Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-04-12
FOREIGN GOssin.

Exposition is 10 feet wide and 1000 feet
J long.
An infant with CT 600 note pinned to
its dress was recently left in London rail
way station.
The horse meat butchers of Paris sell
from seventy TO eighty horses week, and
hope, during the Exhibition, to double that
number.
The French Government has ordered
that during the Exposition no play shall
be performed which will be unpleasant to
! foreigners.
Eleven thousand yards of toweling,
$500 white counterpanes, and 10000 yards
of white linen were required to fit up the
Great Eastern.
The fact that next year is leap year
adds e24,00e to the English financial esti-
mates, that being the amount of one days
pay for the forces.
An inquest was held in London, the
other day, on the body of G rman noble
man, who had become so impoverished that
of late he and his wife had worked
mangle.
"A foreign Prince has just sent small
box to Paris containing some costly jewels,
among them pearl valued at $4,000 francs.
| They are ordered to be sold to put the
| Prince in funds to visit the Exhibition.
The greatest alarm prevails concerning
the Princess of Wales, whose illness is far
more serious than the newspapers have adj
nsitted. 1t is case Of inflammatory rheu-
matism aggravated by puerperal fever
| Mr.. Mill advocates woman suffrage in
England, but the London Times says it
will not do, for the women have a million
| ioritry in tho nomination on1 will ont
vote the men and have everything their
own way.
of the Judges of the Court of Queens
Bench, two are members ofthe Established
Church, one is Roman Catholic, one is a
Baptist, and the fifth a Unitarian. This
diversity of beliefs considered good thing
for the dispensation of justice.
One of the officers of the Bank Of
England said the other day, that :" in all its
dealings with the United States, the bank
had never lost a dollar by an American"
The largest "piece of paper ever dis
counted by this bank was bill for
eS00 1000.
There Is an amusing anecdote about
Lord Derby. 1t is said that some wine
merchant prosecuted the Premier into tast
ing wine-claret or sherry-which was
to keep off the govt, and that he got this
reply; 81 have tasted your wine, and
prefer the govt"
Cats are said TO be It this moment in
great demand at Lucerne, in Switzerland,
and to be selling at high price, in conse
quence of malady which has greatly
thinned their numbers. The head Of the
animal swells rapidly, it refuses all nourish-
ment, and soon drops down dead.
Bright, in one of his late speeches,
said that one half of Scotland is owned by
| twelve persons, and one half Of England
by one hundred and fifty. Thus the peo-
pie are nobody, and few individuals every
body. No wonder the aristocracy fight
SO desperately against any popular move
ment.
"A marvellous increase in the circulation
of English newspaper and periodical litera-
ture is noticeable. Thirty years ago,
100000 say forty-fve millions of
newspapers were issued in one year in
England last year, $50 900, 000-say nearly
six hundred millions-were issued Thirty
years ago, 100000 of periodicals were
published; last year, $4,000, 900 were sold.
The latest advices from Abyssinia are
to the effect that all the English captlves
are closely confined in chains in the fort
ress of Magdala, but otherwise kindly
treated Col. MeTeweather had gone to
Massowah with the artificers and various
presents sent to the King by the British
Government. 1t is believed that an expe-
dition is about to be sent from India to
chastise the barbarian King.
Very much married, at Stratford, c.
w, on the 9th ult., at the residence of
Adam Argo. Esq, by the Rev. t. NcPher-
son, assisted by the Rev A. Drummond, of
IL AZ -
Corners, the Rev. Robert Hall, OF Missouri,
The Rev. Robert Renwick, of Elms, the
Rev. John Fotheringham, of HILBERT, and
the Rev Mr. James, Of Calf, Archibald
McTaggart, Esq, to Catherine Mckay,
both of Dundas.
Although the New Paris Opera House
will not be finished for two years, still sew
eral of the separate buildings depending on
the main edifce are finished. The musical
library is completed, and a great proper
ton of the archives are already arranged
in the upper story Of the building. The
keeper of the keys of the Opera House
will have no sinecure, as lie will have the
charge of two thousand five hundred
separate keys.
SO much success has attended the
Flying Dragon, the only Chinese paper
published in Europe, that the proprietor
has imported fount of Chinese type The
Dragon circulates in such ports Of China,
the PHILIPPINES, and Japan, as England is
allowed intercourse with, and is read not by
traders alone, but by kings and princes, for
the information it brings about European
arts and machinery The Chinese have
begun to print from movable type.
The famous gentleman who won an
elephant in a rattle would not have been sc
very unfortunate, if his prize had been o.
the dimensions of one lately imported from
Siam by naturalist IN England This
| creature is only three feet high, and very
docile, in proof of which it is alleged that
on his way from the ship, the day of hi:
r arrival in England, he walked into public
house like veritable Briton, inserted his
: proboScis In pitcher of beer that stood Oh
the counter, and drank off the content:
, without spilling drop.
, The Duke dOssuna, Spanish Ambas
t sador to Russia, is one of the wealthies
I, men in Europe He lately gave bal
which cost him about twenty thousand dol
lars. Two thousand were expended fol
/ flowers alone; and, not thinking anything
e st. Petersburg could produce worthy thu
e occasion, he telegraphed to Paris for ont
P hundred footmen, two naaitres dhoteI ane
! engaged three hundred Moujicks to worl
: under these functionsries. On the bal
y night, one hundred horsemen and one hun
n dred and fifty OF his private guard did dut,
g outside the embassy.
;, "A novel and exhilerating species o
o chase has just been inaugurated IN Italy
The Government has resolved to rid TIT
IS country of its greatest pest-brigandage
4 and to accomplish this, not only are tn
&,.~ l. do