River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-16
Foreign Notes.
MILToN had written his best misoeI.
laneous poems at twenty-six.


MILToN had written his best misoeI-
y laneous poems at twenty-six.
!. Col. RouNDELL, an English traveller,
who undertook 20 explore the inferior
a OF Persia in the disguise of peasant,
: is believed to be dead, as no tidings
have reached his friends for several
years.
The London papers report the latest
trial and conviction of dog thief, one
John Grey, who had previously been
been convicted nine times of the same
offonse.
The London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian understands that
the Duchess of Inverness has bequeath-
ad much of the property left by her
husband, the Duke of Sussex, to vari-
. GUS members of the royal family, and
that the principal legatees will be the
} Princess of Wales, the Princess Mary
Adelaide, and the Duke of Cambridge.
The London correspondent of the
Western Morning News, says: "There
are rumors that a splendid mansion
which is now being built at Kensing-
ton, near Mr.. Thackeray's old house,
and facing Kensington Gardens, is in
tended by and by to be the palace of
the Duke of Edingburg and his BRIDE"
The American restaurant at Vienna
has closed its doors. Messrs. Jewett
Il Tracy, who fought the battle bravely
were obliged to succumb to the force
of circumstances which bad trade
had brought about. Every English
and American exhibitor in Vienna do.
plored the loss. from the fact that it
was the best place to obtain good
English dinner.
In reference to the abstention of the
Catholics of Antwerp from the fetes of
that city on the occasion of the Royal
visit on Sunday, August IL, Mr.. j. G.
Kenyon writes to the London Daily
Telegraph from Burgess to explain that
the motive of abstention is not disloy-
atty, as imputed to the clerical party
by the Belgian press, but desire to
protest against the fetes being made a
Liberal demonstration. MIR. Kenyon
states that not only have the digni-
taries of the Catholic Church and the
leaders of their party, but also the
senator's and deputies who represent
Antwerp in Parliament, and who hap
pen to be clericals, been omitted from
the list of invitations. 1t is on this
account that the Catholics, as n body,
intend to take no part in the fetes.
A CURIOUS story comes from Prussia.
According to old customs the uniform
in which Frederick the Great died be.
came the property of his valet, and
was preserved in the inheritor's family
up to few weeks ago, when, the head
of that family dying, the heirs resolv-
ed to convert it into money. 1t was
disposed for $50 thalers to dealer in
old clothes, who soon met with pa
triotic admirer of historical relics, who
invested 500 thalers in the suit. The
next purchase was an Englisman, who
ventured the comparatively high price
of 5000 thalers Gel, 200 as a specula-
ton hoping to realize as much as f3,-
900 by reeelling to n prince of the
reigning house in Prussia, who was
3 ANXIOUS to possess himself of the uni
{ form, bnt the price alarmed him. The
, purchaser, it is said, has shipped the
. interesting garment to the United
States, where he believes he will OBJ
tain even a higher price than that asked
of the great Kings descendant.
A PARLIAMENTARY statement of the
number of photographs of convicted
criminals sent from the prisons of each
county and borough to London from
the time the act of1S70 came into force
to the 31st day of December, 1872, and
the costs incurred in each county and
borough, and by the Office in London,
Il. IF L. n.
they have led to detection, has been
issued. From this paper it appears
that from the lis county and borough
prisons of England and Wales AZ, ga
photographs of criminals were sent to
London within the time specified
that the cost of these was f2, 948 1Ss.
3D.; and that the number of cases in
which they led to detection was 156.
Col. Henderson, In his specisl report
from the Metropolitan Police Office,
states that 80, 463 photographs Of GRIM
inals have been received during the
same time in the Habitual Criminals
| Office in London from the borough and
county jails and prisons, and that 373
cases of detection have resulted from
the identification of the photographs.
NJ. JANssEN's method for photo
graphing tie apparent contact OF Venus
with the edge OF the sun is worthy of
description. The Photographic plate
is in the form Of disk, fixed upon a
plate which rotates upon an axis paral-
lei TO that Of a telescope. Before it is
placed another disk, forming a screen,
in which is a small aperture, in order
to limit the Photographic action to the
edge 0f the sun. The plate which
carries the sensitive disk has $50 teeth,
and is placed in communication with
an escapement apparatus actuated by
an electric current At each secoud
the pendulum Of clock interprets Tho
current, and the plate turns one
tooth, so that ut each second fresh
portion Of the Photographic plate is
Exposed. Thus, in as many seconds,
| $50 images Of the sun and the planet
can be obtained. When the series
relating 10 the first contact is obtained.
the plate is withdrawn and another
substituted, which gives the second