The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-04-13
Foreign Gossip.


people in Germany who speak the
English language.
THE wife of Henry V.-Count de
Chambord-is grand daughter Of Lafay
ette
LADY BURDETr-C Courts fortune is
reckoned at about ten million pounds
sterling.
The Empire of Japan contains about
as many inhabitants as the United
States.
OUR next royal guest will be Frede-
rick Charles of Germany.
Able PAJoT, cure of the Madeline
Church at Paris, has mysteriously dis
appeared, and no trace of his where
abouts can be found.
The late attempt upon the life of the
English Queen is the fourth which has
occurred since her reign.
IT certainly looks as though half of
Europe would go on the war path be
fore many moons.
ONE TENTH of the students of the
University of Zurich are women, and
some of them are Americans.
LoNGFELLow is freely acknowledged
to be the rival of Tennyson In the
households of Great Britain.
The Gar of Russia, it is said, fears
assassination, and is at times in very
low spirits on that account.
THERE are eight papers published in
Germany which are devoted to advo-
eating woman's rights.
PRINCESS ALICE, Of Hesse- Darmstadt,
daughter of Queen Victoria, has writ
ten q novel III the German language.
MAHMoND PAsHA, high functionarv
in the late Ottoman administration, was
removed for devoting himself too much
to newspaper writing.
HE foreign papers throw out some
hints to the effect that the King of
| Belgium, Carlotta S brother, has lately
exhibited on diverse occasions symp-
toms Of insanity.
WHEN the King of Siam visits us, his
card viii bear the laconic inscription
E'Pra Bat Somdetch Prabaramain Tar
amaha Chulalonkon Klao Pra Chao Pen
Din Siam
LONDON papers state that the comet
canard has had serious effect there,
"alarming many weak people, and
making many weaker people positively
sick
The fares on English railways are
higher, the carriages less elegant, the
motion more perceptible and the speed
greater than our own.
The Federal Council Of Switzerland
has passed decree expelIing the
Jesuits from the country. The victims
will number nearly 600.
THE New York Mail learns ohat
large party Of Americans are travelling
through Egypt and the Holy Land
with guides, camels, dromedaries, and
all the desert paraphernalia.
RUSSIA is about to reform one more
barbarous Constitution within her
limits, viz, that of the penalty of
the knout. Now any criminal Judge
can award a penalty of 100 lashes.
The King of Sima, who recently
visited the Viceroy Of Indie, is a very
small, placid-looking man, who dresses
IN European fashion, with knee-bree ches
and stockings and lives like a Enrop-
can in all respects.
SIR CHARLES MoBpAUNT has sued the
publisher of work on the peerage for
having credited him with q daughter
born III 1889, the said daughter being
the fruit Of his wife's alleged iuf-
deity.
The electroballistic chronoscope is
the name of a curious little instrument
used to measure the velocity of can
non shot. It is the invention of Capt.
LeBouleuge of the Belgian Artillery
SEATS to view the recent thapksgiv-
ing procession In England ranged from
one to seven guineas each. A front
floor in Fleet street was offered for
thirty-fve guineas two hundred and
fifty pounds, it is said, was given by
contractor for the use OF a churchyard
III the Strand
The question whether Theodore
korner the celebrated German poet
and writer OF battle songs, was OF was
not the son of Schiller, has been settled
in the negative to the satisfaction of tbs
German critics, who, for many years
past, have been busying themselves
with the calculation Of this doubt.
ABOUT eight thousand four hundred
and twenty-eight was of yore the num-
bef of seats in the gardens and prom
enades of Paris. During the seige
| two thousand three hundred and forty
were used for firewood, SO the munich
pality is about to replace them at cost
of IL. piece.
THE house of Pierre Bonaparte at
Auteuil, near Paris, was recently sold
at auction to pay an attachment served
by one of the victims of Louis Napol-
con, Mr.. Dorlin, who was once trans
ported to Cayenne, because he was not
Bonapartist.
NILE. LEFBANc, daughter of the
French Minister, was married to NJ. de
Samezeuil, on the 18th ult., in the
chapel of the Palace of Versailles,
where no other marriage had been per-
formed since that of Louis XVI and
| Maria Antoinette.
! NORTH GERMANY has at her disposal
any army of 1000, 600 men, France will
soon have 100000, Austria has more
than 100000, and in few years,
Russia will have 100000 The en-
tire loss of Germany in the recent cam
paign is stated to have been 10000
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