Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-02-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The second son of Rachel, the
celebrated actress, is clerk at the
| Dillon gas works.
An Austrian author asserts that
Napoleon the first had twenty-one
| illegitimatt children, of whom five
are still living.
The London Times, with full sup
| plement, contains about 80, 900 lines
or 200, 900 words, equal 10 800 page
octave.
An order has been issued in Eng
land that all the civil officers must
live within their means or resign
A London pauper destroyed the
clothes furnished him by public
charity, because they "were not fit
for gentleman to wear.n
There is a tiger near Chintagoonta,
Madras, who has, within a year or
two, eaten more than two hundred
natives, and is still at it.
An Australian horse recently ran
ten miles in twenty-three minutes
and thirty-five seconds, said to be
the fastest time on record for that
distance.
Patti-Caux got $13,O 900 for singing
three rights in Berlin. She is the
BSI vi anu uTtclDEOcallN btfllll
Is the pet of the Patti-CauX.
Five of the most skillful and deter
mined detectives of the Paris police
are intrusted with the special task
of watching over the Prince I'M
perial.
In the latter half of December last
st. Petersburg (Russia) and suburbs
were nearly buried in snow. In
several streets it rose to twelve feet
! in hight.
Two calcium light gas bags ex-
plOded, recently, in 4 London thea
ter, but the audience, instead of get
ting frightened, thought it a new SEN
sation, and applauded vociferously
The Mikado of Japan is described
as 4 youth of sixteen, with SEN
sual and vacant cOuntenance, a hard
head and false eye, and brows paint
ed half way up the forehead"
Anna Gargarin is the wealthiest
| heiress in Russia. We may say, for
| the information of enterprising
young men, that her address is Mos
COW, and that her father is mer-
chant with 100, 100000.
An improbable story is told that
Victor Emanuel lately visited the
people secretly, was cordially receiv-
ed, and exhibited emotion at part
ing. 1t is added that the utmost
pains were taken to keep the signifi-
cant event from French ears, but
it leaked out.
The present grand vizier is one OF
the most majestic looking turks in
| Constantinople,b but a man of little
ability. He has but one wife, but
keeps at his own palace an English
concubine, whose beauty is said to
| be so great that when she visits the
women of the Sultan's harem, none
of them can be compared with her.
Count de Nieuwerkerlle, ore OF
| Napoleon'S favOriteS, who was recent
ly reported to be hOpelessly paral-
| yZed is believed to have been clandes-
timely married III 1868 to. the Princess
Matilde, the Emperor's cousin, and
| whom Napoleon, in 1852, intended
to make his wife.
| \ London dressmaker has been
fined for keeping her girl at work
after half past four O'Clock on Satur-
day. She urged i'll eXtenuation
that she was engaged on a large order
for dresses for a corps of 'Girls OF the
PERIOD" IN pantomime requiring
| haste, but the excuse did not avail
| her.
RUSSIAN troops are reported NOV
ing toward Odessa and other points
on the Black sea, and the govern
| ment Is accumulating n large guam
| tity of railway iron for completing
the line between Moscow and Odessa
| during the coming summer. All
vessels of tie Baltic fleet are to be
ready to move when the ice breaks
up.
The oldest sovereign in Europe
Is the Pope-seventy-six. The aver
age age of the thirty-eight monarchs
now on European thrones is forty.
| five. The youngest is twenty-five
| DurinSs SOS, there died seven mem
! bers of European royal families. The
royal births mum bered twenty
twelve princes and eight princesses
The marriages numbered eleven
n Florence newspaper announce
that a most curious geological phe
nomena is now to be observed in the
vicinity of Verona. The Monte
Baldo, barren mountain, located
along the shores of Lake Guarda
shows disposition to rise to the
rank of a volcano. Strong under
| ground explosions are frequently
heard near it, attended with slight
undulatiOns of the soil. All the in
habitants have left the place in pre-
vision of coming eruption.