Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-02
Foreign Gossip.
Macmillan is to have gorgeous
monument in Making near Hietzing.

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Cherries this year have been so plen-
tiful in England as to sell at the rate of
/ four pounds for penny
1t is officially stated that the total
number of persons killed by the coal mine
/ accident near Dresden is 269
The new ship canal between Amstcr.
| dam and the North Sea is to be fifteen
miles long, and viii cost about $1,000,
| 600
| The Gar has banishcd the stern father
! from Russian novels by declaring that no
! girl shall be made to marry anybody whom
She doesn't like.
1t is estimated that of the population
of France, 100000 persons are living in
the cities, and about 2S,5O000O in the
| country.
1t is said that Charles Dickens will re-
sumo his readings in the autumn His
| farewell series it WILDE remembered was
interrupted by his ill.health.
An old fellow in Berlin willed mil
lion thalers to his cook, half million to
several Institutions, and fifty thousand
thaers to be divided between two neph-
ews.
The palace of the Tycoon in Japan is
SO infested by tleas that traveller who re.
Gently tried to sleep there was constrained
to get up and spend the night in a large
garden.
One Mr.. Savage, a lonesome old &c
centric of London, has just died. and,
though il was generally supposed that he
was living on the charity of relatives, he
left 100000 TO Louis Napoleon.
A grand banquet was recently given
| in Paris, at which there was large at
tendance of those in favor of female suf
frage. Among the guests were many of
! the principal newspaper men and literary
women in the French capital
"A young man lately went in bathing
at lIotbiniere, Province ofQuehec, placing
! stone. 1t turned out to be seal basking
in the sun, which was thus disturbed, and
made for the water with the young mans
clothing.
During the Goth and 30th of July much
snow fell in various parts of France and
North Italy. On Mont Gems it fell twenty
inches deep, on Mount Genevrc thirteen
inches, and the suburbs of the town of
Luze were covered with layer three
inches thick
A journal of Tours, France states
that an inventor of that town has con.
structed an instrument of locom0tion re.
semhling a velocipedc, but of which the
motive power is the wind A triangular
sail fixed above the front wheel is man
aged by the driver with one hand while
he steers with the other.
AT Rouen recently valiant officer of
the National Guard was decorated by the
Emperor. "Sire,' he exclaimed with enu-
sion, " ] am yours in life and in death |
served your uncle faithfully; have re.
ceiyed two wounds, one in the leg and the
other at Wagram here the Empress
giggled audibly, and the veterans speech
came to an abrupt termination,
The Omnibus Company of Paris owns
6S2 stages and 1929 horses The average
daily receipts from each stage are 81 francs
32 confines ($1574). In 1863 the com
pany dispatched ll3,349,04O passengers,
or an average Of 300,1 1914 each day. The
wages Of the conductors are from 200 10
1000 francs year, and Of the drivers five
francs day.
ON the books Of the bank Of England
there are 5,420 Smiths who receive diyi.
dends on various sums in the public stocks
There are also 2,47S Browns, and 2,l00
bear the name Of Jones In consols alone
there are ,l40accounts on which the half.
yearly dividend is less than g. There are
seventy seven accounts on which the diyi
dend does not exceed Is, and twenty-five
on which It's Id.
An Englishman who has invented a
new lifesayng apparatus wishes TO be
dropped in mid channel between England
and France and to be left TO his own re.
sources. The Pail nan Gdzette remarks:
Con sidering the trouble these inventions
invariably give, and how seldom they turn
out TO be Of any practical use, it might be
as well to make an example for once, and
let this gentleman have his own way
A manufacturer Of Birmingham, Eng.
land, Mr. Joseph Mason, has recently de-
livered 10 the trustees the property and
endowments Of his splendid pile Of aims
houses and orphanage at Erdington. The
amount OF money expended in this benelac.
ton Il no less than 100000 being equal
10 the donation Of Mr. Peabody TO the
London poor A singular coincident in
the lives Of these two men H. that both
were born in September 1875. Provision
has been made by Mr. Mason for the per.
feet exclusion Of sectarlan teaching. The
deed provides that the Holy Scriptures
only without creed catechism, or formn.
larry Of any church, shall be taught to the
children
AT Gottenburg, Sweden, a reformation
society of gentlemen has obtained entire
control Of the traffic in spirits in the city,
under an agreement to apply the whole Of
the profits above the EXPENSES for the
benefit Of the poor. The society has re.
duced the number Of licensed houses 10 |