Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1866-10-26
Foreign Gossip.

We hail with delight the announcement
that Charles Dickens has commenced a
new, novel, the first number of which will
appear in January.
Paris fashions have taken a change
again, and now decree two distinct crino-
ines, one little, round, insignificant hoop,
as flexible as willow, for short morning
skirts; the other, long train orinoline,
ike a peacock's tail, expanding out for
evening splendor.
A German journal says that Bayarian
soldier, on being asked why the army
wore cocks feathers in their caps, replied
that as the Prussians have eaten up all
the cocks and hens in the country the
Bavarian troops wear the feathers to show
that nothing else was left
The Empress of Mexico lately received
at the Chateau of Miramur the President
and Vice President ofthe Chamber of Com
merce of Trieste and replying to a short
address of that functionary, said that, ia
case the Emperor Narimilion should max.
nert year visit to Europe, be would not
fail to visit that port
A Liverpool journal has story of a
"Thieves' College" existing in that town.
There are men and women teachers of the
art of Cartouche and the Dodger, the
pocket-handkerchief, the purse, and the
watch chain departments being presided
over by the different professors. Burglary
and the use of the garotte is taught by
experts, and the accomplishment Of beg
ging letters is branch in itself
Fifteen million pins are said to be daily
called for in England, in which two thous-
and seven hundred and twenty-seven
pounds of brass wire is consumed. Some
idea of the consumption of brass wire in
the manufacture of pins may be gathered
from the fact that one firm in Birming-
ham consumes one hundred and fifty tons
per annum, or three hundred and thirty
six thousand pounds.
A bell which is heard in the first act of
Don Juan d'Autriche," now playing at
the Theater Francaise, in Paris, is one of
those which on the oath of August, 1872,
gave the signal for the massacre of ST.
Bartholomew. Being put up for sale du.
ring the Revolution, all the bells of ST.
German PAuxerrois were bought BY a
founder named Flauban, who parted with
the smallest of them to the tkeater named.
1t was rung for the first time at the thea
ter in 1901, at the first performance of
"Edouard en- Ecosse," by Alexander Du-
val
In France they are expecting the end of
the world. Even the skeptics according
to the Paris correspondent OF. the Evening
Starr are beginning to talk in religious
strain of "signs and tokens" but their
newly-found religion takes very gloomy
color. The continual rain, the extraordi-
nary character of the late events in Ger
many, the disturbed condition of the con-
tinent, apparently pointing to further con-
the cholera, and the precarious
state of the Emperor's health, all contrib
ute to the general depression, and induce
some people to suppose that the end of
things is approaching.
An English bookseller vas lately puz-
lied by telegraphic order. The story is
told BY a. correspondent of the London
Times; 81 had occasion to telegraph to
Cambridge for book The book was a
copy of prize poems containing. as the tel
egraph was worded, sJohnson's Poems on
Plato" Ry the tine the message reached
Cambridge lit would have to pass through
London on its way) it had become altered
into John Pomens on Plate Money The
bookseller at Cambridge wrote me by re-
-urn to say that he regretted his inability
70 find any such work"