Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-03-14
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

a new symphonic poem by Sieefrioa
Wagner, based on Schiller's .Sahn'
sucht,' will be performed this spring in
London. - III
I -Yvette Guilbert has met with her five.
check at Naples The Neapolitans, WIZ
expected to see her dance the cancan
covered with diamonds, Missed her off ~,
stage.
Rare Arctic birds have been driven -
England by the cold winter. In the
Cambridgeshire FenS lately a snec;mn,~
of Brunnichs guillemot and four Littla
Auks We're captured
Siam, by the Kings degree, has now
a Legislative, council; it consists of the
ministers and ut least twelve mobiles. and
has the power to make new laws with
the Kings sanction.
Forage made up in the form of bricks
is being tried by the French war Of.
fee. The bricks are made of hay. oars
and bran in cakes as hard as a board
and can be handled easily.
Berlin proposes to have an internal
tional art exhibition next year. The AS.
ISOLATION of Berlin Artists, with Anton
Won Werner. the painter, at it's head, has
the matter in charge.
A handsome football. challenge shield
has been presented by the lieutenant
governor of Bengal for competition in
India by teams of native boys. They plav
the association game.
Marshal Canrobert's death reviyes
the fact that it was he who commented
on the charge of the Light brigade at
Balaklava by saying: "C'est magniiuue
mails ce nest pas la guerre.'
-Alluvial and reef gold has been dis
covered in Madagascar at Antinahaka.
north of Antananarivo. A thousand
ounces were taken by native workers
from strip of ground 20 feet by 3.
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tender and his sister, once owned by
Horace Walpole, has been bequeathed by
the late Earl of Oxford to the National
Portrait gallery.
Herr Treitl. a Vienna hardware
merchant, who died recently at 81, left
100000 forms of his fortune to the Vi
emma Academy OF Sciences for the pro-
motion of scientific research He left
100000 tlorins besides to charitable inst-
tutions.
A new operetta by Andrean. the'com-
poser of la Mascotte' and "Oliyette"
has just been produced with success at
the Bouffes Parisiens. 1t is called LA
Duchesse de Ferrare." The characters
are chiefly art students and artists mod,
els.
Spain has just ordered that all stpam>
ers flying the Spanish flag or subsidized
by the government shall in the future car
ry none but Spanish engineers. The pre-
vailing practice is to carry at least two
British engineers, and formerly all were
British.
M. Dieulafoy, who with his wife ey-
plored the ruins of Sus;i, mas been elect
ed to the French Academic DIES Inscrip-
tons. Nine. Dieuafoy not only received
the Legion of Honor for her share in
the work, but also the right to wear
mems clothes in public.
Oneida was the name of an Indian
tribe. The word means The People of
the Beacon Stone there being a trad1-
ton that in all their wauderings they
were followed by a certain great stone
that took up it's station on the highest Hill
in the neighborhood.
In Asolo, northwest of Treviso. oppo-
site the house where Robert Browning
wrote "Asolando," Barrett Browning has
established, in memory Of his father, Il
lace school, where young girls are taught
to weave the old patterns of Venetian
lace. He has also revived the older III
dustry of the place of weaving linen by
hand looms.
London university, after limiting it.
self for nearly sixty years to comforting
degrees upon examination. now proposes
to take up instruction. The University
Convocation has adopted the report of
the Gresham commission to that effect,
and Lord Rosebery has expressed him
self in favor of the scheme. One of the
leaders in the movement is Prof. Huxley.
-.Jacobites still exist in England: On
the Both of January, the anniversary of
the execution of King Charles L., they
his statue at Charing Cross with flowers.
On card was the inscription: ''Remem-
Der, O King and Martyr, we have not
forgotten. God Save Queen Mary"
Queen Mary" is the niece of the last
Duke of Modena, who is the oldest lneal
i z Nho1 a. I
The largest salmon caught in British
waters during the last twenty-five years,
according to H. Ffeunell, was one caught
in the Tay which weighed II pounds
There are plenty of instances of fish be-
tween 50 and 60 pounds and a few above
&C. In Youel]'s British Fishes" is the
statement that salmon weighing 50
It seems to be fact that British salmon
do not run as big as formerly.
Divorce has been legal in France
now for eight years. The first year the
number granted was 1900; the second,
1000; in 1894 it was 5000; the total for
eight years is 10000. The working
classes supply the largest proportion, AZ
per cent; the peasants the smallest, z
per cent. 1ncompatibility of temper was
the cause in $4,000 cases. The most
common time for bringing suit is the
fifth year after marriage. Geographical
ly, Paris heads the list
France is the land of politeness.
Within forty-eight hours after President
Faure's election the Paris newspapers
had described him as follows: Reaction
airy; choice of the Monarchists, of the
lukewarm. of the Clercals; prisoner of
the reaction; coadjutor of Leo NIII.;
creature OF the Vatican; quartermaster
for Prince Victor or for young Orleans;
suspect; choice of the canteen; wretch
ed fellow who is DuDuy'S mdprStudy.
that wretched Felix; manikin; absurd
manikin; astounding Jack-in-th e-box;
puppet; grotesque log; mean tool; ridicu-
lous jay; vain turkey cock; petty trades
man; Congo trader; President for Congo;
Faure, the Congolese The last four cpl
theirs are due TO the fact that his sonn-
law is administrator of the Congo. Free
State.
At the recent sale Of the library Of
Edmund Yates the writing desk used by
Charles Dickens when he died, and pre-
sented to Yates by the family, was sold