The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-12
FOREIGN NOTE AND GOSSIP.
NJ. Renan drinks cider with bis dinner.

NJ. Renan drinks cider with bis dinner.
Maspero, the Psychologist, says It is all huni-
bug to claim that the pyramids of Egypt were
believes, suficed for the building of the highest
OF them.
The German Empire spent 683. 313, TIC marks
in its fiscal year 1885. It's total receipts were
but 467, sos. 972 marks This indicates the speedy
publication of some more of Bismarcks singular
projects of taxation.
Lambert renowned as the best painter Of cats
in Europe, has just been presented by an artist
friend with picture representing mother eat
Offering her newborn kittens to Lambert, and
saying: rs this about the right sort of thingl
know they don't come up to yours. but they
are the best that could don The force of conn
pliment could 60 no further
In Mr.. Theodore Tilton's recent letter from
Paris on the Cafe de la Regence. the French
chess center. deserved compliment was paid 70
the fine knowledge of the game possessed by NJ.
Greyy, WHO, before he became chief magistrate
OF France, was often seen at the Regence. Pres
dent Grevy expressed wish to see the letter.
having already met its author. and copy was
forthwith sent tothe Elysee Palace.
A Florence correspondent writes: 81 fear that
Italy has attained for the moment the apogee
or her prosperity, and that the coming years
will be full of disappointment to her. II
prove TO be right, the cause of her decline viii
be attributable to the excessive burden Of her
military expenses There may be some reason
for France keeping up vast army, but Italy
has no Germany to hate, aud so has no excuse
for her present course"
This is the way Nine. Adam looks at the re-
cent elections in New York and Milwaukee:
The social question appears on the scene in the
United States in the practical form that every
thing assumes in that positive land. / see no
reason why people should get alarmed over it
There is nothing revolutionary about this. The
example of New York, and especially that Of
nj RI ha clace of
Europe the legal way in which they should OBJ
tain what they demand"
Marion Crawford, the brilliant American nov
elisr has been engaged to write novel exclus-
lively for the columns of the Nouvelle Revue in
Paris. The title of this new romance will be-
Paul Patof, and it is presumably Russian sub
ject To the same review, Paul Bourget is
shortly to contribute one of his most powerful
social studies and Guy de Maupassant will fur
nlsh short character sketches. The Society of
Rome is also to be analysed by that mysterious
parsonage, Count Paul Vasili
NJ Arsene Houssaye, the brilliant French
writer, has been lecturing on literary subjects in
Belgium, and report has it that he contemplates
making lyceum tour in the United States
Houssaye's charming series of Partisan letters.
published in the New York Tribune seven or
eight years ago, and admirably translated for
that journal by Colonel John Hay, won him In
our country many admirers who will doubtless
be glad to see and hear this typical Frenchman,
whose social entertainments famous and
original as his writings are witty and fresh.
General Won Schellendorff, the German Min
lister of War, Is scarcely fifty -four years old. and
everything indicates that he will leave his pres
ent office only at an age when a soldier retres
from active service. The Minister is of French
origin. Graduate of the cadet school, General
Won Schellendorff was attached to the head
quarters of the King of Prussia. in 1870, and has
since commanded the first brigade and the Sec
ond division of the Guard Corps, and been pro-
lessor at the Military Academy. The General
is bold reformer, and personifes all the aspira-
tons of the German army.
Gambetta's famous cry, ''Clericasm-that's.
the enemy!"is heard inst now in Italy The re-
lations between the King and the Pope do not.
seem to grow more friendly as the years roll on,
and the liberal portion of the italian people was
never more bitter in its feeling towards the
church than at the present moment. At the,
recent celebration of the anniversary of the bat
tie of Montana, where Garibaldi and his voun-
teers were defeated in 1867 by the Pont:fcal
and French troops, one of the speakers, an ex-
deputy. declared that they would blow up Rome
with dynamite rather than endure the humilia-
ton OF coming to any understanding with the
Vatican.
There is good story still told in the French
War Office to the effect that for ten years a sol
der was stationed in the passageway leading to
the minister's private apartments with orders
not to let people touch the walls. But no one
seemed to understand why thin was done Now,
a new Minister of an inquistive turn of mind
who determined to find out the explanation of q.
circumstance that his fifty predecessors had
never remarked. But no one could give him
any light not even the chief clerk. nor the sub
ordinates who had been in Office half century
But certain door-keeper, an old fellow with q
good memory, recollected that on q certain occA-
sion soldier was placed there because the walls
had been painted, and the Minister'S wife had
got spot on her dress. The paint had dried,
but the sentinel had been left.
Perhaps the most remarkable reform intro
duced.into France since the advent of the third
republic is that of the secondary education Of
girls. French ideas have been fairly reyolu-
tionized on this question These reflections are
suggested by two volumes-written especially
for girls colleges-on the history of civilization,
from the pen Of Nd. Joseph de Crozals, professor
of history at Grenoble University and just is
sued by the well-known Paris school-book pub
Usher, Delagrave. We are also pleased to notice.
in what friendly spirit Professor de Crozals re.
fers, in several places in his volumes, to the
United States, which many regard with enthu-
siasm, and all with curiosity; q state which, by
the variety Of its political and religious forms,
by the Importance Of the questions that 1t is
working out and by the grandeur of its econom-
ical interests, must arrest the attention Of the,
philosopher, the historian and the statesman"
CASTELAR, predicts that the three great Latin
nations-France, Spain and Italy-are soon. TO
be more closely united, and that the friendly re-
lations OF former days are to return again. Cas-
telar has show himself in the past to be a great.
prophet, so that what he says now concerning
European politics should be received with
marked attention. For did he not declare on
May 20, 1885, when defending the Democracia-
before Madrid jury, that Italian unity was sure
to be realized4 On Jan. 16. 1861, when he heard
of the death of Frederick William w, did he not
write, in the Discussion, that the desire for Ger
man unity was more active than ever, and that
Prussia was to be the agent that would bring
about this mighty change2 And again, on April
5, 1869 did he not proclaim in the Cortes that
xhan 30 oil RE
in France? Whether Castelar, be without honor
in his own land and house, we do not care to.
know, but that he is prophet among prophets
there can be no doubt. Let US drink. then, to
the approaching determination of the Latin races
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