The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-05-18
Foreign Notes.

HEINE's widow Is intensely French.
She recently inherited an enormous for
tune, and the first draft she made upon
1T was Tor a million francs, which she
contributed to the patriotic liberation
fund.
QUEEN VICTORIA consents that the
models showing the original cuttings
of the Kohinoor diamond, when first
exhibited In 1851, and the subsequent
recruiting, shall be exhibited in the
London Exhibition of 1872.
WHEN, during Queen Vlctoria's Jour
ney through France, cold snap sud
denly came on, the kindly old THEIRS,
Notwithstanding she did not visit him,
immediately telegraphed to certain
station-agent to have the foot-warmers
all hot, ready to place IN her carriage
as soon as the train arrived.
IRON ship. building appears to be
rapidly becoming an important branch
of industry in Denmark. Although for
the last fifteen years small iron vessels,
designed for trading between the vari-
Gus Baltic ports, have been built at Co.
penhagen, it is only recently that the
construction of LARGE steamers has been
ATTEMPTED.
DIAMONDS in Paris were never before
so cheap; they are from % to "a per
cent. lower than they were last fall.
The fact is owing to the immense guam
tity found i'll the newly discovered
mines at the Cape.
RocHEFoRT is employed IN the kltch-
en- at Fort Boyart, where he serves out
his term of Imprisonment. He is al
lowed two hours daily to read and
write. He is III good spirits, CIlt ire
quently complains bitterly that be Is
not allowed any newspapers.
BERMUDA begins to be looked upon
as a vast coffin for the British soldiers,
who are placed there. The mortality
is greater, according to army medical
reports, than at any other station save
that of China.
AN official report on Jamaica, which
is shortly to be laid before Parliament,
shows that the condition of the island
has greatly improved since the intro
duction OF the new Constitution four
years ago.
The Recorder at Liverpool, England,
recently sentenced policeman to five
years penal servitude for robbing
boot-black of eight pence.
An American club has just been
formed in Liverpool, called the Wash
ington. 1t already numbers sixty mem
bers, and has a fine clubhouse on Lime
street.
The discovery is announced III Hun
gary of an almost entire human skele-
ton, together with a stone hammer, at
depth which, according to the theo-
ries of modern biologists, would prove
that man must have existed long before.
the mammoth age.
THERE are tribes dwelling almost at
the gates of Moscow, who know moth
ing of Christianity. They adore sacred
trees precisely the same as they did 800
years ago.
FATHER GAvAzzI says that an inter
view has been arranged to take place
between the Pope and Pere Hyacinthe,
and that q reconciliation is looked Tor.
TIE Chinese seemed still impress
ed with the idea that the missionaries
are in conspiracy to poison them. Phy-
sicians and missionaries are the same
to the "celestials "
The Pail Mall Gazette reports q
strange accident 'FAt FARMHOUSE.
races, near Dublin, curious accident
has occurred. Two gentlemen were
galloping In opposite directions, when
the heads of their horses struck full
tilt together, and both horses were
killed, the riders being thrown into
the air. One of the gentlemen had all
his front teeth knocked out
GREAT reductions have lately taken
place in the labor employed in the
Woolwich Arsenal, and in otbCf mill
tary factories of England. The deduc
ton from this fact appears to be that
the British Government does not an
ticipate hostllities from any quarter at
this time.
TURKEY, which we are inclined to
designate as the "sick man" of En-
rope, has yet the very respectable
standing army of 100000 strong, and
numerically but fraction less than the
aggregate of the Russian army.
The Moscow Gazette says that five
scientific expeditions are to be sent to
different countries in 1874 to observe
the transit of Venus over the suns
disc The cost is estimated at $4,000
roubles.
GERMAN newspapers are discussing
the various cases of poisoning by va
nilla ices, which have occurred of late
years in Paris, Altoona, Munich, Vienna,
and other places. One theory concern
ing these poisonings is that the poison
is In the vanilla, and it is produced by
the use of cashewaut oil to besmear the
vanilla pods.
ENGLAND pays over e200, 600 annually
to her continental neighbors for toys
The larger part come frem Holland,
although they are not ali made there.
The hamlets In the great Thuringian
forest and the agricultural districts of
Franconia furnish much of the supply
through the Dutch market. Nurcm
berg especially being great center for
their collection from the peasantry.
The toys made in Franconia are chiefly
metal, and the paste toys come mainly
from Saxony. The wooden toys are
fashioned almost wholly on primitive
lathes.
SIAM has city of yelled women In
it live nine thousand people, every one
of them females, with none of the tyrant
sex to modest them or make them
afraid. OF this nine thousand, one
Thousand are the aristocrats the other
eight thousand are artisans, trades
women, servants, etc. The walls are
ad by fon, 10 contipoIo tho paaea