The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-28
OLD WORLD ITEMS.


The crop OF truffies IL said to be declining In
France
The cholera has been raging feariully in British
India, and the smell from some OF the rivers there Is
frightful. ar
A daughter Of the celebrated Lola Montez has just
made her debut as donseuse in one of the German
theatres.
The huge steel plated .frigate The Sultan the larg
est in theworld, built at Chatham, England, for the
turkish Navy, is said to be great success.
The second drawing Of the Turkish railway bonds
mas Just taken place at Constantinope. No 514 1872
OF q, 900 francs.
The Echo an Pa,lement, OF Brussels, announces
that M. Langrand Dumonceau, the Belgian banker
has recently left Belgium for Brazil with some mem.
bers OF his family.
Some workmen OF q town In Hanover amused
tenns HIM IN that Condition TO- tombsone ana isS
hours later he was found there dead
British fishermen have been infrng ing the rights
Of the German fishermen near the coasts OF the
North Sea. The latter extend to q distance OF three
nautical miles at sea from the extreme limit.
Deep.sea fishing for ling and cod is proving much
more abundant and profitable this season than for
many seasons back, and, generally speaking, the
Northumberland fishing trade ID very prosperous at
present.
The Danish government is devoting great attention
10 IOrClncatl0n. The military measures taken by
russia on the island Of Asen have fully aroused the
what 1t may.
man clad In a coat OF mail is travelling on horse
back about Scotland. His object in going in THIS
guise Is neither Quixotic nor warlike He 10 travel.
with which his coat Is polished.
The celebrated swedish poet J. L. Runeberg, still
alive IN Norway, put mentally lncapaciaed In con-
sequence OF paralytic stroke, has been made an
Arts. History and Antiquities.
The discussion in the Municipality Of Milan rela.
tive to the grant for the ST. Gothard Railway
In a
tings. The subventon OF million and half was
ultimately sanctioned, as already stated, by SO TO O.
We hear that the plenipotentiares OF Prussia, b.
varia, Wurtemburg Baden and Hesse, who met in
conference at Frankfort for the purpose of settling
and dividing the debts made by the knights of st.
John, In the years from 1901 to 1905, brought their
labors to satisfactory conclusion on the 2sh ult
According TO arrangement already made the Swiss
quota will be borne by the above mentioned govern
ments.
The number OF the London police on the 1st Of
January, 1870, was 1857. viz. -Four district super
intendents % superintendents, 2i6 inspectors, 934
sergeants and 764S constables The number Is less
than on the 1st OF January 1869, at which date there
were 1893 constables. The cost OF the metropolitan
police IN the financial year 1S6970 was fS1S,3I6, but
this includes contribution OF f62 900 to the super
animation fund There are 1880 men on the super
aIlnuati0n list.
expedition, asserts that in China the taste for opium
IS by no means confined to the human race. Pigs
arG nGrses a nye ana when &C.
town In Yunan rats used to resort in large numbers
to an opium mandatory in order to inhae the
fumes from the cOppers, and after the town had
been sacked by the Panthays the ruins of the factory
were visited by Its old hab.tues who were content
to die on the scene OF their former happiness What
effect opium might have upon the equine cOnstItu-
ton we cannot say; but it would enable the bro
%e cab horse to Ills psere FOR time
freedom and fresh pastures OF his youth, the most
rigid moralst could not grudge the addition Of a
few grains Of the anOdyne to the contents of hts
nOse-bag.
trial has Just taken place at Calcutta involving
the right or HlndOo woman to choose her own reli
gi0n. young woman, whose friends belong to the
BrahmO SOmaj forsook the enets OF her fathers and
was baptized. Her relatives got writ of habeas
corpus and secured influential counsel but the Judge
decided against them and gave the woman her lib.
erty She at once, IN open court in the most unhes.
tatlng way, intmated that she would not return to
her relatives. However, before judgment was re.
corded she was again removed to private room,
IN order that her mother might again Try to shake
her resolution. No Christian friend was permitted to
enter. Presently walls and shrieks and nOwlngs OF
grief reached US. After painful interval the young
IDENTIFY much agitared, and you may imagine the
trying ordeal IN court crammed with spectators.
Zenana till within the last week. BY Gods grace
she stood firm, and in firm voice replied to the
question where she decided to go, ITO the Padre
Sahlbs." Tine excitement is immense among the
natives. All Calcutta Is In a ferment
There can be no question Of the adulteratlon OF
beer with water. This can hardly be said to be an
serious authorizations with cocculus indicus is rare
should remember that the amount Of coccuus indi-
Gus imported INTO England Is SUFFICIENT for the adul
teration Of threenfths OF the beer consumed in the
United Kingdom There is no other known
use for the deeterious drug. 1t is utterly
Is equally useless and unemployed In the
arts Nevertheless while the quantity imported
IN 1857 amounted to SO cwt., 1t amounted
use of coccuus ndicus to give fictitious strength
TO beer Is not by any means confined to this country
According to statement of Professor DragendOrfY
formerly chemist 10 the st. Petersburg police
picrotoXine the active principle Of cOccuus indicus
in hnA rtpr
this account and the beer confscated. Schubert or
Wur zburg. also states that Bavarlan beer Is very
often aduterated with c0cculus indicus