Olympic Games.

After a lapse of about two thousand years the Olympic games are to be renewed, in the interest of international amateur sport. The prime mover in this revival is a young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Conbertin, who is well-known both in his own country and in America, as an enthusiast in athletic sports. He brought about the international athletic convention in Paris last June, the result of which was an arrangement whereby quadrennial meetings will be held, beginning next year in Athens. Besides all modern athletic contests an effort will be made to revive some of the old Greek sports. The rowing races will be held in the harbor of the Piraeus and the other events will be contested in parts of Ancient Athens formerly used for this purpose. The second meeting will be in Paris in 1900 in connection with the great exhibition of that year.