The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-06-12
Foreign Gossip.

More than four hundred families are
now living, in London, in houses erect
ed by the numiicence of Mr.. George
Peabody. 'iia' ''na'A s,r hi
There is a story from France Of a
man who has served out prison term
| 100 years, and returned to his native
village at the age of 12O to spend the
remainder of his life honorably.
1t is said that among two millions Of
persons by whom Yeddo, in Japan, is
inhabited, there is not beggar in the
streets, not drundard, not a rufian.
The women are beautiful, the men are
robust and energetic, there is no trouble
about fashions, education is universal,
books are plentiful, though there are
no newspapers; life is simple and easy,
marriage is universal, and children go
naked. T.-.s ls
A sinister story is told of the Eng
lish Court. One Queen Somebody
possibly Charlotte, and it may be Vic
toria-was unwell, and it became
necessary to rub her head with brandy.
A bottle was bought aud used, and her
Majesty's rumseller in ordinary was or
dered to supply one daily. Some
twenty years after, bill was brought
in for seven thousand three hundred
and odd bottles of brandy, as many of
gin, and about twice as much of ale and
other varieties Of spiritual confection-
cry.
"A French paper relates the following
amusing auecdote. olIt seems that a
gentleman from Paris paid visit to q
country dame, in whose parlor he saw
a portrait of a lovely woman Of, say, five
and twenty. Upon the entrance of the
lady, her visitor naturally asked her if
the picture was family portrait, and
was told that it represented her deeeas-
ed daughter. "Has it been long since
you lost herl'' asked the gentleman.
"Alas, sir" replied the lady, "She died
Just after her birth, and have had the
portrait painted to represent her as she
would appear if she had lived until
now."' H .+ a
In 1850 Gar Nicholas, in looking
lover his household expenses, found that
ten roubles day for taIlow had been
paid ever since 1899, The item being
entered "For curing his Majesty of a
cold" Investigations revealed the fact
that fifty-one years before the Empress
Catharine suffered from a bad cold in
the head, and her physicians ordered
her. to rub her imperial nose--not
against that of one of her stalwsrt fsyer-
ties, as was her sastom-but with a
lump of tsllow. twas found that since
the Empress, under three different En-
perors, the house accounts were charged
with ten roubles daily. Such is impe-
rial red tape.
Rev. DR.. Bellows thus speaks Of the
Italian peasahtry You meet what
looks like an opera chorus at every de-
pet-men and women dressed, it may
be, in rags but it is sure to be in colors,
and worn with an unconscious grace
that is peculiar to this race, The Ital
ian peasant is a natural posturer. He
tumbles into graceful attitudes as nat
surally as the workmen of most coun-.
tries fall into awkwardness. No hussar
can wear his jacket as jauntily as an
Italian beggar wears his capote. And
when he filings his darned, land stained,
and tattersd cloak about him, it falls in-
to statuesque folds. If he leans against
the walls, he poses himself like Msssa-
neiIlo, and stands IKE a model, as fixed
as if he had BEEN arranged for an
hours study: His hat which isia Gu
rious sugar-loaf, that, looks like an Ital-
ian volcano dwarfed into fit proportions,
but retaining all its picturesque features.
The Roman contadIni beat all the peas
ants in the world in natural beauty and
native costumes. The sun .deepens
their complexion without coarsening
their features, Their blood is dark as
Burgundy. They are improved by the
boldest colors, and their dress is as rich
as parrots plumsge. 9ri ~