Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Japanese advices state that smallpox is raging in Nagasauki, the disease being uuusually fatal. • There was a small attendance at Queen Victoria’s drawing room at Buckingham Palace, Tuesday. Among those present were two hundred dobutantrs. Great preparations aro being made in Japan for the celebration of the silver wedding of the Emperor. Eight hundred thousand dollars are to bo expended upon the festivities. * Emperor William, of Germany, is devoting groat attention to bimetallism. It is said he desires the government to tako ■very step possiblo in order to prevent a further fall in the price of silver, Emperor William is desirous of being associated with the project to build a tower at Gettingen, where Prince Bismarck studied before he entered the army. This tower is to be named after Prince Bismarck, and the Emperor has given 300 marks for a memorial tablet which is to be affixed to it. The London Chronicle says that the retirement of Mr. Gladstone is imminent It is almost an opbn secret that his eyesight is no longer equal to even the least Important duties of a political leader. All stories of dissension or disappointment at legislation being balked may be dismissed as wholly unaffecting his decision. When Mr. Gladstone resigns the wand it will be because Ijis hand can no, longer wield it, and for no other reason whatever. It is probable that no decision has yet been reached as to the moment of his resignation, It Is announced that Mr. Sexton, P. M. for Kerry, has already taken steps to obtain pledges with regard to home rule in the event of Lovd Rosebery or Earl Spencer becoming Premier.