The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-08-23
Foreign Gossip.

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1t is officially announced that the Prus-
sian government intend to extend the tels-
graphic system to every town with popu-
lation of one Thousand five hundred. The
extension viii first commence in the pro-
vince of Saxony. f ,,.,.....-.,
Masonic lodges have been closed in Aus
tria since 1884. An attempt to procure the
reopening of them failed. The Vienna
masons are said to be at present endeavoring
to obtain an authorization TO reconstitute the
former lodge of that city. Qai $50 81
An Austrian papsr says that the neighbor-
hood of HayelOck was rec sntly visited, after
a heavy rain, by clouds offiying ants, which
were devoured in great numbers by the
fowls, but the insects, not killed by the
swallowing, ate their way through the birds
Icrops, and caused their DEATH. This was not
credited at first, but posi- nlOTten examina-
Itions have shown the insects alive In the
|suptured crops, or crawling cut of the dead
birds thr0ats.
A horse dealer named Gilderoy, in a mad
freak, began throwing his money up a tree
the other day, at aplace called Beam Bridge,
near NantTice, England, under the impress
sion that the devil was there and wanted TO
have him. The news that the devil was 'up
"a tree soon collected a crowd to the spot,
Including the police, and the poor fellow was
captured. On his person was found q check
for E220, and around the tree was picked up
E2 les. in silver, and three watches. .
An English lady at the court Of Vienna,
with whom an imperial highness" danced
three times on the same eTening, fattered by
L.
ton at the compliment. Il did not intend it
as compliment, was the answer. "Then,"
said the lady, "your highness must be very
fond of dancing" Il detest dancing" was
the unsatisfactory response. "What, then,
motive for dancingf Madam was the
exalted P9rsOnages curt reply, "my medical
attendant advises me to perspire." I" ssi 81
The female Australian black swan in the
Geological Gardens of Lyons France, short
time since, laid two eggs, and as she did not
seem anxious to sit upon them, they were
placed among six others produced by white
swan. All eight birds were hatched, and al
Of the same grayish hue. But the male and
female old birds instinctively discovered the
intfuders, aud maltreated them so much that
enc died, the other being rescued with much
difficulty. 1t is at present thriving, and the
black piumes which distinguish lis race are
beginning 70, appear. xa.Sa.iIsa 10 tGat
1 Apropoe of workmen, permit me, to re-
mark that nolaborers are so i'll paid as those
of Spain. They have extremely odd hours
tof labor. We lad ample leisure to study
them while they were repairing the yacht.
They came at A. NJ. and woke Us all faIf
with rather unmusical chorus of anEils
At six they took their breakfast, and rrs:
isumed work at g.. At IL N, the inevitable
siesta was taken, and then from aitiil 6 theJ
hammered away again. N They are, terrible
ldawdlers over their work and are continually
smoking cigarettes. and when not engaged IN
| lighting and adjusting these, they stop a
every short interval and, with prSfonnd look
watch for quarter Of an hogf thu Progrer
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