Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-10-01
FOREIGN NOTES.

Drury Lane Theatre has the largest
nreproof curtain In the world. 1t is AZ
Feet by SOk feet, made of iron and as
bestos, and in case of fire can lower it.
selt automatically in fifteen seconds.
Gustav Freytag's posthumous papers
VIII not be published for some time, as
the novelist's widow, who was his Sec
ond wife, and his son by his first mar
rage are at law as to who shall SUPER
wise the editing.
M. Gentils expedition has succeeded
IN working it's way down the Chart
River into Lake Chad, which it has ex-
plored' and in getting back to French
territory, after making treaty with
the Sultan of Bagirmi.
Negus Menelik of Abyssinia, the Lion
OF judah, is preparing to visit Jerusa-
lem In 1900. He wishes to visit the
scene where the mother of his race, the
queen of Sheba, was entertained bv
hlng solomon. According to his own
genealogical tree, Menelik is the ninety
seventh successor of the Queen.
pennsylvania, in the southeastern
corner OF Hungary, is suffering from an
outbreak OF skin disease resembling
the pellagra of northern Italy. 1t is
supposed to spring from the same caus-
es as pellagra, insufficient nourishment.
due to bad harvests and an exclusive
diet of widowed cornmeal.
faith in the idiocy of his fellow-creat-
ures, and this he declares with CHEEKY
1rankness will bring him soon to the
top again." writes Harold Frederic
from London. And Mr.. Hooley is bank
ing on just the thing that old P. T.
Barnum banked on. It's a grand game
and SO easy-when you have the nerve!
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NJ. Eugene Guillaume, the sculptor
and director Of the French school at
Rome, has been elected to the French
Academy in the place of the late Due
d'Aumale. AS his literary work is al
most unknown, the election has aroused
much criticism, but M. Guillaume's riv-
ais were far below the Academy stand
ard. They were Gen. du Barail, Imbert
de Saint Armand, and Earnest Daudet.
lola, who had sent in his name, receiv-
ed not vote. For Meilhac's place six
votes resulted In no election, the can
didates being Paul Hervieu, E. Faguet,
Henri Lavedan. and Henri Becque.
Seradz In Russia Poland has been the
scene of strange and successful strike.
The professional beggars of the town
have been in the habit of calling at ev-
cry door on Fridays and receiving the
customary aims of Polish groschen,
worth about half cent. On a recent
Friday they omitted their visit, and lat
Ell sent around delegate with the no.
ttce that, unless they received two gro
scher from each house, they would en-
igrate In body to Czenstochau, where
a miraculous image of the Holy Virgin
attracts pilgrims and where beggars
reap a rich harvest. AS in return for
the aims the beggars pray for the souls
OF the glvers at morning mass, the
good people of Sieradz yielded at once
to the demand and kept their beggars.
Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the
Abruzzi, recently took a balloon trip
from Turin, accompanied by his person.
al ABUNDANT, Lieut.. Cargrie, and the
French aeronalit GODDARD. The day was
squally, SO that the Duke. after being
driven far enough south to see the Riv-
iera as far as Vintimiglia and MANAGE,
and then northwest to Mount Cents,
was at last landed, at the end of five
hours, near his starting point, Turin.
The highest altitude reached was 5000
feet. Naval Lieutenant Cargrie's post
is no sinecure. He has been obliged to
accompany the Prince to the top of
Mount st. Elias, will be in his Arctic
expedition next year, and on this bal
loon trip was dropped as superfuous
ballast at the point furtherest from
Turin reached in the balloon.