Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-01

republic. his subjects being budgets, the administrative and military organ 1 ization of France and other European countries and the need of increasing the ties between France and the Latin countries. t Pope Plus x has severely shocked | the feelings of conservative Roman i Catholics by travelling around the ! park of the Vatican in a great cardi- nal red touring car and when some | one among his surroundings told him ! that this kind of vehicle was being | criticised as undignified, His Holiness ] replied with a smile that as he could | not get hold of a chariot of fire like
 the one used by the prophet Elijah, | he had to take the best he could get. 1 Pope Plus is not the only one in the Vatican who makes use of the auto mobile. Cardinal Merry del Val, Papal Secretary of State travels daily back and forth between the Vatican. and his simmer residence in a fast car. Queen WiIhelmina of Holland. who
 shares entirely her subjects anti-Ger-
 man sentiments, has initiated and forced her ministers to carry through
 a revision of the Dutch Constitution. It provides that should the throne be left vacant, and without a direct
 heir, a provisional government of six
 teen members shall be at once ap
 pointed. and that they shall have the
 right to proclaim according as they
 find most convenient. either a new dynasty of non-German origin (this is the cTux of the whole matter} or a Dutch Republic
 The direct cause of this action is the following incident: The Kaiser ordered one of the German torpedo boats to make journey up the Rhine. The government of Queen Wilhelmina Obieeted to this proceeding, repre- senting to Prince yon Bulow that the mouth of Rhine falls through Dutch territory. The torpedo boat did not go up the river, and EmperdE William was very angry. He is reported to have said to his Chancellor we will i change that The Rhine is German and 1t must be entirely German" ChaTdin's famous picture, "L'Enfant ou Toton." which J. F. Morgan tried to buy, which was acquired by the Louvre and to whose genuineness great doubts were recently cast, has been declared to be genuine. The picture was among those which were exhibited at a Paris art gallery. It was bought for the Louvre witf !. the companion picture "Joune Homms
 au Violon," for thirty-five thousand dollars. In consequence of connois
 seur having doubted its authenticity it was compared with another copy O
 the same picture. undoubtedly bl
 Cnardin. which is in possession of M Groult
 MI Then a commission of experts un
 HI dertook a thorough examination of thu II subject. and as a result of their find
 II ings the Fine Art Department has de I cided to confirm the purchase for thu
 Louvre It Is proved that the Louvr' II pictures is anterior in date to that O H TAI.
 II That Louvre picture is a portrai
 of son of Paris jeweler who, live'
 in the time of Louis XV-a fact sub
 l stantiated by its likeness to othe portraits of the young man.
 III The Empress Eugenie has present I ed to the Museum of Decorative Art I valuable collection of color draw
 ings made by different artists whicl
 were executed many years ago fo
 the decoration of her private apart ments at the Tuileries Palace.
 II Apart from their artistic yslu'
 these drawings constitute perfect doc
 uments as regards the history of thu palace under the Second Empire. An
 other gift of Her Majesty is quanti l ty of carved wood work from the ol' ! Castle of BeTcy, which was destroyes I in 1860 for the construction of thu It Vincennas railway