Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-25
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST,

AANN NOAC VI I'm EhEOA.
Col. Conway-Gordon. who was ra-
Gently drowned by his yachts being run
down IN a fog by a steamer, was one
or the hrst men to introduce catamarans
into England.
-Isinglass, Mr. McCalmont's great
racehorse, who is about to be put to the
stud, will command 500 guineas. the
highest price ever asked in England
The to1, 3S4 he won during his career of
four years were made in only twelve
races
San Pelayo is the patron saint of
the village of San Mateo. near Ferrol.
i'll Spain; his image was to have been
carried about in q procession the other
day. but dispute that arose as to who
should carry 1t caused knives, revolvers
and sticks to be used, so that forty per
one, including the priests, were wounded
before order was restored.
-.Richelieu..s skull has been put back
III its tomb in the Church of Sorbonne
and the cavity near by where it wa.
buried when stolen during the revolution
was sealed up with great ceremony the
other day in the presence of NJ Hano>
teaux, minister of foreign affairs, of the
director of the BeauX Arts. the vice-rec,
tor of the Academic, and the Princess
OF Monaco, representing the family
An important change in the military
system of Switzerland is soon to be made
through q revision of the constitution
just decided upon by the Swiss Assem-
bly,. Under the present system the army
is divided into two classes, the troops of
the confederation and those of the can
tons. The entire military admnistra-
ton is to be transferred to the confeder-
alton.
A work containing all known docu-
ments concerning the life and family of
Dante, corrected by new researches in
the various Italian archives is soon to
be published in Rome in forty numbers.
under the title of The Diplomatic Dante
Codex." Each number will have five
phototype plates, and it is expected the
work will be issued at the rate of ten
numbers year. The edition will be linn
tied to 800 numbered copies.
M. Parodi has nearly finished his
tragedy, lie Pape,' and it is to be read
at the Theater Francois in September
1t is to be in five acts and six tabeaux
The Pope is Gregory VII, the Bona
parte of the papacy, and the heroine is
the Countess Matilda. The former per-
sonitics spiritual power and the latter
Countess Matilda an Italian Joan Of
Arc, and his treatment of her character
is looked for with great interest.
When investigating the Vatican rec
ords Pope Leo Nil. said to Dom Gas
quet, the librarian: Publish every
thing of interest, everything. whether it
tends to the discredit or credit of the &C.
clesiastical authorities, for you may be
sure that if the Gospels had been writ
ten in our day the treachery of Judas
and the denial of st. Peter would have
been suppressed for fear of scandalizing
weak consciences.' SO Lord Halifax
told the English Church union the other
day.
-Bowstrings and sacks seem to have
gone out of use in Eastern harems. The
Maharajah of Patna has just shot his
wife and then killed himself, like a COM
mon civilized crank.
Repairs on the Parthenon are to be
begun at once, on the plans drawn by
Prof. Durm, the German chaeologist
f. G.. Penrose and NJ. Magne will also
give advice
Among the Copts in Egypt. to whom
the Pope has sent his latest appeal in be-
half of religious unity, there is a strong
movement in favor of return to the
Roman Catholic church.
Another egg of the great aux has
been sold in London. 1t was found in
Iceland siXty-tive years ago. and came
into Baron 'Hamonvile's collection. and
as it is slightly cracked brought $3.50.
Thirteen Austrian hussars were shot
and thirteen others sent TO jail for life
at Przemysi. in Galicia the other day,
for the murder of sergeant Who had
maddened them by his cruelty and tyr
amy.
III Magistrate" by NJ. Pinero, is being
given at the Arena Nazionale in Florence,
and Mr.. Paulton's "Niobe' is drawing
crowded house. following 4 successful run
of LA zia Iii Carlo (Charley's Aunt)
France through the minister of ma
rine. has given a gold and a silver medal
to the French landsmen who brought
the ship Why Not and her passengers
into port after the captain and crew had
abandoned her in the English channel.
Promotion in the guards will here
after be ON the same terms as IN the
rest of the British army, since Col. Paget
of the Scots guards, who has Just al
tanned his colonelcy, is the last officer
still serving who joined the corps before
the abolition of the purchase system.
A manuscript Hereford missal of the
Fifteenth century brought 5000 at re-
cent London book sale; Myles Cover
daIe's Bible. 1888, $3O5; the first prayer
book of Edward VI, black letter. 1549,
$3.50: a Brevialium Romanum of 1886,
with the preface of Paul Ill. afterward
suppressed. of which it is doubtful it {,
copy exists outside of the Vatican IL
brary. $500. and a perfect copy OF the
Sarum missal 1923. $175.