Show W I 1 I 1 01 d world feb 7 1888 parliament opens this week and are already in lon don awaiting the event tito principal ha the rest albov ed during the remesal recovered froin the fatigue which was so plainly marked 1 t the end of last session tito speaker w he had probably suffered the most from the strain of the prolonged sit tinge Is now all right again and the sil lection of the right eye ellich v batted him as lately as a few ecks s go has disappeared air smith his derived very great from his yachting cruise in the mediterranean and he will take position next thursday as bhader of the house w without a trace upon his countenance of the almost jaundiced look ho wore when the session closed mr glad stone also has been benefited by we trip abroad stud he comes back from italy re invigorated for the parlia work of the next few months and beyond these the three most prominent figures in the house there is a multitude of minor members who are all the better for their rest and who are as eager to throw themselves them selve nee more into the midst of the cal fracas as they waro anxious so abort a time since for parliament t be U p 11 ind for the doors palace 0 f westminster to be yd to all comers the condition of euron affairs Is still unsettled and public attention is divided between watching the physical condition of the emperor wit helm and the stra getic movements of rug ata of the former the telegraph brings daily and quicker tidings therefore correspondence on the sub ter however there may be something new A reent st petersburg dispatch pays that a slight net d c been much discussed among the diplomats in russians Russi als capital occurred at a court ball a short time since it appears that hitherto it has been customary for tile empress to make the third tour in the opening promenade alie so called polonaise with the doyen of the diplomatic corps general you schweinitz Schwa initz the german ambassador to invite the ambassador next in seniority chakir pasha the ottoman cepro tentative Benta tive to be her partner in the arst quadrille ort the occasion occa sign mentioned however her majesty depart ad from the ordinary ordin iry rule and caused the invitation for the quadrille to be addressed to the ambassador of ana tria hungary count wolkenstein A certain political significance Is a t exceptional this selection on the part of the empress who it Is assumed desired to give expression to the cordiality of the feeling enter in the highest quarters for austria hungary this cordiality does not however prevent the western movement of russian recent adriena from warsaw also state that the military council hold there in the first days of january which was presided over by general gourko called the emperors atten alon to the fact that an offensive war in poland is an impossibility just now to completa the fortresses 20 million coubles roubles are necessary all the railways must be provided with a second line of rails all the bridges ren CO truc ted and the roads improved provisions are also wanting A do war would be more easy since railways destroyed and the provisions burnt ultimately the war council asked for a large sum of money another paper states that the caucasian army corps which 19 said to have quite lately received orders to remove from tiflis to the austrian frontier Is the 9 tron gest which the russian army musters the report that this corps has been ordered to the austrian frontier Is however very much doubted in VI enna depaul leroy beaullieu the well known french political economist has drawn up a remarkable statistical table as an illustration of the causes of war doubtless many a student of political history must disagree with him in details since it is not always easy to trace the real caise of ana particular war M beroy beaullieu is content however with giving the ostensible cause put forth on side which began the conflict limits his inquiries to last four centuries and examines wars in all tho greater part of the at least from the six to the eighteenth centuries bo gan in the and will of PH no si fifty ave were civil wars fourt were wars for the iacre a if territory Jerri tory for land robbery toty ono were wars of or of crown claims thirty were as M jarosi beaulieu puts it under predence pretence pre tence ol 01 twenty w ere professedly religious wars but most of these were waged on the old principle regio illius were were of re tal lation twenty two were wars for taxes twenty two were wars for earn eight were wan on points of honor or pre roga tive amonese the wickedly capri figge causes of them are of ilia nall monarchs of I 1 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries we and such on tries A war for Z widows lland war for a stove considerable amusement has been over the revelations in trial took place in paris the rey elat I 1 forts affa a in atri montal agency which was carried carr iid on by a man named grand who had for a female accomplice rosa desbordes A burly dray mark sat the prosecution afoot ile had been taken in by the prospectus of the firm shiell opened I 1 to r bilm a prospect of obtaining a wife laii die buried awa of 4 0 ho IM to oft t bli of fice the drayman went to that ad was introduced to ayoung about lo olied b not esth ular aa tha rw 1 I of I 1 0 r 11 icv 0 L I 1 I 1 4 I 1 bul ako a sem he had a 11 her sunday clothes on demoia dle not being quite to his taste lie asked for tame to reflect after a short interval grand went to him and told him he had a more eligible match for him in the shape of an elderly cirp bo had lots of money tito dray man tramped down to a shop in tile passage to nee life probable bride and was introduced to an old ugly mind as lie aided onor mons woman mho smiled and smirked at him for a few moments and then promised to rite to him silo did so next day but in the epistle she lamented her inability to become ilia true and lawful spouse Ts 0 or three other persons were called and made half bearfeld confessions of their in allowing themselves to be the accomplices he had obtained conald erable sums of money grand defended od himself and life partner on ilia ground that he had sue ceedee Ini effecting many bambus fam bus marriages in luling that of the notorious madame the presiding judge how everi held that the charges of obtaining money under false pretenses pretences had been fully proved and accordingly he sentence it the prisoners to be imprisoned for two mouths an instance of the extraordinary StI I 1 lion still existing among the irish peasantry bas just been investigated at cramore tramore Tr amore co waterford A man tom dooley and his wife bridget were summoned before the local magistrates on a charge of having been found on lice meed premises during prohibited hours when the charge was read bridget exclaimed you dont understand it mr rogers a magistrate understand what mrs dooley about the charm your worship ill tell you we go at all to get drink we wont to sea the young man in the house that has atio charm ho lias a charm for all diseases laughter aud he has had the charm for the toothache and as little mad with itI to him on evening mr rogers arent you a silly bosnan to belleve such nonsense mr dooley you dont know anything about it you have faith in it mrs dooley some sort of a prayer your worship mr rogers did e whisky worship a great deal of good she has not had the pain since begor your una or I 1 would go quick to your own house 0 stingily if I 1 thought you had a charm mr rogers this shocking tell me dooley did you bell a vs in this anonsen 88 dooley believe ia it dida t the prayer and the crossing of his hands cure her mr rogers she get b ad the second time I 1 dooley she didt brought her down again and gave him another penny and he said another over her she got a little touch 0 it od ilia saturday night and I 1 did not get a wink 0 sleep and we took her down be cause ray wife said to me it ls the third time that brings the real carrm 11 well just then I 1 took her down to see him and devil the pain she has felt since mr rogers how much did you give him f dooley ile would ot take the money the third time but he told me to keep the charin for good 1 I should he said bray something thing in the house 11 and I 1 bought a penny orange and that did it we used all the bottles in the doctors shop but the mischief org it did until she took the charm in the end tom an d bridget whose superstition the gsg msg istrati much lamented were dis charged |