The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-31
NEWS ITEMS FROM ABROAD.


Athene, has boon sold out for failure of
custom. 1t is on the corner of tho Place
Pigalle. For half a century it has been
frequented by such customers as Corot,
Courbct, Alfred Stevens, Manct Dore,
Jules Claretic, and most of the distn-
guished painters and sculptors, An old
Partisan, commenting upon the change
of habits, says he can fancy Paris ten
years henoo being without Il single cafe
of the sort now going out of vogue.
During 1890 thirty-nine pictures were
sold in London for $1,000 and upwards,
artists. The highest price was S3T, 500
for Turner's "Shccrnrss," which was
sold for loss than $1,000 in 1912. Paul
Potter's daisy Farm brought $50, 900.
Thirty Landseers, from the Wells col
lection, brought e215,UUU, the highest
price being S23.00O, Gainshorough's
Lord A. Hamilton" brought 22.5O0,
apd Romnny's 'Ciroe" $4,000, and
Wilkes ''Distraining for Rent" SILL
500.
There IS movement against the hog
in England. "a lady" writes to a daily
journal to say that She was invited to
an evening gathering at which "thcre
were present largo number of young
men supposed to be well educated and
moving in respectable circles of So
clety." When she was taken into the
supper-room seven-eighths OF the guests
standing at the tables were men, and ut
the table to where sim was taken there
were ten mon and two women. Tho
vast majority OF the women were left
standing.
Committees, which include govern
mcnt delegates, have been appointed at
Lembcrg, Cracow, Czernowitz and in
other localities, to supcrlntcnd the usc
of Baron llirscA's gift Of <:2,50O. COO for
educating tho INDECENT Jews OF Austria.
1t will b. called Baron Hirsch's bounty
for the propagation OF popular tduca-
ton and the promotion OF trade and
agriculture among the j, wish p,pula-
ton of the kingdom Of ualicla, the
Grand Duchy OF Cracow, and the Duchy
OF Bullowina." The IIirsch schools
will also be open to Christian children,
to whom Christian religious instruction
will be impaired.
Crema ton is becoming daily more
popular abroad. In Baden the Often
burg and Heidelberg city councils have
decided to erect furnaces. The govern
ment in Basel has formally granted to
all citizens of the canton the right to
choose between being buried and being
burned. A crematory is being erected
in Manchester ut a cost of $37, 800 The
Italian friends Of cremation have re-
Gently assembled in Milan to consider
tho best means of burning bodies and of
spreading propaganda for their ideas.
This is the second congress OF crema-
tionists that has been held in Italy
since the Italians, and more especially
tho Milanese, took the lead in pushing
the cremation movement.
The members of tho French Society
Of Artists are ponderding upon pro-
posed abandonment of oil colors and
brushes in favor OF some moro perman-
cnt mediums of preserving the works
for posterity. Dctaillr, l,ouguercau,
Robert Flcury, V b rt, Saint Pierre
for a committee of investigation. One
expert, Gabriel Dcneux, proposes a sys-
TEN of encaustic painting by which hot
irons would be- used instead of brushes.
The work. after being branded instead
of painted, would have to be treat, d
chemically. The conservative painters. ),
however, hopc that somc improvement
may be attained in the mixture of colors
in which such radical innovation as
cautcry will not be resorted to.