The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-04-27
Foreign Notes.

PEKIN has never had its census taken.
but it has about two million lnhabit-
ants.
The proprietors of the steamboat
Great Eastern have just declared a
dividend to the stockholders.
CONSIDERABLE activity is announced
in the Russian national ship-yards
The Cars navy is almost entirely of
steam.
TRAVELLERS say that Russia is now
more like an immense camp than
nation simply consierded on peace
footing.
EIGHT THOUSAND deaths by smallpox
were reported in London for the last
year. This number shows it to have
been pestilential
The salary of the Canadian Viccroy
is $50, 900 year, with two or three
rent-free palatial residences, and the
Office is usually held for five years.
THE historical writings of George
Bancroft are very popular IN Germany,
where five editions have been published
of his History of the United States.
THREE meteoric pebbles, weighing
from 10, 900 to $4,000 pounds apiece,
have been transported from Greenland
to Copenhagen.
AN Englishman who had staked his
all on an investment III IIchborne
bonds, poisoned himself with strych-
nine on hearing the result of the recent
suit.
GERMANY and Austria are uniting to-
Induce emigration of laborers and
no
country to the latter, in place of to
America.
ALTOGETHER, Germany has now re-
ceived from France for indemnity and
interest CSC, 500, 90, less f13, 600, 600, or
the value Of Alsace and Lorraine rail-
ways.
SPEAKING of the vicissitudes of mis-
sionary labor in Japan, the New York
Observer cOgently asks: what can
be done among people whose heads
are to be cut off as soon as their hearts
are changed
KEEPERS of coffee-houses, hotels
public houses aud eating houses in
Rome are punished by imprisonment
| of not less than 10 nor more than 30
days, if thy permit blasphemy on their
premises.
CHARLES READE subscribes for six
American journals, which he says far
exceed the English papers III point of
news. He keeps them on file, and oc-
casionally finds a plot in one of them
| for novel.
FROM scientific conversation in
sition to make all railroad cars
| orb hot nf,-u Of
| tern, SO as to facilitate repairs and
equalize the cost of construction.
The British mercantile marine con-
slsts of 81, 900 vessels, representing g.
600, 900 tons OF these 1000, 900 tons
are steamers, and altogether, the En-
! glish have more ships than all other
nations combined.
| A GOLD fever is gradually seizing
upon the people of New South Wales
Gold of great richness has been dis
covered at Bingera, also at CaloOla,
near Bathurst. A whole section of
country, IA miles long, has been taken
up in claims,
WHILE hotels on the European plan
are becoming very popular in America,
it is singular to note that hotels on the
American plan are growing in favor
! along the main lines of travel over seas.
Even the "Grand HOTEL Paris, has
In part adopted the American system.
EIGHT thousand four hundred and
twenty-eight was of yore the number of
seats in the gardens and promenades
of Paris. During the siege $40 were
used for firewood, so the municipality
are about to replace them at a cost of
one pound sterling apiece.
LATE mail news from India fully con-
firms the fact that 50 out of 50 kooha
prisoners were blown from the mouths
of cannon without trial. The officials
responsible for this diabolical outrage
on the English name and so on Chris
tendon were Commissioners Forsyth
and Cowan.
The Japanese government can we'll
afford to assume the debts of the de-
posed damios to foreigners, since all
these daimios have surrendered all their
property, One-fOurteenth excepted, to
the government Many of them were
enormously rich. one having an annual
income of 1888, $40.
LADY CHARLES INNEs KER, daughter
of Col. William, died recently from in
iuries received by falling from horse
when hunting with the Windsor, eng
fand garrison drag hounds) Queen
Victoria frequently visited her during
her last sufferings, and evinced the
deepest interest in her condition.
The Japanese believe that "Come
here !" is English for a dog, for when
the English first reached Japan they
brought dogs with them, and hoaring
them call ont, Come here come
herel" when their pets strayed, the ma
tives took it into their heads that
Come here could mean nothing but
dog.
The Paris Medical School was once
more a scene Of tumult on the ODD
ult., III consequence of Prof. Dolbeau
being Objectionable to the students, g.
600 Of whom assembled and received
the Professor with Kisses and demands
for his resignation.
THE establishment of naval ar
senal at Sebastopol is, according to the
London Standard, a blow to England's
prestige, and menace to Turkey. The
London News, on the other hand,
holds that, as Turkey contides in
Russia, it is not for England to inter
fere.
THE romantic story of the drowning
of the heir to the Earl ON of Aberdeen
was retold before the British House of
Lords on the Odd ult., when that body