The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-22
Foreign Notes.


on the roads III Great Britain.
THE Cathedral at Drugs, in Belgium,
is one of the most beautiful in Europe
OWING to Mazzini's death, his paper,
Roma di PopOlo, has suspended publ
cation.
NAPOLEON III. will, it is said, pass
part of the summer months on the
Island of Jersey.
THERE are about 1000 clerks besides
twenty-four directors on the estab.
lishment of the Bank of England
The Sultan, owing TO continued i'll
health, has given up his intention to visit
Western Europe this season.
The conservatory in the Duke of
Devonshire's grounds at Chatsworth,
Eng, is the finest in Europe.
WIEsBADEN is one of the Oldest water
ing places in Germany, and for ganb-
ling only second to Baden Baden
The influx of English visitors has
induced the London pickpockets to try
their fortune in the French capital.
FIELD MARSHAL WRANGEL, the Oldest
officer of the Prussian army, is ninety
years of age and still hale and hearty
The Swiss Times, the only English
journal printed i'll Switzerland, Just
celebrated It's fifth anniversary.
AT A London police court recentlyu
manufacturing chemist was fined TWEEN
ty pounds for having shipped 3 case of
dangerous liquid without specifying the
nature of the contents.
II is rumored that Sir Charles Dixie,
not intending again to offer himself to
the electors of Chelsea, Will contest
Nottingham in company with Mr. Au-
boron Herbert.
The Orleans princes have received
permission from NJ. Theirs to transfer
the remains of King Louis Philippe
from Weybridge to the chateau of
Dreux for final interment.
THESE are the days of labor strikes
the world over. The town-crier of
TiegnmOuth, England, announced that
hencefOrth the washerWomen and laun-
dress of that town viii not work for
less than Is. Cd. day.
THERE is still preserved at Edinburgh
a monster wrought-iron gun of the
olden times, which was built upon the
spot where it was used, and was sort
of iron cooperage, made with slaves
and hoops. Nevertheless it would
"shOOt."
THE Baroness Burdett-Coutts has
presented sf10 to be given away IN
prizes to workmen's cats" at the
third national exhibition at the CRYSTAL
Palace. Lady D'Nevili and Miss Hales
give silver medals to encourage the
kind treatment of cats.
Fox-HUNTING is the great Enelish
sport, and there are now over one hun
dred well-organized packs of hounds
upon the estates Of English noblemen
and country gentlemen This sport
has the redeeming feature of conducting
to health and manhood.
The trial of three young men ac-
cnsed of the murder of NJ Greco, a
Marsallles merchant, has commenced
at AK. The prisoners, who did not
appear to feel their position, engaged
III violent alterations with each other
during the progress of the trial.
The seaman's strike at SOUTHAMPTON
threatens to be tedious, and no APP
prOaches to a settlement seem at pres
ent to have been made. The men made
demand to have shore wages raised
from % shillings to q shillings q week
and to victual themselves.
II is rumored on good authority that
free pardon has been granted by the
Gar to the exiled Roman Catholic
Archbishop Felinski, who viii conse-
quently return to Warsaw The mea-
sure is construed as an indication of a
conciliatOry spirit towards Poland ex-
listing at the Imperial court.
The Marquis of Camden, who has
just died, is the distinguished man who
resigned the place of teller of the ex-
cheques" and absolute sinecure worth
$50, 600 a year, because he thought it a
fraud on the nation. OF course he
would not have done it if he was rich
man, which he was not.
In recent lecture by the celebrated
DIR. Schwabe of Berlin, he states that
out Of LOCO school children who had
been questioned on the subject III that
city, TT never had seen a RAINBOW, 1873
potato field, 592 butterfly, 4GG a
corntield, BAT a flock of sheep, 364 Il
forest, 264 an oak, and 263 had never
seen blowing.
A RETURN to Parliament, just made,
shows that within the last year among
the acquisitions to the British Museum
was an almost complete collection Of
the journals, broadsides, proclamations
and carlcatures published during the
recent war between France and Ger
many, and also during the ascendan-
cy OF the Commune in Paris.
The manufacture of torpedoes is just
now going on brisidy in the Royal La
boratory at Woolwich, England, and
already several thousands of the ordi-
nary class are stored ready for use at a
moments notice. These are for placing
IN harbors, for the purpose of prevent
ing the entry of ships, and they are n
ranged to be fired by electricity from
the shore