Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — Foreign News Notes. [ARTICLE]

Foreign News Notes.

In the last year the German Emperor, with his own hand, wrote 7,000 letters, telegrams and orders. The sonnets of King Oscar of ’Shvedeu have been translated into most of the languages of Europe. Sir Henry Irving has intimated that he will devote bis time to the writing of his autobiography as soon as he retires from the stage. Frederick Greulich, n Berlin miller, is spending three mouths in jail for saying that “AU is not wisdom that drops from the Emperor’s lips.” The Inte Hamed-bcn-Mohammed, or “Tippu Tib," used to surprise Livingstone. Stanley, Cameron and other explorers by his exhibitions of Arabic courtliness in the midst of the hostile African wilds. The prince regent of Bavaria has been duped by a Munich painter, who induced him to sit, saying the portraif was wanted by the Prussian navy de-' partment for the battleship Munchen. The picture was so poor that thirty-one fellow artists petitioned that it be not forwarded. The picture had not been Ordered.