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The Brussels Post, 1891-9-18, Page 7SErr. 11, 1891, THB BRUSSELS P 0 ST . Late Foreign News V EL° CI NED ES N THE It 11.1SISTA A Ran'. Smothered in Mud. " ' "'yew(' num THE CZAR ON HIS HOLIDP n,1„.,,o. of boy robbere who pltuideved 'intermitted villas, nail his their booty In cave like Ali Baba and his " Forty Timer% The chief of the linrgairi• N out; confederation hi e youth 1.1 pel„,..1 1 Ho Is Enjoying Life with His, Roya Legated, 110 Was captured in a Relatives in Denmark, 11e1:1, and gavo inforniet ien a bout his voni- panione, who wort) arrested by the gaud- - — DESOBIPTION OP HIS RETREAT, t AR mines t hey were prep 0.1 lig to enter lea,. pave, lest, of the preme•liete remade were AWAY AMONG_THE NIHILISTS, Indy 1 1, hay lately hail entered a villa, met had. abetraettel therehotti a heap of now the Reim. or It Hundred 31 1 1 I 1010. provisione aml it largo 111:amity of wile: and Lives nen Relieved or the cares 01 juors, Col erotism; 11e Is Preparing Ali met of bravery 111 the Italian Alpine on We .tiultrai Viell to the 'renal; 411 tee•pi, in reported. A few 110? ego 1111 -1,3t1 mullet fere 01 l'etttlensnOrs. ° Cotopeity Wore returiung from Druid. .. SEVERE FLOODS IN GERMANY A Hang or nos "turf:airs, Velocipedes having Itemt int re:limed in t regular servi.s: of thc: 1 tessian army, Its 1( ported, an 0111e111,1 1101110 of slavent• ori:ci has liven devised ter t 110111, Tbe new name is samostkaty, " 601i roller." An unusually Liege mitelter of hoar* is noticed tide summer in the neighhorhool ef St. Petersburg. This, tweettling to 110 (M. Perieece of old peamtette prignustieatee the coming of a severe winter. The letutelan language is to be taught in JaPanese eallottlit For this purpoee the Government of the Mikado emelt; a nrunber of students to t he Unlvereity of St. l'eters. burg to prepare themselves ae to:tellers of Russian foe the rising generation of ;Japan. The Municipal Bearcl of St. Petersburg hes under advisement a projeet to place ale 'Mimeos for " z.ational gyineastice " in 1110 par103 and publio squares of the city for t he benefit of those whose means tle not allow them to get physimil exercise in rural places in the summer season. Two boys quarreled over their play 011 the remparte 011 the east shore of tbe r'open- hagen; pad the larger one chase:This smaller playmate, a, lad of ti, tlOWn the grassy slope told sent him spraw1ing into the moue with n push. Then he am away. The little one was found sin:allured in the mud hours after. According to private advices from RUSSia the report Mandated by English iiewspapers that no canteens may be takeu iuto the Gear s country lev 'tourists is false, There are innumerable Isedelts in Ger hantle of Americans in the streets of ea. Petersburg and Mr:snow every day. No cameras have been t-ized, and ito amateur photographers have been interfered with, F,xpeettnents have been made to aacertain whether :legs could not be made to .lo valu- able service in Lillie of war. They were at one time trait -eel to bite the legs of the enemy's Itereefe and were of great value. It is new found that the only dogs likely lobo useful are shepherds' dogs. The hunter mixes his post tno often and cannot 130 trained to obey as wen as can the sheep dog The condition ot the peasants of t he Spree forest districts is becoming very alltrining. hey are suffenng from the grea est in- undation that has been expermuced in those districts since 1S54, asel they nye in danger of dying from starvation, us they are cut off from communication with the rest of the country. 1 hey have only the water el the Spree tu drink, and that le polluted. Worlt on the laansaaaneasian railroati is progressing sat iefacterily. The emit argent of laberers consists of 2,500 soldiers, elm convicts at hard lately, :i00 Siiaerian exiles, 400 freemen, and 1,700 Chinamen itiel Coreens. Besides this 1 25 Russians and 300 Cilinainet: ate employed itl tlio stone ks. This army of lalorers dees lett include the Helier officials, such as engi- neer, 1,1chitecte, inspectors, ac. 'rho exportation linsinees in Odessa. is at a perfect eittniletill. The 0WnerS or foreign trig it cssels offer to carry goods to Plug. land at 10 shillings per ton, Tint op exporter will temitract with them even for this cheap peke for aey length of time. Ir. consequence c,f this a scarcity of coal is expected for the coming Winter, because the vessels which cerry Bussien grain and produce to England 001110 back to Odesse with coal. It has often been observed fverinontly how persons of weak intellect display consider- able talent for music. A German doctor has been making a systematic investigation of this matter, and he 1101V publishes the re. sults which may astouish many. Among ISO idiot children 130 has found the great ma. jority to possess considerable musical pow. ers, and some of them to be really highly endowed musically, A young gunsmith in Drammen, _Norway, called upon his s weetheert 011 hie return from a gunning expedition to show her whist he had shot. While showing her the loaded gun in the doorway he carelessly mised