The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-08-06
Foreign Gossip.
Rome has but one newspaper.

Foreign Gossip.
Rome has but one newspaper
London has SO miles of beer houses.
-Brigandage has been suppressed in
Southern Italy.
Sir Morton Peto comes out OF the
Bankruptcy Court penniless.
-Psris consumes 100000 pounds of
ginger bread annually.
in Ireland there are 2,S9S Friends, and
IN Great Britain, 1886.
The Bishop of London is hundred
years old, and reads without glasses.
There are 6,S45 vessels in the mer-
camille navy of the North German Con-
federation.
"A man in Montreal fell into vat of
boiling Enseed oil and was scalded to
death.
1t is said that London contains fully
10000 persons who support themselves
entirely by the pen.
-Garibaldi is suffering SO severely from a
rheumatic attack that he is compelled to
go about on crutches.
Tho street sale of patterns for ladies'
and children's clothing has become COM
mon and extensive in London.
-Swinburne is such a prey to morbid
melancholy, says London correspondent,
that he has been ordered by his physician
TO travel.
The publisher of the Leipzig Hlustrat-
cd NeaoS says that the artistic and literary
matter of every number Of his paper
costs him one thousand dollars.
Dealers in hair in Paris find the sup
ply running short, and children are robbed
of their luxuriant locks in passing along
through the city.
The Rev. Nr. Punshon, who, to his
marked power as pulpit orator, adds fine
poetical talent, has become a resident of
Toronto, Canada
In 1851, % per cent. of the population
of Ireland could speak Irish ; in 1861, only
10 per cent could speak it; Of these, 1884,
600 persons could speak Irish only.
Six ladies have contributed $50 each
towards Mr.. John Stuart Mills election
expenses as candidate for Westminster.
Mr. Mill is still widower.
One of the Ontario (Canada) towns
appropriated five cents for the celebration
of Dominion day, and appointed COM
mittee to see them judiciously expended.
1t is computed that not less than 16S
Generals in Mexico have an eye to the
Presidency OF that country, and are only
awaiting favorable opportunities to issue
pronunciamentos.
AT Grantham, England, an old man,
engaged in a field, was worried by don
key, which knocked him down, got his fore
feet over him, and bit his face and a piece
out of his arm.
According to statistics quoted recently
in the British Parliament the average
number of deaths from accidents in mines
in England and Wales during the last ten
years was 1000 year.
n
the spinal cord. 1t is believed that, if his
health should not improve very soon, the
King will accept his resignation and ap-
point General Moltke minister of foreign
affairs.
Birds are held sacred in Japan. Their
slaughter is interdicted by the severest
penalties Protection of these favorite
animals has been made provision in the
recent treaty between that country and the
United States.
The young Princess of Sweden, who
is engaged to be married to the Grown
Prince of Denmark, has fortune of 25,-
100000 rix-dollars-that is, 100000.
The largest conger eel ever known
was recently caught near Wexford, Ire
land. His length was over fourteen feet,
and his circumference exceeded four feet.
The name on his back resembled strong
horse hair and stood four inches high
Among the Assyrian tablets at the
British Museum have been discovered re-
cords of earthquakes. These are not sup
posed to have been recorded for any scien-
tlflc purposes, but as annals of omen and
augury, each earthquake recited being ac-
companled by an enumeration of the
events supposed to have occurred in con-
sequence.
The London Star says: "Charles
Dickens is said to be indebted to the post
Office directory for most of those eXtraor-
binary names of ladies and gentlemen
which, of themselves, give no little char
acter to his creations. He might have
searched long there without finding
name more extraordinary than that of
Gustavus Adolphus Whalebone, the owner
of which, cab-driver, appeared yester
day before Mr. Arnold, in answer to a
summons"
The excavations at Pompeii, which
are now carried on with great vigor under
the direction of the King of Italy, have
just exposed two very valuable specimens
of ancient art, viz two fresco portraits,
situated under a portico of the Via Stabi-
ana. 1t is believed they represented the
master and mistress of the house The
man wears a magistrates toga the
woman is in the attitude of a person re-
fleeing about what she is to write, for she
has style in her right hand, and is about
to carry it to her lips, while in her left she
holds writing tables. Both these portraits
are well executed
"A French chemist tells the Academy
of Sciences that he believes he has discov-
cred philosophers stone in veritable
means of fabricating real diamonds His
process consists in vaporizing molten iron,
and condensing the vapor in peculiar
manner, when, as he says, the diamond
on 10 be one of the products of the con-
&C S"i II. Granted that it ought to be,
me question i, viii It beY The aleheniss