River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-09
Foreign Gossip.

lT73, dissolved the Society OF Jesuits,
the University of Naples dedicates this
monument
CoUNT FREDERICK HoNsTEIN, a leader
of the Bavarian lltramontanists, has
been sentenced to one years penal SER
vitude for whaG is now called IN Bavaria
"Spitzedering," 4. c. opening a bank
under clerical patronage, and living on
the money OF the depositors as long as
it lasts.
In appears that the new church which
is to be erected Mt Montmartre and
dedicated to the Sacred Heart will cost
about 100000 bancs, whereas only
700, 600 francs have been subscribed.
Ii is naturally asked with some uneasi-
ness, where the rest of the money is to
come from. 1t will be necessary TO sink
forty-fve metres lay the foundations.
A LIVERPOOL (England) lawyeris in a
mental snarl, produced by the facts of
a divorce case which he is conducting.
His client, Swede, married an Eng
lish woman in Germany, and went to
live in England. The woman has now
run off with Russian, and the clippers
are residing in Italy. The mix.
| Il.
A FEW fac simile of the 1923 Folio of
Shakespeare's Plays, under the direct
supervision OF Mr. Howard Staunton,
will be shortly issued The fac smile
is reproduction of the splendid copy
in the library of the Earl Of Ellesmere,
at Bridgewater House supplemented,
where any pages of that volume are de-
fectlye, by the fine copy III the Glan-
vile library of the British Museum.
III is not often that 4 powder mill is
blown up by lightning, but an accident
of that kind recently occurred at the
Black Beck works, near Ulveston, Eng
land. In the course of violent storm
a bolt strucA lie corning house, and
exploded it, causing great havoc, but
fortunately no loss of life--all work
having ceased for the day, ana the men
having left the factory.
THE "PalI Mall Gazette" makes
note of serious practice which prevails
among fruiters in London. Persons
buying West Indian pineapples are
asked whether they will have heads to
the fruit. In other terms, West Indian
| pineapples are dressed for desert mt q
/
by the ingenious plan of inserting in
the summit Of the fruit tuft or crown
of leaves belonging TO the latter, and
thus guests are deceived into the mo-
ton that the pineapple which graces
the table was grown In the dollhouse of
their host, who probably never had
dollhouse, and knows nothing about
the cultivation of pines.
EUROPEAN newspapers have been dis
GUESSING the question how it happens
that the Germans, who during the war
appeared to be interchangeable walkers,
have made only about sixteen miles a
day on their way home from France,
and have seemed to suffer q great deal
from heat. In one day column of
two thousand Bavarians lost eight men
from sunstroke, while thirty-two men
fell seriously i'll and had to be left be-
hind in hospital. The dead were
buried at Sc dan. 1t is reported that
the German troops are returning home
heavily laden with plumber of all
descriptions, and this may account for
the slowness of their movements.
THE "Corre de Milano saws that
a great service was rendered 20 the
Vatican by The late Italian Ministry.
The collection of Peters pence is so
abundant that twenty five millions of
lire are at this moment lying idle at the
Vatican. Some Roman bankers pro-
posed to invest them in certain Roman
banks of issue, pointing out at the
time what influence on the Roman
money market might thereby be secured
to the Vatican. The Italian Minister.
knowing the banks in question TO be
perfectly unsOund, prevented the bust
ness, and the twenty-five millions of
economical Peters pence are now to
be safely invested in foreign securities.
THE monument erected Mt Tubingen
"to INLAND, the poet, the investigator,
the German man, was unveiled on the
18th ultimo. 10 was modelled by the
sculptor KIT in Dresden, and cast in
Stuttgart. During the unwilling fine
csntata was sung, and an address de-
livered by Professor Kostlin. The
covering of the statue was raised by
the grand niece of the poet, and the
brightest Of suns shed its dazzling
light on the glittering bronze, render.
ing the statue visible from great dis
lance. When the acclamations of the
people had ceased, DIR. o. Elben, of
Stuttgart, spoke on the earnest efforts
of the poet for the union, now so
gloriously accomplished, of his father
land.
FoR a thoroughly paternal institu-
ton, the government OF Russia is occa-
sionally little regardless of the feel
ings of its subjects. A Roman Catholic
altar at Viola, in the diocese of Polack,
lately boosted of a great attraction for
the faithful of that communion In
coffin walled into the high altar repos.
ed the bones of a bishop of the do
cese, Josaphat by name, lately canon
lied by the Pope. These remains were
greatly revered by the Cathlic popula-
ton, who resorted in large numbers to
the spot. The increase of devotion TO
this shrine since the elevation of the
bisnop TO the dignity Of sainthood. and
the turmoil kept up about his bones,
so irritated the government that
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