| Show 7 tir 15 1 I 1 I 1 e old world news I 1 april 8 ISM ive I 1 never hear anything in aero of a threat that used to be ado some years ago by certain university authorities to ilia effect that if the public bensted Pen sted in taking so much interest to the oxford and cambridge boat race it would be removed from ilia ahaines and rowed upon lavinder mere this Is for tile all iba bonso sonso that in them public interests int eresto has 80 largely decreased 1 that there Is iii 0 necessity to so ahrea ten various rea bons may be adduced for this differ ence but one of chent is pal able and that is that tile popular craze over tile race wag largely duo to fashion and that tile fashion has changed A dozen ok years ago it was to carded by society as tile tiling to patronize the doat aco by its pres once and alibro society 10 6 tile crowd Is bound to follow but by a re j i it L r 1 a i y 0 f 1 gion society no to 0 n e r fi i i d s t ti 0 mob at its beels than it begins to object and taboo ilia very t ing it hall exal tedi and ilia arlod of decadence bc i this N exactly ahat ila ballien to ilia boat race an d although ll 11 other causes have this one has been the wain factor in AnItal hui military organ has to from what it gays is a trustworthy source the fol loing state incan 1 I call amara you esith certainty that alra co soma since was on ilia point of making a coup de main on spezia with a powerful fleet and a body of troops the plan wu thoroughly prepared at ilia of marlnee in anti ilia fleet mas m as nearl y ready ilia descent would havo been preceded by odily a ilia declaration of war the italian III informer inform eI in timo of the blow actively prepared for defence but there were moments tit genuine apprehension at the ministry at spezia and gen 03 preparations for defence oro D der tala N till feverish activity pa that abw things are on it very different 6 A revolt has occurred in like terri lary of the british north borneo co tho inhabitants of bladas rose in to volt against the company tom pany when I 1 CR it policemen mero treacherously inter dered and ilia settlement of itata data was burned down to the ground tito town of Mam babuk was also threatened in ilia rising and it would assuredly have been destroyed but for ill a fact that tier Maje aldip rambler landed a force of mari to protect lite place Is the last accession to tile north borneo comaich acquired the territory some or four years A aich time ilia inhabitants have been very dissatisfied the troubles aich have now broken out were foramen fo racen bu tAhera they will 0 LOP it Is impossible ld conjecture urY I 1 A young and sprightly female tile daughter of a dealer in wines and spirit I 1 has julf agno through a gerics of matrimonial adventures abi c h I 1 inight ell appal the moat daring and ingenious of our authors bg an y entering ente rink aw tile bonds 0 a handsome singer who after running through tier dow 1 ry transferred its affections to a star I 1 a nd was no more wen tito victim of misplaced conal benco retook betook barsel avith tier father after obtain inga divorcees divor ceen re gleto tile lales all d of but tier sorrow was libed an insinuating gentleman alto had thrown his cassock to tle whid won tier bicart and the pair were mar kled this time li it was the lady nabo relented of tile bargain and a second appeal to ilia court of divorce rendered lier once free woman then sho returned to F to bo aitch with tier chains the son of a village li nayor that august functionary W as not to W trilled A till and ho totalled to ills consent to ilia in arriage and pur every plis in its way but ilia lover avas of age and after go ing through tile necessary formalities ilia couple repaired one fine day to ilia dairie mairie and united bythe old who turned out tobe ilia identical priest mho had been me second of ilia blushing bride The deputy ho weyer reefing on ilia contrary ho tile ceremony to lite most lively delivered a t t iiii p exhortation to the couple ind afar wards in the to Al vitres bl the wedding party I 1 I 1 another of the ut beconi class torpedo boats leavin 9 comple jhb british silo was tried elid other lay a lite chamos Th amos ith very satisfactory re suits luiere are two classes of boats in the ser vico the first class being ilia bigger ones that are always afloat and the clam alloo that are carried by iron and lowered our naval as alet 60 bild boats I 1 tile latter class ca are of little use except in tile r a jact of eathor arid ore very un copular in tho service I 1 n cheso boata afta going qualities qua lilies general usefull am and colfort were sacrificed to an ing regard for speed alie result has been that they are so crank vet and uncomfortable ai sea as a tender unlit for service in ever moderately rough becoming unpopular these boats are n 0 t aped except for P met iee lying unused for comparative ly lo 10 T perleda they are apt to wa but of order rust out ra than to wear out and the crews coopt out of practice with them them defects were long ree 0 at ilia admiralty and about A Te arago ilia invited ilia Ici diu torpedo ia this colinta y to submit pro for improved cleom to r boa tat and designs waro have been garbled out all d ilia admiralty are extremely ith ilia results which have ban attai udd A few weeks ago one i mhd new boats made the voyage un the mouth and behaved I 1 I 1 J I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1 