NOTES FROM PARIS

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8293, 23 September 1903, Page 4

NOTES FROM PARIS

A despatch to the San Francisco Examiner dated August Bth says —Parisians are already now looking forward with great expectations to the visit of the King of Italy, who had originally intended to visit, this city on Bastille 'Day, July 14th. There has been, a great deal of talk about this royal visit. First, it was said that the King would be accompanied byiQueen Elena, then that he would be alone. Then the visit was postponed to the end of July, and now it is said that he will arrive in .September. The fact is that no day has been fixed for the visit, which, however, will probably take place in October, when th© iQueen shall be able to accompany the grandson of "II Ra Garantuomo" to the country which nis family owe so much. At the same time the Prince and Princess of Wales will probably also visit us, according to a promise given to President Loubet in England. 2Jor will this be all, as tli© Crown {Prince and Crown Princess of Roumania have also announced their intention to visit this city during that month, and Parisians may then imagine that the days of 1867, when all the princes of the world used to flock to the Court of Napoleon 111. and the Empress 'Eugenie, have returned. The Municipal Council of Paris has decided to name one of the city's streets for Richard Wagner. Times have indeed changed. It seems .only a few years ago when no .Parisian bandmaster dared play a note written by . the great" maestro in this city. The noted scientist, Dr le Bon, who lately lias been experimenting with the Hertz waves, recently discovered that- it is possible to send a current- of electric waves by means of a, simple reflector through the air over a distance of several miles, and that this current can be made strong enough to explode powder or dynamite. In. one of l.is last experiments he exploded a number of cartridges of different kinds which were placed in a bomb-proof vault in a fort outside of Paris, at a distance of nine kilometres. Military experts now declare that the invention will positively abolish all wars, as you may by it blow up .any battery, fort, or battleship'with the powder intended for its own guns. A. letter from Cairo states that the whole city is excited over a case of cannibalism which has just been discovered there. It has been said that a woman from Kafr-Sakr, in the district, of Charkieh, kidnapped children playing in the streets and devoured them. The authorities at first paid no attention to these rumors, but, as they would not be silenced, a detective was sent to Kafr-Sakr. iHe caught the woman in/the act, and immediately arrested her. The latest thing in clubs comes from 'Germany, where, at Sehwein, in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, a new benevolent society has been formed under the name of the "German Society for People Who Have Been. Disappointed; in Love." Curiously enough, married people are not admiited, even if they can prove that they are suing for divorce. The object of the society is 'to console the unhappy- -members, and, if possible, help them with 10-vers who will not disappoint.