St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-07-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


-vladivostock, Russia's port In the
Pacific. has been supposed to be ice
bound during the winter. This year
the government tried to force passage
by means of ice-breakers in the coldest
part of the winter. and succeeded with
out great difficulty in getting the
cruiser Kostroma, loaded with troops
and heavy war material, alongside the
government quay.
The Fine Arts palace, to take the
place Of the old Palais de rIndustrie,
which must make way for the ap-
proaches to the new bridge across the
Seine. will face on the Avenue d'Autin,
and will have wings on the Champs
Elysees and on the Quai. In the lat
ter will be held a permanent exhibition
of works of living artists, while the
rest of the building will be used for the
yearly salons
An extension of the French divorce
law has just been made by . Paris
court Hitherto the doctrine has held
that foreigners can obtain mo- relief
from the French courts, but in the case
of German who had long lived in
France, but was not naturalized, the
court held that bona fide resident
was entitled to the benefit OF the laws.
No limit was assigned to the length OF
residence required.
A list of all the works painted by
Franz vau der Meulen for Louis NV.
between the years 1864 and 1856 was
recently found in the Archives Ma
tionales. and is printed in the Chronique
des Arts Van der Meulen was invited
from Brussels to Paris by Colbert. and
received q pension of 5000 francs a
year besides what was paid for his
work. He was lodged in the Gobelins,
and made designs for tapestries
Carmen" is about twenty years
old. The anniversary was observed ut
the Paris opera comique by the six
hundred and twenty-sevcnth perform
ance of the opera Among the singers
was NJ. Barnolt, the sole survivor OF
the original cast. He has taken the
part of Remondado, the comic bandit,
At every performance. Nine. Bizet.
with NM. Meilhac and Halevy, the au-
thors of the libretto, presented him
gold watch.
-Octroi duties. the tax on eatables,
wines and liquors, fuel, and building
materials entering town. are levied
in 1878 municipalities in France.
Last year the gross receipts from the
duties were 500, ,O0O, 900 and the cost OF
| collection s, SOC, 600, or nearly pei
cent Paris alone paid SO, ,O0O, ,O0O
nearly half the whole amount, and
over SO a head for every inhabitaut,
while the average Of the other towns
is SIS q head.
| A shaft into the bowels of the earth
is proposed by NJ. Paschal Grousset n
the sensation for the exposition o1
1900. His plan is an inversion OF the
idea of the Eiffel tower. Elevator:
will carry the public down the shaft
at intervals there will be restaurants
and concert rooms, decorated SO as tt
harmonize with the temperature, which
will increase with the depth, rs far al
., 100 feet below the surface. Reyont
that point. as the heat will be tOs
great for comfort, q narrower shaft i:
to be driven for scientific purposes only
to a depth greater than has ever ye
been obtained, possibly 5000 feet.
Some frescos by Correggio hither
TO unknown have been discovered il
the old fortress of Mantua by NJ
Charles Yriarte. of the Academic de.
Beaux-Arts. They are nedalllons
painted in the cupola Of the study O
l;abriela d'Este, Duchess Of Mantua.
The study was inaccessible tor nearly
two hundred years. rs the Alstrians
who held Mantua from 17Os 20 1856
would allow no one to eneer th'
fortress, and when it came 20 thu
possession of Italy the town all ehive'
were piled.up in the room NJ. Yriartc
knowing that Correggio had workes
in Mantua, obtained permission OF th'
Italian government to make thorough
search, and succeeded in discovering
the paintings. They are perfect, and
in the artists best Stvlc.