Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-10-15
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FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST
Two and q half tons of Chasselal
grapes were taken from the Kings
vine at Fountainebleau this year.
A panorama of hell has just beer
painted by a number of Italian and
Hungarian artists. They have asked
King Humbert to inspect it.
Pictures have been obtained by the
Roentgen rays through twenty-five
centimetres, So inches, of plate iron by
Herr Dormann, of Bremen.
Henri MeiIhac has sold the billiard
table on which he used to play with
Dumas fills and M~iessonier. He is
growing old and needs the room fol
books.
Princes Pedro and Luis, of Bourbon
Braganza, sons Of the Comte d'Eu and
grandsons of the late Emperor Pedro
H., of Brazil, recently assembled Mont
Blanc from Chamounix.
At the Paris Odeon, nj. Antoine is
going to bring out this winter Schil-
ler's "Don Carlos" Bulwer's erich
elieu," Shakespeare's "Julius Gaze
sar'' and Mistral's ola Refine Jeanne
italian engineers have found that
the two Roman vessels discovered in
the Lake of Nemi can be raised with
out too great difficulty, and the gov
eminent has taken measures to have
this done soon.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild has
received from Gear Nicholas the grand
Gordon of the Order of the White
Eagle, in recognition of the services
rendered by the banking house to his
Majesty.
Mercedes, Princess of the Asturias,
who was queen of Spain for the few
months before the birth OF her little
brother, has just completed her six
teenth year. She is not pretty, but
has beautiful eyes and black hair.
A monument has been erected at
Boulogne in honor of L'Hoste, the
French aeronaut, who first crossed
from France to England in a balloon.
He crossed three times successfully,
but was drowned in the fourth at
tempt.
Mrs. Bardsley, mother of the Bishop
of Carlisle, who died recently at the
age of ninety four, had seven sons, all
of whom took holy orders. Her hus-
band, too, was a clergyman. They
we're intimate friends of Charlotte
Bronte.
Dvorak's latest compositions, three
orchestral ballads, entitled stDer Was
sermann," side Mittagshexe," and
"Das Goldene Spinnsad," are to be
performed for the first time at DIR.
Hans Richter's concerts in London in
October.
Russia has sent an expedition to
Khiva under Count Gloukhoffski, to-
find a means of diverting the course
of the ANU Daria, the Oxus of the
ancients, into it's old bed, so that it
may flow into the Caspian Sea, M
stead Of into the Sea of Aral. It should
empty then into Uzanada, south of
Krasnovodsk, the terminus of the
T~ranscaspian railroad.
Naples great holiday is the festival
of the Madonna at Piedigrotta on
September 8, when the popular songs
of the year are first made public. This
year 156 songs were sent in in compe-
tition for prizes. One of the competi-
tors sent a band of singers with guitars
and mandolins to sing his song under
the judges windows. TIE first prize
was awarded to a song called "a
Zitella,n The Maiden.
Four persons landed from the Aus
TRAN corvette Albatross on a scien-
tifc expedition in the South Seas were
killed and six others wounded by the
natives of Guadalcamar, one of the
Solomon Islands. The bodies of the
dead were not recovered, as the is
landers are cannibals. M. Fouilon,
the geologist of the expedition, was
one of those killed. The Albatross
the shore in retaliation,
many natives.
In the enclosure of the Cour des
Complies on the Quai d'Orsay, Nj.
vallot has counted 100 kinds of plants,
from daisies to maple trees. Within
the city limits he found 200 species
growing wild; he has discovered wild
mustard around the Arc de Triomphe
and the Austerlitz Quay, cabbage on
Quai d'Orsay, madden on the
banks of the Canal d. urcque, chicory
ut Grenelle, lettuce on the Place du
lentils on the Boulevard
Voltaire, and oats along the main
M. Claretie, the director of the
Coincide Franchise, is about to take
measures to prevent actors who have
eft the theatre from using the desig-
nation "of the Coincide Franchise" on
bills. He is led to this by the
announcement that aLittle Parfait, 10
years old, of the Coincide Francaisen
8 acting IN the south of France, the
girl having been occasionally employ
I'd to take children's parts. The pro-
,ibition will apply, however, to Sarah
C~oquelin, Jeanne Hading,
ind Nine. SECOND Weber az well.