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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-4-20, Page 6IRISH HOME RULE BILL, Xr, Gladlitone Moves that it be Read a Second rime. 310/18-BBAOH MOVES In REJEOTION A London cable seys ; The galleries of the Rouse of Commons were full, but the Howse hewn WaS not cro eded, when Ma. Gladstone atom at 3.45 p. m. to move the emend reading of the bill to este:1)1M Homo Rule in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone said thet the Government had no ittention a amend- ing the bill as presented, except in some minor particulars. Ho earnestly desired to bring home to the mind of the House the question, when this great controversy was to end l (Cheers.) He did not ad- dress the question to the Opposition in a spirit of assumed superiority, but he would nether peen it earnestly upon their hearts and understandings as a matter in which both eides wore equally interested. Foe many year the question of frith Home Rule had blocked the way of legislation. The Liberal party had offered a eolution, but when they asked their opponents where all this wee to end, they -rarely obtained an answer. Certainly the opposition had not yet ventured to point sout e. procerm whereby the greatest of Irish questions should be decided, apart from the way in which the Home Rule Bill proposed to dooide it. (Cheers.) " Let the Home," Mr. Gladstone continued, "look at the spectacle the world offers in regard to its -unions. In the civilized world no Meer - /aerated union, effected and maintained by eforce, has ever prospered. That is a chal- lenge of some boldnees. Is it too bold 1" Here the Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicks 'Beach interrupted Mr. Gladstone, with the 'remark. "Take the case of the United Bbates." Mr. Gladstone—I said incorporated union, (Liberal and Irish cheers.) You missed the essential word.' (Hear, hear.) Holland and Belgium tried incorporated union, and after a precarious existence of fifteen years a divorce was effected. Austria and Hun- gary tried incorporation, and after years of Bad experience they found that the choice lay in giving up it or the empire. (Cheers.) Rutile iocorporated Poland; take your stand thereon if you think fit; let the oppo- sition make it the model of their opera- tions. (Hear, hear.) To all unions but one principle can be applied, and that is whether they require permanent maintenance by force. lf when the force disappears har- mony remains the union is good. If the maintenance of the union by force, actual tie in reserve, is necessary, the value of the Union is questionable. Unions, not incorporated, but autonomous, have been attended in all cans with success, some. times complete and always considerable. Thus, Austria and Hungary, under their present union'Norway and Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, Russia and Fin. land, are illustrations. The most com- plete emcees was the German Federation, where each State had its own powers, the Union only affecting Imperial interests. In the United States each State had its own rights, and anyone in America daring to in. terfere with those rights would be regarded as a madman. The colonies had some points in eommon with Ireland. The dieease of disaffection once permeated them, but a remedy wee found in self-government. Cheers.) In con.clui sion Mr. Gladstone referred to the retention ofthe Irish members in the Imperial Parliament. The bill carefully guarded the possibility of increasing imper- ial expenditure, whereof Ireland ought to pay her share, in the event of war, and other causes. If the House was not satis- fied with the security offered. under the existing finance clauses of the bill, he was ready to deal freely with the question, and te recant the clauses objected to. The rejection of the Home Rule bill was moved by Sir Michael Hicks -Beath, Presi- dent of the Board of Trade, in the last Balisbury Cabinet. He taunted Mr. Glad - :stone with leaving made a long excursus into Irish history, when he was expected to answer the multitudinous criticisms of the bill. Since the character of the measure had become known, the most intense antagonism had developed against ib. In a large part of Ireland the people were irreconcilably opposed to allthedeteila as well as to the principle of the bill. The :north of Ireland rang with protests smallest the Prime Minister's proposals ; yet tho Prime Minister ignored this remarkable agitation, and would not even pause in hie retrospect to answer the arguments of the men behind it. The mejority of the elec- tors of Great Britain were convinced that Parliament, once persuaded to take the fate- ful etep now proposed, could never retrace it without plunging the country into the horrors of a civil war. (Cheers.) Italian Immigrants And Their Enslave ment. The brutality of the contractors toward their eubjects baffles denription. The eontractor is a strongly built, powerful Mall; he has acquired the habit of command, is well armed, protected by the