If some people go so far as to call Austria, and especially Vienn: an "Inferno," they can hardly be accused of exaggeration, says "the Vienna correspondent—_of the "Observer." Not a day passes without a large number of incidents happening which point to anarchy pure and simple. In 2 suburb of the capital the large wooden fences round a cloister were torn down and carried away at night time, and the inmates are very glad' indeed that the wooden chapel close by has so far remain-intact. Ab a cemetery of suicides, who seck refuge from their sorrows in the waves of the Danube, the coffins were brok open, the corpses searched and scattered about, and, in order to tet firewood, "all the planks, fences, wooden crosses, the coffins and tools in the mortuary were de molished and stolen, so that fres'y suicides cannot be buried.
CatuousNess oF ALL CLassEs.
The heartlessness of high and low is overwhelming. In an _unspeakably neglected room four children, from four months to eight years of age, were found in a most pitiable condition and in rags, although their father, a ca penter's assistant, earns (nomina ally) about £100 w month, and the mother is a strong young woman who refuses to do housework and has no occupation.
Whilst desperate apprentices commit suicide out of sheer huw ger, there are numerous fancy. dress and masked balls, in which thousands of people partake. AN the tickets for such a ball, are already sold out, although the prices of boxes' for this entertainment range from £50 to £125, But the very same people refuse donations to benevolent societies and hospitals. Col. Cunning-hame's work for poor mothers aut children in Vienna has been supported mainly by foreigners, notably English and Americans. During the several months the wor has been going on one of the leat ing dailies has published scarcely £500 of donations it has received.
Epiratic oF THert.
At the same time, poor children go about without shoes, their mothers are happy to secure, at high prices, nasty sauerkraut, which the very municipality sells. through whose negligence it packed in petroleum barrels it tastes accordingly. (By the way, that. carelessness cost the com: munity more than 40,000,000 kronen, and up to the present the guilty ones have not been held responsible). The free gifts for the Viennese children, sent from abroad, which are intended as presents for the starving infants, are sold by the same municipality, anc only families with five children or more receive them free of charge. No home, no office, no magazine is
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