The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-16
Foreign Items.

Cabs are now to be seen in the streets
of Paris, arranged with an indicator that
tells accurately the distance run and tho
time occupied.
An English reverend advertises 40
instruct Members of Parliament in English
composition, public reading, and extern
poraneous speaking"
"A Pharmaceutical Congress, TO which
all civilized nations are invited to send rep
resentatives, is to take place at Vienna in
September.
The French iron-clad Belliquense has
just circumnavigated the globe, being the
first vessel of her class that ever accom-
plished the feat.
Admiral Sir George Lambert, of the
British Navy, died suddenly n few weeks
ago in q billiard saloon in Pail Mall, while
watching the progress of a game. a
t-Aletter has been received from Tahiti
stating that Tom, the Greek sailor, set
atioat in open boat, near Eastern Island,
by Capt. Weiser, had arrived there.
The uncoined gold in the vaults of the
Bank of England IN January LIST last
amounted to e6, 760, 1897. OF uncoined silver
there was none The bank and its premises
are assessed to the poor rate for S37, $40.
The Eberfeld Gazette states that an
ophthalmia of O contagious character pre-
walls IN Berlin, and which medical men be.
lieve to be Of the same nature as the terri
BILE Egyptian disease.
"A working stove after of Chateau
Thierry (France), aged about 40, q married
man and a father of q family. was found
recently in his garrett, lying on n cross
which he had himself constructed out OF
old rafters. and to which he had actually
nailed his two feet and one of his hands.
He was removed TO the hospital.
q Sugar, it is announced, is made from
the common field pumpkin, in Hungary,
where several large factories have been in
operation since 1887. The juice Yields
about so per cent. of molasses, and 4 pei
cent. of sugar. The process is the samt
as that by which sugar it extracted frsn
beets.
"A submarine diver who has been oper
ating in the Thames river, at Norwich
Conn, says there is q cave under the bank
of considerable size, the hidden beautie
and strange formations of which, could thu
water be drawn off 30 as to make il acces
sible, would form one of the wonders of tn,
world. &h ~ - ~ ~ Ma
Among recent additions to the British
Museum are n large number of inscription
and other antiquities from the temple o
Diana at Ephesus. Some of the inscrip
tons confer citizenship on various per
sons for distinguished services to the cit.
Of Ephesus.
{ "A Paris letter, describing the recen
election disturbances in that city, say
|, among the arrests was that of a ynungmai
/ who had on him $50 needle-br loading
musket ball cartridges. He acknowledge
. they were given him to throw on the Bou
levard; it was hoped the horse shoes woul
make the percussion caps explode and
, scene of terrible, confusion ensue. " &
Sir Robert Clifton, who recently die,
at the age Of forty.three, left policies of In
surance on his life to the amount of nearly
or quiteya quarter of a million pounds
Most of them are m%ortgaged, however. 81
Robert had for fifteen years carried a re,
bag given him by q fortune-teller with il
structions to look upon it whenever he wa
in any financial Embarrassment and b
would discover the way out of the difficulty
Sir Robert believed in the bag as firmly 0
Fo~rtunatus in his purse, and often resoite
to 1t for inspiration, with, Rs, he was COZ
WINGED, satisfactory results. .lr8rs AL