Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1897 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The St. Petersburg newspapers announce that the King of Siam will visit there next summer. A memorial to Elizabeth Barrett Browning is about to be placed in Kelloe Church, Durham, where she was baptized. The Princess of . Wales and Princess Victoria are expected at Copenhagen on a visit to Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark. It is stated by a Vienna paper that Eleonora Duse, the famous Italian actress, has arrived in Vienna to undergo a seridus operation. The hereditary grand duke of Baden, a first cousin of the German emperor, has been appointed general in command of the eighth army corps. The budget committee of the Norwegian Storthing has unanimously nominated Dr. Nansen as professor of zoology at the Christiania university. Herr Gustav Eim, the Czech politician, writer and party leader, died rather suddenly in Florence while making a tour fol the benefit of his health.