Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-05
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FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
Steamers of 1000 tons can now go up
the Seine to Paris with their own steam.
Pierre Lott is about to start on a
journey through India.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the Italian nov
elist is writing a story whose heroine is
said to be Eleonora Duse.
An international conference on the
protection of wild birds useful to agri-
culture was held in Paris in the last days
of June.
-Persigny, the most unscrupu4ous Of
Napoleon Ills agents in bringing about
the coup d'etat, left memoirs which are to
be published soon in Paris.
eli Masc,' a five-act comedy in Pro-
vencal, by Alphonse Tavan, one of the
the renewal Of Provencal poetry, has
been given With great success at Van
cluse.
Saint Saens has composed the last
two acts for grand opera Fredegonde,
of which his friend Ernest Gueraud
had written the first two at the time of
his death. It will be given soon ut the
Grand opera.
--Mascagni is publishing his autobiog-
raphy in a Cerignola newspaper. His
first chapter is 'sLibretti and Librettists'
and his second Musical Critics.
Nine. Calve is to sing in La Navar-
raise" at the Paris Opera Comique after
all: the performance will be in October,
just before she sails for America.
AT Urfah, north of Aleppo, Ur of
the Chaldees, the birthplace of Abraham,
the ruins Of an old temple have been
discovered which is thought to belong to
Chaldean times.
AT Oxford this year 1877 candidates
presented themselves for hOnors in clas-
sizes, the largest number OH record; there
were 81 candidates for honors in modern
history.
A new order of members called
craftsmen is to be established by the
Royal Institute of British Architects, to
be selected from the artistic trades close
" connected with architecture.
As bull-ighting has been going on in
the south of France in defiance Of the pro-
hibition of the government, NJ. Leygues.
minister of the interior, has ordered all
Spanish toreadors to be expelled from
France and all French bullfghters violat-
ing the law to be prosecuted.
Another sketch of Beethoven's, prob
ably that for the year 1909, has been
found by Herr Guido Peters of Berlin
among his fathers papers. 1t contains the
draft for the concerto in E fat and the
Choral Fantasia, and the sketch for a
patriotic song, which he never finished.
President Faure proposes to review
the troops on horseback at the Septem-
Der maneuvers, which no president since
MacMahon has done, Grevy, CarnOt and
Casimir-P erier having ridden by in car
riages. The chief of the Protocol is try.
ing to find out whether there is any au-
thority for civilian presidents SO doing.
-Achylka in Siberia has remarkable
in church on the LIST of September and
swear before the altar that they will
drink no wine or liquor "from tomorrow
morning. They then go out and drink
hard all day till no man or woman is left
sober. For the rest of the year they are
total abstainers.
Paris will be freed soon of the greater
part of her sewage, as the ''aqueduct'' OF
Acheres has just been completed. 1t will
convey the sewage, by the way of Clichy
and Asnieres, where it passes under the
river bed by a siphon, to Argenteuil,
where it recrosses the Seine over a bridge
and thence to the plain of Acheres, where
the sewage is disposed of.
A lady in St. Andrew, Jamaica, has
been communicated by her vicar under
extraordinary circumstances. She had
IOSC Il lOCkCL duu CHILL dC CuuLCll, anu
after two years found the vergers daugh-
ter wearing them; she sent a lawyer to
demand her property, and it was returned
at once. The vicar thereupon insisted
that she should apologize to the verger,
and refused to admit her to communion
until she did. She went to another
church.
BOUQUET in wine is due not only to
the natural grape and the effects of fer
mentation, but also to the oxidizing Of the
elements contained in the must, by con-
tact with the air, reports M. Martinand
to the Academic des Sciences. In exam
lining the effect of air on must protected
against fermentation, he finds that the
| most oxidizable element is the soluble red
coloring matter; that the color of white
wines and their madeira taste is due tc
oxidation and not to fermentation, and
that white wines can be made from al
the juice of black grapes by stopping fer
mentation, passing air through the must
so as to precipitate the coloring matter
and iltering the liquid in order to prevent
the return Of color during fermentation.