NEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS AND NOTES.

Out of 80,000 houses in Paris only 18,000 are (says a London contemporary) as yet provided with modern sanitary arrangements. According to a consular report a brisk trade in fox skins is springing up between France and Italy. TJie latter country last year exported 4000) mostly from round Rome. Baron Rothschild, of Paris, has just bought from Castle Johannisberg, on the Rhine, 120 bottles of the. best sparkling hock produced there at the tremendous price of £5 a bottle. v On the 191 st birthday of Dr. Samuel I Johnson, the house in/ which he was born in Lichfield was formally' dedicated as a public memorial of The house was purchased and presented to the city by Alderman filbert, ' . The French Postmaster-General has found the use of bicycles for postman so satisfactory that* 1 orders have been given for rural . postmen where * possible to be supplied with machines, to be paid for and kept in order by the State. * Motor cars to the value of £250,000 per annum are being imported into this country, and yefc (says the Autocar) the British manufacturers are all busy, so it would appear that there is room for a few more motor car manufacturers at Home. The Rev. C. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps," is seeking appointment as Chief of Police at Topeka, Kansas. His object is to conduct a fight for the enforcement of the prohibitory law against liquor selling, Topeka, though in a'prohibited district, being considered the most intoxicated towii" in the 'Western States. Particulars of the two immense steamers which the Norddeutscher Lloyd is building, and which will be running next year, are now officially announced* The first, the Kaiser Wilhelm 11., is 19,500 tons register and 38,000 horse power. The other r <the Kronprinz Wilhelm, is 15,000 tons register and 33,000 horse power. It is asserted in Rome (says the Daily Mail) that, according to a letter seized by the Italian police, the American , Anarchists have condemned the Pope to deaths and that in consequence special prfecautiois have been taken at the Vatican,' while the bishops have been requested to observe the greatest care in the formation of pilgrimages. ' The Paris correspondent of the Standard states that the task of catering for the President's dinner proved a gigantic one. The tent, which was being erected in the Tuileries Gardens was 1640 feet long, and the contractor had been called on to engage 150 cooks, 1500 waiters, 100 cellarmen, and 100 wine waiters; 180,000 plates were to be on- the premises, 20,000 bottles of wine, 40,000 forks, and 50,000 knives. On Tuesday, 18th September., at the Odessa Assize Court, Lieutenant Godzilovski was sentenced to deprivation of his rank .and property and two years' transportation to Siberia for his dastardly murder last July of a British subject, Miss Dongworth, because she refused to marry him. A recommendation, however, has been made to change this lenient sentence to three years' fortress imprisonment without deprivation of rank. |f The whole country" has from the first responded in a liberal spirit to the cry of "Pay, pay, pay" in connection with the South African war, „and although it is to some extent inevitable, it is (says the Westminster Gazette) disappointing to find that some of the money has been wasted on unworthy objects. For instance, five women, some of them in receipt of a pound a week as the wives of reservists <now in South Africa, were sentenced at Berwick for cruel neglect of their children. A doorkeeper at the Archaeological Museum in Florence was suddenly seized with madness on 9th September, and tried to murder the director of the museum. Failing in this he took hold of a chair and began, to smash everything near him. An ancient vase, found in China in 1844 and worth more than £20,000, was aniong the victims of his unaccountable fury, and a still more valuable treasure, an, Egyptian chariot, for which £120,000 ' would be too small* a price, was also broken to pieces by the madman. Strong condemnation has been passed by the organs of all parties in the Ger,man press on the policy of the Government in placing the new £4,000,000 loan in the United States. The organs of tho Agrarians, the Clericals, the Radicals, and the Socialists unite in attacking the Government in the most violent language for having, as they consider, demonstrated to the whole world/ the financial difficulties of Germany at a moment when a new development of "world-policy" has been proclaimed with such a flourish of trumpets and waving of banners.' A notorious Anarchist, named Pietro Maresca, who has been serving four years seclusion on an island convict! establishment near -Naples, nearly succeeded in escaping by an ingenious contrivance. His brother, a tailor in Naples, trading with the island, hid him in a wooden' case among some bales of cloth. Shipped aboard a small coasting steamer the case duly arrived in Naples, but in hoisting the case into the steamer Adria, bound for Marseilles, it fell with a crash. Mrresca's groans were audible. The case was forced open, and the nearly suffocated Anarchist was dragged out. Some not very complimentary remarks were made not long ago respecting the capabilities of the Siberian railway. It looks as if these had come true, for a recent telegram to the London Standard states that arrangements are being made at Moscow to go back to the system of ten years ago to get goods conveyed to Siberia. "The railway," it is said, "is useless, being completely blocked "by military trains. The rivers are in the same condition, the steamers having no space to spare for ordinary merchandise," and so Moscow merchants are preparing to despatch caravans' of goods Dy horses iri the good old way. If the good ladies of England (says a London contemporary) follow the example of Mrs. C. K. Pier, of Milwaukee, 1 U.S.A.. and her daughters, the Bar wi]j have to look to its laurels. Mrs. C. K. Pier, who is a widow with three daughters, took up the .study of law some six years ago, and, is now a Court Commissioner of the State, having influenced •"the Legislature to pass a law permitting women to hold the office, to which it would appear she was immediately elected. Her eldest daughter took up the study of medicine as well as that of law in order that she might become an, expert 'in medico-legal cases; the two younger daughters are doing aii ordinary office practice. The census returns for the city of Chicago are (says the San Francisco Argonaut) a sore disappointment to the citizens of that town, who were expecting a population of 2,000,000 or more. According to the official • count, Chicago . contains only 1,698,675, an increase of 598,725, or 54.44 per cent, since 1890. The real increase in population is not as great as this,, for the reason that the figures given include several populous suburbs which have been annexed to the. city since 1890. There are 1,738,627 more persons in Greater New r York than , there are in Chicago, or, in other words, Greater New York is more, than twice as populous as Chicago, the figures for the metropolis being '3,437,202.