The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-20
Foreign Gossip.

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cost $4,000 year.
Children are publicly sold in the
baZaars Of Calcutta.
Tea cultivation is becoming an i'm
portant matter in Southern India.
Waiter & Co. cleared half million of
dollars out Of the London Times last
year.
Two feet is the present altitude of
head dress in London. The hair costs
small fortune.
It costs four francs to send tele-
graphic dispatch of twenty words from
Paris to London.
The loss by the fires in the Ottawa.
Canada, woods this season, is estimated at
four million dollars.
The British cruisers captured eighteen
slavers off the coast of Africa last year,
with S333 slaves on board
China and Japan sent 117,313, 342
pounds of tea to Great Britain during the
year ending June 1, 1868.
The st. Petersburg and Moscow press
supply an enormous quantity of books
each issue of which ranges from 10000 to
$4,000 copies.
"A st. Petersburg letter says that
10000 men are working on the railway
from Moscow to the Black Sea, and that
military preparations are active.
English expectations of books are
measured by weight The amount last
year was 1896 hundred weight, con-
siderable increase over any previous year.
The telegraph rates are so low in
France at present that the Government,
which owns all the lines, loses about one
hundred and fifty thousand francs annu-
ally.
in recent thunder storm in England
a soldier was struck by lightning and
made blind, and q woman who had been
stone blind for eight years was suddenly
restored to sight.
Directors Of railroads in England are
paid in guineas; and some men secure po-
sitions on many railroads for the sake of
the pay. These are called "guinea-pig"
directors by railroad men, they are such
pigs for guineas.
The long-expected project of con-
Meeting, by means of direct railway, the
ports of the Black sea with the Baltic, so
important to the development of Russian
commerce and industry, will soon be an
accomplished fact.
The great crater of Kilonea, Sand
witch Islands, which has for many years
been inactive, has lately renewed opera
tions, and the glare of its fires can be dis
tlnctly seen at forty miles distance, but no
damage is yet reported.
The largest rose-bush in France is at
Toulon. It covers a wall seventy-five feet
long by eighteen in height, and near the
root measurs two feet eight inches round.
In the N onths of April and May it pro-
duces fifty thousand roses.
A t. /. ~
sobuona, near Verona, Italy, that any
storm can be driven away by ringing the
church bells, but the fallacv of the same
was recently proved by the lightning kill
ing three of the bell ringers.
There is an evident determination to
abolish sutteeism in India. For partici-
pating in recent widow burning case
fourteen men have been transported for
life, thirty for ten years, and eleven are
sentenced to five years imprisonment.
Some American ladies at Copenhagen,
who recently called on the Queen of Den
mark, were not little astonished to see
that she wore cheap dress, and that, on
rising to receive them, she laid on her
working table cotton stocking, on which
she had been working.
"A queer little book published in Paris
gives the singular origins ofmany modern
men of talent. Halevy's father was
grocer; Rossini is the son of strolling
players; Verdi of an innkeeper; Auber
was born behind printshop, and the pa
rents Of Victor Masse sold rails.
The Montreal Gazette says that the
finances of the Dominion are now in so IA
vorable position as to enable the Govern
ment to pay off the whole of its unfunded
debt-including, Of course, the large bal
ance it had borrowed from the Bank of
Montreal, at high rate of interest.
One more victim to science has fallen
on African ground. LIE Saint, the geogra-
pher, who had left France about eighteen
months ago on journey of exploration,
has died at Abn Khuka Mattel run has
received letters from Alexandria which
leave no doubt as to the young travellers
fate.
AT all the dry-goods stores in Berlin
where the Princess Victoria buys goods,
female clerks are employed. This is done
in compliance with the special request of
her royal highness, whose great hobby is
the extension of female labor beyond
the narrow circle to which it is still con-
fined
At a political meeting in London to
make arrangements for the approaching
general elections, Mrs. Law delivered
speech from the platform. She said she
stood there as the representative of 100,-
600 seamstresses Of London, who earned
one shilling per day, and of another
$4,000 who earned sixpence per diem.
The Mexican debt, now acknowledged
by the Constitutional Government, foots
up $100,000,000. This is $1215 per capita
for the whole population. Of the whole
sum, $60,000,000 are due to English credi-
tors; about $12, 000,0 900 to Spain; S5,OO0,-
900 to France; and a small sum to the
United States.
Work on the canal across the 18th
mus of Suez is still progressing. The sum
of $51 100000 has already been expended
upon it, and the total cost when it is fin
ished will, it is estimated, be $90,000,000,
or perhaps, including the necessary docks
at each end, 100000, 00O About sixty
miles of it is now used for winter transit.
Mexico City is about to come within
hailing distance of our Atlantic cities.
General Escobedo and his soldiers are
busily employed on a telegraph line run
ming from the capital to the frontier of
Matamoras. Meantime our telegraphs
near the Mexican frontier are within |
short distances of Brownsville, about OPP
posite to Matamoras
The income of the Grown Prince of |
Prussia is fraction over million dollars |
His wife is very economical, and they lay |
by every year a couple of hundred thou |
sand dollars. The King of Prussia spends |
his whole civil-list, but accumulates the |
revenues proceeding from his private |