Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-23
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
There are $4,000 tenant farl.ers in
Ireland.
The city Of Buenos Ayres has popu-
lation of 10000, and the province 1885,
900 souls.
--Advices recently received by the Cape
mail in England state that ait is the gen.
eral opinion in the colony that DR.. Living
stone is dead"
j. Ross Browne says that ii is COM
mon practice among the Chinese to steal
children and cut their eyes out for medici-
nal purposes.
"A party of Englishmen, anxious to
find haunted house, have inserted the
following advertisement in the London
Times "To proprietors of Haunted
Houses-A few gentlemen wish to have
The opportunity of visiting house said
to be haunted, situate in or near London,
for the purpose of scientific observation"
The nobleman who has been for 20
years at the head of the Masonic Order
in England is on the point of retiring
the Earl of Zetland A short time ago a
magnificent testimonial was got up for
him, but when rhe fact came to his knowl-
edge he begged that the money might be
devoted to the charitable institutions of
the brotherhood.
An elegantly dressed lady recently
presented herself to one of the police
magistrates in Paris and politely de-
nounced herself as the murderess of
eleven children. Investigation fortunate
ly proved that she was laboring under a
fit of hallucination caused by the horrors
of the Pantin tragedy.
Thieves in Russia are punished with
extreme cruelty. They are branded on
the forehead, nogged within an each of
their lives, and sent to the Siberian mines,
generally for long term of years. New
ertheless, it is said that Russia is the coun-
try where audacious thieving is more prev
alent than anywhere else on the CONT
nent.
"A master carpenter at Toplitz, Ger
many, lately made a bet Cf ten forms that
he would eat twenty-five liver sausages
and ten rolls of bread at one meal He
managed to get down twenty-three of the
sausages and eight rolls, when he had to
give up the task. He lost not only his
bet, but died i'll consequence of his glut-
tony shortly afterward.
The other night, an athlete perform
ing at the Alhambra Music Hall, Netting
ham, England, undertook to seize rope
with his teeth, and, suspending himself,
thus to hold some half-dozen fifty six
pound weights. While he was holding
on with his teeth, an assistant asked him
if he was ready. The performer opened
his mouth to reply, and, of course, fell to
the grouno. He was not mnch hurt.
The amnesty recently granted by
Louis Napoleon has liberated thirty-four
galley slaves, imprisoned at Toulon.
These convicts are encouraged to employ
their leisure hours in the manufacture of
fancy articles, which are sold for their
benefit, and the proceeds are handed over
to them at the expiration of their SEN
fences. On the recent liberation by the
amnesty, the sum paid to the thirty-four
galley slaves amounted to $4,000, being
an average of $3.50 for each convict.
A Bottle-Conjurer announced in Lon
don that he would jump into quart bot
lie at the Haymarket Theatre. Ten thou.
sand people were found who believed that
he could do it, and came together to gain
admittance, and witness the miracle He
tried, but couldn't, and the believing au-
dience were so enraged because he did
not Jump into the bottle, that they nearly
pulled the house down in their indigna
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