Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-08-01

| iceehdy DeetnONen autograph Three
Songs of Goethe" 1910, for S1S5; quar-
| tet by Spohr for $40: fragment of a
| trio by Schubert for So the price also
paid for two polonaises by Chopin
theorists, or the doubling of parts,
which is not uncommon in plants, is gem
| orally believed to be the division or
branching of an originally single part
DR.. Celakovsky thinks he has proven,
| however, that it is instead fusion or
| drawing together of distinct and original
ly separated parts.
AT Avignon, in the square before the
palace Of the popes, an open-air theater
has been erected where unpublished
plays in provencal are performed. Such
| theaterS were once common wherever
| the langue doc is spoken, and could be
| found at Toulon and Marseilles twenty
| years ago.
Sir Frederick Leightons "a Coming
| Storm which was exhibited at the Chi
| cago fair, has been sold in London for
| S3O45; his Greek Girls Playing at Ball.
| brought S3G75; ]. T. Millet's Winter"
Il woman carrying fagots, was sold for
| 1918; Troyon's Hay Cart with
| Horses for $4,000, and three Corots av-
! eragcd $3.50 apiece.
From the action of sulphuric acid
| on the gas from cleveite NJ. Deslandres
| has obtained in the extreme red of the
! spectrum the third of the four lines in
| the solar spectrum that had not been
| found on the earth. This leaves only
| one permanent ray from the solar at
| mosphere, the green line, known as 1.-The
! line of the CROWN, yet to be discovered
! in earthly substances; it probably be-
| longs to some gas lighter than hydrogen.
A queer play is being given by Sofia,
| in Bulgaria, called 1.-The Heroes of ST.
vitzka,' in which Prince Alexander Of
| Battenberg is the principal figure, and
| all the other characters are persons still
| living.
Paris courts have at last decided that
| concierges are liable for damages if they
say anything about the private life or
| business relations of the tenants. They
can only give information about their
leases.
-Leprosy les increasing IN Iceland in an
/ alarming manner, according to the Jesuit
| missionary, Father Sveinsson. Last year
Il Danish physician, sent by the govern
| ment. examined one-third of the island
| and found al lepers.
Five short autograph poems by Rob
| ert Burns were sold recently in London
| for $3.50; three long letters for $3.50. and
| three short ones for S1O5; at the same
| time seven letters of Sir Walter Scott
| We're sold for about $3.50 apiece.
In the inventory of Prof. John Stuart
| Blackie's estate the copyrights amount
$3.50, The Wisdom of Goethe" at 500:
The Lays of the Highlands at $50. and
1.-THE Scottish Highlands at only 1928.
In 1909 the inhabitants of Saybusch,
| in Galicia, received the right of prevent,
| ing the residence of Jews in their midst
! A Jew recently tried to violate this privi-
| lege by forcing his way into it, and was,
| naturally, violently resisted, but the per-
| sons Directing were punished by the gov
eminent.
! Paris has decided to keep the Boule
| school, for Misunderstanding and art applied
| to industry. open in the evening. The
| school has 81 instructors and staff of 81
| persons, with only 100 day pupils, and
! has room for five times that many. 1t
| costs the city 100000 a year. while the
J furniture turned out by it sold last year
| for S4OO.
In the Roman Campagna the main
scheme of drainage which is to reclaim
| vast tracts of agricultural land and to
| free Rome from the malarial eNhalatlons
| arising from the swampS has been carried
out. and only works of secondary impor-
lance remain to be done. So far S1,olO.,
| 600 have been spent on the work. The
| question of bringing the land under cultl-
walton is already under consideration.
| On midsummers day at Copenhagen
| the court musicians from a balcony of
| the Royal palace play airs on the "Lu.
rem" the prehistoric Scandinavian metal
horns kept in the museum. They are
found in the moors. always IN pairs, one !, IN
| Z feet long, and are believed to be at least
| 1000 years old A few years ago it was
found that they could still be played on.
| AT the Clifden sale of plate in London
| $1,000 was given for a beautiful silver
Gilt rosewater ever, Is inches high, with
| figures of Venus seated on dolphin and
Il Triton blowing Il conch shell in an oval
| medallion on one side and Cupid riding
| ON Il seahorse on the other. surrounded
| by fruit. flowers and masks in high relief.
| with a round embossed salver, the work
| of a Nuremberg goldsmith of the Begin
! ming of the Seventeenth century.
| Two twin brothers in Paris, NM.
| Jerome and lsidore Franck. recently cele-
| brated their eightieth birthday together.
Z! One of them wrote verses for the occa-
F., sion. They are brothers OF the late
| Aaolnhe Franck. the philosopher and
member of the Institute OF France.
/ Juan Valera's ''Pepita Jimenez'' has
| heen made into an opera. the music by
| Senior Albeniz. which will be brought
out at Barcelona in October. When
| Valera retired lately from his post as
ambassador to Vienna, Emperor Francis
| Joseph conferred on him the order OF
| Saint Stephen of Hungary.
Iona has recently had an experience
| The four little Saxon duchies to which
the university belongs-Weimar, Coburg.
| Meiningen and Altenburg-are unable
to support it and there was danger that
it would be closed. when the old stu
dents and their friends sent IN donations
loraa enough to assure the continuance
of the old university. which is one OF
the most pleasant in summer in all
Germany.
A curiously complicated murder trial
has Just ended in Southern France. A
how Of candy was put into the postoftce
~ Tarbes and opened by dishonest of
ticial. who ate some of it and gave some
~ Two other clerks. They were all
stricken down with atrocious pains and
the clerk who opened the tn, box died. led IN n
recteI to a local politician and was
raced finally to sehoolmaster in a
na;shboring town, man of unblem-