Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-11

Foreign Gossip.

-Menkens friends are going to build
! her $1,000 monument. ffSt
"A manufacturer in the north of France
is making pocket handkerchieis on which
is printed pictorial representation of tht
murder of the Kinck family at Pantin.
BY royal decree, the wren, the spar
row, woodpecker, wagtail, and twenty five
other birds, are protected from the on
slaught of boys and sportsmen, in Prussia
They have a public library in Mel
bourne which is open to all on one con
dition, viz, everyone who enters must
have clean hands. Soap, water, and
towels provided in the ante-room.
George Cruikshank, the famous ar.
tist has become an earnest worker in the
temperance cause, in England, and is
startling the public by his bold language
and earnest appeals
AT Zurich, Switzerland, the other
day, little boy was picking up apples in
an orchard, when the owners dog tore to
pieces the lower part of his stomach. His
recovery was hopeless.
"A woman saved the life of a child on
the Lyons railway, in France, risking her
own by snatching it from the rails as a
train passed, and the directors awarded
her one franc for her heroism.
Previous to the introduction of vac
cination the annual death rate from
smallpox was 5000 to the million, which
had been gradually reduced in Europe in
proportion to its being made compulsory
and last year the rate was only 202 to the
million.
Russia has established at Warsaw a
mechanical school for women, with the
object Of training them in all kinds of
handicraft, that may be pursued without
injury to health, under the immediate SUI
peryision of the Government
Musical gymnastics" is a term not I'M
frequently used in a figurative sense, but
it is an accomplished fact in London
music hall One Mr.. Forrest and his sons
performed on tight rope while. playing
ON volins, ard they wound up by series
of somersauits, each playing a fiddle,
without missing note, during his per,
fOrmance
The Paris Gd2lois tells little anec.
dote about Lafayette AT Lamarque's fun.
eral the crowd took out the Generals
horses as he was returning home, and
drew him to his hotel "You must have
been very much pleased" remarked a
friend sometime afterward. every much
pleased, indeed" replied Lafayette; but
never saw anything more of my horses!'
"A singular strike took place in the
French city of Alais All the kitchen
girls in that place suddenly refused to
work any more unless the following three
points were granted to them: Increased
wages, less labor, and the privilege of re-
ceiYing their cousins" in the kitchen.
Only the last point was acceded to bytheir
mistresses, and as the girls attached more,
importance to it than to the other two
they went back to their kitchens.
"A curious fact is brought to public at
& ton by recent statistics published in
Angland. In thirty-two counties of that
country, and in twelve Of Wales, there are
one thousand three hundred parishes and
hamlets in which no liquor is sold, Nor
foikshire contains one hundred and twenty
seven parishes and townships in which
there is neither beer shop nor public
house Lincolnshire has one hundred and
sixteen such places, and Dorsetshire one
hundred and eight; Worcestershire has
eighty-three, and Leicester eighty Hert-
fOrdshire has one, Devonshire twenty
three, and Cornwall twenty five.
w. G. Faulkner, philosophical in,
strument maker, of London, states that
for many years he has had large sale for
spirit-rapping magnets and batteries ex-
prcssly made for concealment under the
floor, in cupboards, under tables, and even
for the interior Of the center support of
large round tables and boxes He has sup
piled also quantities Of prepared wire to
be placed under the carpets and oilcloth,
or under the wainscot and gilt heading
around ceilings and rooms. All these, he
says, were obviously used for spirit-rap-
Ping; and the connection to each rapper
and battery was to be made by means of
small button, like that used for tele-
graphic bell-ringing purposes or by means
of a brass-headed or other nail under the
carpet at particular la.tens known to the
spiritualists.
The ragged.schoo. system in London
is to very small extent, substitute for
the free-school system in America. There
are in London Of these ragged schools
attended on Sunday, day and evening
about 500, and it is calculated that about
$4,000 children, taken from the cutters
and slums, and alleys, attend the schools.
There are about 500 paid teachers, while
at least 5000 charitable persons volunteer
as teachers, without charge or emomment.
About 900 of these children attend regu-
larly during twelve months of the year,
and those who are found Industrious and
hon ,st, as they grow up, are furnished
thmeanstog toAustralia from the funds
of the Ragged-School Union. For one
year the attendance is as follows: Sunday
schools 25,260; day schools, 1921 week
evening schools, $50 The attendance
was at $50 schools. Eighteen hundred
scholars were placed in situations by the
eZertions Of the union during the year
Miscellaneous.
-Unredeemable bonds-Vagabonds.