theharn. mar and let it fall, The gun went, off, the girl fell dead, shot through the heart. The police found her lover crouching by the body, a shrieking, raving maniac. . (111.e oth eerpet. Long, liarrOw (.tolT ,111:selead rooms, de vette! to the hall; 1 1 in waiting of the visi ieg sessee. dieing eleet t hest, einaidiesi it, is very eas 10 intagint, oneself with transatlantic sleallint At the left of the to Mese*, is the (yal anti eletinher and the private illy , A gallery leads to dui ap,irinionts '' to the Little 8 Bern/m.1, when Lieu' emelt a Clit•io fell into it erevtisse. Ho was able to hold im LI/ the edge tell hie comp:mons 01111111 to his asithitatime Not, long after one of the eoltliers disappeared. Lieu tented Prete. lin. medial ely offered to be lot doWil tied to a Pope. After doing so lio found that the snow which had fallen Oil 1,13 the soldier Was 00 thick that ho metal not alone remove it. Ho called for help, and !nay volunteered to bo let down. 8ergisant Nieyhet was °boson, anti 0%8 lowered into the crevasse, which wail 801e deep, and most dangerous, because below it there wail itnethee abyss. After work ing for an honr, ell throe were ladled up, envoi!. Speculating as te tho probable cost of the recent rnilway accident at St, Mantle, a correepondent says : —The Charenten collisiou in September, 1881, which in ;tome reepects resembled that of last Sunffity, aost the l'aris end Lyons Bailwaynearly £80,000. 'rids does not include smne small life annui- ties pnid to survivors who were dependent upon 1110 victims. The Western Company paid met. 4.00,000 compenitatton for the ellehy Levallois intestate Thoniliell abused 1'. Is. 11. Company is generous, and makes a point of never going to law. So fey the hatstern Railway has had ecarcely any dam - ago.; to pity. Tho -Western steeds highest in this respect. When the memorable accident ocatirred between Mont Permit:so and Versailles in 1 842, by which 82 people lost their lives and a great many were tit- juved, the Onest belonging to an English cempany, the compensation given on that occasiou amoanted to over 11 25,000. The Ilrormser Gritting draws attention to a literary curiosity of some value which has lately been discovered in the librat•y of Herr -Moses Mannheimer. .11 consists of the Pentateuch with commentaries, Rash' and Naehmanides, and came out of the celebrat- ed Beemberg collection in Venice (1071). It was the first printed book which issued from the "Bromberg Press," and is one of tho oldest Hebrew books extant. The Hessian Government is about to build a new railroad, destined to tmite the Trans -Caspian road with the town of Saralthe, on the Russo•Turkish frontier. The slew line, which will be 21 0 miles long, will be very important for military oper• ations, ad it wilt make the distance between Ituteria in Europe and Herat oomparetively a short one The railroad is also intended as a of facilitating the exportation to Persia of Russo•Asiatic products, especially of ootton. Two news-denlers, the keepers of red. tallealit, and tWO waiters tie the same ea- tablishment, wive arretsted at Dresden on Monday for selling and for allowiug to be placed before customers respectively the New York Mirk, containing an alleged libel upon the Emperor William. The culprits were escorted hy• gendarmes through the public streets to the police station, where they were treated with much severity, being interrogated by a magistrate fur close upon live hones A. noted Hungarian brigand, named Holvath, alias Bakonya, has boon arrested near Agent% This miscreant is believed to have committed more then twenty murders, his latest; exploit being the killing of two 40mb:eines. There is too 11111011 000,0011 to fear, 110WeVer, that he must have had ao-• oomplices among the gendarmes, for be has ten Ones escaped from custody. This time the Impute): outcry against him is so loud that his captors will probably not lot him go‘ A rich old lady 11118 I 11.St died at Lyons. hor will she loft the contents' of her berme to her doctor as a rowerd for the ',are ho had taken of her, to which elle at- .ributed her long life. Tho doctor began to rejoice, He thought that, ho could now en- joy himself for the rest of his day and do no work, When the bureau Wag Ont nett he his mind. Thum was nothing in It exei pi: the various pills and drugs 1a) haa preecribed for her, fuel whieh the had care. I fully hoarded up instead of taking Grim, I How to Bathe Without a .Bath.i No batlaronm is required, and them ie no need for the ordinary large tin bah, or tubs of weter, nr any ol the timed paraphernolia, often difficult to procure or troublesome to carry about, in travelling. The bath is taken in the bather's bed -room immediately on getting out of bed, and the only requisi- tes are two ordinary betl-room towels and a rough bath towel, the rougher tho better. Uncovey the upper part of the body, leaving the limbs, front the loins downward, cover• ed. Apply the rough bath towel to tho ex. posed pare of tho body, with firm and rapid button, ell over. Take up ono of the bed- room towels, previously steeped in a, little water in