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the abdomen to see if there was any internal injury, which the severity of tho exterior contusion led the physicians to believe. Bennett made his will previous to going under the knife. The operation took about an hour and a half, and a clot which hud collected after profuse internal bleeding was removed. President Carnot, who has been very ill, is reported on the way to recovery. He suffered from the same complaint that assailed Clemenceau (gall stones,) and is now kept closely on milk diet and Vichy water. He expressed a desire to resign the Presidency and retire into private life. Despatches of the 15th and 17th say the President's condition is far more Berious than stated in the official reports. At a meeting in diplomatic circles at Berlin on June sth tho Emperor remarked that under no circumstances would he countenance proposals to limit the suffrage for tho purpose of strengthening the Government in the Eeichstng. The drought in, Freibourg and Breisgan continues, and the outlook is serious. There is a scarcity of food and much suffering. In thoir desperation the people of Allmansmeor village raided the Kispenheun preserves to capture whatever game was possible for food. They were met by the keepers and a ' stubborn fight ensued, in which many wore wounded on both sides. While Archbishop Angeror was delivering benediction in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, on June 10th, a bookmaker named Mutzbiche, who was sitting near the middle of the building, shot himself in the head with a revolver. Baroness Hielene Eedeu, widow of tho millionaire and mother of the Imperial Privy Councillor (Baron Beden) of Vienna, was arrested as a vagabond in that city on June 10th. She said she was penniless and homeless, and neither her son nor her daughter would support her. After ascertaining the truth of her statements, the authorities sent her to the poor-house. Ignitz Aleles, a Jewish recruit, 28 years of age, committed suicide on account of the illtreatment to which he was subjected by petty officers. The authorities have ordered an inquiry into the affair. The Czechs have concluded to withdraw from the Austrian Diet on account of hostility to Germans, due to Czechr newspapers being suspended on account of their seditious tone. An epidemic of suicide has broken out in Buda Pesth and other Hungarian towns. According to a despatch on June 22nd, seven cases were reported on the 21st at Buda Pesth. Cases of insanity are increasing, and mad houses are full. This state of things is attributed to poisonous concoctions substituted for wine, which has become scarce owing to the ravages of phylloxera. An of&cial investigation into the bomb explosion at the residence of Senor Don Canovas de Castillo, Madrid, on Tuesday, June 20th, has led to the discovery of a plot embracing Anarchists in several European countries. Thenty-three arrests have already been made, and others are expeoted. Letters show the conspiracy to be international. The conspirator killed by his own petard was named Euiz.

All Paris is laughing at the fact that women are making fools of themselves over Alkivi, the Dahomeyan chief* who is now browsing in the Champs Elysces. Letters upon letters are written him accompanied by flowers, boxes of sweetmeats, and even patties and like delicacies. The writers clamour for all sorts of appointments. Meanwhile Alkivi's black wife is furious. James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of tho New York Herald, was dangerously injured on June 7th by falling from a coach in Paris. He continued to grow worse on the Bth, 'when a surgical operation bepamo necessary. fJinco the operation he has somewhat improved,' The ope'vatton was the opening of