Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-02
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

A queer custom is observed on the
Duke of Buccleugh's Warwickshire es-
tate on the 18th of each November. His
tenants gather together before sunrise
to pay the wroth silver due to Ills grace
The penalty for a tenant that neglects
to appear is to produce white bull with
red nose.
johannes Adolf Overlook, for forty
two years professor of archaeology at
the University of Leipzig. died recently.
aged 80 years. He wrote history OF
Greek sculpture. standard work. Il
book on Pompeii, and Greek Art My
tholOgE. lie was q member of the ia
nous painter, Friedrich Overlook.
China has paid to France 100000
francs as indemnity for the. murder of
NJ. Dutheil de Rims, the explorer, i'll
Thibet, a year ago. AS the explorer left
no family, the balance of 10000 francs
left after deducting the cost of the eA-
petition has been applied to founding
of Inscriptions.
Cortada (''The Cut Cloth''), Spanish
illustrated comic weekly. printed on cloth
the size of handkerchief and sold for
cents. After it has been read it can
be put III water, when the ink washes
out and only handkerchief remains.
Ill OO-O cases Vi GlDuluSIla
have been treated by serum incubation,
246O of them i'll hospitals, according to
q report of the governments medical de-
partment. OF these S6.5 per cent. re-
covered, 1919 per cent. died and the rest
were still under treatment. In the hos
pitfalls alone the cures We're 800 and the
deaths l0.o per cent. The remarks at
tached to the reports of the cases were
highly favorable to the trea tment iii
1871 and unfavorable in 60.
Prince Bismarck, in a recent inter-
view said of Tom Ochiltree's message
Of coincidence from Congress on the
death of Lasker: Eyes, l remember the
affair; Lasker was an able little man,
though he was often wrong-headed and
tried to interfere with the logical develop
ment of things. l was asked to deliver
that resolution to the Reichstag. and was
not willing to play the part of messen-
ger. That was the whole of the dis
pute.'
A 7.year-old Czech boy from Prague
is on his way alone to San Francisco,
where he has relatives, having been
passage is paid, but he has not a cent
of money on him, and is dependent for
food on the charity of the people he
meets. He cannot speak a word of any
language but his own
DR.. Franz Smolka of Lemberg, in Ga
licia. has just celebrated the fftieth an
niversary of his condemnation to be
hanged and also his eighty-sixth birth
day. He took part in the Polish agita-
ton that preceded the revolution of 1913.
His sentence was committed to imprisOn-
ment. He was afterward twice presi-
dent of the Austrian Reichsrath.
Having completed its share of work
on the revised version of the Apocrypha,
the Cambridge University Press is about
to begin large edition of the Septuagint
version of the Old Testament, which will
take many years to complete. The read
ings of all eXtant Greek uncial manu-
scripts and fragments will be given, as
we'll as the evidence of the old Latin.
Egyptian, Syro Hexaplar and Armenian
versions, and the quotations in Philo,
Josephus and the Christian Fathers.
The editors will he the Rev. A. e.
Brooke of Kings and N. Mclean of
Christ's. The first volume will be ready,
it is hoped. in five years.
A manuscript OF Der neuwen Zeit-
ing aus Presillglandt," found recently
in the library of the Princes Fugger,
who were merchant princes when Ameri-
ca was discovered, shows that the Rio
de Ia Plata was discovered by two Port
uguese, Nino Manuel and Christobal de
Haro, who sailed as far as 40 degrees
south and returned to Madeira in Octo-
ber 1914, and not by the Spaniards, as
mas DcoH DcIloNeu. L lie also
states that the Fuggers ordered a map
of the world from Sebastian Cabot and
paid for it but never received it. An
account of the discovery is given in the
Zeitschr;ft of the Berlin Geographical
society.
The underwater section of the
Blackwell tunnel under the Thames has
just been finished, the occasion being
celebrated by a lunch in the tunnel it
self, to which 1000 persons sat down.
The tunnel connects Greenwich on the
south side of the river with Poplar on
the north, and is just over mile in
length Three thousand nine hundred
and sixty-four feet had to be driven by
compressed air. Of this 1900 feet on
the north bank remains to be done, so
that the tunnel will not be open for
traffic till the spring Of 1897. It was
begun in March, 1892 While driving
the shield under the river bed, at one
time only feet 2 inches of gravel in
tervered between the top of the tunnel
and the water, and loads of clay were
dumped into the river to prevent the wa
ter from bursting through. The dame
ter of the tunnel is p feet, 6 feet more
than that of the St. Clair tunnel hither-
to the largest ever built