Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-13
Foreign Gossip.

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-Napoleon's State dinners cost $50 a
plate. -a-...e e-rif
Two Protestant papers have been
started in Mexico
In France about 100000 masses are
ordered annually.
-Calcraft, the London hangman, has
been retired on account of old age.
1T is whispered that the Emperor of
Austria is frequently intoxicated.
A cannon has been cast in Russia
which throws ball weighing one thou
sand pounds. nn4s t
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffa
10 has been refused admission to the Ecu
menical Council. YerI tf-IJ
A railway train was recently struck
by an avalanche on Mount Gents and hurled
down precipice.
--Eugenie's hair dresser charges the la
dies of the Court $1,135 each year for
his valuable services. ''"
Polish parents are compelled to give
bonds to the amount of two hundred rou-
bles that their children shall speak only
Russian in school. 2 ni+ 't'' So
The number of English Bishops is
twenty-eight, the average salary being
about $4,000, ranging from $4,000 to
$4,000 per annum. Iatatu.a
The public executioner of Paris saves
the skulls Of his victims, and shelves
them with brief biographical discourses,
arranged under the appropriate heads.
-Fireproof furniture is the latest scien-
tifc announcement in Germany 1t is
said that German chemist, acting under
a commission from fire insurance com
pany, discovered that impregnation with
a concentrated solution Of rock salt rem
ders all timber fireproof The salt, too,
renders wood proof against dry rot and
the ravages of insects. '"
An Englishman, with taste for col
Letting statistics, recently bought three
sandwiches of the sort commonly 10 be
had at railway station restaurants, In
stead of eating them, he secreted them
about his person, took them to chemists
shop and had one of them weighed and
examined. 1t was found to consist of beef
and bread-215 drachms Of the former and
drachms of the latter--in all weighing
less than q of an ounce.
"A horrid tragedy is reported from
Lithuana. In lonely inn near Skud
about thirty miles from Memel, dwelt
Jewish family, consisting of husband, wife,
five children and widow woman The
landlord, one Josset had gone on the
evening in question to Skud to bring home
his eldest son from school. During his
absence five or six peasants entered the
house, got drunk, and finally refused to
pay A quarrel began and the men
murdered the four children, the widow, a
Jewish boy who had found lodgings there
for the night, and then set fire to the place
The father and son saw the flame from
distance and hurried home, but were met
by the peasants, who seized them both
and cast them forcibly into the flames
1t is said that three Roman ladies, the
Princesses Borghese, Viano, and Rospigli-
oti and the Duchess Salviatiff, represent
together more than five millions of dollars
in diamonds. These jewels are the ac-
cumulated wealth of centuries, and are
strictly entailed. When to be worn, the
owner for the time being gives a receipt
for the same to the custodian, q conf
dental servant, whose father and grand.
father before him have probably died in
the same Office. The lady may wear them
when and where she pleases, always with
the tormality of the receipt, and followed
by restitution of the same next day but
she cannot take them with her to foreign
parts; they cannot leave Rome in short
they are loaned to the wife of the head OF
the family, and are considered pretty
much in the light of Crown jewels.
"A poor young widow IN Berlin, com
ing home the other night found on her
table note addressed to her, reading as
follows: MADAME: | came here with
the intention of robbing you, but the
sight of this respectable and peaceful attic
room, decorated with religious pictures
and adorned with pious souvenirs, and,
above all, your two little children, which
were quietly sleeping in their little beds
and smiling in their dreams, have touched.
my heart and instead of depriving you OF