Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-08
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
England proposes to reform its Sun
day laws; a committee Of the Lords
has been appointed to amend them. the
lord chancellor and archbishop Of Cam
terbury at the head.
Johann Brahms has received the
medal of honor for arts and letters from
the Emperor of Austria, being the first
musician on whom the distinction has
been conferred.
Taine's only daughter has married
NJ. Dubois son of the late director of the
Beaux Arts. Though brought UP as a
Protestant, Mile. Taine was married in
a Roman Catholic church
Prince Alexander of Teck, youngest
brother of the Duchess of York, has been
ordered with his regiment, the Seventh
Hussars, to Mafekin, as the danger from
the Matabeles seems to be over.
Burglars broke into the barracks Of
the 13Gth Infantry regiment in the Rue
de Babylone in Paris recently, carried off
the safe with $4,000 bodily, and forcing
the colonel's safe, stole his private valu-
ableS.
M. Hanotaux, minister of foreign af-
fairs, has received from the French
Academy 5000 francs of the Colbert his
tory prize, for his Cardinal Richelieu,'
the other 1000 francs of the prize going
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Lady Ulrica Duncombs. the most
beautiful Of the Earl of Faversham's
daughters, has entered Newman col
lege. Her older sisters, the late Duchess
of Leinster, Lady Vincent, and Lady
Graham of Netherby, were all famous
beauties.
One hundred and seventy-five dollars
was the sum paid for the Kings colors
borne by the Seaforth Highlanders in the
,c4 No ,hn11.
auction in London the other day. At
the same time a field officers gold medal
won at the battle of Busaco brought
$500.
Only seven new pieces, one of them
Berlioz's "Faust," were performed in
twenty-five concerts at the Leipzig Ge-
wandhaus last season under Mr.. Mix
isch's management. In twenty-four con-
certs given by NJ. Lamoureux in Paris
last year there were but eight novelties.
"A voting contest to decide who are
the three most beautiful women on the
French stage was recently arranged by a
Paris daily newspaper. On 1000 slips
sent in Mile. Cleo de MSaerode, dancer at
the Opera, obtained 3O76 votes, Miss
Sibyl Sanderson of the Opera 1896 and
Mile Wanda de Boncza of the Odeon
1884
"A cricket record has already been
broken in England, though the season
is only a week old, Yorkshire having
made SS7 runs in one innings in the
match against Warwickshire. The pre-
yious highest record in first-class county
cricket was Lancashire's S03, made last
year. In the Yorkshire match four play
ers made centuries, Lord Hawke 166.
Mr.. jackson 1T, Wainwright 1876 and
Peel, not out, PIG, which is without
precedent.
Italy has a new magazine rife, which
holds only six cartridges, but can be
The bullet has an outside covering of
German silver with a case of lead,
hardened by antimony, and will go
through brick wall three feet thick
at range of quarter of mile. The
bore is 0.256 inches and the trajectory is
so fiat that the rifle can be fired up to a
range of $50 yards without using the
folding sight, which is set for as long a
range as 22OO yards.
Paris is excited over the question of
1.-The altogether" raised by a statue by
M. Falquieres in the Champ de Mars
salon, which he calls "La Danse." The
head is that of Mile. Cleo de Merole, a
dancer at the Grand opera, who is held
by many to be the most beautiful woman
on the French stage. The body, which
is perfectly nude, is very realistic in ap-
pearance, exhibiting the deformities that
are likely to arise from the use of cor
sets. Mile. de Merode declares in the
newspapers that she only posed for the
head, and that the body belongs to some
one else. The Parisians, however, are
convinced that the statue represents Mile.
de Merode in her entirety, and recall
Pauline Bonaparte's posing naked for