authorities, eupported by such of his employees as he chooses to favor, and, sad to say, by the people'who are hostile to the laborers. He often keeps guards armed with Winchester rifles to prevent his men from running away. Has power has the essential ehar- acteristice of a government. He fines his men and beats and punishes them for any attempted resistance to his self -constituted authority. On Sunday he may either force them to attend church service or keep them at work. I have been told of contractors who taxed their men to make birthday presents to their wives. A feudal lord would not have expected more from his vassals. —Dr. S. Merlin fj in the April _Forum. Bitting the Funny Bone. This most unpleasant neneation is caused by the violent excitation of the ulnae nerve due to a blow on the elbow, says an ex- change. Thi a nerve panes down on the inner side of the arm, and then, rather inconsiderately, bends round an& enters the forearm at the back of the elbow joint. Any one who has felt his neighbor's elbow "clicking into his riba knows that the elbow is remarkably deficient in flesh. The nerve ie therefore, at this point very near the sti'rface'and has little to shield it from a blow. ll we are so unfortunate as to give our elbow a smart tap, we obtain a practical confirmation of the fact that the ulnar nerve i� the principal sensory nerve of the forearm Mad hand. Faithful Betty. New Girl—Young man has called to see you, mem. Miss Lillian Languid (glancing at card)— " Mr. Fitz -James MoStab !" Gracious ! Ttn not fie to be seen 1 Tell him, Betty, that I'm—Oh, silent gone. New Girl (a moment later to young nian)— Yea, sir, she's in, but, gracioua 1 she's not fit to be Seen. What will It cost a man to be allowed to chew his town tobacco on the Worldi Fair grenade Hair atty concession been putted for that t SAVAGE UNION DOCKERS Refuse Non -Unionists the Right to Work, and right with the Police. EXPLOYE1113 REPU811 TO COXPROXISB A London cable ova: A strike that threatens to have serious consequencea has been sterted at Hull. For some time past aonie of the shipping companiea have been employing non-union laborers to work in loading and dischargimg their weasels, This caused great dumontent among the members or the Dock Leborera' Union, and a tow days ago the unionissts went on strike. Quite a large number of non-union men went to Hull to take the places of the strik- ers, and work about the docks was proceed- • ing satislaotorily omtil to.day, when the strikers annulled an offensive attitude, end by throats and other mane of intimidation succeeded in completely • blocking work on every vessel in the port with one exception. This exception was the eteamer Montebello, upon which a large number of nomunionists were em- ployed. A crowd, comprising iieveral them - and of hooting end yellieg strikers and their sympathizers, proceeded to tho dock at which the Montebolle was lying, and made a determined attack upon the objec- tionable laborere. The strikers made an. attempt to capture the steamer. In the meantime the police appeared on the none. The mob paid little attention to orders of the police to disperse, and when the officers attempted to enforce their orders the strikers attacked them. A severe conflict followed, which resulted in the mob behog driven off the dock. In tho struggle several men were seriously injured. The strikers then turned their attentirn to the offices of the Shipping Federation, which is an aseociation of ship owners. Armed with stones and bludgeons they made an attack upon the building in width the offices are located. The police ware this time promptly on the scene, and another conflict ensued when they at- tempted to dieperse the mob. The strikers were cowed by the determined attitude of the police, and though they resisted, it was only in a half-hearted way. Finally the police succeeded in breaking up the riotous crowd, and order was reetoted. The streets along the water front are filled with strikers discussing the situation, and many threats are made that under no circtim. stances will they allow nonunion men to be employed in landing fillip cargoes. It is thought there will be further trouble, and the authorities have taken particular pre- cautions to supprees any disorders that the strikers may attempt. The out- look is sorioua. Leta thio crazing the Dock Laborers' Union issued an appeal to similar unions- in London, Liverpool and Glasgow, requesting them to mite with the Hull union in a fight against the Shipping Federation. No steamers have been able to get away to -day except those which had their cargoes aboard, before the trouble began and the entire alaipphig trade is at a standstill. Among the companies affeeted by the strike is the Wilson line, sonie of the vessels of which are in the Amerioan trade. Mr. Chas. H. Wilson, one of the owners of the line, has incurred the special enmity of the strikers by his attitnde toward their union, and many threats are made against him. Coneiderable excitement prevails everywhere in the town and the outcome of the struggle is ensiensly awaited. The Hull strikers made an effort thie even- ing to comprornise their differences with • their employers, but their proposals were rejected. 