Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-03

Foreign Gossip.


The opposition papers in Paris have
100000 subscribers those OF the Govern
ment side only $4,000.
An old French veteran, decorated with
the cross of ST. George, is still alive and
healthy, aged 1870.
An aged mendicant has been arrested
at Rayonne, France, who carried 81, 900 in
gold about his person.
A petition has reached the French Sen
ate begging that a tax be levied on old
maids and bachelors.
in Java, after the bride and groom are
at the altar, the law requires her to wash
his feet before the ceremony can 60 on.
The number of emigrants that left
Switzerland for over sea in 1868 numbered
9,75s, of whom a, 755 came to America.
A society has been formed in Paris
with capital of 100000 francs, to de-
yelop the musical art in France and the
industries connected with it.
A German savant thinks we are to
have an immese transformation scenesoon
The zodiacal light is to resolve itself into
another moon.
The practice of torturing prisoners in
order 20 make them confess, which has
been abolished by most civilized nations,
still exists in Switzerland.
The London Bible Society has sent
100000 reals, or about 100000, to
Madrid towards the construction of
Protestant church in that capital.
AT one of the French theaters real
locomotive engine issues, propelled by
steam, from tunnel, dragging train
containing forty individuals across the
stage.
The total number Of new books and
new editions issued in Great Britain
during 1859 was 1850. Of this number,
theology claims more than 1000, while
461 are novels.
"A boy in Sheffield, England, ingen-
iously managed to get holiday from fac
tory work by putting a crowbar among
the revolving machinery, and smashing
I'D $1,000 worth.
The London Directory for 1870 con-
tains the names of eight hundred
Browns nine hundred Joneses, while the
Smiths, Smyths and Smythes muster six
teen hundred strong.
Louis Kossuth said recently to Hun
garian friend, who visited him at Turin,
that on three different occasions was he
asked to repair to Paris and have inter-
views with the Emperor Napoleon.
Col. Alexander writes to Glasgow
paper that the Paris police are furnished
with lactometers, by which milk is tested
as it is brought into town. If found
watered, it is thrown upon the road, and
imprisonment follows.
The London Skating Club spent 49,
900 in preparing basin in Regents park,
but the morning after it was first filled,
the expectant members, gathered to look
at the ice found that the water had
drained entirely away. The bed proved
to be gravel, and not, as was supposed,
London clay.
According to the Penple Francois, a
M. S., of Montmorency, has solved the
problem Of aerial navigation, by construct
ing machine which can be guided
through the air as readily as a cab on land,
and by means Of which he confidently ex-
poets to go from Paris to Marseilles in four
hours.
There are twenty three short hand
writers in attendance on the Ecumenical
Council, eight Italians, four Frenchmen,
as many Germans, five Englshmen and
two Americans. They are all priests and
have taken an oath to keep the debates
and proceedings secret.
In an action just tried in the Common
Pleas, London, between couple OF pic
ture dealers, evidence was given OF the
custom of the trade which ought to be
generally known that it is usual in the
trade to affix the names of eminent artists
to pictures not painted by them.
"A great storm swept over the city Of
Limerick, Ireland, on December &c. When
the storm was at its highest, a house in
John street, built over 500 years ago, fell
in, burying the inmates, supposed to be
sixteen persons, in the ruins. Five were
got out alive, but in sad state, and five
others were taken out dead and dreadfully
mangled.
Jealousy recently led man living in
London to steal bag of powder and visit
the suspected young lady, when an alter
cation arose between him and the prOprie-
tor of the house, and he threw the bag OF
powder into the fire, blowing himself into
the next room and the next world. No
other person was killed, though several
living in the house were seriously in
jured.
During the year 1859, the number OF
emigrants who left Liverpool was liz, 73l,
larger total than has been witnessed
since 1862. OF the whole number, 1885,
3S2 left for the United States, in the pro-
portion of $500 English, 1881 Scotch,
29,056 Irish, and 44.775 foreigners The
comparative insignifcance of the Irish
figure is accounted for by the fact that the
great majority of emigrants in that coun-
try sail from Irish ports.
"A fearful disaster has happened in the
Island Of Cape Clear, Great Britain. Some
Of the islanders, having picked up cask
of oil at sea, met at house at Cape Clear,