Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-10
Foreign GOssiD.

Penny hot dinners are furnished in
London.
"A submarine cable is to be laid along
the Pacific coast of South America from
Panama to Puyta, Peru.
The present debt of the city of Paris
is 1,N7000,000 of francs, which is to be
paid off in sixty years.
AN English rector has had to pay a
fine of two pounds for Gaming boy CT
thirteen, who was making love to the rec
tors daughter, aged twelve.
The new cable recently laid between
England and France is Of the most solid
description, the deep sea cable weighing
Sls tons to the mile, and the shore ends
IA tons.
An English soldier, in guard house,
who could not read, was lately melted to
shoot his corporal by seeing picture of
similar incident in police gazette. The
soldier was hanged.
An easy and practicable route for the
Darien canal has been discovered, which
can be completed in five years, at a cost
of $70,000,000. The distance from ocean
to ocean is 3Sl4 leagues.
During Traupmann's long examina-
ton, the presiding Judge said to him /;
"You, who are so intelligent -" II
am not intelligent" broke in the prisoner.
"If were, should not be here"
"A monster lobster has been caught off
the coast of Scotland, measuring two feet
eight inches from the tips of the claws to
the tip of the tail. One claw measured
eleven inches and three-quarters in cir
conference.
The American Bank Note Company
have given the British Museum a oollec-
ton OF specimens illustrating the art of
bank not engraving in the United States,
some as sd as 1866. In 1t are three notes
Of Pennsylvania, "printed by B. Frank
lin."
Two youths recently fought duel
about lady, near Halifax, N. s. When
the word was given, both fired. One bull
let struck tree behind which one of the
seconds was standing-about forty-five
degrees east of range. AS soon as the
first shots were fired, both heroes ran
away, leaving the seconds in possession of
the ground.
"A party of English hunters have late
" returned to Grahamstown, on the Cape,
after bagging in the way of game, during
the last season, SO elephants, II white
rhinoceros, 81 black rhinoceros CRATES,
90 buffaloes, 4 koodos, oryx, II Glands,
81 sea. cows, 5 leopards, 10 lions, and a
host of smaller animals.
An English Police Court was enliv.
ened during Christmas week by visit
from gentleman of middle age with
profusion of beard and moustache on one
side of his face, while the other side was
clearly shaven 1t had been done as a
practical joke, during the slumber which
followed a convivial evening, at the house
of "friend with whom he was spending
the holidays. He came to ask the magis-
trate as to what he had best do, and was
earnestly advised to have the remaining
whiskers shaved off at once, with the in
formation that he could obtain damages
by civil action If he chose
Last month, Robert Walkinshaw, of
Alexandria, Scotland, and George Graham,
the great London expert, played match
game at quoits, at Glasgow, for the cham
pionship of Great Britain and f100 side
About 5000 spectators were present.
The game was one of 81 points up, IS
yards distance 81 inch quoits, and began
at 1910 a. M, and was finished at $40 p.
m, in utter darkness 1t is said to have
been the finest game ever witnessed in
Scotland. The Scotchman won by %
points, the final score standing: Walkin-
shaw, 81 Graham, 50.