Show LONDON may the universal waa opened at 2 on monday afternoon hy the president of I 1 he french republic assisted by the presidents of alio senate and chamber of deputies tha president accompanied by alie members 0 bis military household and escorted by a squadron of cavalry left the elycee at driving to the champs de carsover Mar therena bridge his arrival ft as announced by silvos s of artillery fired from alio ilo dea bygnes at 2 the president ami his suite reached the entrance of the central dome where lie was receded by M birard tho premier and commissary general of the exhibition and the directors general ofalia dafler departments depart menta the president took his seat upon a dais erected under alie central dome surrounded by alie presidents of the senate and cli amber of deputies and the ministers tho senators deputies and the representatives of abo various official bodies had places assigned to them under tho dome near the dais As soon as alie president biad taken liis place M delivered an address of welcome which was followed by a speech from tho premier M birard then expressed alio and erat elul homage of france to foreign nations and their governments and also thanked all those contributed to alio installation and construction of the exhibition the president after reviewing the progress that biad been accomplished concluded by saying it is in aliese magnificent festivals of labor that the nations are abla to approach eacle other and understand each other and eliat feelings of esteem and sympathy are generated which do not tail to exercise a happy influence upon destinies by hastening the advent of the time when alie sources of peoples and lie produce of their labor shall no longer bo employed except in works of peace I 1 wish the guests of france heartily welcome and declare the exhibition open at alio conclusion of his speech the president descending from the dias visited the various galleries of the guilding in de mars accompanied by the presidents and office bearers of the senate and chamber of deputies the ministers and the directors general the presidents and commissaries commis saries general of the foreign elections and the president and members of the installation committees assembled opposite the spaces occupied by tho exhibits of tho countries and acro successively ces presented om carnot as he passed after visiting the various departments part ments of the building the president entered his carriage at alio entrance of the central dome and went through the agricultural exhibition among alio applications which are occasionally made to judges not alie least curious are those which sometimes occur to declare that a certain person may bo presumed to be dead only a few days ago one such waa made in the probate division it being stated that a gentleman biad left man chester three years ngo tv visit the isle of mau for a holiday that this holiday he took and that he was subsequently seen at liverpool but that bo never returned home and that nothing has since been bieard about him the judge however appeared borneo hat naturally to consider that the application to be allowed to pre fumo that the individual is dead was somewhat premature and ho observed that although no specified time for such a purpose had by law been fixed he thought four years at least ought to elapse alie fact ia without of course implying that anything of the kind has occurred in this particular case a great many mysterious disappearances are deliberate flights the police arc well aware of tin s fact and they can tall como strange ales of how men and women have absented themselves from alie knowledge of their friends for various reasons and have so managed their departure as to create a presumption of their deatle this practice in fact has become so common that detectives are always cow apt to look with suspicion apon an ordinary mysterious disappearance very general approval will be felt of a movement which is being promoted in london just now for the presentation of a testimonial to captain alor rell and the crew of the steamer missouri as a recognition of the bravery they ili splayed in rescuing the seven hundred of the danish emigrant ship denmark which own birj an accident to lor propeller mas in danger of going down the tale of the rescue has been so frequently told within the past two or three weeks that is no need to repeat it here but all can well understand tho feeling that prompts tho citizens of london to wish to emphatically mark their appreciation of the skill and heroism displayed in the execution ot a very difficult task and it has to be remembered that captain SIu rrell took not only a considerable personal but a very heavy commercial risk upon liis shoulders for in order to make room for the Bu dering passengers he threw a portion of liis cargo overboard this action necessary under the circumstances la not unlikely ih its legal bearings to come before a court of law for it appears to bo doubtful how far in the strict light of the statutes it can bo but all will chopo that an equitable method of settling tho case can be devised for it would ba a thousand pities if because of a seno of duty to his own era in tho matter of the cargo a captain felt in future that lie was constrained not to imitate in a similar hour of need tho example of sir adur rell an interesting report on serlona crime in an indian province lias been prepared by air austace J kill ot tho bengal cal service alia brov inco is alie important division called the northwest province