Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-21
Foreign GOSSip.

II IL Suld tldI Hol enough WUcdl VIII
be raised in Great Britain this year, by
75,000,OOO bushels, for home consump-
ton.
In the British army only eighty men
in a thousand are above six feet in height;
and only thirty-fve in a thousand weigh
over 40 pounds.
Two autograph letters of John
Milton, which are said to have never been
published, are in the hands of an old, but
poor, family in Stade.
"A statue of Goethe was recently un-
covered at Munich. The statue was pre-
sented to the representatives of the city in
the name of the King of Bavaria.
1t is said that there is man in Brazil
named Jose Moreira who is 1876 years old,
and that he has lived all that unconscion-
ably long time on scraped cheese, wine
and sugar.
"A seminary for the education of
preachers and teachers for German emf
grants to America has been founded at
Berlin, and is to be called the Starhouse, in
honor of the stars and stripes.
There are so fire-engine stations in
London, with 40 engines of which %
are worked by steam. The personnel
of the establishment includes about $50
men, and the annual cost is nearly $780,
600.
1t is rumored in England that state
ment in Lord Byron's handwriting will
shortly be published, which will settle for
ever the unhappy question which has late
ly been raised in the papers relative TO
Lord and Lady Byron
AT the Lyons University last month,
a Mile. Caroline Sibert, Of Vienna-onthe-
Rhine, took a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Out Of list of twenty-five candidates this
young lady came ont first in French and
Latin composition, and second in Latin
translation
"A collection of twenty-five pins, very
well made, has just been placed in the
Louvre. They were found in the subter-
ranean watts OF Thebes and were made
more than 5000 years ago, showing that
the modern invention is only re-inven-
ton.
The Emperor of Austria, the Empress
Eugene and the Sultan of Turkey will
meet at Constantinope in the latter part
of October and proceed in company by
way of Jerusalem to Suez, to attend the
grand opening of the canal
An extraordinary case of incendiarism
has occurred at bennington, England.
A man in custody confessed to having set
fire to some corn stacks, by which damage
to the extent of $500 was done, for no
o.her reason than that he was tired of his
life, and wished to be transported.
Three female doctors-one French,
one Russian, and the other American
have recently passed successful examna-
tons before the faculty of medicine, at
Lyons, France. The American lady was
the most brilliant Of all, and astonished
her judges by her profound knowledge of
anatomy, dissection, pathology and hospi.
tai practice.
AN English lawyer was lately an.
nounced to read paper before an anti
quarian society on the IIead-gear of the
Ancients." Instead of showing specimens
OF helmets, the lecturer produced a collec-
ton OF bonnets of various periods from
1913 to the present day, and caused great
amusement among his auditors
In London, the Secretary of the
Cruelty to Animals Society complains that
three drovers were recently arraigned for
cruelty beating foreign oxen, and the
magistrate dismissed them, saying that the
drovers had a difficult task to perform ain
driving bullocks Of foreign breed, and un-
acquainted with our language"
An application will be made to the
Parliament of Canada, at its next session,
to incorporate a company for the purpose
OF building a tunnel under the Detroit
River TO connect the Great Western Rail
way with the Michigan Central Road, and
TO secure to the railroads termination
either in Windsor or Detroit, with the use