7 I 1 I 1 1 4 I 1 ilia rough A cather oho mot mith I 1 and another one made several tri al trips on the thames tile day A number more of themi boale m ill be shortly completed tito no be are that lila old ones gott against aft but they have more belm sit against ait it ell together with fiig flat floor going tile ll 11 L is illi tons an who fully i equipped armock and coaled team UP it is 15 tons rale addition to beam 1 I construction ilia of w I 1 8 to secure lItT nothing has I 1 I 1 wn t in tito fir A amed or I 1 it new bo its I 1 a t tier official tr ul ea abe thames being fully loaded iverdel IVe rael 17 knots per hour equal to lot r fatute balles buting four hours con sinuous ailts lilts ia a higher speed than tha lo 10 at is 1 n ol 01 eca boast of p w a s h e great tiling in view in their contraction this highly gali factory result indrea In crea 4 u in a e 1 I colt currently with great in j ity and seak illar ks A great stride forward in machinery and n a bootay deck d two cabelus callb of a dating nine or a dozen goniu cacti tha dow boat will be serviceable aa fill ordinary steam constant ajo ujo ill keep the crafto an and the crew to the raina gement 0 I 1 tier ro give ill boat till dual charnet Chat net a ark tile adinor a ity fire forthe for the do sign had lit view file atnA ment of the new buat comprises a swivel ter to be placed aft and arranged so that it can be trained to any angle over catl ter side by a bluick firing gun and two Norden felts call be carried oil lock tito machinery consists of locomotive boiler all tile recent improvements ulso triin e winslon pin slon engin co the boat has an up gilt abern and fore martio dock ending in a rifle bullet proof conning beor teor containing lite steering wheel the boat is so built forward as to ise it not to avoid the big wave biell fast going craft tire apt to create and N bich by electric light is soon notice able from all ironclad fron clad tile hoat described a circle in 50 seconds it is only dealing ai storms an fn the united states or starvation in china that people seem able to realize what large numbers really tire such a blizzard as that chich recently over or even anoro recently over such alts damage blat ao call scarcely conceive how much injury was done though tile may be placed before us and that being so it Is much more difficult to realize of things often pre by tile recent earth in ilia province of cunnan several towns were destroyed and fit teen lives lost while in ilia province of alinen over ten thou jasons were drowned owing of lila district being changed into a large lake but even ahm figures appalling as U joy are fall into almost insignificance hen in pared till those furnished upon if facial authority regarding tile loss of to by ilia yellow river lations dat ions is staw at over while nearly two millions of peo alo have been rendered destitute imagination fails to such fearful facts AS these and although a way know that china is a land chich I 1 is not only a teeming population but alinosi iain aless ces me cannot but adulis low direful whole ad atory 4 there to no t to be an object lion raised in an to ilia move merit for raising a memorial in tile pew cemetery it memory of ilia british soldiers lie fought ani fell at waterloo it is true that as has recoda further and further from our view thela the decisive battles of tile arld bail lost its old keen claim upon abo ot ole remembrance of the nation time mas hen wis faith fully celebrated upon each aurrin I 1 eighteenth p buo and when in the of recent recollection it was imagined that the anniversary nover be allowed to without a public testimony of gratitude for the vit tory won but time aich soft ens brict tones down to 11 seldom talked or ana ilia anni verp 4 ry has ceased to be pub 0 licay remembered that however Is no reason wit y the dead who fell on r should oy L monument over their I 1 graves III a foreign land does it give all ilia better cause for such a memorial sd that it abail bowen that it Is not lack of reverence for tile dead but ilia customary influence of time m biake s ilia anniversary of waterloo almost forgotten tito lord mayar of goadon has taken 1 tier and has headed aft appeal ahida is supported by tile duke of cambridge and hy tile present of tile dukedom duk edon of wellington and so wort JJ Is its elect gylat I 1 t aright to prayo all manner of reports are ci replat ing in st ith regard to couo od acthia y on atio part ortho nihilisms nihilists lists it is to ilia matual fact s b ut during the last fo forays days tile police have displayed great lanco in watching all apace preaches pro aches to tile pal slid allow no person to stand about in the vicinity quito recently A proclamation was torn down by the of ilia secret po 11 on but its tenor is unknown measures are being oise is which it Is decreed that any person who biall circulate literary or scientific work not tip proved of by the be punished with t I 1 elvo months imprison ment lilt s law strikes at russians lie retti mink from brin with them chance coples of naw scientific literary by author which mat hive artrue i owr fancy 1 ii may coti taCa thega too disapproved 0 by the Bya law already some tapo in operation cueli forbidden works As adam hd We Althof nations is liable to si lipen hard bior qi or I 1 I 1 lym C 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 W I 1 |
