Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-15
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FORE1GN NUIES Or lNIEhES1.
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa devi-
ates thirteen feet from the perpendicular.
petroleum in 1894. falling or OF over
27,000,000 from 1893. A pood is thirty
six pounds.
-Elsee Reclus, the French geographer
who was exiled for the part he took in
the Commune, will soon go to England
to lecture.
Two hundred and fifty pounds of
flesh is what DR.. w. G. Grace carried
from one wicket to another every time he
makes a run.
-Steinberg Cabinet of 1862 sold for
$50 dozen lately in London, and that of
1868 for $41. Schloss Johannisberg,
1862, brought $3.50 and the 1868 vintage
$50.
Senegal, French Soudan, French
Guinea and the Ivory. Coast are to be
united for political and military purposes
under the governorgeneral of West At
RIGA.
Baron Hirsch, the Jewish millionaire,
has Just leased the shooting on the estate
of Cardinal Vaszary, prince primate Of
Hungary, which extends over 1900
acres.
Berlin is going to celebrate the
boring houses, which began there in
1895. Vienna followed in 1903 and
Paris in 1905.
Two panels of old Brussels tapestry
with designs after David Teniers sold in
London lately for $3.50, and one of old
Gobelin's representing Venus and the
Graces for $2310.
Karl Reinecke, who for thirty-fye years
has been director of the famous Gewand-
haus concerts at Leipsig and professor of
the piano in the conservatory. IS II years
old, and wishes to resign his office.
Steam engine cylinders are now
bored, when heated up by steam at full
pressure. by one English firm of MAX
ers, as it is asserted that if bored while
cold they are notperfectly true when
under steam.
Lord Rosebery' s mother, the Duchess
of Cleveland, is writing the life of Lady
Hester Stanhope, her aunt, who began
life as the private secretary and conhdant
Of William Pitt, and. for thirty years had
her own exact way as an Arab shelkh IN
Syria. Ign
"A dividend Of 1919 per cent. was
paid last year by the French Nord rail
road, probably the most profitable rail
road in Europe. Its net revenue for
1894 was S1S,856, 265 on an outlay of
capital of $500, S04, $40. 1t works 23117s
miles Of road.
A rural advertisements bill, giving
the county councils power to regulate the
placing of advertisements in pastures,
woodlands, commons and open spaces
generally, has been introduced into the
commons by the efforts of the Society
for Checking the Abuses of Public Ad-
vertiSing.
French students having adopted col
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concert tours. The 'Saltim- banques
Amateurs has been. organized in a Paris
Lycee, whose show will include gymnasts,
actors, musicians, conjurors and perform
ers with trained animals. They will trav>
ell about the country during the holidays
and give the proceeds to charity.
Cardinal Ruffo Scilla, who died the
other day, was head of the princely family
of Ruffo di Calabria. His death leaves
only three cardinals who are lay princes
in the sacred college, Cardinal Hohen,
lobe, brother of the German chancellor;
Cardinal Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien.
and senior Bonaparte, and Cardinal
Schoenborn, archbishop of Prague.
Last year the world produced $685.
100000 tons of coal. To this total
Great Britain contributed 49,, 100000
tons; the United States, 10000, 900;
Germany, 74O0O,OOO; France. 25,25O,-
900; Belgian 19,500,000; and Austria
Hungary, 10,250,00O tons. Five million
tons were raised in Australia, four in
Canada and three in British India.
At Long Sutton, between Cambridge
and Boston, in England, farmers wife
recently discovered that an old woman in
the neighborhood had bewitched her.
The only remedy was to beat the witch
craft out of her, which she and her hus-
band at once did, breaking the old wom-
ans wrist before they were successful.
AS they were convinced that the spell
was broken they cheerfully paid a heavy
fine.
Medieval penance is performed
under difficulties in Rome nowadays
Two women, a Hungarian and a Spani-
ard, undertook lately to cross the square
of st. Peters on their knees, kissing
each stone as they advanced. The street
boys gathered about them and hooted at
them till the police had to interfere and
take the women to the police station.
They were sent home as religious mono
maniacs.
Apelles did not disdain to ask the advice
of cobbler, and Mr.. Sargent may in fut-
ure consult the Tailor and Cutter before
exhibiting. It calls one of his portraits
at the Royal academy this year "a long
frock coat put on a lamp-post. This is a
full-length portrait, and only one foot and
one leg shows below the coat The figure
looks as if it would measure % inches
breast and about 26 inches waist, with no
hips, and the long coat clinging close to
the leg to the bottom. The details of the
coat are poorly defined. Tailors going to
the academy should not miss this figure"