Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-18
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.


Gated in Paris. 1t stands in the In
fanta's garden of the Louvre facing
the church of st. German PAuxerrois.
Baron Hirsch has sold his 100000
acre hunting estate at st. Johann, in
Bohemia, to Prince Frederick Charles
of Hehenlohe, cousin of the Reichskan-
zler.
A check for $4,000 has been sent to
DIR. w. q. Grace, representing the 1O0-
600 shilling subscriptions to the testi-
monial started for him by the Daily
Telegraph.
His ExcelIency is the title by which
Ernst Curtius, the historian of Greece, is
now addressed, Emperor William having
appointed him an active privy coun-
cillor, wirklicher Geheimrath
-Sar Peladan, the head of the "Rose
Croix' and writer of an endless series of
mystical novels, having found rich
widow who will marry him, has shorn
his long locks and given up his eccen-
| tricities.
A twenty year-old printer of Brixen,
named Delago, recently scaled the west
ernmOst and highest of the Rosengarten
| Dolomites in Tyrol and came down safe
" The peak is $3.50 feet above sea level,
| rising almost perpendicularly.
The Egyptian collection on the
| ground floor of the Louvre has been com
| pletely rearranged for the first time in
thirty years. The antiquities acquired
| by the state in that interval are now
exhibited with the rest.
Time brings about queer changes.
| In Montpelier and other towns of South
ern France the walls are covered with
| Catholic protests against the tax on the
religious orders signed by '"The Com
mittee of the Rights of Man."
--"Pape Satan, pape Satan, alleppe,"
the hopelessly puzzling line beginning the
| ~ of @o,c Tn box
| ing been made out by an English clergy
man to be PAS paix, Satan, Pepee,"
which is impossible French, as it was in
| Dante's time, he has succeeded in draw
| ing out Mr.. Gladstone: Reverend and
Dear Sir: 1t may interest you to know
! that your explanation of the line in
| Dante, so long regarded as hopeless, is
the very same as that which has been
given by the most recent and not least
| distinguished of Dante's commentators,
| Scartazzini. My opinion is of no value,
but the solution of the problem appears
to me to be highly ingenious and salts
! factory. / never heard of any other
worth moments consideration. / am,
dear sir, yours very faithfully, w. e.
| Gladstone. October g."
Only fair-haired men entered Tana-
| narivo with Gen. Duchesne; the dark
men all succumbed to the climate
| Henri Rochefort has gone back to
| the Figaro, the newspaper in which he
won his first literary success. He will
write the art criticisms.
1t is told in London that new part
| nerships are formed with the condition
| that the partners shall not play golf it
| is too engrossing.
An English cOrOner's jury has at last
| had the courage to return a verdict of
suicide through want" instead of the
usual while of unsound mind
H. B. Cotton, bow oar of the Ok
| ford crew in the last four races with
| Cambridge, and a son of Lord Justice
| Cotton, died recently of consumption at
| Davos Platz.
His Highness, the Rajah-i-Rajgan
| Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala, who Wis
| tied the Worlds fair at Chicago, has
| just published in English the story of
! his travels in Europe and America.
Copenhagen has not lost trade so far
| by the opening of the Baltic-North Sea
canal the number of vessels calling dur
| ing the last three months being 1895,
| against 1923 in 1894.
Paris women who wear boomers or
knickerbockers when riding bicycles will
| be disqualified from receiving the sacra-
ments of the church, according to the
| instructions issued to the clergy by the
| cardinal archbishop of Paris.
As the $4,000 "Grand Prix de Paris
y
crowd that paid $1,000 francs for adj
mission, $4,000 of which went to the city
| poor, the Paris municipal council has de-
cided to make the prize an annual one.
Paul Derouledes 'Duguesclini'' has
| just been produced at Paris with
Coquelin aine in the title part; he is also
| the stage manager. The scenery and
time of the play is that of the English
occupation, there are many patriotic Ii
radeS and attacks on England; the play,
however, seems not to have come up to
expectation, Coquelin's part giving little
opportunity for good acting.
Divers in the lake of Nemi, near AL
bano have found at the bottom of the
lake, eighty feet from the shore, the
pleasure galley in which the Emperor
! Tiberius held his orgies. 1t still seems to
| be decorated with bronzes and mosaics.
They have brought up bronze heads, a
wolf and lion, targets with inscriptions,
| and rings for the docks. Cardinal Co.
the galley in the Fifteenth century, and
another attempt was made at the be-
| ginning Of this century, when some large
bronze nails were brought up.
| -Majunga, Andriba, Tananarive, are
names that patriotic French father
insisted on giving to his girl baby. The
| last name has been reported to the regis
ginning of the war with Madagascar.
SO much has been said about the
| failure of the Baltic canal that the four
! largest ironcIads in the German navy
were recently sent through itas a test. They
made the trip in eleven hours without an
accident, demonstrating the ease with
which Germany can transfer her whole
fleet from the Baltic into the North sea
in case Of war.
Prof. Wagner this years rector of
the University of Berlin, in his inaugu-
raj address, said that when socialism is
scientifically examined its value as an in
tellectual force will be recognized, and
Engels, Lassalle and Marx will be re
garded not as agitators, but as thinkers
Of the first rank, who have their dangers
| in common with other philosophers.
! -Eleonora Duse has recovered suffi-
| GENTLY from her illness to make engage
ments to act in Sweden and Norway in
December and Holland and Belgium in
January. She has added Sudermann's
''Heimath' to her repertory.