Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-09
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
A Sydney, Australia, journalist, is
suing for defamation of character doc
tor who called him "a colonial w. L.
Stead"
-Buccal physiognomy, or reading char
acter by the mouth, the rest of the face
being concealed, is one of the latest
amusements in French society.
Grain riots have already occurred
in several parts of Northern and Cen
trail India on account of the failure of
the harvest There is no hope of rain
there now and prices are rising.
DIR. julius Gregr, the founder and
for nearly thirty years the leader of the
Young Czech party in Bohemia, died re-
Gently at the age of IS years. He was
editor of the Narodny Listy.
Richard T. Browning recently discov-
cred in the bottom of Deep creek, Gar
rett county, Md, canoe that belonged
to his grandfather sixty years ago.
Every Frenchman who can write
verse is turning out a song for the Cars
visit A fortnight before he was ex-
pected in Paris sixty-six songs in honor
of the event were peddled on the boule-
Yards.
"A shepherds body was recently car
bombed by electricity at Roche la Mo
liere, in France. During a thunder
storm the telegraph wires were blown
down and curled around the man, who
was standing under them.
lie Guilvinec, q little fishing port at
the tip of Cape Finisterre, in France,
lost ffty-two men in one night during the
recent gales All the male population of
the town was out in the boats when the
storm came down.
-Gounods music was performed at
mass during the recent Clovis celebration
at Rheims. 1t was composed at Car
dinal Langenieux's request, and was
found after Gounod's death in a box
marked CLOVIS mass after the Gregor-
ian STYLE"
-"Ca-canny" is a new word that has
arisen in English trade dispute. 1t
means working down to the level of
ages giving poor work, that is, for poor
pay. The expression is old in Scotland,
where it means slowly and cautiously.
"A French passion play, called lie
Mystere de Jeanne dare" has been
gotten up by the parish priest of Meni en-
Xaintois, near Domremy. The actors
and actresses are all peasants. The play
is praised by those who have seen it.
-Doshisa college in kioto, which was
started as a theological school by Chris
tan missionaries, has, it is asserted, fall
en- into the hands of Japanese trustees
who are opposed to Christianity, the mis-
sionaries having been elbowed out.
Over 200 candidates have presented
themselves for vacant rectorship at
Woolen-under-Edg England, the salary
of which is less than $1,000. The parish
toner's have had the right to choose their
own rector since the time of Charles IL.
Foreigners will be excluded from the
Brazilian coasting trade after the begin
ming Of next December. By the new law
then in force only vessels owned by
Brazilians, having Brazilian captain, and
at least twO-thirds of the crew Brazil
ians, will be permitted to engage in the
| trade.
st. Petersburg is now connected by
| rail with the Yenisei river, and 1T is ex-
| pected that the Trans-Siberian railroad
| will reach Lake Baikal next summer.
| China's concession that the road may
| pass through Manchuria shortens the
| distance from the lake to Viadivostock
by over 600 miles.
A list of the private Libraries in the
world, with a description of their con-
tents, is about to be published in Leip-
sic. The first part describes over 500
| Libraries in the United States and Can
ada; the second part will take up the
| private Libraries Of Great Britain.
Canon Menager, cure of Tables, in
| Brittany, is the senior priest in active
service in France. He is "a years of ago,
| has been a priest for seventy years, and
has been for fifty-two years in charge of
| his present parish. He attends to all his
parochial duties and breaches often.
In 1895 the British railroads carried
929, 900 passengers, exclusive Of
commuters, an increase of 18,5O0,00O
over the previous year. There were 1924
! persons killed, of whom SO were passen-
| gers, and 1921 wounded The proper
| ton Of passengers killed to those carried
is one in 100000, and that of passen-
gers wounded one in $4,000.
AKIN on the African gold coast must
have a very large population. The ma
tives have the pleasant custom of putting
to death the tenth child in every family
! The local authorities assert that thou
sands of children are destroyed on ac-
count of this superstitious practice, but
| that the influence of the fetish priests is
| so great that only stringent legislation
can stop the slaughter.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is not
| likely to become engaged very soon if a
| little speech she is said to have made re
Gently is authentic: Z am very fond OF
my subjects, and [ hope to please them
in every way, but if they think they are
| to have a voice in the selection of nv
/ future husband they never made a great
er mistake If they take any extreme
measures | shall be more determined than
ever, for | am resolved they must not
coerce me into marriage which is dis
tasteful. l shall not marry unless I am
allowed some voice in the matter"
Coke and Popcorn.
| People who are planning popcorn par