Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-12

|, PARIS, Aug. 12-Anatole France
; the celebrated French novelist, has
created something of a sensation II
circles of literature by declining
promotion in the Legion of Honor tt
the rank of commander.
| France declares that Victor Hugo
at the time of his death was only
an officer of the Legion of Honor
while Lanlartine was only Chew
alier. As France does not rank him
self with these great French literary
lights he decides that it would be i'll
fitting for him to accept a decoration
greater than those accorded to more
DISTINGUISHED authors.
| Former president Diaz, of Mexico
who las returned to France after a
visit to Germany, continues to receive
honors from tle French government
After being officially welcomed at the
Museum of Invabides, General Diaz
was received by the City OF Paris at
the City Hail.
General Diaz met at the Invalides
! General Lanas and General Fanny,
both of whom fought with him in the
war at Mexico. The Mexican is a
great admirer of Napoleon, and often
during the visit he stopped to declare
! that Napoleon's career was not only a
glory to France, but for all humanity.
The party visited the chapel, the mort
| &c nnrcorvo6 hnA
mask of the Emperor, and finally the
crypt. General Diaz knelt before the
sarcophagus of Napoleon and when in
the reliquary General Niox placed in
his hand the sword of AusterlitZ, Diaz
pressed his lips to the historic weap-
en- again and again. The former pres
dent had the honor also of opening
himself tie door of the crypt looking
into the last resting place of the great
Emperor.
Paris has a Greek church and Eng
lish American, Scotch, Dutch and other
Protestant CHURCHES, and there is now
| talk of the erection of mosque for
the accommodation of 10000 Moham-
medan residents. It will not, how.
ever, be the first. Napoleon ILL.,, wish
ing the African army to be represent.
ed in Paris, CHARTERED battalion OF
riflemen and squad of Spahis in the
old Bonaparte barracks, upon the site
of which Orleans Railroads Quay
d'Orsay terminus now stands.
Turkish baths, q Moorish cafe and
a mosque were established for the
Algerians, who were accompanied
from Algiers to Ulema in guise of
chaplain. After the War of 1870, the
barracks were occupied by a battal.
ion of the municipal guard The baths
and the cafe, joined together, became
a canteen, and the mosque was trans.
ferred into a clothing storehOuse
Even in 1897, when the building was
demolished to make way for the new
terminus, the arabesque decorations
and the verses celebrating the glory
of Allah and his prophet were clear
ly distinguishable under the success
i've coats of paint and whitewash.
Increased cost of living in America
as shown by the report of the Bureau
of Labor, is being paralleled in France
where the housing problem has be-
come acute. There is little place in
Paris for the man of small means and
large family. An illustrative case
is TIE following: A working man.
earning about $40 a day, and his
wife and seven children, wandered
over the city looking for lodging. He
was able to pay $50 year, but the
proprietors of the houses of that price
refused to receive him when they saw
the children. Apart from the Ques
ton of children, it is extremely diff
cult for a working man to find &C
commodation in Paris at the present
time, however inadequate. Rents
have steadily increased in the past ten
years. BY reason of the increased
wages and shorter working hours in
the building trades. the cost of con-
st1ucting house has gone up 40 per
cent.
\ Formerly the poorer classes lived
in the more remote parts of the city,
but the increased lines of the subway
bring these districts within easier
reach of the centre, and the small
two-story house is being rapidly de.
molished to make room for the six.
story modern structures. where the
rental is often beyond the means of
the working man. The workman
therefore, is being forced to the su.
! burbs. Here, however. he lis finding
difficulty in installing himself, as the
suburbs of Paris are most always at
tractive and command fairly enough
rental,
BERLIN, Aug. 12.-Thes uncovering
of an utterly unsupported set of six
teenth century mural paintings dur
ing a renovation of the ancient Gel.
man Monast.cal church of the Frank.
fort-on-Main has been crowned by the
discovery of an original self-portrait
of the celebrated German painter, AL
brecht Durer considered here as an
artistic event of the first magnitude
The artist is shown in a long man
tie and feathered cap. brush and pal
cite in the left hand and in the right
square tablet with a ltin iscrip
ton, stating that the picture is the
work Of Albrecht Durer, and the date
1925
The frescoes are found on the walls
of the sacristy o. the church, which