Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-02

Foreign GOSSIP.


More tnan twenty millions Of passen-
gers were carried by the London General
Omnibus Company during the first six
months of 1869.
"A French nobeman presented his
house. steward, as a gift on his tete-day,
with all the stealings of that servant during
a, the year The fellow is so grateful as to
sue tor libel.
The compositors and printers Of Bor-
deaux have refused to work on Sundays
The publishers of newspapers have COM
piled with their demands, and announce
that no papers printed on Sunday will be
issued hereafter.
A London novelist lately sent around
to the reading public blood red envel.
ope, with deep black edging, containing
common card on which were the words :
"The Scapegoat, by Leo, is at all the H.
braries" This is novel style of book
advertising.
A terrible incident recently occurred
in Faliicenia, in Roumania. A poor old
woman was attacked in the streets of that
town by hogs in open daylight, and liter
ally devoured alive. The number of hogs,
cows, and steers running around wildly in
that city is SO great that no woman dare
90 out alone.
Several of the London papers had
their articles on Lord Derby in type be-
fore he died, and some of them printed
obituary notices in advance. One weekly
remarked that the Earl was not dead, but
that he would be, probably, before the
paper reached its, readers, and then pro-
ceeded to speak of his Lordship in the
past tense,
"A late Paris letter says: Napoleon
is reported to be greatly changed in APP
pearance He looks haggard, careworn
and anxious, and walks with considerable
difficulty. But for the support of a cane
and the arm of one of his suite, his move
ments would be exceedinly slow. The
encouraging reports which are published
about his health are all dictated from
official sources"
The Chinese, says French journal,
are terrible gamblers. They play whether
they have money or not. During
gambling seance, the players have near
them bowl of a peculiar kind of oil
which they keep hot by lamp placed I'M
derneath the bowl; and lying on the table
between the players is very sharp hatch
ct. When the money has given out and
one of the players wins he seizes the
hand of the loser, places it on stone,
and with blow of the Ratchet cuts off
finger; the loser of the finger plunges
what is left Of the mutilated member into
the oil, which acts as a caustic to the
wound. The game then proceeds as be-
fore.
"A great workingmen's exhibition will
be held in London in 1870. The II ost no
table feature of the project is that each
article exposed is to bear The signature of
the workman by whom it was made; that
in trades where division of labor is the
rule, specimens of each particular branch
are to be submitted, aad workmen are in
vited to cooperate with each other in the
production of combined articles. Agri-
cultural produce and raw materials used
IN manufactures are also to be exhibited
from all parts of the world. Mr. Glad
stone is President, supported by suldry
noblemen as Nice-Presidents. The Agri.
cultural Hall, Islington, a building able to
contain 10000 people, is to be the scene
Of the exhibition. The French and other
Governments are zealously cooperating
to secure proper representation of their
products.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the Eastern BHdget, writing on the Goth
OF October, reports Full particulars
have now arrived Of the terrible fire at
lenseisk, Siberia. A tremendous storm
was raging at the time, and, as the town
consisted mostly of wooden houses, near
ly the whole of it persisted in the flames.
Great numbers of persons took refuge in
boats and other crafts on the river, but the
storm was so violent that many Of these
vessels went to the bottom, together with
their occupants. Several hundred per-
sons thus persisted, either by suff,ocation
IN the burning houses, or by drowning in
the river. The number of houses de-
stroyed was upwards of 1900, besides four
churches, two monasteries, the govern
ment offices, with all the official docu-
ments, and the principal storehouse. A
great deal Of corn and 100000 pools of
hops were also lost. The few houses that
still remain standing were only saved by
the energy of a good merchant, who offered
5000 rubles to his workmen as a reward,
II they would protect his property and the
adjoining buildings"
Personal and Literary.