CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3535, 15 June 1905, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Russo-Japanese Situation PEACE DESIRED. BUT PROBABILITIES NOT TOO REASSURING. London, June 12. It is expected at St. Pe'ersburg that the German and French Ambassadors will play a considerable part in the negotialions, but the British Ambassadore, during the impending stages, will adopt an expectant attitude, and will intervene if Japanese interests are imperilled. r The “Times” New York correspondent says Japan is profoundly distrustful of the Continental Powers. She is aware that Germany and France, thought desiring peace, are far more likely to consider Russia’s interests than Japan’s. She would be content had President Roosevelt acted alone, but feels that his success at St. Petersburg in_ that case would have been problematical. The “ Times ” says that if Russia really believes that the acceptance of President Roosevelt’s suggestions means that Russia is willing to receive Japanese proposals, there is not much hope of a fruitful result. Peace is impossible while Russia affects to treat the victorious enemy as an inferior. It i.- useless to talk of an armistice unless, it is accompanied by a material guarantee. St. Petersburg, June, 12.

Though all Russia evidently longs tor peace, the war party, headed by the Grand Duke Nicholas, is still powerful. Mobilisation proceeds without interruption. Competent observers at St Petersburg are hopeful, though not confident of peace.

iUAi Stanford White is one of the collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his house in Grammarcy park, New York, a rer* liable museum of Greek and Roman art, but' the lawn is no’v filled to ofe*» flowing with other examples. Tile main staircase in William C, Whitney’s New York residence, Fiito avenue and Sfarty-cighth street is of white marble and is carved after a staircase in the Doge’s palace in Venice. Mr. Whitney brought the design to this country and the work took ail months for completion. Adders Zorn, the famous Swedilll “threatened,” as he put it, to ™ , hv - present one of his pictuyw in V wis Museum of Pine Art*. , : ] ; k en he first visited the That was wK The other day cuty several yea. “Portrait the picture arnveu OV#I <3i a Woman,” ana SG,OOCC V. , . During excavations nW T On the Dardanelles, a bea* c j was found. It is made of buK encrusted on the exterior with * It has three golden handles and »pV did reliefs represeitting huntiflk scenes. The date of the vase, whicfl contained human ashes, bones and * pearls, is estimated at about B. C. 400.. A bas relief by Clodion, representing: fawns, nymphs and cupids at play*' has been discovered in a Paris nunnery. The relief was carved for Princess Louise of Conde, in the eighteenth century, and when she became a niW the figures were covered with plastcri A Prussian cannon ball at the time of the siege of Paris chipped off the plaster, showing the sculpture beneath. M French antiquarian society intends tflf present it to the Carnavalet museum, , though the price asked for it is $40,000, OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. ,j Elizabeth de Belle, an Atlanta (Ga.Ji young woman, is making a name for herself in law practice in Chicago. She recently won a case invoking ; estate valued at SIOO,OOO,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is ’ a very pj«iin, practical woman who buy* caretglly.' Thus, while her gowns are fashioi&fcle, khA wastes no part ol her money ch* Tarj*. dressmakers.

Countess Tolstoi, Upphia Anderona, is a mild-seeming woinaJi who since her marriage has devoted her whole time to her husband and fter three children. For the latter she iNftde all the clothes until they were ten xyar» old.

A French deputy has announced hif intention to bring' in a bill during the present session of parliament making it not only admissible but, legally obligatory for women to sit as jurors. He proposes that all juries stall be required to consist of six. good men and true and sir women similarly qualified. It is not often that a woman of today can array herself in any fabric that once formed part of the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth. The countess of Pembroke has, however, thi# privilege, and at the last drawingroom she attended she .wore a white and silver gown, the peach-colored train of which was trimmed with old Point de Flandre, which not' only had been owned, but also worn, by. the famous Tudor queen, “-'n WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US. There are believed to be .16 tone, of shells to every cubic mile of ocean. The shark holds the record for long-distance swimming. A shark has been known to cover 800 miles in three days. Berlin passed a law in 1871 that all milk should be sterilized. As a result infant mortality in that city haß fallen from 30 per cent, to 23 per cent, in 30 years.

The dandelion produces 13,000 seeds per plant; shepherds’ pulse, 37,000; thistle, 05,000; chamomile, 16,000; burdock, 43,000, and the common plantain, 44,000.

Prof. Pictet, of Geneva, is reported to have devised a plan by which oxygen can be produced on a commercial scale and at a cost that will greatly increase its use. Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trigla can produce longdrawn notes ranging over nearly an octave. Others, notably two species of ophidium, have sound-producing apparatus, consisting of small movable bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curioua “drumming” made by the species called umbrinas can be heard from a depth of 30 fathoms. .... MEN WELL-KNOWN ABROAD. l King Edward has reappointed Alfred Austin poet laureate of Great Britain. Don Jerman Eiesco, the presidentelect of Chili, 5# a relative of the retiring president, Senor Errazuriz, and has had the support of both liberals and radical#. Pope Leo XIII. Is still addicted to the- habit of taking snuff. It is not generally known that the snuff usad by the head of the Roman Catholic church is made especially for his use in America. This particular kind is the highest-priced made anywhere in the world and before being packed is flavored with the costly attar of rosea. The late Prince Hohenlohe has left behind him a mass of autobiographical recollections. He was recently occupied with preparing a selection from his memoirs for the press and had advanced so far with his work that the publication of a first installment may soon be expected. It is reported that one chapter is devoted to a generous justification of the policy of Caprivi, Bismarck’s successor and his own predecessor in the imperial chancellorship.