the basin ; press it out, so as to avoid dripping, then well rub the whole upper part of- the borly with the wet towel, pass- ing it over the shoulders and taking these openetbout ends in both hentls Lo tvoll rob the back, Wring out the towel awl pass it again over the -whole trunic for the first dry, atter which rub thoroughly all over with the dry towel, and then ripply frictionwit the bath towel until the skin is in ono glow when put on the flannel under jacket, turn- ing it well lip below, Then repeat the whole operation on the lower part of the body. Yoe fluty open your window to got an abundant supply of oxygen, end you might to take a tumbler or two of fresh 00111 water, in sms,durnig the operation of dross - Mg, after which go mit bite the open air for half au hour before breakfast, and you will return with a most uncompromisinii appe- tite, and thereafter go through the 'labours of the day with a buoyancy, ease and elasticity that wino a now and. delightful experience. A sensationed story to the effect thee Europe nerrowly escaped war last winter at thotline that :Empress Erederick visited Paris comes from Jam; nes St. Core, the editor of the Figaro, who asserts that " the Kaiser gme and signed orders fOr mobilization end that it was only because the military staff delayed sending out the orders for one day that war WaS not begun. During the night," M. St Core continues, " a telegram came from Queen Victoria, begging William na to take umbrage at what was really not an insult to the Empress, and at the same time arrived a- despatch from the Vienna Cabinet, which had got) wind of the orders for mobilization, stat i lig that the Paris in olden t was notate/on h,18. oonsequenoe of these telegrams the Kaiser annulled the fottunneely delayed orders." How amehtruth thereis inthisstory it Would be difficult to Say. 11 111001 130 borne in mind that it comes from au inveterate enemy of the Germans end of their young Emperor, that it) is certainly 1101 unpreju- diced and is likely to be highly oolorod. In receiving it one would do well to add the traditional grain of Sa11. Tattooing the Legs. Of ell Burmese custom, one of the most singular is that of tettooing the person from the waist to below the knees, with figures in black ink, levers' man in the whole of Burmali is thus adorned ; and, unless his skin be unusually dark, he looks at a little (lista-nee as if he were clothed In a tight fit - Wig pair of knee breeehee, says the Se. Louis Bepublie. Thai "murk of manhood," Which ia 1.181111,11y °enforced when the subject is between 12 and 14 years of age, is a very painful one, and the agony, whiell must neceesarily Ito of the met intone, id ofteo prolonged from three days to a week. The subject, stupeliedwith opium, lice inseusiblo to the pada, while one Clore after. mother gradually appettrs on his skin, Tho instru- Melte used by the tatt000rin this dein ty work Is a bran rod nearly two foot: in length and ono4mlf inch in diameter, weighted at tho top with tt little ornamental figure, and provided at the other end with a hollow point, divided into four very sharp points by cross slits, Deop as the points of the stylus sink into tho ilesh, they seldom draw blood, but the limbs end body soon swell in a mann or that would alum any ono who did not know what. the final result would be: Eight rupees a the usual fee paid the tattooev for his week's work. The figures that compose the design vary 11(110, oonsise. ing, as a rule, of tigers, dragons and devils. Each of these figurer' ie 'tonally surrounded by a border sentence invoking good luelc upon tho owner of the skin whereon they ore ieserihed. The leurtneso have many ourions customs, the tattooed knee brooches being one of the most siegulae. .Aboul. 18,10, when ships at alidillombrough Were loaded at the ritraiths 1,101 TO03, WaS frOgi101itly (311 a etud tveggon, when the wind Watt favorable, and by tide aid ran up to Stockton. A WOMall overboned dapanerie waters and was 014 0011 by a :cheek. l'or throe VOW'S 1,3r hilShand lite: 110110 Mailing 1‘1Th 1111111 thorkli, and up to dotal:as landed 1141101 800 of them and Still tisning, 1 110 111,ovo tiespal eh, 1411(e11 pro,11311.0.1 from Eng11311 noureete is printed te.rbatin i• 1. A MAD WOLF, lino More or it New elee lea " 1Iy room Was at the e11,1 of a king hull. 'Was 1,114011,1r NVit.11 Pvt.! y moot; and tin about 1 104 1201200 41101 tlitIn't need a light, I rein the ivnelowe the VleW itt moll( thal I peesed into lay pion( and (dosed the (loot taeurrtel to nu. then to la" 0 s 111.011111i ill (lark 151141 found a etgai and strueli mate!) lo light it. The itex 10111111 4, t hink you emild have li 11, t2.1111,11 with a leathev. Away down in th eereneSii under the two nen( eyes show ; out like burniog metes Met for dim brie iweitent 1100. the mid ee was burning ;111. 