Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
Foreign Gossip.


boots in Paris.
The potato crop of England this year
falls short of the average.
The names of seven thousand women
have been added to the voting register in
Vienna
Thirty six million pounds of black
tea are imported into England annually,
Organ grinders have been excluded
from English cars and steaners.
Nineteen peers of Great Britain have
died since the last general election.
Sixty unsuccessful gamblers have
committed suicide at Homburg during the
past five years,
An orchestra, composed entirely OF
female performers, is making concert
tour through Germany
The population of Sweden is diminish
ing, and the decrease is caused by the
emigration to America
The balet-master of the theatre at
Rouen is training a monster snake to take
part in ballet, the scene OF which is TO
be laid in Eden.
The cheap London Daily Telegraph
employs five ten-cylinder Hoe presses, and
can strike off about 10000 copies per
hour.
A London professor says he has dis
covered sleeping potion which will sus.
pend the vital faculties for any length of
time, when he can revive the patient by a
stimulating huid."
The dry goods assistants of Paris have
] CTR Ia IN tn nhllnp
proprietors to close their stores on Sun
/ days On September % some 300 stimuli
| taneously left work and quietly walked
/ home.
A French chemist has invented a
method Of making the numbers of houses
as distinctly legible by night as by day.
1t consists in rubbing the figures with
preparation Of PHOSPHORUS, which will
render them luminous
The difference between the amount of
wheat raised in Great Britain this year,
and the quantity consumed by the people
in twelve months, is estimated at seventy
five millions of bushels This immense
deficiency will cost, on gold basis, $780,
$1,000.
An elderly unmarried lady, a near re-
lation of Humboldts, and bearing the
same; name, had become so reduced as to
be obliged to support herself by needle
work. The corporation of Berlin has just
granted her a life annuity sufficient to re-
lieve her of all anxiety for her declining
days.
1t has been calculated, says Paris
newspaper, that five hundred five franc
pieces, placed alongside each other, just
cover q square metre of ground. Now
five hundred of said pieces make the sum
of two thousand five hundred francs (say
five hundred dollars in gold; hence, in
order to purchase ground in Paris at the
present time, it is necessary to literally
cover it with fivefranc pieces.
1t is estimated that the monarchs of
Europe cost their subjects about forty
millions of dollars per annum for their
personal expenses merely. The house
hold expenses of the rulers of the princi
pal countries are as follows The Pope
100000; Wurtemberg 100000; Den
mark, $24O,O00; Sweden and Norway
100000; Holland, $500,000 Portugal
$665,000; Bavaria, 100000; Great
Britain $2,350,000: Prussia, $2,400,000;
Italy, $3,2000O0; Austria $4,OOO,0OO;
Turkey, $6,600,000; France 100000;
Russia, SS500,000.
The Black Forest Railroad, in Germa-
ny, which will be completed within four
wears, is the most remarkable in Europe.
Between Hornburg and st. George, stu
ated $50 feet above the level of the sea,
and but four miles distant from Hornburg,
|, the railroad ascends nearly 1000 feet and
passes through $4,000 feet of tunnels,
Eleven thousand feet of the latter have been
completed during the last two years. The
work on the road is progressing rapidly,
and attracting thousands of visitors, who
flock together from all parts OF Southern
Germany and Switzerland.
A remarkable contribution to the con
troversy in progress as to the merits of
vaccination is furnished by an official
body in Ireland. The Poor Law Com
,, missioners there have, it seems informed
, the Belfast Board of Guardians that small
poX has altogether ceased in the sister
, county. This result the Commissioners
attribute to the careful carrying out OF the
Compulsory Vaccination act, enforced in
, Ireland since 1863. The figures given are
very striking. Before that year the
deaths from smallpox averaged 1000 an.
nually; in 1864, the number was reduced
to S54 in 1865, it was BAT; in 1866, 1877
. in 1867, 20; and in 1868 only 10 deaths
occurred In the first quarter of 1865
there were three deaths IN the second
= quarter there were none
Religious and Educational.