River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-05-08
Foreign Notes.


THE commission for the statue of
Jeanne dArc, to be erected on the Place
de Rlvoli, in Paris, has been given by
the French Government to M. Fremyet.
A BANDMAsIER in the English army
lor period of 40 years, has justretired,
anu mas been awarded the munificent
pension OF ten cents day, the highest
sum the law allows. Surely, service
OF nearly half a century deserves bet
ter reward.
nj. GALLArT, the painter at n recent
meeting of the Glass of Fine Arts of the
Belgian academy, proposed that the
class should join its efforts to those
made elsewhere in order that Rubens'
pictures at the Cathedral of Antwerp
may be rescued from the deterioration
to which they are exposed there. and
the deplorable speculation which pre-
vents the public from seeing them.
The Gar has signalizedh his daughters
marriage by acts of amnesty topolitical
offenders. The property of the cele-
brated publicist, Alexander Herzen.
whose children could never obtain per-
mission to return to their native coun-
try, is now to be given up to his brother,
the only surviving member of the family.
Herzen died in 1870, and the estate has
been under sequestration for twenty
years.
THE need of some capable satirist
like Charles Lamb, Jerrold or Thack-
cry, says Nj. ID. Conway in q recent
letter, was never SO keenly felt as when
the London papers announced the fol-
lowing: eve are informed that Her
Majesty the Queen has been graciously
pleased to direct tha at the state umbrella
of the King of Ashantee shall be exhib-
tied in the South Kensington Museum.
1t is hoped that some of the interesting
gold work from Ashantee may also find
its way to the museum"
IT is the fate of kings" says an old
writer, to look from the windows of
their halls or feasting upon the sepul-
cheers prepared for them. The vicissi-
tudes of French royalty have more than
once belied the force of the remark.
The ashes of Louis Philippe have not
yet been deposited at Dreux all that is
mortal of Charles X. moulders in the
crypt of monastery in Austria nor
are the remains of Napoleon Ill. as vet
sheltered either by the golden dome of
the Invali@es or the groined roof tree of
! st. Denis.
THE chief point made by Sir Samuel
Baker, in his recent lecture at the Roye,
Institution, upon "The Suppression of
the Slave Trade of the White Nilel'
was that the battle between the cause
of slavery and that of freedom is in
reality contest between Mohammed-
anism and Christianity. 1.-The Chris
tian nations were, he said, Unanimous
in their verdict of guilty against the in
stitution of slavery, whereas the Mo-
hammedans could only be trusted to
put it down under the influence of out
side pressure.
A REMARKABLE feature of the recent
demonstration at Chiselhurst was the
great strength in which the French
woIhing classes were represented, most
of the principle towns sending deputa-
tions from the chief industries of their
district. OF these populations the
most noteworthy was that of the Paris
ian Settler water manufacturers, which
numbered eighty men, several of them
old soldiers of the second empire. The
deputations were each received sepa-
rately, and every single member of
them was introduced by name and
shook hands with the Prince.