Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-05-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Vladivostock, Russia's port in the
Pacific. has been supposed to be ice
bound during the winter. This year
the government tried to force passage
by means of ice-breakers in the coolest
part of the winter, and succeeded with
out great difficulty in getting the
cruiser Kostroma, loaded with troops
and heavy war material, alongside the
government quay.
The Fine Arts palace, to take the
place of the old Palais de PIndustrie,
which must make way for the ap
proaches to the new bridge across the
Seine, will face on the Avenue d'Autin,
and will have wings on the Champs
Elysees and on the Quai. In the lat
ter will be held a permanent exhibition
of works of living artists, while the
rest of the building will be used for the
yearly salons.
An extension of the French divorce
law has just been made by a Paris
court. Hitherto the doctrine has held
from the French courts, but in the case
of German who had long lived in
France, but was not naturalized, the
court held that bona fde resident
was entitled to the benefit of the laws.
No limit was assigned to the length of
residence required.
"A list of all the works painted by
Franz van der Meulen for Louis XIV.
between the years 1864 and 1856 was
recently found in the Archives Ma
tionales, and is printed in the Chronique
des Arts. Van der Meulen was invited
from Brussels to Paris by Colbert. and
received a pension of 5000 francs a
year besides what was paid for his
work. He was lodged in the Gobelins,
and made designs for tapestries
Carmen" is about twenty years
old. The anniversary was observed at
the Paris opera comique by the six
hundred and twenty-seventh perform
ance of the opera. Among the singers
was NJ. Barnolt, the sole survivor of
the original cast. He has taken the
part of Remondado, the comic bandit,
at every performance Nine. Bizet,
with NM. Meilhac and Halevy, the au-
thors of the libretto, presented him a
gold watch.
-Octroi duties. the tax on eata bles,
wines and liquors. fuel, and building
materials entering a. town. are levied
in Isis municipalities in France.
Last year the gross receipts from the
duties were sea, O00. 900 and the cost of
collection $500. 900, or nearly per
cent Paris alone paid $50, 600, GOO.
nearly half the whole amount, and
over $40 head for every inhabitant,
while the average of the other towns
is SIS head.
"A shaft into the bowels of the earth
is proposed by NJ. Paschal Grousset as
the sensation for the exposition of
1900. His plan is an inversion of the
idea of the Eiffel tower. Elevators
will carry the public down the shaft;
at intervals there will be restaurants
and concert rooms, decorated so as to
harmonic with the temperature, which
will increase with the depth, as far as
2,10O feet below the surface. Beyond
that point, as the heat will be too
great for comfort, a narrower shaft is
to be driven for scientific purposes only
to a depth greater than has ever yet
been obtained, possibly 5000 feet.
Some frescos by Correggio hither-
to unknown have been discovered in
the old fortress of Mantua by NJ
Charles Yriarte. of the Academic des
Beaux-Arts. They are medalllons
painted in the cupola of the study of
Gabriela dEste, Duchess of Mantua.
The study was inaccessible for nearly
two hundred years. as the Austrians,
who held Mantua from 17OS to 1866,
would allow no one TO enter the
fortress, and when it came into the
possession of Italy the town archives
were piIed:up in the room. M. Yriarte.
knowing that Correggio had worked
in Mantua, obtained permission of the
Italian government to make a thorough
search, and succeeded in discovering
the paintings. They are perfect, and
in the artists best style.