Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-19
FOREIGN NEWS.
ARTEMUs Ward viii begin his lecture
season in London early in October.

ARTEMUs Ward viii begin his lecture
season in London early in October.
NJ FERTINsET, Frenah lion hunter, has
invented an explosive bullet, which not only
destroyed targets, but when aimed at a loaf
of bread, blew that to atoms.
The admirers of 'Rab and his friends will
be panied to learn that the author. to quote
the London Athen9um. lis in the worst
condition of health in which his friends
could fear to see him.
AT an execution in Manchester, England,
e25 were paid for good position at q win
dow commanding the spectacle.
AN association is to be organized for set
ting up in the various ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of
Paris twenty establishments for soup made
from horse flesh.
A recent caricature in the Paris Chariva-
ri, represents Prussion general sitting on
marble bench in public garden smoking
cigar. A pretty little girl whom he has
been noticing says to him, General my pa
pa likes you very much, What is your
papa's business my dearY' "He makes
wooden legs.
An inventor in London claims TO have
discovered method of making Illuminating
gas for actually less than nothing He ex-
tracts it from vegetable substances, which
producing the gas, become matter of cash
convertible value so that the more of the
new gas one manufactures and consumes,
the greater advantage it will be to him Pc
cuniarily.
Mr.. Thomas L. Plant of Birmingham,
England, writes to the Birmingham Daily
Post that after thirty-one years attentive
study of meteorological elements, during
the last six years of which he has endeavor-
ed to advance the subject to practical scien-
tiGc Importance he has at length come to the
conclusion that weather predictions cannot
be made with sufficient accuracy to beof any
value and he shall not therefore publish any
opinions in advance.
THE London lancet calls attention to the
danger of using perambulators' too much
for children old enough to walk, and re-
marks -
ga pebble in the streamlet scant
Hath turned the course of many a river,
A dew drop on the baby plant
Has warped the giant oak forever
A NUMBER of English ladies', presided
over by the Duchess of Sutherland, have
published in the times a manifesto against
shopping on Saturdays, with a view
to promoting the Saturday half holiday, in
compliance with resolution adopted at a
meeting of ladies held at Stafford House on
the 23d of July last.
AN English Magazine relates of the late
Squire Osboldeston-Whom it calls the
greatest sportsman the world ever knew
since the days of the Assyrian Nimrod, AN
anecdote illustrating the fact that, like all
true fox-hunters, he was not insensibIe to
female charms. When 0sbrldeston was ON
visit at Lincoln, he met at dinner party,
previous to a country ball, the beautiful Mis-
Burton, afterwards Lady Sutton. 1t hap
pened that Miss Cracroft, a rival beauty,
had a nosegay, in which was hothouse
flower of exceeding rarity. 1t attracted gen.
eral admiration, and Miss Burton especially
admired it whereupon her rival, for some
reason or other, twitted her after the man.
ner of dear friends This was not lost upon
| Osbaldeston. Pleading an excuse after din
| ner for leaving the wine party, he got upon
one of his horses and rode to the house of
the person from whose conservatory the
flower had been obtained. 25 miles distant,
and brought back another and more brilliant
specimen, which Miss Burton displayed in
triumph at the bali supper. The distance
was accomplished at night, in about four
hours.