Show foreign atas oi real interest last year receipts of the congo state were franca and aba ex pend iturea skrika GO the old riar having objected to british misrule is the latest on the west coast africa against which a punitive expedition has been sent ernesto nathan add orient of the italian free masons advises thein ro put aside secrecy and ta publicly declare their connection the order as the older is hostile to no form of ro ligina and to no political party italy has probably the finest collection of anthropometrical statistics in the world minute details of during their army service having been collected and preserved the emeral results 0 an examination oi these statistics fur alie men born during the years been published by the war new soporific to which the of bean given has been discovered in a mexican cani alolu urn the nativa mexicans eat slices of the plant which they call bellote pel lote its hypnotic allt aloid has been separated by dr liefter oil leipzig one grain of pel lotin Is equal in its effects to 15 grains of end to 31 grains of hydrate of chloral ch lorai it is effective in quieting delirium kremens only in large dases professor middleton director of te south ke abington art museum the st highest rani in england bied suddenly recently and an inquest showed that be bad taken an overdose of morphine having been a victim of the morphine ae habit for years iio wrote j an important boob OB ancient home and had been slade professor of fine art and directs of the fitzwilliam Fit museum at university before receiving last a I 1 haa been forced into the hegend of by the recent of the monument on the Kyff haaser bert it stands in a semicircular terrace a hundred yards in diameter on alie top of the hill and its extreme height is feet sixty thousand tons pi stone were used in the the cost of the whole being the colossal equestrian statue of ue emperor william I 1 stands in a aishe in a massive stone tower which abuts on the ruined wall ancient castle at the foot of uhe statue is a muscular male agare symbolizing the defensive of the german empire while on tho left a demalo figure history offers the emperor a laurel wreath below under an arched vault site barbarossa Barba rosea on hia throne just awakened from a long sleep and evidently still under the influence of his dream giants dwarfs and retainers lie around wrapped in deep slumber spitzbergen Spitz bergen mill have a brilliant season this year the andreo expedition will ba followed by a german steamer from homburg which will reach the islands in time to see the balloon start A steamship company will run steamers regularly while the season permits and will put up a temporary hotel on the eis fiord mr J russell ol 01 the society will explore the interior of the western island and if the ica aul wul permit will try to visit the islands between and franz josef land another english expedition wibb which went mr trevor bailye abo explored kolliner Kol finer started recently for spitzbergen Spitz bergen the relieving vessel dav the expedition tion the steam yacht windward has just started for fran josef land with provisions and sledges it will embark sheep and reindeer rei adeer in norway anel convey them adorth the north atlantic will be more lively beyond abo arctic abia year than ever before |