Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-16
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Foreign Gossip.

merhaten, Germany, having saved 30 lives
and received four royal decorations for her
bravery.
Henri Rochefort is said to have gam
bled away his whole fortune The sub.
scription list Of the Ldntrae has dwndled
down to about 10000.
There is said to be a secret society in
Spain, composed of 5000 Christians
pledged to renounce Rome and to circulate
the Gospel.
AT least five duels, it is said, occur
every morning in the enyirons Of Paris
They are more frequent than they have
been tor very many years past.
AT Kidderminster, a woman, who was
at the time in beastly state of intoSica-
ton, sold her child to beggar for four
pence, in order to buy more gin,
Ten thousand dry goods clerks in
France have petitioned the Emperor to
cause to be passed law reducing the time
during which they have to stand behind
the counter
"A thermometer which has been kept
for IS years in the vaults of the Paris OBJ
servatory, at depth of 81 feet below the
surface, has not varied more than half
degree during the interval
The Canada Farmer thinks the future
failure of winter wheat in Canada may
be considered settled, as the nudge has Wis
tied all parts of the country. 1t looks to
winter barley as crop supplemental to
wheat.
"A young German has lost his eyesight
hXr OF OF tnt NJ M, ,,rt,, lat 10,
tain length of time on his back, in the
Scheldt, with his spectacles on. A hot
sun acted on the spectacles as on magni
tying glass.
The Car has published a ukase, abol-
ishing the hereditary character of the Rus
sian priesthood, which is now caste
comprising 100000 families The right to
obtain ordination is now extended to ALL
while a priests son can betake himself to
ordinary life
"A lady in a workhouse at Chelsea,
England, lately arrived at the age of one
hundred years Being asked how she
would like to celebrate the day, she ex-
pressed preference for ride in balloon
She was accordingly taken up in a great
balloon, and took lunch of wine and bis
cults at an altitude of half mile
A Toronto paper digs out of an old
file an advertisement of Francis Hncks,
who in 1894 had "for sale, low for cash."
a quantity of linen shirts and toilet covers.
The storekeeper after lapse of thirty-five
years reappears as "Sir Francis Hincks,
Knight of the Order of St. Michael and
st. George, and yGovernor-G General of
Barbados and British Guiana"
Criminal justice in Russia presents
many odd features. The other day an
editor, his publisher, and the boy that had
carried the papers around, were prescott
ed. The editor who had written the often
sive article, being nobleman, escaped
with small fine. The publisher belonged
to lower class, and was heavily mulcted;
and the poor boy, being the son of
former serf, received severe cudgeling,
False hair, it IS asserted by the Jour
nails of Paris, has fallen in value as much
as fifty per cent. 1t is calculated that if
all the false hair worn by the Partisan
ladies were collected in the Place Ven
dome and piled up, it would reach to the
top of the Napoleon column. The price
of these head decorations is very high A
light golden or straw colored hair compo-
siuon, which falls from the crown of the
head down the back, is valued at $40
In Berlin, 62,374 persons, or 90 per
cent. of the whole population, live in ID
292 basement residences, and 46,999 per
sons occupy 1929 houses four or more
stories high; 6,O9l persons live in 1895
rooms without flreplaces 2S9, az 8 per
cent of the whole population occupy a.
912 houses with only one room each that
can be heated, and 1S1 ,31S, or 1863 per
cent of the whole population, live in IS, 430
houses with two rooms each that can be
heated
Flowing with elephants, plows for
which are now being manufactured and
sent out from England, is thus described;
Every morning, at sunrise, the elephant
takes his driver by the waist belt places
him on his back, and starts into t..e field.
Two assistants guide the pillow handles, and
as long as the sun is above the horizon the
elephant marches along, throwing up a
huge ridge behind him, the furrow having
a breadth Of four and half feet and a
depth of three
A letter from Yokohama, Japan, July
%, says: A boat race for 500 side was
rOwed in this harbor on the 10th inst, be-
tween the cutters Of the United States
steamer Iroquois and her Britannia Males.
tvs frigate Ocean The latter beat the
former in five mile race four minutes
twenty-eight seconds. This result again
gives the boast to the Brtiohers in these
waters which was won from them about q
year ago in a contest between the Ocean
and Oneida"
"A Swiss journal mentions that the
neighborhood of Mendrisio, in the Ticino,
is infested with plague Of black cater
pillars which enter the houses, creep into
the beds, and cause painful swellings by
their touch. Some persons have en-
deavored TO protect their dwellings by
laying train of sulphur around, but
without avail. Thousands of these insects
have been killed, but the number does not
seem to decrease. In some localities