterran-ean waters coming in contact with and certain chemicals generate heat and steam, which, seeking a vent, cause an eruption. This theory fails to account for the Valentine's activity. ac-tivity. London. An army airship made a surprise reconnaissance over London during the week. Leaving Aldershot at 11:30 o'clock at night the craft started for London !n the teeth of a stiff breeze. It reached St. Paul's two hours later and circled over the cathedral at a height of 1,000 feet. Returning, the airship arrived at the barracks at Aldershot Al-dershot at 3 o'clock in the morning. The distance between Aldershot and London Is about thirty-five miles, and ,the time made by the airship first against and then racing1 with the wind, Is considered excellent. |