The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-29
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes.
| SMALLPOX is said to prevail TO an
alarming extent in several of the larger
German cities.
| Ii IS said that the house in which
John Calvin lived and died, in Geneva,
IS now occupied by Roman Catholic
| school.
The perquisitions in the catacombs
under Paris have led to the discovery of
a number OF bodies of insurgents half
devoured by rats.
A PARIS halter, whose stock was rid
died with bullets during the seige, now
sells the damaged hats at fabulous
prices as souvenirs of the war.
The proportion of the Iron Cross in
the German army is very unequal.
Where only three soldiers in every
hundred have 1t, ninety-seven officers
out OF each hundred possess either the
first or the second-class cross.
They call the big gun in England the
Nooiwlch Infant, and load it with
pierre gloxiline, lithofracteur, or some
such compound, whose discharge is
fatal to ironc lad8 at 1000 yards dis
lance.
NJ. MuLIERE, formerly Deputy Of
the National Assembly, and then mem
Der of the Commune, was, according to
the Opinion Rationale, recently recog-
nized IN Liverpool He did not en-
deavor to conceal his identity, and was
preparing to embark for New York on
one OF the Cunard steamers.
The late brilliant festivities at Ber
lin were accompanied by promotion on
large scale in the German army. All
soldiers who had been in the field re-
the new national colors. To the STAN
dards of the regiments which had been
under fire, ribbons in the colors of the
Order of the Iron Cross were added.
HE Paris Figaro says: eve have
learnt that the government of the
United States has announced that it
Will prefer no claims against the be-
hgerents for the damages sustained by
American citizens residing in France
during the Franco Prussian war of
1S70-71. Behold how the government
of the model republic guards the inter
ests of its people,
LIN SoI VI Ablitl hdtS1,
took part in the instruction of Algeria
and was killed in the province of Con
stantine. Abdel Kader disavowed the
step OF has son, and as soon as he heard
Of his death, issued a proclamation
urging his followers to remain true to
France.
THE Munich Neueste Nachrichten
reports fact hitherto unprecedented
in Bavaria. Formerly the King, all
the Court, the Ministers, and other
great functiona1ies of state, followed
the procession of Corpus Christi; now
the King has informed the Episcopal
body that he should not only be per
sOnally absent from the procession, but
that he should not even be represented
therein. Government employees were
left at entire liberty in the matter
This is regarded by the opponents of
InfallibIlity as demonstration in their
favor.
In a recent conversation between
Prince Bismarck and the Austrian Gen
Klapka, Bismarck said 'EThe force of
circumstances, and not our intention,
has brought us together with the South
Germans and led us to acquire Alsace
and Lorraine With the German pro
vince of Austria the case is quite diff
ferent We arein want Of strong I'M
divided Austria, for therein lies a guar
antee of the peace Of Europe. We de-
sire to live in peace and friendship with
Austria. Our historical "reminiscences
lead us to Austro-Hungary as the natu-
raj friend and allv of the German En-
pire; that our language is understood
almost throughout the monarchy, and
that we may be said to nave a common
culture, contribute to form powerful
means of union"
ALEX. DUMAS, IL, informs his coun-
trymen, that for some seventy wears
they have been nourished upon fictions
upon words that absolutely signified
nothing. Liberty, military glory, uni
versal suffrage, the nation, universal
brotherhood-iD short, every idea that
has dominated Frenchmen since the
year 1889, has been either burlesqued
or misdirected. Everybody is calling
loudly for the man who is to save the
nation. He is not far to seek, " saws
NJ. Dumas, with an inspiration of com
mon sense; you have him very close at
hand; it is you and |, and all of us -
AT Moscow, Russia, a project has
been preached for celebrating next
year the two hundreth anniversary of
Peter the Greats birthday by a grand
national musical festival, to be divided
into two principal parts. 1t is pro
posed that the first part shall consist of
a competition between Russian com
posers and the performance of occa-
sional pieces, or pieces written ex-
pressly for the occasion. The second
part will be a kind of musico-ethno-
graphic exposition, at which the differ
ent races belonging to the Russian EN-
pire Will execute in their respective
notiennl costumes pieces of popular
music, vocal and instrumental. The