Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-08-03
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

In the Due de Nemours died the last
Knight of the Order du Saint Esprit
which was established by Henry LII.
and finally abolished in 1880.
A curiously old-fashioned military
caricature appeared in a recent number
Of Punch, and the artist wrote to explain
that it had been drawn, accepted and
paid for twenty-five years before.
"A new harbor at Heysham, in Lam
cashire, to take the place of chat at
A1orecombe, is under consideration. The
Midland railway is ready to spend 81
100000 on it.
Blessed Thaddeus Mccarthy has ad-
vanced a further step toward canoniza-
zation; an office and mass in his honor
may be said within the Bishopric of
Urea, where he died
Prince Macmillan of Saxony, son of
King Albert's brother and heir, became
a priest some time ago, and will celebrate
mass for the first time in Dresden at the
beginning of August.
1t is proposed to erect a bust to Sir
Walter Scott i'm Westminster Abbey.
The proposal will probably be the first
intimation to most people that Sir Walter
has not yet found place there.
A play by Mounet-Sully's son-in-law,
Nj. de Lorde, in which the chief part was
taken by Mile. Belot, daughter of the
success at the La Bodiniere theater, in
Paris.
Paris eoncierges have received
blow by Law just passed in the Cham
Der of Deputies, Furnishing by maxi
mum of a years Imprisonment and 500
fine the suppression or opening of pri-
vate letters.
-Mohamm depositors in the post
Office saving banks are enriching the
British government, as their religion for
bids them to receive interest. They in
sist ON taking out no more than they
have put i'm.
Baron Halkett's horse bolted in Hyde
Park recently. When it was stopped he
was arrested for furious riding and
fined, the magistrate holding that it was
his business to see that the horse he
drove would not run away.
Pope Leo recently celebrated the
seventy fifth anniversary of his first com
muniOn by celebrating mass in his chapel
in the presence of his own family and
administering their first communion to
the two children of his granddaughter,
Count Pecci.
Underground Ireland is almost I'M
known. M. Martel, the French cave ex-
plorer proposes to hunt for Irish caves
and to examine those he finds thorough
ly He has devised a system Of portable
ladders, telephones, and electric lights
for cave exploration.
-Tatrafured-Sch in the county
of lips, in the Hungarian Carpathians,
is the watering place that Prince Ferdi-
nand Of Bulgaria has preferred to Carls-
bad in order to be nearer home this year.
The place is a romantic spot, high up in
the mountains, amid forests of frs, and
has a number of alkaline springs.
A plan for $2,500,000 town hall or
a 100000 site is now before the Lon
don county council. The site proposed
lies in Spring Gardens, between Trafal-
gar square and st. James park, on both
of which open spaces the new building
would face. 1t would finish a continuous
line of public buildings from the Parlia
ment houses to the Nelson monument.
Germany has made some bold expert
ments at railroad speed on the line be-
tween Berlin and Gorlitz. The best per
Torrance was 65A miles, which was
twelve miles better than the highest
speed of the fastest German train, tie
Berlin Hamburg lightning express which
does 17711a miles in 31a hours. Ordinary
German express trains make 1917 miles
an hour.