12,,ii it weld out. Before 1 loul time think the 141,41M' 11',11 IlL)011 1111., MO lin . ELL lily weft, Gm 111001 *tem minal I hail ever mei. felt roller Itte saw what it Was, wee a wol /11.1 it Woe mad," says a writer in the et Lena; (*.Iv Serena an holds aill ted hytitelphobi had been seen ill a neieberlyeel during the past few menthe, There es 11E1 animal nun. formidable than wolf when it has rabiee mid I knew with %time I Ifiel eonteml. I heel to /struggle with a large wolf shut up in a dark i•oont met that, when lio slightelit wound from its sharp teeth meant certah and horrible death to me. As it came 0 me first I threw out. my halide mid by sinne good fortune happened to etr'ike its node 1 got both my hands about ite throat and numaged to hold away from my face, 1011 it was all that I could do. I was nervoue, 1 euppose, and the wolf was fur stronger thee it would have been under ordinary circumstances, The froth was dripping from its mouth, and flew into my face as it struggled. It: was the most deeperate etruggle of nty life, just to hold that wolf and keep it from my face and throat, at which it constiottly leaped in the most (minus trimmer. .All the time, from the moment, 1 t sprang at me first, I had been ehouting and railing at the top of my voice. There wan very little hope of doing any good with ir, 418 the servants wine too far away, entlany room was oil the opposite side et the house front their quarters ; but Out was the only chance. It WaS evident that I eouldn't let go my htdd for an instant. It WOES Met us evident that I couldn't bold out this trey long, and. that unless help came atter a while 3111:, strength would eventually give way, and the wolf could ten; tny throat, as it Willi streggliug dim to do. And how long do you thilik this kept up For two hours. Two mortal. !inure hy the clock. I stood there, fighting for my life with that savage wolf, aud shunting for bele every mo neat o: the time. A hundred times I thought ny streegth was gone, and that my arms would stmely sink lown powerless the next moment, and yet I always managed to told him elf rt little longer, .At last, just HA was 11010st in complete despair, one of the servants was aroused by my continued shouting, and mane running with his gun in his hand. I managed to hold the wolf mail he made a light, and then I held. him while the man put the muzzle of his gun a "ainst the well's head and killed him as dead us Hector. And then I went to my sister's room and hatl a spell of something that would have been by, teries 11 I hail been a tenurial. Being a man, it wait !lofting but a ease of nert ous prostration.' sit], tw,, rooms OIVIionithitr 1 hp pi* on i• 11 Int other a •06,0 101'11131RA , , , , , pale tone stmt. ttres,,ing room, Nelt101 liho a eloset, eon tants 0111y a tt,,ile laido, envered with gray Meth, /at i 111,1051 1 13 a very teregultle member his family. Ile is often so 1.115113 meet ed %visit di, eit e • tl OP GENERAL INTERE8T. u t twouty yeare there hies been 110 amine . • •Lr Laing ot Amerman potstege igarepe. I ! • tehnig Maims to 1111V11 more inillioltairet , • , • 11 moping ton to her o Mitt e 11 other eity 1, the world. Tho ltW teilei: between New-nod:le and , Ed:Met:eh, wide!' is :len. without a, :stop, I, • la at preseut the lengeet rim Britain. e In Femme 'a little nee, than a limelred e years iteo it ean inipmeeible for an> beily to 11 week ',ilia, le; joined the tinion of his pers eller treat; and isotenit ted to he ruleie 1 The eotitil tnitgitilieener, el a Slate 1,44: 1,1:,•,X, 1)10E1111 1 ii,ai,E)ajtsk 110 l•mwtiltig mid every imitimpeneitt a light Ditto], eignre, wide), eoet about three. e istroeg armlet of eigare. A mord smoker of his da,y waft tlio late , In one Misfire*: establishment. in Loudon. • , ['reference fin•lunnely dishes. Accortlieg to i a heavy eater, 171 111 0, attending to his offload Imeinese, his (103- : Lord Clarendon, wheregnlarlyemoked wben Frederie, he smelter; a greet timelier of no fewer Omit 400 Corniiihmen are employ. patehes being generally permeated with a. tetlfponee peel), California's crop of peaches thie veer will ,aini it:ill( ttNo 11111:0 Mid a half million It is estimated tied in Ole year 2000 130 lea; than 1 ,; 0001110,000 will be spwthing the the English Mug:lege, while only 500,000,- 000 will be epeaking other European, tongues, The lit•st eteltammeilan marriage in Eng. land Was celebrated EL few week', ago, when a Moslem lawyer was wedded according to the rites of his religion to the daughter of a. magistratt . The triad number of Thelithiets in the world is estimated to be 75,000,000. The highest altitude ever reached by a. balloon was seven milee. Cleopatra's Needle is said to be decaying and, it is declared, will soon be nothing hut shapelees same. One of the peculiar eustonis of the East ind ian ciediem called Litscars is the putting ef it ring on the :treat toe when they marry (,)1112011 elargheiitit, of Italy is a most acr• eomplished woman; net ouly deem she speak meneroue lauguages, including the various dialects te Northern Italy, but see is mum. ally well iced, Sixty years ago only one publee banking compeny existed in London, and at the beak of England private accounts were at that difficulty. time opened rarely and with the greatest,' A stern father ill KartiaS, with a largo family of girls, has passed the cold edicts that etteli beau who frequents his domione through the winter