River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-03-31
Foreign Items.


In England recently man attending
the funeral of his father was arrested
for an offence committed fourteen wears
The Courier du Bas Rhin gives the
following statistics of the percentage of
soldiers unable TO read and write in the
several European armies Prussia. 1884:
Russia, So: Spain, 5000; Italy. as
90 ; Great Britain and Ireland, 1900.
France, $500,
RUsKIN says that q Madonna of Ra-
phael, now offered for sale in England
at 1900, 900, is worth the whole exhi-
bition at the Royal Academy two years
running"
AN advertiser in an English paper
calls for supply of "old artificial
teeth. " He says that persons having
such articles to sell can "apply with
the teeth"-which reads like an invita-
ton to partake of a tough beefsteak.
Actions for libel are being brought
against a well-known Irish artist, who
has recently taken to caricaturing. One
of the plaintiffs has been moved to take
legal proceedings by the fact of his
being represented in the costume of a
clown.
ACCORDING to the British Newspaper
Press Directory there are now published
in the United Kingdom 1856 newspa-
pers, of which 314 appear in London,
9l5 in the Province of England, So in
Wales, 149 in Scotland, 131 in Ireland,
and Is III the Channel Islands. The
magazines number 600, of which 242 are
of decidedly religious character.
The French law is sometimes hard to
understand. A Paris paper tells us that
a Nj. Raspail has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment and fine of 1000
francs, and his son TO six months inn
prisonment and fine of 500 francs, for
having published in the Almanack Me
teodologique an apology for acts con-
demned by the law as crimes.
EXPERIMENTS to organize pigeon
post are at this moment being made in
Hungary with the authorization of the
Minister of War. A body of officers of
Komorn are engaged in fixing the sta
tions for service, which would be of
great utility III case of war.
The fat men had ball at Taunton
on Thursday night, TO which no man
that weighed less than 200 pounds was
admitted, and 100 couples were present.
Alfred Briggs, of Attleboro, weight 32S,
was the biggest man ON the floor.
Two workingmen only have been re-
turned to the new British Parliament
Macdonald of Stafford, and Burt of Nor
peth. They are both miners, though
Burt can hardly be called a working
man. The only two entirely Liberal
counties, Durham and West Cornwall,
are mining districts. Miners wages are
80 high that the rateable value of their
houses generally bringsthem within the
county franchise, from which most
other laboring men are excluded.
A MASQUERADE in the Coliseum at
Rome was one of the projected features
of the late carnival. The plan was TO
parody the games played there in an
cient days. Devout people saw in this
a sacrilegious use of the ground where
on early Christians had been martyred,
and protested. A procession of women
marched 10 the Coliseum and the Pope
demonstrated. As COMPROMISED, the
masquerade took place inthe sub-struc-
ture of an old building.
TuE very name of the Kingdom Of
Poland having just been changed into
that Of the Province of Warsaw, por-
ton of the eastern districts will be
shortly embodied with the adjoining
provinces of Russia proper. BY this
change the inhabitants of the annexed
districts will lose the right Of using the
Polish language in their intercourse
with the subordinate authorities-the
only privilege still reminding them of
her former independence.
A CORRESPONDENT at Paris, of an Eng
lish journal writes " IL was stated
yesterday that the Due d'Aumale was
about 20 bring an action against the
Grand Chancellery of the Legation OF
Honor for the recovery of legacy of
1000, 900 francs left by the Prince de
Condo as pension 10 the wounded
Vendeens and oldcavaliers Of ST. Louis.
King Louis Philippe refused 10 allow
the legacy 10 be distributed in that way,
and handed il over 30 the Legion of
Honor" uA
MEssRs SoTHEBY, WILKINSON a.
HoDoE sold at auction, in London, a
few days since, some rare books and
manuscripts An old black letter Bible
in English, by Miles Coverdale, printed
at Zurich in 1850, although wormed
and made mp with fac simitcs, sold fel
G53 los a series of 1877 ballads, printed
between 1870 and 1890 forsinging in tn,
streets, and sold for one halfpenny each
fi3 Cramer's version of the Bible, is
sued in November, i541, imperfect, G20
Capgrave's Lcgendd Angit0, printed il
1916 by Wynkin dc Worde, but wormed
E23; Voragine's LegeHda Aured, ais
printed in 1927 by Wynkin de Worde
imperfect, butmade up with fac sinilcs
cal Christine de Pisa's Boke Of ~
Foyt ~ arms, printed by Caxton ii
1889, with several leaves in fac siDlitc
el03; an ODicium Bcdtp Mdri@ Wv
ginis, printed on vellum in 1899 q
Lyons, c21 i0s.; Higden's Polycront
con, printed in 1927 by Peter Treveris
and considered the chef d'ourrc OF hi
x.ns. arQIe