and cuje and aitio period treated upon is the 11 icara from to 1880 As a matter ot it reveals many important facts all of alch cannot bo referred refe tred to but in di rales lie slender hold edeland hag on that country it will ba some encouragement perlian per liap to learn that lie same sort of tiling ia districts of anilia where glicr authority haa been unquestioned for a century is only another name for highway robbery the email states subject to the rulo 0 own chiefa in central india to be tho center of and to provide the do pi aco of refuge of murdena committed during aliese 11 years 72 were perpetrated by and by highway robbers which used to bo a scourge of the people of india was in tho bamo period responsible for only six murders but the report goes on to state that if hag died out professional fess ional poisoning has to some extent taken its sir kills mentions many cases of professional poisoning to justify this statement another curious practice which reminds one of china is the murder of in order to throw suspicion on a personal enemy who is accused of the crime localism localise lo calise the body is found on liis premises mr kitts describes dacoits as all booro or lees desperate characters the success of alio band depends on the merits of its loader who although lie is ruthless and cruel only cuts donn those alio resist and tortures only tor the betrayal of treasure the kanjana seem to be a formidable tribe of expert footpads their numbers are fortunately fw and a omen in the deacan at leaah are noted for handsome looks command of native hill and their extremely filthy songs in the period discussed there feere cases of housebreaking and cases of ordinary theft the significance of thesa large figures ia diminished by the individual offense offence being as a rule trivial mr kitta concludes by showing how great the improvement pro lias been in forty years and he says that the criminal classes in aliese provinces still exist but they exist under difficulties and are becort bog every year more and more open to the conviction that an honest livelihood is both easier and more profitable than former existence alie trades mens bills of the marquise nee mercy dar bentean gen tean a well knon parisian society beauty have been before the civil tribunal of the seine and have caused much amusement the kac dA vary the father of the husband settled on the young couple jointly jisoo a ar and promised that during his own lifetime they should live with him in be faubourg Fau bourg act germain not less generous were hie brides parents and they granted an income during bleir joint lives of to daughter who was to inherit the half of their beveral fortunes and with her husband was to have the use of a wing in country scat this would liae been charming if the marquice iee had biad the slightest idea of the value of money in spite of remonstrance the young deeper and deeper into debt and seemed to think that alie admiration eho every where excited and he lustro thrown upon the name cf DA vary tore not too dearly bought A family council was held and it wa resolved to get alie ladys spiritual drector to give her some advice abo good man fC Kested roughing it in palestine on the eve of her departure her parents in law gave her jisoo for traveling expenses and to pay her creditors phe forgot to do the latter and before elo readied milan ehe had ebent all her creditors money when feho came back from the holy land her husband refuted to admit her to hia house and ehe took refuge in a convent pending a suit she brought against for a separation which she ultimately obtained bat her habits were anything but in 25 days behe bought bonnets costing and ran up a bill of for surah silk chemise and another of for lace eherts some of which were in black fo ilard silk others in white others in mauve and others in pink for alie same period her dressmakers bill came to her shoemakers to her jewellers je wellers tu 1720 and her photographers grap hers to naturally the marquis refused to pay and the sued him on the ground that he was bound to provide her with the clothing and accessories which social demanded the tribunal gallantly took this view and decided that the debts of tho marquise were not to come out 0 her share ot the conjugal fortune but out of lier husbands it however declared sonic of the bills ridiculously high and ordered an expect to report on the charges made for the bonnets THE decision DECi bioN of alio supreme court of tho territory upon the application of a native sandwich islander for naturalization was read en friday by jude zano and concurred in by the other judges it embraces a learned disquisition alie ethnological aspect of the question and deduces tho opinion that the kanalas Kan aLaa being neither caucasians dor africans aro not entitled to american cit zan ship As a clincher to this conclusion which for tie present purpose would seem to be sufficient alie decision discusses the moral and intellectual status of tho applicant him finally tie nords it does not to alio of abe latt die applicant tho or be of he become a catl zeu however popular in cariie ts parasols and necktie aro not in tho fashion for naturalization purposes ilire white or coal black will do but yellow tawny brown oy roa are considered aliens beyond anre this is the exposition of tho color line Is prep Trina 0 o swoop lown on atio west it will only bo a passing visitation how over as lie contemplates following the trail of that other good man senator hoar to the ico fields of alaska |