200 PERSOM SPEARED. Terrible Atrocities Committed by tie Natives of Nyasaland. WHAT ONE MAN SAW. A London cable mays: The Cape Times publisher' a private letter from the Monde plain, in Nyassaland, dated Nov. 25th last, which states that the people of then parts ' ,are living in terror of the Arabs, and look for es.fety to the handful of white people, especially the Africam Lakes Company. The one great hind- rance to all advancement is war, carried on by the native or the Arab. Of the former kind the writer deenribee a recent instance. "The Angoni," 1m new, "are an offshoot of Zulus., occupying the hills to our west, and are the terror of the country around. Last Friday eight they came down to the lake there in great mem- bers and attacked the village of Keyerm. They entered the village !silently, and each warrior took up his position nt the door of a hut ad ordered the inmates tomane forth. Every man and boy Waa speared isa he emerged, and every- woman was eeptured. "News of the disaster soon reethed the three white men stationed at Karenge. in the employ of the Lake e Company. One of their number tet out ininactliately with fifty guns to recapture the women., who, to the number of 200 or 300, were being calmed off. In the afternoon they met the Anegomi and opened fire. Taken by maypelem the men of the spears made off, but, not being able to carry both the booty and the WiNaefl they began immediately to Lapeer the letter.. A horrible Beene then ensued. In huh an hour they wore beaten off, mei the -veoreem rescued. I was at the seene of the disaster three days after, and corseted forty -woven wounded. The others had either died .1)1' been carried off by friends. One znall hsd fifteen epear wounds; a child of 2 stato had seven. What impressed D1L* meet ewes the number of young girls and children eeven on the breaat) who were epeered. The pea createres were afraid to go to their eribegre, and were living in the reeds lining the LS a! shore. As far as OH be asseerneemen the following is the list of dead ts Men, ltee. women, about 100; ghee, 32e noye,. inn Angoni, ehout 30." The Bee's lUse for Mis :mar, It will be a surprise to meaey exe n that, after all, the moat impertent hICTtital of the bee's sting is not etiegleg. I he ve. long been coneinced thee the. beers put the finishing touches on their artimic gretel week by the dextrous nee of their etlems, end during this final finieleng *Inge ott the pee - cess of honeymaleing the beor! isojeeternietite portion of formic acid into the honey. This is in reality the poison of their Wpm. Tide formic acid gives to honey ifee pecedier RW.701' and also imparts to it its keeping qua.Iii Ms. The sting is really an exqUissitely contrived little trowel, with which the bee &Mines ell and caps the cells when they ere brimful with honey. While doing this the formic acid teams from the pea= beg, exudes, drop by drop, from the point of the sting, and the beautiful work m finitherla—Roisti- cuitural Times. A Mead of its 4,911,34 "Is there a good body to this "mug of beer, waiter?" "Just look at the head on its, tit ; it caa speak for Ruth" Willia—That young man who emit; the cornet is sick. Wallace—Do ton think ine will recover 1 " afraid not. The den tor who ir attending, him, lie ers mart goon" THUNDER ,on MANY OUNS. How the Big Spitfires Will Bark at New York. 1,680 8110TB TO BE FIRED. A New York despatch says: Some idea of the tremendous thunderburst of war • gene in New York harbor on the ocosteion •Of the corning grand Golumbian event of the current month may be gained by reading, the following helfmolumn from the New York Times of yeeterday • Final orders from Admiral Glaerardi, just itemed, direct that on Aprilfsdlth, the day of the great Columbian Naval Review, there shall be fired in national salutes alone no lees than 1,680 guilt As many of the cannon which will be • brought in to play are of heavy calibre, • there is promised au uproar and coneuesion the like of which New York city has proba- bly never witnessed. The President, according to the orders, will pass through the lines, formed by 40 war thips. He will be on board the des- • patch venal Dolphin. When tho Dolphin on the morning of the 27th obtains word thet the fleet is ready to receive the Presi- dent, alto will immediately trip her anchor. The moment her anchor has lett the bottom and the vessel forges ahead the will fire a signal gam For fully twenty minutes before the solitary gun of the Dol- phin is fired an officer ' with his hand on an electric bulb connection will he standing in a turret of the big • double -turreted monitor MMntonomoh. At • the moment that this officer sees the flash from the Dolphin'e gun, hia hand will orneh the bulb. Those who are then watching the Miantonomoh will see at thet instant a column of liaras hurl itself fully 100 feet out into