Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-04-20
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

-Maynooth college has received from
the Pope authority to confer degrees IN
theology and philosophy.
M. Laroche, the French resident in
Madagascar, though Protestant, makes
it point to attend mass in the Catholic
cathedral every Sunday.
Charles de Lesseps and M. Blondin
are said to have left France to avoid
fresh proceedings about to be taken for
the recovery of Panama money.
"A Gaelic society for the study OF the
Irish language has been esta bllshed
among the students of Trinity college,
man advertises his wares in Gaelic.
A bill requiring meat and cheese not
produced in Great Britain to be labeled
Foreign or Colonial" when exposed
for sale has just passed the second read
ing in the House of Commons.
Pierre Lott is said to spend more of
his time before the camera than any man
in Europe, except Kaiser Wilhelm and
the Prince of Wales. He has a mania
for being photographed in fancy cos
tunes.
Melbourne, Australia, has lost 43, 435
Inhabitants in four years, the census of
1895 giving population of All, 461.
The population of the seven Australian
colonies at the end Of 1896 was 4,23S,-
600.
--Acetylene gas is being used to light
up the cars of one Paris street car line,
being generated in little tanks carried on
the platform. A months trial has shown
that the gas is cheaper than either kero-
sene or electricity as an illuminant.
An English trades union has refused
to work with men who ride to their
work on bicycles, on the ground that
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able to work longer at the shop and yet
get home at the same time as those who
walk.
Russia death rate is believed to be
greatly increased by the practice of the
peasants in plunging into the rivers after
the blessing of the water at the feast
of the Epiphany, January Is, in the be-
lief that it has then the power to wash
away their sins. The practice has long
been forbidden at st. Petersburg.
South Africa has given name to
the Duke of Abercorn's little grand
daughter, who has been christened Rho
desia, the duke being chairman of Mr..
Rhodes Chartered company. This opens
up the prospect of names like MashOna,
Bechuana, Delagoa, Metabele and
Mpwapwa for the new generation of
English girls.
Russia is pushing the construction of
Il
BILE and will probably have it completed
by August next. 1t will enable her to
carry an army from the Caucasus to the
doors of Turkish Armenia. The line is
100 miles long, and is already built as
far as Alexandropol, fifty miles from
Kars.
-Roumania has upset the plans of
treaty powers to have only two fleets on
the Black sea by setting up little fleet
n II fo CT
the Elizabeth, and fifteen smaller craft.
The ROumanian flag has been recognized
by the Russians, who returned SaluteS
when the feet appeared off Sebastopol.
-Zeller. the composer of the Vogel-
handler and the Obersteiger, who is also
an Austrian aulic counsellor and head of
the department of art in the ministry of
public instruction, has been suspended
from his post, pending his trial for per-
jury. He is accused of giving false evil
dence in suit concerning the inherit
ance of an uncle which had been decided
in his favor.
Mr.. Purcell's Life of Cardinal Man
ming" has many defenders as vel. us
critics. Mr. Gladstone recently wrote
as follows to the author: ''You have pro-
duced, | think, by far the most extra
executed work of, think, unparalleled
difficulty with singular success. have
not been interested in it. | have been
fascinated and entranced.'
Oxford, by a close vote, has refused
TO allow the Earl of Berkeley to qualify
for degree, unless he sleeps within the
mile and a half limit required by the
statutes. The earl's health is delicate,
and though he is able to study in Ok
ford during the day he is obliged to go
out of town to a high spot to sleep. Res
ic in hn cfof1 a G
'pernoctation," and the university re-
fuses to make an exception for an earl.
Richard Atkinson, the last of the pot
wallpapers, has just died at Pontefract at
the age of 81. The potwallopers were
legislated out OF existence by the re-
form act of 1882; they were the men
who "boiled their own pot" that is,
earned their own living and were not
charge upon the parish, and who, if they
resided for six months in a borough,
either as householders or dodgers, were
entitled to. vote at parliamentary cleo
tons.
-Norway's supply Of cod liver oil is
rapidly diminishing. Not only are less
fish caught but the liyers of those taken
yield of oil was 26,813 barrels, in 1894
it was 1880, and in 1895 1860 bar
rels, with every prospect of smaller har-
vests in the future. Joseph Chamber
lain has gone into the sisal business. He
has bought large estate in one of the
outlying Bahama islands and sent out his
second son to manage it.
AT the Am Urban hospital in Berlin
III diDhtheria patients were treated in
1S94-95, 255 of whom were discharged
cured. OF 245 treated with serum, %
per cent. died, while among the 146 who
were treated otherwise the mortality was
~ per cent; $50 of the serum cases
were serious, 23.7 severe, and the rest
slight. No evil effects were observed
to follow the use of the serum, and it's
effectiveness was proportionate to the
earliness of its application and the
strength of the first doses. The hospital
authorities infer from this that it is
not an infallible, but highly valuable
remedy.
Advertising in street Cars.
It will be recalled that street rail
road company in Pennsylvania, which
sought to recover on a contract for adj