The French And Germans Have Got Another Little Quarrel On
hand. The Berliners are anxious, as their capital is now so important, to have a grand International Exhibition in 1900. The French consider this a sort of impertinence on the......
There Has Been A Sort Of Scare In Morocco. The
French, annoyed at the apparent success of Sir Euan Smith in repre- senting British interests, are putting pressure on the Sultan. According to the correspondent of the Times,......
A Strike Which Closely Resembles A Civil War Has Broken
out in Mr. Carnegie's immense iron and steel works at Homestead, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The firm found it needful, under the McKinley Tariff, to offer their men lower......
The Two Most Remarkable Speeches Of The Week Are Mr.
Goschen's reply yesterday week at Edinburgh to Mr. Glad- stone's first and most important Scotch speech, and Lord. Randolph Churchill's very clever speech on Saturday to his.......
The Cholera Is Advancing In Russia With Rapid Strides. It
has appeared in Astrakhan, the city at the mouth of the Volga,. and far up the river in the Province of Samara, which of all provinces is the one most affected by the recent......
The Austro-hungarian Consul At Alexandria Blames The-...
Egypt for not " encouraging " native manufactures. He argues that Egypt, with its enormous. water-power, its cheap labour, and its cheap canal-transit, is the very country for......
The Norwegians, As Is Well Known, Are Most Jealous Of
the separate position of their little Kingdom, which they insist shall not be merged in Sweden even as regards foreign affairs. They wish, in fact, to reduce the Union to a mere......
The Quarrel Between Prince Bismarck And His Master Still...
General Caprivi having published the orders issued to German diplomatists in Vienna on the occasion of the Prince's visit there. They are couched in honorific terms, but direct......