space, followed instentaneously by a roar which will threaten to shake down every building along the city's water front. • That overpowering column Of flame whith will be seen to leap from the Miantono- molds turret will come from one of the vesselni monster 10 inch guns. It will be caused by a charge of powder weighing, roughly, 250 pounds. For the first limo in New York waters the lkliantonomoh will fire one of her huge mein battery gum Its roar will be the signal to every vessel in the Columbian fleet that the President is approaching. It is not often that occasion arrisera for 40 war ships to be assembled at one time with ell their crews at quarters, but on this oc- casion -when the President pewits up be- tween the lines the crews of every man -of - War in port will be either at the guns or aloft and standing on the yards. An each ship will fire 21 guns, there will be die - charged atthe outset 840 guns. Inasmuch as the toted number of guns will not be engaged at the same instant m firing the fleet discharge, the spectators meat wait for the disembarking of the President before looking forward to the uproar which 840 guns fired in unition will create. Following the passage of the Dolphin op the lima and her arrival at the upper end of the fleet, the President will re- eakret Eidradral Gherardi and all the cap. Wets and flag officers aboard the Dol- phin. After a short levee the Preaident vrill be prepared to disembark, but 15 minutes before he steps into the barge width will convey him to the shore the Dolphin will fly a signal flag. As the Prceiderat steps into the barge the Dolphin will give the signal, and for a eecond time the yards and mita of every war ship in port; will be manned. It hat this latter moment that the grand owneloneelbeg of the day will be heard. Each ehip will commence, and continue until eueed the national Balite. This means that eaele war ship must fire before closing 21 guns. THE HULL STRIKE. Disturbances Growing Out of the War on Nou-Dnion Labor, TWO GUNBOAT O ARRIVE. A Hull ce.ble eafs : The situation ariaing from the dook laborees' strike in Hull is still sorioua. The refusal of the offers to compromise made by the strikers has caused much indignation among the leaders of the Dook Laborers' Union. Businem et the docks was resumed yesterday morning, the work of loading and unloadiug veseels being dope by non-union men, under protection of the dragoons and police. The steamships Montebello' and Romeo put out from the Hull docks last night and anchored in the Roads, so as to be able to take aboard their crews at a safe distance from the rioters. Two troops of Leiner] formed on both aides of the crews abouttwo hours later and escorted them to the tenders. The police, who had been • called out in full force, tried to ,keep the mob back, but the strikera broke through the lines repeatedly and began stoning the soldiers and sailors. The police swung their clubs right and left, cracking heads and battering faces. When the riotera crowded up in front of the crewsaho as to stop their progress, the dragoons beat them back with the butts of their lances, Several • policemen and dragoons were injured with stones thrown by the rioters, and about a dozen strikers were carried from the scene of conflict by their comrades. At the (looks the crews were placed on the tenders, and proceeded to the Montebello and Romeo, Both steamships sailed this morning. A gunboat arrived to -day at Hull and anchored in the roads. Another is expected to arrive to -night or tomorrow. It is hoped that the presence of the gunboats will awe the strikers sufficiently to prevent further violence. At all events the marines will be an efficient reinforcement for the military already at Hull in case of emergency. At any other time there would have been widespread excitement over the riotous ex - development of the docker& discontent at Hull,with its police and bayonet charges and summoning of troops. At this moment the dispute is in an uncertain stage, where compromise and a savage conflict are equally poasibite and the air is filled with wild threats of trades union leaders carrying the war to London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff and Plymouth, and paralyzing the whole shipping trade of Great Britain. There need be no worry over these perilous worde. No atrike can succeed in England unless backed by popular sympathy, as was that of the London dockers in 1889. Since then the peblic has learned a deal about the dockers and their alleged grievances, and it takes no further stock in them. This Hull disturbance seems peculiarly cranky and indefensible. The head of the Wilson line, who is the largest private ship owner in the world, it is aaid, separated himeelf from the Em- ployers' Shipping Federation on thin labor issue, presided at the meeting which formed the Hull Dockers' Union, and threw him- self earnestly into the work of putting dock laborers on the footing they desired. The result is that his firm has been so bullied and badgered by the manager of