The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-16
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST l6. 1872:
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

EVkEl6N GUSSlP.
The Paris shopkeepers are bitter
ly complaining once more, and
trade is, indeed, almost at stand
point in the Queen City.
Baden has gone to the bad 'un. The
crowds have vanished, the theatre
is closed, and life there is fearfully
monotonous.
Humboldt's pictures, sold recent
ly at auction in Berlin, brought not
more than $4,000. But few bidders
were present at the sale.
The late distinguished Austrian
author, Frederick Gerstacker, re-
ceiyed during his lifetime, as his
earnings for his whole literary pro-
auctions, the sum of $4,000.
1t is not clear what the BeY of
Tunis sees, from his standpoint, to
admire in NJ. Theirs, but he recently
created him Pacha. Theirs Pacha,
however, declined the title with
many thanks.
A correspondent IN Rome says
excellent news has been received of
the municipal elections which have
been held in various parts of Italy.
In Venice the Liberals have been so
| successful that only one of the cler-
ical candidates have been returned.
AT sale by auction in Leipsic of
collection of specimens of early
printing, the British Museum paid
over $1,000 for the only existing
copy of the cars Moriendi," en-
graved on wood, and 600 thalers
were paid for a single leaf of one of
Guttenberg's earliest Bibles.
1t has entered into Bismarck's
plans to prevent emigration from
the German Empire to this country
by Legislative restrictions. Ac-
counts from Germany announce
that the prohibitary movement in
Northern Germany causes great ex-
element, and that it has hitherto
only had the effect of stimulating
emigration.
The Princess Mathilde offers some
of her property for sale. Her Pal
ace can be had for 100000, gold.
She is wealthy, for her Russian hus-
band is very rich. She preferred
literature and art to politics, and
was no niggard in aiding struggling
talent. Over the doors of her sa-
looms she had notices, "Politics pro-
hibited."
Among the interesting features
of the coming exhibition at Vienna
will be the private library of books
in the Oriental languages belonging
to the Sultan-Abd Aziz, which
has never hitherto been accessible
to scholars. The Sultan has con-
scented to send this library TO Wen
ma, at the request of the Archduke
Albert Victor, of Austria.
A report recently presented to
the English Parliament gives the
average daily pay of mechanics as
follows: Austria, one dollar; Bel
GUM, sixty cents; France, one dol
lar and ten cents; Denmark, sixty
cents; Italy, forty cents; Neither
lands, seventy cents; Norway, sixty
cents; Sicily, thirty cents; Portugal,
forty cents; Prussia, seventv-five
cents; Russia, seventy-five cents ;
Sweden, sixty cents; Switzerland,
sixty cents.
A correspondent thus gives a pic
ture of the present condition of af-
fairs at Rome: parliament is on a
vacation, the Ministers are going
and coming to the Naples and Flor
ence railway, the diplomats have
gone away, the patricians are in
their villas, commerce is anguish
ing, industry suffering, speculation
alone prospers; it fills the journals
with advertisements, covers the
walls with them, promising benefits
or exaggerated dividends, which
would alone suffice to scare away
prudent and sensible people, but
which attract all the donkeys. Such
is the tableau presented at this mo-
ment by the city of Rome to the
observer and the philosopher"
st. Louis is now nearly fourteen
miles long on the river front, and
has an area of fifty-two square