Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-09-19
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Teresa Brambilla, the original Gilda
=. ~ hlgoletto, died recently in Milan at
the age of 50. She was one of Ave sis.
!lers' an noted singers, of whom she and
brated. iio'' eeie
"A diamond from the De Beers Mines
IN South Africa, naturally shaped like a
human profile which bears some re-
sembiance to Lord Salisbury, is to be
seen IN a jewelers. window in New Rond
street, London. i'
Paris has established municipal
Ia laboratory for bacterology in the old
Lopan barracks, where ANALYSES of
suspected cases Of diphtheria are made
terlais have been handed in.
At st. Mary -at-Hill church in East
cheap, London, the ladies' choir is robed
IN plain white tunic and black velvet
cap, that has the full approval of one of
the leading English bishops.'' but the
white tunlc is not surplice.
-t'rederico Soler, the creator of the
modern Catalan theater, died recently at
barcelona on at the age of 81. He wrote
over 100 plays, almost all based on Gaia,
Ian popular life and history, and had been
crowned by the Spanish academy
+ -koch's tuberculine, which has been
cast III the shade of late by DR.. Roux' $
dlltoAlhe, now turns up again as a rene
Gy for insanity. Prof. Wagner Won
taureSg OF VIENNA has experimental with
!. ioi Jour years, curing many patients
ana improving the mental and physical
condition OF all on whom it was tried
Cows neld up railroad train in Es-
tremadura, Spain, few days ago. The
engine ran bull down, cutting him in
Two, and then could not be started
W nile the trainmen and passengers were
trying to help the engine the rest of the
hnr
shelter ini the cars and were kept there
I'LL night, when the herd went Off
Gen. Pichegru's capture of the Dutch
fleet in the Helder in January, 1895, by
sending against it a detachment of cav
airy when It was frozen in by the ice,
one OF the most picturesque exploits in
history, has been rudely shaken bv Nj.
Legrand, who has documents to show
that the fleet had received orders to sur
render without resistance.
Twelve members of Lord Salisbury s
cabinet are directors in from one to four
commercial companies EACH according
to the Investors Review, while seven
are free from ENHANCEMENT. Arthur Bal
four is one of the latter, but his brother
Gerald, the new chief secretary for Ire
land, ls director in no less than seven
companies of speculative character
-Rubinstein by his will left money for
a prize to be awarded every five years
must be performed for the first time in
public by the composer himself. The
first competition will take place at Ber-
lin OH the Goth Of this month. before
Il jury selected by the directors of the
principal consequences of Europe: The
second competition will be at Vienna
i'll 1900, and the third at Paris in 1905.
While Prince Alexander Of Batten-
berg was kidnapped, Nj. Hitrovo, the
Russian ambassador at Bucharest, said
to the French ambassad dor: Il do not
understand the scruples of the diplomacy
of today. It is misfortune that diplo-
mats are not allowed q free hand any
longer as in the Fifteenth century, when
everything was permitted-the poinard
or poison" Afterward, according to the
Vossische Zeitung, when the Asiatic de
partment of the Russian government
wished to get rid of Prince Ferdinand,
100000 francs We're, sent to NJ; Hitrovo,
who also furnished the explosives to
blow the prince up on the railroad from
Rustchuk to Narna in 1888. Stamouloff
saved the princes life on both occa-
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