Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-10
Foreign Gossip.

1t cost $500 to guillotine criminal
in France.
Locks of Traupmann hair are freely
circulating among the ladies of Paris.
Mrs. jeff Davis has been banqueted
recently by Liverpool merchant, whose
guest she was,
st. Petersburg, it is reported, has at
present population of $4,000, being an
increase of 10000 souls within five years.
Prince Pierre Bonaparte has brought
an action against the HdrseHldiSe for
accusing him of the murder of shepherd
at Vivario.
There is not single Protestant mis-
sionary in Portugal, although the Govern
ment is tolerant, and shows no disposition
to interfere with the Protestant faith or
worship.
An enthusiastic paterfamlliag has pc
toned the French Senate to invest the
father of the greatest number of children
with some new decoration, and to subject
the entire fraternity Of bachelors to a
special tax, rising in amount according to
their age
Careful vaccination has resulted in
there having been only one fatal case of
smallpox in Dublin in the last two years.
Paris has been heavily visited with va
rioa and the question of compulsory
vaccination is being considerably discuss
ed in the latter city.
"A London Coroner, at recent in
quest, declared that downright intemper-
ance was one of the common vices of
English ladies of the highest class He
knew, he said, numberless cases where
these ladies' never sat down to dinner until
they had brought themselves to state of
almost inebrety.
"A Paris dispatch says: According
to reliable accounts, only one fatality oc-
Cured during the recent troubles, and
that was the case Of boy who was killed
by bayonet thrust on barricade from
which upwards of forty shots from revol-
vers had been fired. Not a single shot
was fired by the soldiers and the police.
The late Duke de Brogile was pes
sionately fond of fishing, and when Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, he found the best
place on the river constantly occupied
by young man One day his rival did
not appear at the usual place. The Duke
had appointed him Vice.Consul in the
East, and ordered him at once to his post
Says the Toronto Leatler Of recent
date Lake Ontario, strange to say, was
frozen over on Friday night from Canada
to the American shore, and as far east ano
west as the eye could reach This is the
first time that this great lake has been ice
,,,l Ia ba Of hn
inhabitant, and he lisa pretty old chap"
Marshall Soult, once showing the pic.
lures he stole in Spain, stopped before
one and remarked 81 value that picture
very much it saved the lives of two es-
Unable persons" An aid decamp whs
pered in the listeners ear: He threat.
ened to have them shot Immediately UNI
less they gave it up"
BY the present school and military
system of Prussia, all young men who
can prove that they have reached GER
tain standard Of excellence in their stud
les are furnished with certificates en-
abling them TO serve as volunteers for
one year instead of three, on condition
of their maintaining and equipping them
selves while in the army.
An imitator of Traupmann, living in
the South of France, killed farmer 81
years old with pickaxe buried him in
grave dug in advance, planted a young
walnut tree over it, and sodded it, so that
the disturbance Of the soil might escape
notice On discovering Chat his victims
purse contained but franc, 40 confines
(about 80 cents), he was seized with