The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

The Baroness Langeman of Vienna
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 necklace worth ten thousand
dollars, to be sold for the benefit of ths
mission.
In Australia there is graduated
land tax for estates worth from TWEEN
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-
ton 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 Ttu-
jillo, at the beginning of the revolu-
tionsry 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
q 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 well-known
scherzo.
"A great sensation has been caused
in Austria by the imprisonment of
fOurteen-year-oldb boy on the charge of
lese majestic. The little fellow, Eduardo
Ercolessi, was arrested in Trieste few
weeks ago, charged with making i'm
proper remarks regarding the Austrian
emperor. He was tried in secret and
condemned to hard abor 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
crime"
"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 Slovenian 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
Of a system Of local self
government in the separated district.
The recent declaration of Emperor
Francis Joseph that he would never
consent to division of Tyrol shows
that there is little prospect that the
desires of the Slavonian inha bitants of
Trieste will be attained, but it is no
that both in northern and
southern Austria the efforts of the
Slavic elements are directed to divi-
sion of the monarchy.