Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

er day, MaJ.-Gen. L1mOnu, a veteran VI
the Indian mutiny, dropped dead. He
was 65 years old and suffering from heart
disease.
Goggles are now supplied by the
British Admiralty to the officers and sail
ors serving on fast torpedo boats, as the
high speed has been found to be injurious
to the eyes.
Lord Dufferin has been obliged to dis
charge all the French servants at the
British embassy at Paris, as they have
repeatedly been discovered tamperlng
with despatch boxes.
Sir Joseph Renals is the eighth lord
mayor of London to receive baronetcy
in the last twenty years. The others
were all knighted except Lord Mayor
Nottage, who died early in his year OF
office.
Herr Gura, the baritone, the original
Wotan in Der Ring des Nlbelungen,
Hoftheater, as his voice is no longer
fresh enough. He will confne himself to
| concerts.
Charles Leroy, whose Colonel Ra-
mollot' stories satirizing the absurdities
of French officers led to series Of plays
and books attacking the abuses preVa-
lent in the French army, died recently
in Paris.
Money to teach Slovenian in the high
school at Gill, in Syria, has been voted
by small majority in the lower house
of the Austrian Reichstag 1t was the
proposal to allow this that caused the
| Windischgratz ministry to fall.
-Marseilles wishes to have university
of it's own like Lyons and Bordeaux, and
suggests that the faculty Of letters at AK,
near by. be transferred to it, as at AK
there are but three students outside OF
those holding state scholarships
Five years ago the 1000 tourists who
visited Egypt were nearly all English;
last season, out of 1900 arrivals, only 40
per cent. were English, while 40 per
cent. were American and 10 per cent.
were German, or of other nationalitles.
Holland is building three fast cruis--s
ers of 90O0-horse power, in which the
boilers will be in part of the ordinary
tubular type, for cruising at slow speeds,
and in part YarroW water-tube boilers,
to be used when exceptional speed is re-
| CURED.
Burger, who wrote the ballad of
''Lenore,' which had a great influence
on the romantic movement in literature
| at the beginning Of the century, has had
monument erected to his memory at Colt
ingen, where he held professorshlp for
| awhile.
Prof. Mahaffy has found out that of
the two words of farewell at the end OF
the Greek letters found among the Petrie
papyri, eutuchei is the polite form CORE
spending to ''Your obedient servant,
while erroso is more familiar, like ''Yours
| sincerely"
Five shillings fine was paid by the
first man to use a tricycle. cab IN London,
propelled by a man n front and another
behind. A crowd collected, blocking the
street, so the police arrested him and an
alderman held that he was obstructing
traffic, imposing a fine so low that ne
| could not appeal.
In an enumeration of Christian
names recently taken in Austria-Hun-
gary, Francis heads the list for men
with 1884, 900. followed by John with
1,3S4,0OO, Joseph with 1,OS5,O00, Leo
pold with 900, and Wenzel with 441,-
600; nearly 100000 women are called
Anna, 1862, 900 Mary and 100000
Elizabeth.
"A Greek inscription from Djerach in
| Syria, recently added to the collection in
the Louvre, contains portions of the laws
| concerning the care of vineyards and
their protection against thieves. The re-
! giOn beyond the Jordan, now desert,
was famous for its grapes down to the
| time of the Arabs.
| "A commercial mission to China has
been organized by the Lyons chamber of
! commerce, acting in concert with the
French government. Young men will
| be sent out at its expense for two years,
| first to Shanghai and then into the in
| terror provinces back of Tonkin, to study
the means for developing French trade.
-Satin Pasha is now in Vienna, his
birthplace, after an absence of seventeen
years; he shows no sign of the hardships
| he has undergone, and his appearance
| and accent are thoroughly Viennese. He
is going to Ischl to see Emperor Francis
Joseph, and will be in London for the
| geographical congress at the end of this
| month.
-Neill, or Cream. the poisoner, who
was executed in England three years
ago, according to q recent statement Of
the chaplain of Holloway prison, had
murdered beyond a doubt no less than
/ thirty-fve women. He was the most
proficient Bible student ever admitted
to the Jail, being al Bile to repeat half the
Bible from memory.
| In Rio Grande do Sui, in Brazil,
Italian and German colonists have set
tied side by side, beginning with very
ports that crime is practically unknown
among the Italians, that they are ex-
tremely healthy, having no doctor, and
that they are more tidy, practical and
energetic than the Germans
Jonah has now been corroborated in
part. A basalt stele. found by Father
Scheil in the Archaeological museum at
/ COnSCdnClnOple, HAS OH 1t an ASSyrldn IN
Scription of King Naoonod of the Sixth
century before Christ, telling of the de-
struction of Nineveh. an event hitherto
found on no monument. But there is
no record of the whale story.
| A magnificent set Of 900 drawings
| by old masters, collected by Mr.. Malcolm.
has just been acquired by the British
museum for S125,000 given by the gov
eminent. The collection was thought by
| Tho outh0ritinS nd bo
employed by the. treasury to be worth at
| least 100000. Almost the last act of
| Sir William Harcourt was to consent to
the grant.
-Sweden's state telephone is soon to
be connected with the state telegraph.
Instead of the addresses the telephone
numbers will be used, the telegraph clerks
looking up the address. Messages may
be telephoned to the telegraph office and
telephoned back, thus dispensing with
| the greater number of the messenger
| boys, as in Sweden nearly everyone uses