National Baptist world., 1894-10-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The Baroness Langeman of Wen IA
has been much prosecuted by certain
Lutherans because she is a Methodist.
She recently spoke at meeting of the
West London mission. which is con-
Quoted by Methodists, and presented it
with a necklace worth ten thousand
dollars, to be sold for the benefit of the
mission.
In Australia there is graduated
land tax for estates worth from twen-
ty-five thousand dollars to one million
dollars or more, and a provision for
levying twenty per cent. additional in
case owners are absent from the coun-
try for three years or over. This ac-
tion was taken in the hope that it
would result in the breaking up of large
estates and in their sale as farms
The Estrella of Panama recounts
the attacks which were made upon Ell
Orden, Peruvian newspaper of Tru-
jillo, at the beginning of the revolu-
tionary movement in the northern and
southern provinces Of Peru. The act of
hostility was committed by the "Cacer-
istas," or partisans of Gen. Caceras,
who at that time was president-elect of
the republic. They entered the office
of the paper, which is published in an
isolated part of the town. and threw
into the street the type set for the next
days edition.
The minuet is of French origin and
uncertain antiquity. The original
form of the dance is faithfully repre-
sented in the minuet in Mozart's Don
Giovanni. Minuets have been written
by Handel, who often finishes an over
ture to an opera or even OratOriO with
a minuet; by Bach, whose suites con-
tain many exquisite minuets; by
Haydn, who introduced the movement
into the symphony: by Mozart, who
used it in both symphony and sonata,
and by Beethoven, who employed it in
several of his best compositions, by
transforming it into the scherze.
"A great sensation has been caused
in Austria by the Imprisonment of
fourteen-year-old boy on the charge of
lese majeste. The little fellow, Eduardo
Ercolessi, was arrested in Trieste a few
weeks ago, charged with making i'm
proper remarks regarding the Austrian
emperor. He was tried in secret and
condemned to hard labor in prison for
two months. The public prosecutor
proposed to Danish the boy from the
country, but the courts would not up
hold him in this. Ercolessi, who is a
school boy, is said to be the youngest
person ever imprisoned for such a
''crirnt."
In both France and Germany one
fourth % reduced to a decimal is
written as O;25; in England it is writ
ten OPS always with the period at the
top of the line), and in the United
States in this way: 0.25. France and
Germany always use the comma 81,
England and the United States the
period (.) the only difference being the
manner in which it is placed upon the
line Sir Isaac Newton is given the
credit of originating the present En-
glish method of using the decimal
point his reason being that by placing
it at the top of the line it could be dis
tinguished at a glance from the "full
stop punctuation mark. All English
mathematicians use the mark in the
way proposed by Newton, and the pc
riod as sign of multiplication.
"A movement similar to that among
the northern Slavs is beginning to at
tract attention in the southern prov
inces of Austria. A short time ago
the Slavonian delegates in the
Reichsrath demanded of the govern
ment the establishment of public
schools at the cost of the state for the
benefit of the Slavonians and Croatians
resident in Trieste. A demand is now
made for the separation OF the terri
tory of Trieste from the harbor and the
introduction of a system Of local self
government in the separated district.
The recent declaration of Emperor
Francis Joseph that he would never
consent to a division of Tyrol shows
that there is little prospect that the
desires of the SlavOnian inhabitants of
Trieste will be attained. but it is no.
ticeable that both in northern and
southern Austria the efforts Of the
Slavic elements are directed to divi-
sion of the monarchy.