the local union and the power they possermed was so ceaselessly pushed to hamper business and starve nonunion workmen that he finally had to make a stand against their preten- sions. At this the whole dockers' popula- tion fell into furious commotion. who was elected to Parliament from Hull last summer by a two-thirds majority, is now hooted through the town as a public enemy. It is safe to say that a strike on a basis of that sort will not make much head- way in England. TEE MORMON TEMPLE. Great Dedication Ceremonies at Balt Lake City, DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPOSING PILE. • Mormon Temple was dedicated to -day in he presence of a throng of believers. The cap stone was laid April 6th, 1892, at • which time the date for dedication Was fa04.1 for April 6th, 1893, the 63rd anni. • vereary of the organization of the Mormon • Chanel' toad 40 years from the day the • Temple corner stones were laid. The building is 184 feet long paid 99 feet wide. With the towers, it covers smarm • of 21,850 /quer° feet. The foundation wall 10 113 feet thick and 16 deep. Ontthie the ,granite walls are 9 feet thick on the bottom ientl marrow to 6 feet at the square. The -east part of the temple is for the Mel- chizedec Priests? Order, reprezenting the higher or spritual affairs. The tweet is for the Aaronic priesthood, repro. sentativea of temporal existence. The figure on the met central tower symbolizes the end named in the 14th chapter and 6th none of Ste John's revelation. There are intim building many atones symbolical of afferent conditions of mankind. Around the base are hearthstone& Above these are enoonatenea, showing the moon in ite various phases, and emblematic of terres- trial glory. Still higher than these are ann enenee, 'typical of the celestial or the Meier glory of the heavens. There OTO Mae star stones representirg the eery o the stars. On i the west tower is the urea major, pointing to the polar star and indicatimg that there is a fixed net, de for fallen mankind to return to God. Then there are cloud stones and others of liko eyneholical nature. The architecture wf the building io without a known parallel in ancient or modern times. The emit of the building, as Dear as can be ascertained, will be alightly in excess of $5,000,000. The 'building is provided with all the modern applianeesfor lighting, heating, ventilating and sanitary arrangements. 11 is antici- pated that the ceremonies will extend over a period of fourteen days, but the chief • interest centred in today's proceedings. The astientbly-room, on the fourth story, is the largest in the building, and it was in this that the services were conducted. It accommodates about 2,500 persons, or 5,000 persons at the two senior's to be held each day. Arrangernente have been perfected to •admit between 60,000 and 70,000 persons before the servicee are at an end and there its a straw prthability from official reports inecolved that even the latter number will be exceeded. It is said that visitors to the World's Fair wililue charged for the privilege of sitting down and resting a few minutes. Will not Chicago greed kindly give us a rest?—Kan- ss ge City erournai. Officers of the Britieh Admiralty havere- (gently teeteri a quielefleing gun weighing seven tone, which sends a 100,pound shot rs dietanee of four miles and discharges so rapidly that tour of these great /names of metal are in the air at onset Wonid any Ornament that has been invented resist such a peunclins at. that 21 Printing the iloine Bale Bill. It was rumored that one iman In a locked - up room, carefully guarded, had set up the entire Home Rule Bill. This story was published in the London paperss. The truth Is that forty men set up the bill, and not one of them suspected what it Ms. The copy (type -written) was given out in the •ordinary course of business, but was cut up 'in exceedingly small "takes," the foreman taking the precaution to divide the takes in the middle of sentences, so that no man could make head or tail of the piece given him if he be,d any suspicion of what he was working at. The type was locked up in the safe every night. The foreman himself pulled the proof that went into the hands of Mr. Gladstone. No other proof was taken for some weeks. The corrections and additions were also done on a typewriter and added to the bill in the same apparently careless manner. Several proofs were sub- nquently taken, but none got into the hands of a newspaper man. —Detroit Free Press. woanure n Bunion. Bathe the affected part in hot water, to which a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of starch and a few drops of arnica have been added, wipe dry with a soft linen towel and apply iodine with a camel's hair brush. Wear a loose ohoe out of doors, rind while in the house a shoe which has the leather covering the bunion entirely cut away. Bunions are caused by undue pres- sure. A good plan, if you have to be out a good deal, is to have the shoemaker cut a piece from your shoe where it preens upon the bunion