Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-04
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
The Empress Q. Austria, at the advice
of her physicians, lives almost exclusively
on milk and eggs.
The subscriptions received for the
wives and families of the miners who were
killed in the Burg Germany colliery
amounted to 100000 thalers on the I'd of
October.
The estimated loss of shopkeepers in
Paris, caused by one particular class of
robbery to which they are subjected, and
which in this country is known as shop
lifting, is from $4,000 to f16,000 an
nually.
The Wallace monument in Scotland is
to be on Abbey Craig, $40 feet above the
sea, and is to consist of stone tower 900
feet high About 100000 have been ex-
pended on the work.
Excursion trains are called "pleasure-
trains " in france The railway com
panies are advertising pleasure trains to
visit the scene OF the late horrible muir
ders in Pantin. A gentleman at Cher
bourg lately received q dispatch by
telegraph to the following effect "Your
wife is dead. Funeral Sunday. Take the
train" st tt ltt.
Chinese girls are not considered OF
sufficient account to be named SO they
are simply numbered-first daughter, sec
ond daughter, &c A recent letter from a
lady missionary, near Pekin, speaks of a
Sunday school in her charge in which
very encouraging progress is made in pro-
noting the individuality and selfrespect
of the girls. The teachers insist on Civ
ing them names.
M. Armand, a French savant, has
stated to the Academy of Sciences that he
has discovered assure antidote to nicotine
in the common watercress. 1t destroys
the poisonous effects of nicotine and yet
does not alter the aroma Of tobacco, A
solution of watercress may therefore be
employed for sleeping the leaves of to.
bacco, and would thus divest them of their
noXious properties, and, moreover, a
draught Of the same will act as a sure anti
dote to nicotine.
Richard Weaver, of London, the IA
ing almost as famous in England as White.
field was hundred and thirty years ago
He lately made preaching tour in the
country, and preached, among other
| places, al Ascot, where people in large
numbers came from all the surrounding
country to hear him, some coming sixteen
and twenty miles, "The whole congre
| CATION listened with great attention, many
/ standing with streaming eyes, as he spoke
of what he himself had witnessed of the
power of the gospel" Invitations crowd
ed upon him beyond his power to accept
"A correspondent of the London Times
exposes an American confidence operation
which consists of sending letters to the
widows or heirs of lately deceased English
men, presenting an alleged state of facts
with reference to the deceased, on account
of which go "hush money" is asked
| The writer says "The death of areative
of mine was announced in your obituary
and in the following month letter ad
dressed to him came by post from America
1t was opened by the widow while in the
midst of her affection, and the state.
ments in it affected her most seriously
! She coniided the matter to me, and as
| had heard of the scandalous tricks of the
! wicked concoctors OF these new impos.
lures, at once relieved her mind and
| have taken possession Of the letter"
in one of the late sessions of the In.
stitute for Sciences and Literature in Milan
| DR.. Seratin Bissi showed the heart of the
deceased Count Filippo M, maniac
| who had killed his father in one of hi,
1 raving attacks and often tried to take his
own life. The unfortunate man died in
consequence Of a cancer on the tongue
which was caused by biting his tongue in
one of his attacks At the dissection the
heart showed an anomaly which stands
unparalleled in the annals Of science The
/ left chamber contained needle six cent?
meters two inches long. On careful in
/ quiries il was ascertained that the unfortu
nate man had told his parents twenty-five
months before his death he mad thrust &
needle into his heart, which they did not
believe at the time. During these twenty
two months the insane person, who suf
lered frequently from collie, never fell the
slightest pain in his heart nor in the
vicinity of that organ, and his pulse wa,
also perfectly regular during that time
The men Of science consider this case a.
one Of extraordinary importance, and &
history will shortly be published with al
the details, together with an engraving o.
| the heart
Incidents and Accidents.
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