Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

"A life of Queen Victoria is being
prepared by lady in whom the Queen
has full confidence, and in whose hands
all the materials have been placed.
Mile. Jeanne Benaben, who took her
bachelors degree when only 10, two
years ago, has just passed a brilliant
examination for the licentiate of philoso-
ply at the Paris Sorbonne.
Red tape is driving shipping from
the new Baltic canal. 1t causes SO much
unnecessary delay that the old way
around Denmark is preferred, and be-
sides the pilots and officials are impo-
lite.
The Rev. Francis Mostyn of Birken-
head has been made the first vicar apos-
tolic Of Wales by Pope Leo. His titular
bishopric is Ascalon in partihus infdeli-
um
Joseph Chamberlain's collection of
orchids is valued at 100000; Sir Trevor
Lawrence has one worth $275,000, while
Baron Schroeder's collection at Egham
would realize at least 100000.
Mir Seid Abdul Achad Khan, Emir
of Bokhara, who is now in the Caucasus,
has applied to the Gar for permission to
remain there permanently and to place
Bokhara under the care of regent.
A little S-year-old girl in England
strayed away after school recently and
was found at midnight of the same day
in All exhausted condition twenty-eight
miles from her home, having walked all
the way.
Brussels, where the vilest books in
the world are openly published and sold,
is appropriately selected as the meeting
place for an international congress for
the suppression of immoral literature
next October, of which Jules Simon will
be president.
Servants seem to have the upper
hand in Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil.
They refuse to cook dinner later than
4 o'clock. and insist on geing home be-
fore dark. SO that not house has
servant in it after 8, and mothers have
to stay at home to look after their ba,
bies.
Paul Deroulede, who played promi-
nent part in the Boulangist movement,
guescnn," in which Coquelin, the elder,
will act. Duguesclin was constable of
France and fought against the Black
Prince. He is one of Frances popular
heroes.
A woman named Butler is the first
of her sex to vote at a general election i'll
England. Her name was put by mis-
take on the voting list at Barrow, and
the presiding officer at the polls held
that he had no authority to inquire into
her sex when the name was once on the
list.
"A census of centenarians recently
taken in France gives 213 persons of 100
or over, 147 of them women and sc men.
The Oldest was a woman who had just
died at $50 in a village of the departs
ment of Haute Garonne. Nearly all the
centenarians belonged to the lowest ranks
in life.
Capt. Virgins, undismayed by the
loss Of the Sjternen last summer, is about
to start on his twentieth voyage through
the Kara sea to the Yenisel. His ship
is the Lorna Doone, a 6OO-ton steamer,
which, besides machinery and agricultural
implements, will carry canned fruits, fish
and preserves and 700 barrels of Aber-
deem herrings, for which very high prices
were paid on the last voyage.
A new solar physics observatory is
to be erected in India at kodaikanal, in
the Palani hills, 800 miles south of Mad
ras. 1t will photograph the sun daily
and will undertake a systematic spec
troscopic examination of the sun. The
temperature of the station is very even,
and the number of cloudless hours each
day unusually great.