Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-03-26
Foreign Gossip.

An autograph letter of Mozart, ask
ing the loan Of three florins, is for sale in
Paris.
"A Berlin railroad Spectator has agreed
to feed twelve hundred of the starving East
Prussians for three months.
Two tipsy British soldiers cursed the
Queen, and are now serving a fve-year
sentence with branded backs.
Russia, with an eye to the health of
the rising generation, forbids the manufac-
ture or sale of colored sweetmeats.
"A learned boot-black, who has been
arrested for q petty crime in London,
speaks English, French and German.
"A lady in Paris recently gave party,
and all invited were obliged to wear false
noses. The effect was very ludicrous.
The cable was mistaken when it an
nounced the death of the young King Of
Bavaria. The royal defunct was the ex-
King, old Louis /.
Advertising is valuable in Paris. An
agent there has just paid 100000 to hang
| framed advertisements in the Grand Hotel
and Hotel du Louvre for five years.
Travel in the Holy Land, according to
| letters received from there, is becoming
hazardous, owing to the exactiOns and
| threading attitude of the hostile tribes.
"A French doctor processes TO have
found that life remains fora long time in
human heads cut off by the guillotine, and
that the body suffers terribly until the head
dies.
Ninety one journalists fought duels in
Paris during the year 1867, but, as none of
them were hurt much, it is fair to conclude
1 hat fhesr frrhs boz, fl1sr
/ swords.
There is said to be row 100000
worth IF American silver in Canada, and
duty OF fifteen per cent. has been i'm
posed upon the importation OF such silver
coin into the Province.
I'm London it is said that man may
live year without hearing al alarm of
fire. In that vast city of 100000 people,
with a closely covered area of 10 miles by
6, there is fire brigade of little more
than 800 men.
Australia has trees that are taller than
those of California. One has been dis
covered four hundred and eighty feet high,
| which is taller than the highest church spire
in Chrlstendom, and SIS tall as the great
pyramid of Cheops.
"A Belgian boy in London hung him
self by accident the other day, and his
father testified that the boy had read SEN
sation stories of suicides, and afterwsrd
| many times experimental on his own neck
before the fatal occasion.
"A French writer in the Rereu des Deuz
| Aorsdes says, of the numerous American
visitors TO Europe last year: "The men
were distinguished by an abundance of
dollars in their pockets, the women by an
4 q nrrrAo NJ IF hroipc nnGor hosr bov ato ~
The House of Lords has recently de-
| cjded the important Bredalbane case by
asserting that when man and woman
have long lived together and been looked
upon as man and wife, they must be con-
sldered as welded by habit and repute,
and their children are legitimate.
The largest organ in the world is said
to be in the little city of Freyburg, in
Switzerland. When in full play it pours
| forth a tempest of sounds through forest
of pipes seven thousand eight hundred in
number, shaking the walls and the founda-
tons of the old church In which it stands.
Children at the Cape of Good Hope
| pick up and fill their pockets with bright
| pebbles, which sharp lapidaries buy from
them for trifling sums and then sell again
for fabulous amounts. They are diamonds,
and the shrewd dealers prefer to pay
small sum for them to going and picking
them up themselves.
There is certain lady of rank and
fashion in Paris who constantly believes
herself to be dying. To her husband,
who is absent on political mission, she
recently sent the following telegraph: RE
turn instantly. am very ill-dying" To
which n de - replied: " Pressing bust
ness. Wait fortnight" Madame de -
has waited.
"A house in Toronto was invaded, a
few days ago, by small army of rats,
| driven, in hungry condition, from their
homes in the street drains, etc, by heavy
Iains. They attacked two little children
| sleeping in the house, whose lives would
probably been destroyed by the furnishing
| foragers fad not their mother been present
| to frighten the invaders, numbering hun
dreds, away.
"A number of ladies and gentlemen of
London and other places are projecting a
Woman's College, somewhere between the
capital and Cambridge; in which institu-
ton the girls are to have the customary
education of boys with the addition of
those branches more peculiarly suited to
their sex. The cost is estimated at
1
contributed by Mrs. Bodichon.
There is story current In London
that Lord Lytton one day asked Earl
Derby, who had just resigned the Pre-
miership on account of the govt, whether
he would rather be the PremeIr Peer of
England, with rent roll of e300, 600 O
year. but sixty years of age, or an Officer
i of the guards, aged twenty-five, just upon
4 TOUR, Nth nr1lu a or in his v,nrEof
and Lord Derby is said to have replied
that he would exchange with the young
officer at that moment, If he could.
"A young lad was recently brought be.
| fore Liverpool magistrate, charged with
embezzling nine pounds from his employer.
On investigation it appeared that the boy,
less than fourteen years old, had spent the
money in entertaing his sweetheart Jagged
lgelve) with pleasure trips on Sunday,
| donkey rides, and other Refreshments The
/ young lady testified to this effect, and also
ayerred that she had frequently drawn on
| young Lothario to the amount of two or
three shillings, and that her drafts were
always honored through female friend,
who acted as messenger. The young
scapegrace admitted the charge, aud coolly
tod the magistrate that he "allowed Miss
Taylor IS. week" ies
"A paper of Nantes, Franch, publishes
the following: "A farmer was found
hanged by his fireside. Suspicion fell
upon his wife; she was arrested; and,
when questioned by the magistrate, made
the following afectionate confession I:
well, in faith, there il not much to be
told. Going home last night, 4 found my
husband by the side of the fireplace trying
to hang himself; the rope was already
round his throat. AS he had already told
everyone that be was determined to hang
himself, endeavored very naturally to
assist him, by passing the other end Of the
rope over raiter, and pulling as hard as
could, until he was suspended ia the air.
Judge You confess, then, that you
y stEnnR|ed your husband 2 Yee . 2jt5|ei