and replace it with an invisible etch. ]Logleal Small Boy. "You aren't behaving very well, Toren -ay," said grandpa. "Do you know what I would do if were a little boy like you ?" "Yeth, grandpa," said Tommy. "You'd do the theme a.th I do, 'cause if you didn't you wouldn't be a little boy like me. A Good Remedy. Woman (on railwaY train)—Hush! hush! There ! there %by byo 1 I don't know what in the world to do sometimes. The more I work with him the vrorae ho mien Quiet Passenger (benevolently) —Have you—er—over tried chloroform? Syrinx Moving. Photographer—Now, Tommie, if you move the picture will he spoiled. Tommic--Well, it's no use to try, than, cause the janitor geld we'd got to got out of the fiat to -day. "Oh, dear," sighed Widow Jenkins, "if John had made a will, there wouldn'b have been all this trouble about the property." " Do the lawyers bother you ?" "Bother nso? They most worry me to death. I du- eler°, I sometimes wild' John hadn't died." Rev. Dr. Rainsford, of St. George's Epis- copal Churoh, New York, has not had his faith shaken by the failure of one of his veritrymen to run a liquor saloon on the ideal plan suggested by the preacher. The New York Age'colerod organ, nays that in Cleveland's firat administration, from l88.5 to 1880, the servants in the White House were mostly Afro-Amerleane, whom President Harmsen promptly re- placed with white aervants, whom Presi- dent Cleveland has , again replaced with Afro-Americans. An re untied thing the retired sharp -shooter lead* an Willem sort of life. TALES OF Some Live Gossip Lovely Venice TWO CITIES. of Moving Events in and Holy Rome, The Eton and the Saint—Marvellous Feat or Engineering in miming Two mammoth monoliths—A tient or Tante Buffaloes— The FoPe MBA Ms Tay Soldiers—Hum. berVe Silver Wedding—Freparatlons for Emperor William's Visit tolterne—Isreak in Fstney Dogs. VENICE, March. LOBE trotters who have visited the fair Venetian oasis of the Adriatic know that its arohiteeture is not the e least of its many at- tractions!. Perhaps in no city of the world, Florence included, can be seen so many lovely palaces as are here crowded shoulder to 'dh• .sles ' shoulder, with some of the mosidirty and dis- reputable speoimene of builders art that human ingenuity could devise. That the canals of Venice add considerably to its architectural beauties no ono can deny, but it is not duo to ita canals alone that its attributes isa this direction exist. The fact is the Italian race is a race of builders and designers, and were Venice itself pitched on the summit of a mountain, or nestling at the bottom of a shady hollow, inetoad of being lapped bythe turgid waters of the tidelees ocean, the same architeetural beauties would dietin guish it, and the same marble palaces rear their proud heads up from the squalor and misery that surround them. Architecture and Engineering go hand in hand, so ib is not surprising to find that the latter art is very muoh to the fore in modern Venice. Hardly a day passes but some new evidence of Italian ability in the difficulty of coping with either water, soil, quick sand, or some other of the various difficultim surrounding a city built like this is brought prominently into notice. ENGINEERING EXTRAORDINARY. Not the least of these many achievements is the one just successfully completed, namely, the restoration of the celebrated granite columns of St. Idark and St. Theodore, that stand near the Mole in the Piazzelta, forming a majestic gateway to thie lovely City of the Lagooza. Like nearly all the campaniles in Venice, these columns had, in the course of the long centuries that have passed since their erection, slowly tilted over until their tops overhung their basee by more than a foot. This in itself was dangerous, as the *hafts are monoliths forty feet high, with a! diameter of only four and a half feet; but, added to this, was the fact that the huge abaci and capitals, as well as the statues that crowned them, were so shattered as to be a constant menace to the lives of the crowds of Venetians who make the step at the columns' bases their favorite resting places. NEW BASES TO TWIN MONOLITHS. The peculiar conditions of the soil of this city of the riea created long ago a echool of architecture of its own ; and the architects of the present day seem to have inherited the genius of their early forebears. Signor Veridresco, the Government architect, who has chew° of the ancient monuments, Ent made himself a name by the clever and bold work of underpinning a largo corner of the Doge's Palace and renewing its founda- tions, and he has now added to his reputa- tion by his restoration of the twin Piazzetta column& That of St. Mark was dealt with O short time back, and that of St. Theodore is just finished. In both cases the method, one invented by Signor Vendrasco, was the same. After the statues and the capitals had been carefully removed, the columns were entirely encased in planks of wood, which were tightly bound to them by ropes. Then, by an ingenious arrangement of girdles