must contribute a load . of ssartoeti- lead. sdt thir ty towns of more than 1:1,000 inhabitants. Seven of these • nembei more than 30,000 inhabitants eine '"ea have between 20,1100 and :10,1100, aral the a. remaining fourteen have from 10,e00 to, ' 20,000. A handsome Barmese bell from Mumbeliw has been pawed:men the North Terrace, the vicinity of the 'Winchester Tower as. Windsor Castle. There zu•e uative char. aeters upon the impel. part of the tropliese whieh sapperted by three canners shots and mitented upon a stone pedestal. The latter bears the inscription " efandaleye lame," There teat present discharging the humble duties of nesteamt baker at the Penitentiary of Le IM Neu, NeW Caledonia, a l'olish con- viet. muned Beiezowsky. This 1111011 was - tried before the Court of Assizes of the Seine, in 1867, for an ettempt to assassinate the Czar Alexander II., who had come te Paris ta enjoy the magnificent hosfatalitee • of the Emporm Napoleon the Third. Y the dinner hour altogether. But when he is t. }1 ho mealy, 1 Ills Is done to dotw how tho e,title nolva• ,1$1.ys has hoeonto a Iralisinitter of lying dis• patolua to Gil indeeeribably ideate extent. Imagine, if wo can, the OA 10,1,104v., going a Denmark to wreak 7011413;11m teem tl Czar 1 The JOWS have been emigrating from Russia voluntarily for tho paet yeer and a half, basing their 110130s 011 a good future obie \Viler° on the promises(*) far unfulfilled) of the Baron Hirech Fond, The ear may be a terrible despot, but so far oe 1110 pretsent exodus of the 1 febrews is concerned lie hae nothing at all to do with le The distriets from whitth they aro emi- grating ere at the present thne suffering from a terrible famine and they should be happy to be away. The 'zap raved ne Copenlingen on Tuesday, and wal met by King Christian of Demnark, the Crown Prince Frederick, the King of Greece, the Queen of Denmark, the Crown Princess, the Princess of Wales, Prince Witlilemar, Prinees Hans and. Wilhelm of Gluelcsborg, the King's two brothers, the diplomatic corps and the eivil and military authorities f Copenhagen. He wee enthusinstieelly cheered by the people. 71111 IL IN DENMARK, In spite of tho itn steries told about the Autocrat of all the Russias the Czar is per• soundly, and opeeially en 11110 ennual Danish trip of his, a fascinating pereonality and no one would imagine, watching hitn enjoying himeelf wall his sons and tenderly eseorting the Czarina, that lie 10 the man Wiln, ac. cording te such able dispatchee as the above, scuds yeal ly thousands of poor souls to Si• bevia and ("thee thousands of his Jewieb subjects into the cold, cold world, whore they me battleolored about from land to land, the Lord knows where. In Ikea:lurk however, the rider of nearly 11 hundred Minn people can enjoy life like any other home:. man, mot throw off the cares of Stme and help his boys to make ducks and drakes oil the smooth "ultimo of the lake 111 front of Feedensiumg, Met as he esed to do in all probability- when he WOES a bey. When in Denmark, the guest of 1110 fatherdialaw Kireg Christian, the Dar o scu- pies a little retreat built for near to the old castle of Fredensborg. Fretiens- berg itself has pleasant memories for the Czar, for there it was that tWenty.live years ago (Oct. O8, new style) he wooed and W011 the Princess IMgmar, af Ler she hail scarcely recovered from t he grief mused by the death of his elder brother. It will be remembered that when the C.0;11,- 10110 Nicholae, the peesent Cear's brother, died, in April, 1885, at Nice, from the effects of a fall from his horse, tee direct succession to the throne of Russia devolved on the Grand Duke Alexander, who, teems. Lined to see tlte heir full of strength and health, on the eve of a prosperons marriage, hail meet, dreamed of snch enntingency. No two brothers had over been more unlike 'florally and physically ; Wi/S tall, pre-entmently handsome, his clear chiselled features the counterpart of his mot heves ; he had rucked an almost Spartan trlining, and, intellectually, a complete end advanced education under the direction tif Count Sorgius Strogonof, head of the Moscow University. On his deathbed, in tho pro. settee of the Emperor and Empress, he placed the hand of tho weeping Dagium that of Alexander, saying to her ; " Marry my brother, he is true as crystal." After the first uncontrollable anguish and monr11- ing, the young people obeyed the Czarowitz's dying request, and were married in October 1 806 ; the bridegroom was 20, the bride 1 0. They had hoped only to meet with mutnal respect, trust, confidence, and they found more ardent love than usually fidle to the shore of wedded couples. So her the love story. 