The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-30
Foreign Notes.

THERE are 3,305 plants III the garden
of the Loyal Botanic Society.
HUNGARY is the corn market of Eu-
rope.
The parish of Nesne, Norway, expe-
rIenced nineteen earthquake lhocks
from June 20 to July9.
AMBER has recently been found in
the bed of the Elbe river, near the city
of Stade, Germany
The park called Jardin des Plantes
garden of plants in Paris, has been
re-opened to the public.
AT the close of the year 1870 there
were nine hundred and eight agricultu-
raj societies in Prussia.
BLACKmooD's MAGAZINE thinks the
nobility of England will die out in the
course of time.
THE foundation stone of a new light
house on the rocks off the Lands End
was laid recently.
A LEARNED German tbeologian has
found out that there are more than for
ty-four million devils.
THE Princess de Metternich, who was
ut Johannesburg during the reign of the
An edifce for the Academy of PlaS-
ties Is to be erected at Vienna, at a cost
of about $500, 900 in gold
AN anchor, surrounded by stone
crust, was lately found in the Rhine,
between Duisburg and Ruhrort
ONE thousand five hundred persons
attended the late brewers convention
held at Dresden, Germany.
THERE are beet.sugar factories in
Russia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Bel
GUM, France, Holland, Sweden and
England. .....
The French bookseller Charpentier,
who established the Bibietheque Char
pentier, a series of valuable books,
died at Paris, July 20.
RAILWAYS everywhere in France are
choked by the enormous quantity of
traffic. The Western Railway opens its
stations for merchandise only once IN
ten days.
NINETY thousand four hundred and
sixteen persons emigranted from Eng
| land, and 1920 from scotland and
Ireland, during the year 1870
| The colossal statue of the Prussian
|
was recently unveiled in Berlin, Is the
work of Albert Wolff, pupil of Rauch.
The Prussian military academies of
! Potsdam, Erfurt, Neisse, Eengers,
Hanover, Cassel and Anklam, have
each been provided with mitrailleuse,
| for purposes of instruction.
ABOUT eleven thousand six hundred
strangers registered their names at the
German watering place of Ems up TO
August I, and up to August s, four
thousand at that of Reicheuhall.
LUDWIG KossUTH, who now lives III
Turin, Italy, is devoting his time to
the study of botany. In July he gath
cred from Mont Gents, within nine
days, two hundred and forty species of
plants
BLoNDIN delighted the Ancient Order
of Forresters, of England, on the 22d
ultimo. by walkinr rope stretched at
great height in the Crystal Palace.
He ended his performances by going
halfway across and back on a bicycle,
One thousand seven hundred and
twenty-sIX dispatches were forwarded
by the European telegraph line
during the month Of July, of which
so were from, and S03 to England and
America, and 80 to and 60 from the
continent, Russia excepted.
A REMARKABLE mortality among the
fish has been reported this year at. va
rious points along the sea coast, and
even in the interior, the creatures in
variably coming to the surface appar-
emily in great distress, and there dying;
and so curious a circumstance 50 often
repeated must be set down as one Of
the marvels of the year Of portents,
1871.
The fourth centenary Of Albert Dur
er was celebrated at Meissen, Germany,
on the 25th of June last A musical
! festival took place in the old church,
and addresses were delivered by Pro
fessors Hubner and Gruner, of Dres-
den. The streets of the town and the
banguet-hall were decorated with pic
lures illustrating scenes in the life of
the famous old artist of Nuremberg
THE British postcard system is
grand success. A party goes to the
post Office and indites a short message
on one side of a prepared card, the adj
/ dress being on the other side The
postage charge IS but half penny
During the first six months of this post
al experiment hundred and twenty
two millions of cards were delivered
from the various post offices of the
! United Kingdom, realizing e251, sol Ill
the way OF postage receipts.
PAUL B. DU CHAILLU, the. famous
African explorer, is at Hammerfest,
| Norway, to which place he has recently
| returned from North Cane north of
latitude 710, the extreme point of the
European continent, lutting into the
Arctic Ocean. Since he left the United
States last spring he has visited Swe-
den, Finland, Lapland, and a part of
russia, and had been up the gulf of
Bothnla. He expects to return in No
vember or December.
WHILE the new frontier between
France and Germany was being drawn,
stone was found, between GaveIotte
and Doncourt, which bears upon one
side the inscription "7erre dc France"
and doubtless formerly served as a
landmark. 1t stands exactly on the
line marked by Kiepert as the former
frontier of the German bishopric of
Metz and was to all appearance erected
before 1862, when that city became
French. 1t is to be hoped that the
stone will now be preserved as an in
teresting historical memorial.
The first German election in Alsace and
Lorraine came off few weeks since