of rope and wooden wedges, the columns were held in suspension while the bane were removed. The ground beneath was prepared and the bases replaced at a proper level. And than slowly and gently the columns were allowed to settle down into position—that of St. Mark on its own flat bole orre and that of St. Theodore into a socket ; and now they stand once more firm and erect. THE LION AND THE SAINT "INTERVIEWED.' The bringing down of the statues from the top of the capitals, where they could not be minutely examined, to the work- shops of tho Ducal Palace for restoration, brought out Dome interesting facts. The great lion, which was judged to be "a eplendid piece of eleventh or twelfth cen- tury bronze,' is found to be "splendid bronze " certainly, but of for greater age than that guessed, for the head and body are those of an exceedingly fine Aseyrian lion ; and the statue of Se Theodore, instead of being wholly without nterit --as was generally believed—is dia- covered to be made up of rubbishy limbs and adjuncts and a finely carved head and bust, the details of which seem to point, to its being those of a Roman Emperor. And yet the authorities were not wrong, for the bulk of the materials that form the statues are carved and arranged without taste and in defiance of the rules of art. HOW THE STATUES WERE COBBLED. A search made through the documents in the archives explains!' how this came about. When, in 1329, it was decided to crown the columns, which had stood bare for 150 yearo, with repreeentatione of the two patron saints of Venice, the Assyrian lion and the Roman Emperor were brought out of the stereo of old trophies and cobbled up into a shape suitable for their new position. The lion, crouching to epring on its prey, had its front paws placed on a large Bible so aa to raise it up, and thua was me.do suf- ficiently like the emblem of St. Mark to pass muster, while the bust, provided with thirteenth century arms and legs, sword, shield and spear, rind placed on the back of a ma monster, became St. Theodore on his crocodile—the early protector of Venice. WHAT CAME OUT or THEODORE'S INSIDE. But if the early time architects were clever, and the present day oaes reeemble them, 0510 CND lordly my the mine of then of the eixteenth century, if ono ia to judge by their use—or rather misime—of metal, for vyitile the rivets' that joined the original parts of Coustantineni figure were of metal, coated with Athenian bronze (Athens being the only place in those days where such work Wag dorge), all the later cracks and breakagra in both statue e and capitals were clamped together with iron bolts or tied up with iron bands, and molten lead was run into all the fisaures, all of which corroding with the weather, contracting with the cold and expending with the heat only in- creasing the de,nusgo. Signor Vendranco states that he removed from among the marble of the statue and the capital and the abacus of St. Theodore over a ton of lead, two hundredweight ot iron and 130 bog tor years pass. poundweight of copper It was no wonder that the column had become top-hoevy. HE PROVES HIMSELF A PitAtiD, All the detells go to ooefirm Vendrauco't opinion that nominee's etetue is in retslity one of Constantine, The face beardless. and refined, the curly the well-cutaquilino nose, all answer to lits description; while the armor is ornamented round its edge with lime a,nd eagles. Oa the breast-platee in high relief, ie e LOW cross, over_ which two e.npols o.S eupportere, drape the fabaruns of Coestautine. The foot of the cross stands in a tuft of Neves and flowers!, ae if to sey that faith muse, be a llvieg thing to be of value. St. Theodore will now return to his lofty perch ir the Plezeoldits a better and a lighter mau. Isa limbs are united to his body by a network of slender copper munies and he has image coated over with some kind of eilicete eshioli will enable him' to resist tho clear:Active action of the salt in the atindephere. Thus it may be expected that the watchful lion of St, Mark and the well -armed merrier, Si. Theodore, on their twin columns, rney eontinue for another five hundred years to guard the interosta of Venice. HUMBERT GOES A SHOOTING. After all the worry he has had lately ha Rome, King Flurabert has beers taking a little rerft, be ccepted the Duke bier- moneta's invitation to e shooting party at Fogliano, at his beep eiful castle situated on the lake of the same netne. The guests at this party were few, the Duchess Sennonets (nee Wilbrehem), a proved 13portswoman, did not wish to expoeo ladies who were not really passionately thed of shooting to the fatigue of traversing almost impracticable woods from 8 a.m. tili tiOnSet, and so limited her invites to the Marchese Lavaggi and Mrs. Slade, wife ol Colonel Slade'of the British Embassy. The Lake of Fogliano is noted for its wild duck shooting,and twenty boate were awaiting His Majesty, full ot gamelempers. Twelve hundred head were shot, King Humbert shooting 250 and a goose. Oue of the peculiarities of Fogs