1111ISIOILIRS PILEDBILS110101. WaS there on the -morning of leaving the old eastlethe bride arid Garment scratch. ocl the words : "Farewell, beloved Freclena- berg, farewell." To Vretionsborg both Czar and Czarina love to return occasionally to live over, again the days of courtship and to forget for it time the troublee and dangers of imperial existence. Near to Fredensborg the Czar built himself a few years ago a retreat on the brink of Lake harm, where ho spends the portion of his time ha does not give to the Czarina and his family. It was built by an architect named Stillman. Ale Stillman had many opportunities of see- ing the Czar. "I confess," he once said the inuob-perseented monarch will find himself pretty safe within the walls of ha retreat. Ono has to run a gauntlet of Im. period Guardsmen, bodyguard Cossaoks and a ferocious Russian bear dog before you oau epproach tho Czar himself. "Sentinels armed with muskets petrel the ground mound the hermitage by day and night. In the vestibule there are six Imperial (1 nerde under commatid Or 0, thug:. od officer. In the entoteenn leuelitig born the vestibule to the Calr's bedroom two Cos. Backs armed to the feet 11 keep Moe:alma vigil, and directly inside the bedroom door in front of his con011 otretcheil the most savage mot:Mien de (attire; that Ruseht ;inn boast. 8o you see any intruder wonlil meet with a welter rough reception. In addition to all these safeguert10 there are electric de. Vi0OS of various sorts and a secret communi- cation with Frodensbore Castle. But in his bedroom there is an absolute paucity of civilized comforts. 'In one corner stands it onerm col:with blenkets and one pillow ; an oak °heir aud a desk complete the appoint. ments, So restless is the Czar's disposition that he frequently arises two and the times during the night to write cipher dis- patches, svhich immediately are telt on by mounted couriers to the nearest Government telegraph stations and thanes wired to St. Petersburg, He hail likewise given imperative orders that dispatches: :nest lie delivered to him without a moment's delay, no matter what hour of the 1114111 they an. vivo. TI1 11 OZAIITNA'S Fru/onshore proper, the restdence now of the Czarina, is not a very imposing strtie. ture. There, in fact, all the imperial Reis. sian and royal Danish guests will he lionsed for 001110 ulna 10 eine. The soldoes 001101010 of a, come .1 pal -111011, 111.1.11 lone; Snit of winge, the *hole strewn -el by a donut or oupoIa of vine. At the entrance aro sta. tiouet. o gultrils dreseed in most pictures. quo 1,1 coettimee The ;aeon(' story of Fre& : :berg mettains the family apartments To reach this -.ono 1111181, Mount 3, 1V0(1(1011 slatreese, painted %OH,. and covered with at rolensborg, an oroltestra ef sixtytwi, uniebdans pleym during demer, "piing to mid returning Iroill the ietelle by rail ; otherWiso the deutestie areangements of the imperial pair arc veey unpretending. Of all princely pers mageS 111 the oatitlit, the Ellitatror is Inn lirSt to rise. When breakfast is served at 11 oedock, in the rooms of Queen Lamella of Dell - Mark, the Emperor litinally retmets from a long morning wane. After breekhist he joint, the Mines and chilihen ; while the King of ( ;reeve or one or other of the King's broth. ere, playa billiards or Meseta. The perig- ee, members of the itunily—Dallish, ((rook or Etiglish—are ueanimous in calling their imperial uncle the best of all uncles, rind constantly gather around him, In the even. Mg the Daniell Queen Red her daughters Sing and play. On Queen Lonise's birthday the Emperor sang last year with a few Min. deed children, and even led the song when the Queen desired it to, he repeeted. Of course, the wicked people will say that the fevar in this minded taste of his beers a striking resemblanye to Nero, However, a may be said thee be is a skilful player on the French horn, and is a member of his 4W111 private orchestra st Gatsehin in which he takes his place like an ordinary mesiciten and playa with in telligelioe, Tiln (1 l'ESTS FP IMENSlinitt t. woUld he quite a task to give the names of all the relatives of the royal Dane who will have to bo packed into Freclemboeg this year. Last year the guests, all of whom were related Ring Chrstinn in some way, were the King of Greece, with his wife, sous, loor40 and Nicholita, and daughters, Alex• arelra aed Maria ; the Creek Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta.; the Prince and Princese of Wales, and their daughters, Victoria and Mond ; Maria of Orleans, youeg wife of Prince Waldemar and. her little sons; Princes William amelinns, the Danish le"ing's brothers; the C'rown Prince and Princess of Emumark with their seven ehildren the Russian Emperor and EIJI. press, with the heir to the Russian throne, Grand Duke Nicholas, and tirand link( s Michael and George, and any number of minor stars of various magnitude, King Christian, the host, and Queen Louisa, the hostess, at Fredensborg are more famous through their family connections than for royal wisdom or other distinguished traits. They have been enabled to marry their daughters in the families of the most rower. fel of Europe's sovereigns. Alexandra, his el:lest daughter, is the wife of His Royal Highness of Wales. Princess Titre:, the mungest of King Christian's daughters. a named to the exiled heir apparent to the Kiugdom of Hanover, which Prussia con- fiscated at the end of the Austro -Prussian war of 1800. Crown Prime Frederick of Denmark linked his fate about twenty years ago with t he "Crown Princess Louise of