The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02
Foreign Gossip.

London has 253 newspapers.
Lady Fitz Maurice is said to be the
best looking woman in England.
Capital punishment and fogging have
been abolished in the kingdom of Sax
ony.
Nearly all the London theatres are
now occupied by celebrated preachers on
Sundays.
Queen Victoria and the King of
Abyssinia didn't marry, but they fight as
much as if they had done so.
Punch defines hippophagy as the eat
ing of horse-f1esh and hypocrisy as the
saying horsehesh is very good.
The false eyes put in the embalmed
body Of Macmillan were taken from the
image Of the Virgin, and didn't match.
In 1865, in Great Britain, 1,2OO, 900
newspapers in the postoffices, and 10000
in 1866.
Sir Morton Peto, in 1868, had an estate
worth $4,000, 600, and business balance of
over 81 100000. He is now hopelessly in
solvent.
Queen Victoria has ordered her
Highland Journal to be translated into
French She is highly pleased with its
large sale.
An English boy sent the Princess of
Wales true lovers knot" carved out of
wood, and she returned her thanks and q
check for $50.
"A troop of servant girls stopped the
team of a water carrier in Montreal, the
other day, and plundered him of the
precious fluid.
"A sculptor in Paris recently checked
himself to death by getting bit of clay
into his windpipe while playfully blowing
pellets at mark.
They are making an immense knife at
Sheffield, which has already 1867 blades,
and one is added every year. 1t was not
begun in the year one, however.
Mexico is said to be getting on better
than ever before. The debt is $81,632, $50,
and all expenses of the government do not
exceed $13, 0OO,O 900 year. Payments are
promptly made.
One issue of the London Times lately
contained the announcement of the death
of six persons whose united ages were 521
years. Two had attained 81 years, and the
youngest was 80.
| -Du Chaillu says there is species of
ant in Africa, afraid of the sun. If they
come upon sunny spot in their march,
| they dig tunnel under it and then 60 on
l
The Empress Carlotta has addressed
10 the Pope touching letter, imploring
his prayers for the soul of her unfortunate
husband The letter is written in very
good Italian, and exhibits no traces of the
late lunacy of the Empress.
"A woman In Vienna has lately con.
fessed that during the last ten years she
and her father had committed sixteen muir
ders for money. Under her direction q
search has been made, which resulted in
the finding of all the skeletons.
MIR. Peabody's first 100000 has pro
vided comfortable homes for more than
fifteen hundred of the London poor. and
his second, which is to be applied in West
minister next year, will double the amount
of service rendered by this boon.
"A chap in London has been making 8
living by furnishing sham certificates O.
death to the mourning relatives of missing
persons. One man whom he had killed
by breaking fictitious blood vessel, turned
up alive and spoiled his little game.
"A Paris morning paper contains al
advertisement, Of which the following is ,
j literal translation: "a young lady of 48
having moderate income, but possessing
a patent for a new invention, wishes K
marry q gentleman of Go, well versed il
chemistry"
German red-tape Is illustrated by al
instance in which the citizens of one tow