Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-03
Foreign Gossip.

THE Hanlons, Blondin and Leotard
are in a circus at Madrid, and have
played before King Amadeus and his
wife.
ADELAIDE R1sToRI has purchased q
hotel in Milan. Besides her own splen-
did villa, she owns palace and three
houses in Venice.
The Empress Eugene has adopted
the little son of Madame Bosne, the Par
isian milliner, who was murdered by
the National Guards.
G. J. EsTABRooK, of Denver, and
Samuel Copp, of st. Louis, were drown
ed in Twin Lakes, Col, on the 18th
inst.
The Stockholm Aftonbadet boasts
that the three Scandinavian kingdoms
have more able novelists than any other
country in the world.
AN American Episcopal Church is to
be erected in the city of Rome, to cost
5000 The enterprise has ever ell
enlargement from the Italian govern
ment.
The proportion of tie Iron Cross in
the German army is very unequal.
When only three soldiers in every 100
have it, 81 officers out of each 100 pos
sess either the first or the second-class
cross.
A CARRIER PIGEON has been caught at
Lowestor, with number of French
postage stamps and letters attached to
its wings 1t is supposed to have been
sent from Paris during the late seige,
and hitherto escaped detention.
THE French gentry are adopting the
plan of inviting guests by series, to
their chateaux. Each invitation sets
forth the exact length of time the guest
is expected to stay, as well as the day
he is to come.
BARON WoLFGANG Won GOETHE, the
poets younger grandson, is about to
print privately work giving the re.
suit of his continued research as to the
ecclesiastical history of Italy in the 18th
and 18th centuries.
A CARICATURE, representing Napoleon
Ill and the Empress Eugene, dressed
as mountebanks, has Just been seized
at Strasbourg by the Prussian authori-
ties The artist and the publisher
have each been condemned TO heavy
fines and a months Imprisonment,
A WELL known English lord is said
to have given the following instruction
to his steward 1--WE are coming
down, a large party, in a day or two,
to eat strawberries and cream. We
shall want plenty of the latter; so don't
let any Of the COWS be MIXED mean
while.
THE remarkable good fortune of the
Rothschilds has been strikingly illus
trated during the disturbance i'll Paris.
Though the Baron resident there owns
not less than IA houses in that city,
no injury was done to one of them, not
even SO much as the breaking of pane
of glass.
The "home coming" of the Marquis
of Lorne and the Princess Louise at
Inverary Castle, has been fixed for the
month of August, when the Queen will
honor the Duke of Argyll with visit,
and there will be "high jinks III the
Highlands.
The English newspapers are again
scolding Queen Victoria for her nig-
gardliness. Instead of entertaining
here daughter and son-in.law, the
Crown Princess and Prince of Prussia,
in her palace, she allowed them to re-
main as guests at the residence of
Count Bernstorf, the German ambas-
sador.
HEoLA, in Iceland, and Etna in Sicily,
are the Siamese twins of the volcanic
business. There is strange coincl-
dence in their manifestations. Etna
is never disquueted but Hecla displays
a perturbed spirit, and Hecla never
shows symptoms Of eruption without
throbbings in Etna; and it is suppos-
ed the stream of sympathy between
them is a red hot river of fire flowing
beneath the upper crust of the earth's
surface.