Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-23
Foreign Gossip.

In 1868 the Parisians smoked 76l, 625,-
600 cigars.
The chief theatre of Florence is still
lighted by oil lamps.
One man out of every ten thousand
in the British army committed suicide last
year.
A Paris schoolteacher has applied for
admission to an insane asylum, because he
he'd an irresistible desire to strangle his
pupils.
1t is said that the japanese clergy
pause every fifteen minutes in their dis
courses, and say to their congregations,
Let us take smoke"
A fellow who tried Prof Jenkins
trick of riding yelocipede on a tight rope,
in Sweden was Immediately pronounced
a fraud, and the military had to be called
out to prevent the disappointed crowd
from lynching him
AT the Exhibition Of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society of England, held recently
at Manchester, it is estimated there were
about 300 600 visitors during the week it
YVES held. The receipts were $4,000,
Shortly before his recent severe ILL.,
ness the Emperor Napoleon was urged
by Nelaton, Conneau, and his oth1r physi-
clans to quit smoking cigarettes. The
Emperor is said to have replied that smok-
ing cigarettes was as necessary to him as
food and drink
Mile Marcowitz was packing her
trunks for the watering places, when news
was brought that Messrs. Russell and
Poerze were fighting on her account
telegraph me who is killed." said she
to the messenger cat Baden one will
have more leisure for emotion
The Swedish papers express no less
surprise than satisfaction Of a Dane who
had settled some time ago in Stockholm,
and recently gave $4,000 to the poor Of
that city, stipulating at the same time that
any circumstances
"A London newspaper says of Mr.
Story's statue of George Peabody; The
first impression on seeing the figure is that
it is something up for sale; the second,
especially if there be number of per
sons gathered around it, that it is an auc-
tioneer, not for sale, but selling"
--Meissionier, a French wrestler and
athlete, died recently at Avignon, from
the eift cts of cold contracted in swim
ming across a river with little Girl, whom
he had found on the bank crying to get
over, AS his end approached, he literally
struggled with the malady, and his last
words were, ooh, death, if you were a
man, what short work I'd made Of you
The King of Prussia has twenty
splendid thoroughbred horses, each of
which is worth over twenty-five hundred
dollars. The Emperor of the French has
about four times as many, some Of the
animals being exceedingly valuable. The
stables Of the Sultan are said to contain no
fewer than three hundred splendid horses,
the finest collection of those animals in
the whole world,
"A letter from the new royal bride in
Sweden states that day or two before she
was married. she wished herself to see the
effect Of her Paris bridal robe, and went
to look at it in the saloon where her trOus-
seau was exhibited. A ticket had been
pinned to it, please don't touch" But
the bride wanted to see how the silver had
been Sewcd on, and did touch it. An old
countess grufily asked, "Haye you not read
that this robe is not to be touched, Made
moiselle?" 81 have" gently answered
Marguerite Of Sweden, "but it is mine
Poor old dowager, she thought she would
never recover
1t is stated that the Harvard crew
were obliged to give up the use of milk al
together week before the great race, in
consequence of the prevalence of cattle
disease in the counties Of Kent and Sur
rey. From the statements lately made at
English agricultural societies. it appears
that the disease, now running its course,
is of a most virulent form, and that it has
already caused a large increase in the price
Of meat. 1t attacks the foot and mouth,
and produces great mortality, 1t is be.
lieYed that the disease was introduced into
England by Austrian and German cattle,
and although hundreds of infected beasts
are now slaughtered daily by the water
side, yet the epidemic appears to be rap
idly spreading.
The Rangoon Gndia) Gazette tells
story of fisherman of Prone who lately
met with his death in the following man
ner He had hooked a small fish, and,
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ment Of his tackle placed 1t between his
teeth. The fish made spring down his
throat and stuck in his gullct, dciying all
the tisherman's efforts to draw it ont He
at once started for his house to procure
assistance, but on the way he dropped and
died After his death it was found that
there were several spines on the back of
the fish, and that the fisherman's efforts to
pull il out had only served to iasten these
more firmly in his throat.
A new steam omnibus has been tried
in Edinburgh. The engine, with an ON
nbus attached was run up and down an
incline to exhibit its speed and the ease
with which it could be controlled. 1t went
up the hill at the rate Of seven miles an
hour and came down at the rate Of nine
II turned in the road with far greater ease
than if drawn by horses, was pulled up in
simultaneously at the word of command,
and even backed up hill The dextcrty
with which it picked its way between
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