Sweden -Norway, and a large element nf the people hope that some day this may bring about a union of the three Scandinavian peoples. George, the next ol:lest of the Danish Princes, became, through an agree- ment between the loading European powers, the ruler of (1reece. For more than twenty years he bed resided in Athens, anti once every few years visits his royal father In Copenhagen. PVillOO Waldemar. a lieu- tenant in the Danish Royal Marin and the youngest son of the King, is married to a daughter of the Duke of Orleans. Last, but by 110 means least, King Christian's second daughter, Dagmar, shares the throne of the White Czar, having changed her name to Marie Federowna. To mention all the re. latives of the Danish royal house would ne- cessitate half a column front the " Almon- ach de Gotha," 71111 axxrai.. VISIT TO ELSTILOIII1E In a few clays the imperial and royal families of Russia and Denmark will go on their muntai pilgrimage to the Castle of Elsinore, the -11 authentic tomb of Hamlet and the parapet where the Prince of .Den- mark met his father'e ghost" The v1017 front Elsinore is it very lovely one, and Elsinborg in Sweden is only half an hour's distance aoross the sound. The Czar and the Czarina love dearly this yachting trip of theirs along the romantic shores of the Danish isles. What the imperial and royal visitors will see may be gained front a per- usal of all tic:count of Itentlet's castle, writ. ten some time ago by an unbelieving Ameri. can, " The first objective point of interest mutually is the "platform of the entitle at Elsinore," the spot whore, according to Shaliespearel Hamlet first had the pleasure of meeting his father's ghost And learning from his ghostship various interesting, if rather startling, facts. Possibly Hamlet on that particular evening had inclulg. ed in an extra glass of Danish bot- tled beer which had rendered him TIM MAWS RETREAT, unusually susceptible to the 8111410 influenoes of spiritualistic phenomena. As to Hamlet's grave. Seceeecling generations have been very It 11111 to Hamlet in taking Tell pains to build him a grave and keep it i 1 repair. It is necessary foe tho would -he visitor to this spot tn pose through a garden nd pay a small fee, after which he may vender at his own eweet will among the great trees in a pretty grove 011 a lit t le ridge. In the furthermost rem. corner is a.pyramid f stone roeghooss, (LIAM Whiell a sickly ivy ss.0truggles for existence, That is all there is f it ; Hamlet doesn't seem to care for much tyle in this matter ; lie probably flnds this Emetic! afibir amid the trees more to his taste, °Val' t110 Wan, d0W11 in a little doll, they have mulled a trickling stream ' Ophelia's pring,' inasmuch as that maiden did not ..onsider it quite the sotare thing that Ham- let shoulrl have a grave and she bo left ',without any such little remembrance." It is to this " hietoric" spot: that the Czer will go in a. few clays in his yacht, Tho principal relic belonging to the church of Sainte Oubille, in Brussels, consists of SE 01(1111 whieh iS Said to ltave formed a part of the Saviour's ()retell. It was bronght to the 51.Totherlands in the time of the Crusades. lA The Duke of Cambridge, since the ago of 10 nineteen, hae been in the Queen's einploy. MOW.. 'rho following arc the rough esti. mates nf the 'mount of motley he has reedy. :—" Grant of :110,000 for thirtymino years, :11118,000 Army emoluments from 18:17 to 1 8e 1, .110,000 ; Colonel of Grenadier Guards, 1861 to 1800, C.15,001): Conietan- (101,11141nel, 18112 to 1880, 111:25,000 Ran. in gership of lau•ks, ;a17,000 total, .1071,• 0 000, The .Aniquity of' Horses. Timber*: was probably first domestieated on the plains rif Central Asia. This musi have 'leen at a very remote period, for on the sculptured 111011 tune]) ts ancient Assyria we find Mel" bred, carefully comparisoned steeds given in admirably outline, showing how familiar and how favot•ite an object the hortse inust have been to the Aseyriaus. The mane is long and flowing or curled or in tassels, Three horses abreast drew the chariot, in which were three warriore. Sad- dle horses led by grooms or bearing horse- men are delineated, sometimes in the thick of battle. The horse was doubtless introduced into Egypt as late as the time of Hyksos, and sculptured rept•esentations of it are often conventional typespectilier tolater Egyptian art. Instead of the life and energy display- ed by the Assyrian horse, there is a rather weak attempt to represent life and energy and the effect produced is mechanical. Probably the horse of the Delta did 3101 CUITTare beeuty or speed with the As. yrian horse, Berjeau says lie was more the the Dutch horse of our day. Our Butter in England. Canadian butter, if good, need not fear ompetition in the British market. Thelma hopeful report about tile Canadian artiele n the Glasgow I/cm/d of recent date, which eye : " Very little United States butter is now ruling its way into our markets, owing in o small measure to their own enormous and ver increasing consumption, es well as their inning their energies to the eheesemaking minstry, a branch