The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-06

winch the french government proposes
to devote to the Paris exhibition OF
1900. Nearly $40, 900, 600 will be con-
sumed by the construction of two pal
aces in the Champs Elysees, and those
in the Champ de Mars, in the Espla-
made DIES mvalides and ON the quays.
The bridges across the Seine are to cost
100000 and the mechanical and
electrical services another 10000 900.
In one word, France proposes to do the
whole thing on scale Of unprecedent-
ed magnificence.
The municipal authorities Of Paris
were recently engaged in the suppress
sion Of an altogether novel form of food
adulteration which is assuming phe
nomenal proportions Real oysters are
expensive in Paris, and so, with the OBJ
ject of suiting slender purses, artificial
oysters ON the half shell have been in
vented, which are sold at 20 cents
dozen, and they are so cleverly made
and look so nice and fresh that once
lemon juice or vinegar has been added
they cannot be distinguished from the
real article, especially when white wine
is taken in connection Herewith. The
only genuine thing about these oysters
is the shell, the manufacturers buying
secondhand shells at a small cost and
fastening the spurious oyster in place
with tasteless paste. The municipal
laboratory has not yet proclaimed the
ingredients of which these bogus oysters
Int haf
they are of harmful character.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has a
new sutton in the person of Prince Will
liam of Wied just 2 years old, who is
at the present moment lieutenant of
the magnificent cavalry regiment Of
Gardes du Corps at Potsdam, in. the
splendid uniform of which he looks SO
handsome and dashing that he has be-
come serious rival to Prince Harold of
Denmark in the graces of Queen Will
| helmina. Indeed there seems to be an
| impression in Dutch court circles that
he has succeeded in cutting Prince
Harold out and that he is destined to
become the king consort of the Neither
| lands when Wilhelmina attains her ma
| jority next year. AS far as money is
concerned he is badly off, being merely
one of the younger sons of probably the
poorest of the mediatized families OF
Germany.
! The mayor and corporation of Kings
ton-on- Thames, near London, have the
credit of starting an altogether novel
method of dedicating public institutions.
Invited to preside at the opening OF the
new public swimming baths, they APP
peared during the first part OF the cere
mony in their state robes, and then
withdrawing, suddenly presented them
selves to the astOnished gaze of the pub
lie in the less generous costume Of bath
ers and proceeded to open the bath in
practical form by plunging into thu
water, the portly mayor being the frs
to take header then his town clerk
and after that the IL aldermen. 1t Il
stated that the spectators cheered them
selves hoarse.
Dona Elvira, the runaway daughte
of Don Carlos, is now in Madrid, hav
ing entirely recovered her health, ant
proposes to spend the winter in Tangier
She has never been in the United State
since her fight with the painter Folchi
and the story about her being engaged
at dressmaking in Washington for
livelihood is pure invention. Up to
short time ago she was living at st
Moritz, in Switzerland, and it was Their
she instituted legal proceedings for tn
recovery of her share in her dead moth
: er's fortune, which the pretender lille
gally detains OH the pretext that by hi
disowning his daughter she has becom
!, legally dead and incapable OF holdin
or receiving property. In spite OF thu
she is well provided with funds, abso
lutely refuses all attempts to induce ne
; to enter convent and announces he
intention of enjoying life, being in n
wise contrite or repentant.
A discovery has recently been mad
among the archives in the Vatican OF
, collection of medical prescriptions fc
diseases of the eye in the handwritin
'. of Michael Angelo. 1t may be recalle
: that this famous artist was so muc
,, troubled with his eyes during the clo
. ing years of his life that he was almo'
{ blind when he died, and he seems
have made record in his own hant
e writing of all the remedies that wei
= prescribed for him.-New York Tril
une.
Lot Of q Maine Game Warden.
Game Warden Herrick of Eddingtol
l Me-, is confined to his house on accoul
, of a wicked joke which some boys playe
on him out at Lake Chemo. They hay
been logging deer around the lake a