Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The Pope is training stenographcrs
report the great council.
During 1865 there were 274S deaths |
iron drunkenness in Russia.
Nhety Prussians were among the |
EaptuHs of the French police in the
late eletion riots.
Auerb-ch's new novel is called "a
Night at rger.n
Inc Frer'h interior department
palu OUT SIX hillion francs for cleo |
tloneering purposes.
hX-hing Georg> of Hanover gets
most of his spenupg money from
coupons on five-twenies.
In the recent Saxon uections the
liberals obtained a majorrv of eipht
over all others, including those of
doubtful opinions.
Friends of General Mcmahon. late
minister of Paraguay, ask q suspnn-
sion OF public opinion in his case.
George Sand lately refused to con-
Tribute money to a benevolent en-
terprlse because it was patronized by
the Empress.
some or the German spectators
IN American bonds at the great con-
tlnental monetary centres have late
ly met with heavy losses.
1t Is stated by Berlin paper that
Blsmark's sons are coming to the
United States for visit of several
months.
Turkey is rapidly improving in
industrial enterprise, and especial Y
III mining operations.
An English physician of good
g
to have his children vaccfnated.
No opera can succeed in London,
however excellent the music and the
acting, unless either Patti or Nilsson
is in the cast.
The Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer
has been entered by means of false
keys and robbed of some valuable
objects.
Among the spoils captured by the
Paris police in the recent election
enteutes were tifty-seven chignons
and about as many pendant curls.
There are $4,000 people in Nagasa-
XII, and it is estimated that IS, 900 of
them are drunk every night They
get drunk on saki, distilled from
rice.
Julia Ebergenyi, the arIstocratic
murderess of the Countess Chorin-
sky, whose trial excited so much at
tentIon, has died of consumption at
the Neadorf pehitentiary.
On recent critical occasion, when
the Countess CT Flanders was lust
surviyingan interesting situation, the
Queen of Belgium burst from the
apartments into the presence Of the
anxious dIgnitaries with the excla-
nation. What happiness, gentle
men q; 1t is a boy - He will be the
Count de Hainaut.
Canadian papers are relating with
gusto the hardship endured by some
OF the Dominion people who have
emlgrated to the Western States in
the nope of bettering their condition,
and after a fair trial have abandon
ed sterile Illinois for fertile Can
ada.
A new and somewhat remarkable
plant has lately been introduced in
TO England from Nicaragua. 1t is a
gigantic skunk cabbage, having a
single leaf fourteen feet long, on a
stem ten feet long The blossoms two
feet long, on stem eight-inches
thick, and eXhales a very fetid
odor.
Major Ferson, a Russian, who has
fought in all quarters of the globe,
confirms the stories in regard to tn G
cruelties practised by Lopez in Para
quay. de has just escaped from
Paraguayan dungeon.
Statistics from about one third of
Finland show that during 1868 there
were 90, 10S deaths, chiefly from
famine, and that during the same
nlr-1 4 . Il L
some districts the mortality was
from thirteen to sixteen per cent. of
the population.
1t is said to be a common habit
with English ladies travelling in
first-class railroad cars to cut down
and carry away the silk curtains on
the windows for the purpose of max
ing them into aprons. The railways
have now substituted hangings OF a
materal not worth stealing.
On the first of July the Pail Mall
Gazette, one of the best London
papers, and printed with remarkable
elegance and neatness, reduced its
price from two pence to one penny
without making any other change.
1T claims to have steadily increased
lncirculation during the four years Of
its existence, and it's prosperity is
well merited.
There are twenty dukes not of
royal blood in the peerage of Eng
land. Of these. eight voted for the
Irish church bill, six voted against
1t, two were paired, two remained
neutral, for reasons which they ex-|
planned, and the remaining two were
the turf-ruined Dukes of Newcastle
and Hamilton.
A new kind blasting powder, C. llled
ammoniac powder, has been sue .ess-
fully used in Sweden. Its proper
ties are quite remarkable from their
inconsistency with each other. 1t is
said to combine considerable expIo-
slve force with a tardy yinflammabili-
ty that 1t cannct be exploded by
percussion and that it does not de-
teriorate from the effects of climate.
One branch of the State Generland
of Holland has just voted the aboli-
ton of all patents for Industrial in
ventions. The vote was forty-nine to
eight In favor of the measure and
was carried in spite of the opposition
of the premier of the late cabinet.
The other branch of the legislature
will undoubtedly agree to the bill,
which will go into effect on the day
of publication.
There is wisdom as we'll as wit In
some of Josh Billings sayings, the
following for instance: The art ov
becoming ov Importance in tie ewes
of others IL not tew ovsrrate ourself.
but teW cause them do tn III E3aftory