lien° are the buffelom, and to see them come out of the water, wet and covered with weeds, running to the call of the butteri, or cowboys!, is one of the amuse- ments which the Sermotetas offer their guests. Fetch eye aS then animals bears the name ol mime peat personage '• one is even named Princess of Senneneta after the raiatrees of the house. And it is curious to hear the aristocratic names screamed out through the weeds and to me the buf- faloes replying to the call by running up like so many dogs. :Porn LEO neviews nes " Anent" It is curious, bee during the last few weeks tho Kingand Queen seem to have subsided into private life, while the Pope and his Court have come to the fore once more. To celebrate the fifteenth anniver- sary of his °proration Lee XIII. held a re- view—yea, a review! The Pontifical troops were all under mem in full uniform, who offered their congratatietione to His Heti- nen. It may no° be generally known, but for anyone to be enrolled in the corps of the Guardia Nobile he must show at least a hundred years of belonging, to tho Roman nobility, both on the fathers and the mother's side. QUADRILLES FOR THE SILVER WEDDING. The month of April, the occasion of Humbertte silver wedding, ie to be the gay. eat of months ; no end of ball, etc., are projected and the arrangements for the historical tournazne-.nt to be held in the Villa Borghese are assuming enormous propor- tions. The tourneenene will represent the chivalreeque history of she House of Savoy,. divided into four epoohs—the first Count, the first Duke, the Kiug. and La Renaissance.. The cortege will be composed of four qua- • drilles, divided into four groups ; Humbert of the White Heeds, the suppoeed founder of the House, and Amadeo VIII., the Paci- fic. The first quadriiio will be composed of five heralde, who will demand the field, and of twenty-four men with Saxon tame, re- calling the oeigin of the House,with costumes of the ninth century ; eighteen musicians on horaeback in Byzantine cos- tume, thirty-two (lavaliere and five pages, one of whom will carry the crown ; Hum- bert of the White Heeds will follow in a Byzantine costume of 1050, and all the Imperial insignia. The seemed figure will be of thirty calvaliersbeering the crom, and a body of archers in costumes of the year 1300. GORGEOUS SPECTACULAR DISPLAY. The second quadrille will be composed of thirty-two cevaliere isa (horses of the four- teenth ceuturm after which will follow standard bearers, heleerdiere, ate. In the second figure cavaliers of 1500 and arquebusiers of 1600. The third quadrille will have the netnews of 1700, of Prince Eugene, thirty cavalier!, followed by pages, bearing the royal crown. The second figure; halberdiers ef 1780, costume Louis XV., with an intervel repreeentirg the revolu- tion and the new life gie-en to the country by Victor Emmeline; with Garibaldiane, bersaglieri, etc. The fourth quadrille will repreaeut the Kiiiehts of the Order of Savoy, surrounded ine standards of one hundred Italian towns, with pages in mediaeval coetume carrying the iron crown. There will be the Greed Master of Santis- sima Annueziata end knights bearing the standards of the Ordt rs of St. Maurice and Lazzaro, and the Order of the Crown of Italy, etc. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S FAIRY GARDEN. • Five years ago, when the German Em- ,peror wan the gueet et the Quirinal, a small church atid the meigastery of the Sagra- mentate were demolished in order to make O gardem eS the apartments deetined for William II. looked item the street, via Venti Sete melee, and in the place where the church had been a garden was suddenly improvised. In a feev days it was blooming with flowers, angi one of the things most admired by the Emperor ; but when he had taken his cleperiette, tee rare plants and flowers were removed, the garden abandoned and the whole place allowed to grow wild. In another week or 110 the Imperial pair will bo in Rome Bemire and the Emperor'a gar- den, as it is called, has! consequently to lee set to rights n,nd beautified, so that the military bands may play in it for His Majesty's delectatiom FASHION IN 0000. Les chiens a la mode. Even fashions change in the weer of dogs as everything else isa this world, This year the dogs which are all the go here are the barzoi, a species of Russian greyhound. A few years ago it was bon ton to be followed by a Ger- man baseet, or what is more generally celled a turnspit, as mum upon is time these aniroals performed this menial office. Then came the pugs, and of late tbe eaniche or French poodle, the black ones being parti- cularly chic. Tho barxoi is truly aristo- cratic looking, in build something like a greyhound, hut wiih long Silky coat. His every movement 10 grectful, his temper docile, and he mon gets Attached to his . master. Mow is This For nigh, "She Is very High Church, isn't she ?" "Why, the bows bee head whet:teem' the young rector's name is! mentioned." There is more /MOW on the summits of the Rocky Mountains at present than there hate