of the provision line which remises to be more profitable tn the States Ilan the butter imported to this country. here were on offer some choice value in anadian creamery, which would have taken expert oil his 111110 to detect from five Danish ; the figure realized fm• this useful lase was from 100s, ep to 1 04s, por cwt. n.live to the disadvautage of their style package, the Camuliata are adopting tho entinental make of cask, and there aro on he way to am ive several lots get tip in the ow style. They will be certainly easier awned than the old-fashioned tube, and if he enality keeps up, there le 11. reason why • de colonial butter should net he readily ought," 1 a fi 7 1 a a 0 a RW Ll bOVO statement If had not received it •cnn one who WW1 110,10,1140,11y 10 a 13,,,,11,1on 11010W, and W1 OE gent 'email and a Mail 1 honer, incamialc of misleadiug the 11 The Prince of Wales' Debts. It will be grateful news te these whn herish any affection-0nd it is to be hoped hat there are few Cantelians Wiln do not -- it• the old system under which England has ttained her proud position ill the world, nd who are jealous for the reputation of , he royal family, to learn that the numerous ' operts coneerning the Prince of Wales' Jimmied difficulties are Utterly without oundation and that His Royal Highness , twenty-fonr hourspay MI every bligation that he is under, This at least is le statement nutde by Mr, Stead ill his oview of Reviews, rwlit on the authority of 1 thoroughly reliable informant. Comment- 1 ig on the fact Mr, Stend says : " Such an ssurance given to me on the very highest uthority, will be read throughout the empire ith pleasant surprise, It is hardly too much say that alinost everyone believed exactly to opposite, ner would I have printed the 1 a 1 0 A Queer Letter Wrilea A manlier of a wealthy family, tho name • of the head of which is known all over the oommercial world, has peculiar mania. He is crazy on the subject of letter writing --love letters at that, and writes a 1100011 or more evety day all to himself. At noon every day he hands the butler a batch of letters to be pOSb301 and receives them at the hands of the same individual at 7 o'clock every - evening. He reads them with the greatest manifestatious of delight, and sits down to answer them after dinner. He has kept this pastime up for a year, beginnins with one letter every week and gradually Increas- ing his correspondence to the pregent batch. He is 0. good-looking young man of five and thirty, and u -as as bri611 t, mentally, as °mild be desired until his eighth year, when scar- let fever left him little better than a Blimp. loton. If he wrote 1,000 letters a clay co tho same expensive note paper he uses, he could not spend a thousandth part of his father's income. Perhaps the pastime is as good as he amid be engaged in, but it seems a trifle silly. The Healthiest English Village. There is a village in Bedfordshire, 030131. three miles from Dunstable, called Whip. simile, which can boast nf Min the health. lest spot in Eugland. in 1808, 1 880, 1 887. and 1 888 there was not a single death. The population of the village at the last. census was ft little over 2011. 1 /tiring the last twenty. four years only three deaths have beets registered between the neve of one year and t wrn ty•nms yeal'S -mat being's ease brought down from London. The arcing(' age OE all the inhabitants of this ex tremely healthy village over one year old, who have died during the last thIrty years is,fifty-six years, Two other very healthy places are Wollner in Kent, with a deal li.rate of 01 pet• 1,000, ind Boston, a village in Nottinghamshire, with a doath.rate of 10'8 per 1,000 inhabi. tants, One nf the healthiest small towns in England is East ;vitiate:0d, in Sussex, well. mown for the purity of its air, and having 10 excellent system of drainage. For a considerable time tho death -rate averaged about 0 per 1,000, aud latterly liaS been as no; as 8.4 per 1,000 of the popnlation. 7t would seem as if much of the talk abont roneland, end especially London, being over. lowed with pauper iintnigrants is withou. warrantor justification. No doubt poordow. and Whore have been coming, 111011411 not in greater number than during former seasons, This is evident from the answer of Sir Michael Ilicks.Beauli, president of the lofted of Trade, when questioned the other lay in the House nf Commons as tollrhethor he government Intended to adopt more tringent meaeuree to prevent the Minion,. ion of indigeni foreigners. Sir 11.-liefieel 'mica tlott there Wall ally 11e0110Sily for peeial iticaeures AN the t, tn.( inne.h.,r Of Ilene a criviug in England in June. I Sol, vas •20'i .indor the number which .15 ed irc lune 18e0, ie be hoped that nformation will have the t.dbet. ef ho fears., the Engitell people, who, ., Lets have beeeme coPsiiixerably alarmed a0ont,' he matikr, Olio." And then who know 11r. Stead now that he would note vonecionsly aid in reolating a fel,: heed not oven to shiold eeir.appareut front disgrace. eiss. mete . of Gernieny, which ern ' lutt of any other groat nnt y 1,1 , ie, in round figetes 30,000,000,