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


An autograph letter of Mozart, ask
ing the loan of three forms, is for sale in
Paris.
ABE railroad Spectator has agreed
to feed twelve hundred of the starving East
Prussians for three months.
Two tipsy British soldiers cursed the
Queen, aud are now serving a dve-year
sentence with branded backs.
the rising generation, forbids the manufac-
ture or sale Of colored sweetmeats.
"A learned boot black, who has been
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 i! an
Bavaria The royal defunct was the ex-
King, old Louis I. s5,fr,r
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 for 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
that their pens were mightier than their
swords.
There is said to be now $1,000, 900
worth of American silver in Canada, and
q duty Of fifteen per cent. has been i'm
posed upon the importation of such silver
coin into the Province
in London it is said that man may
live year without hearing an alarm of
fire. In that vast city of 100000 people,
with 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 Christendom, and as 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
many times experimental on his own neck
before the fatal occasion.
"A French writer in the Rcueu DIES DeuG
Aondes says, of the numerous American
visitors 10 Europe last year "The men
were distinguished by an abundance of
dollars in their pockets, the women by an
abundance of brains under their bonnets."
The House of Lords has recently de-
cided the important Bredalbane case by
asserting that when q man and woman
have long lived together and been looked
upon as man and wife, they must be con-
sIdered 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, L.,
Switzerland. When in full play it pou,s
forth tempest OF sounds through forest
of pipes seven Thousand eight hundred in
number, shaking the walls and the founda-
lions 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 trining sums and then sell again
for fabulous amounts They are diamonds,
and the shrewd dealers prefer to pay 3
small sum for them to going and picking
them up themselves.
-Ihere is certaln laOy OF rank ana
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: IRE
turn instantly. l lam very in-dying." To
which NJ de - replied " Pressing bust
ness. Wait fortnight" Madame de -
nas waited.
"A house in Toronto was invaded, 3
few days ago. by small army of rats,
driven, in q 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 lad 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
930. 000-one thousand of which has been
contributed by Mrs- Bodichon.
There is story current In London
that Lord Lytton one day asked Earl
Derby, who had Just resigned the Pre-
miershin On arrn1,nf If fho Unut vhefhop