The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-03-30
Foreign Gossip.


over !, 900 feet deep.
CHINESE women adopt the fashions of
this country much more readily than
the men do.
AT Glasgow, Scotland, one Iodine
factory uses up 1000 tons of sea weed
every year.
A STRAWBERRY tree grows in Gambia,
which bears fruit very like a straw
berry, except IN shape.
A YOUNG man at st. Newfoundland.
married poor girl, who has since fallen
heiress to 81, 900, 900 sterling.
The German students drawn off by
the war are focking back to the univer-
sites, which are nearly all overcrowdod
this winter.
THE Baroness Talleyrand wore over
$500, 900 of jewels on a costume of a
lady of Turkestan, at Florence ball
recently.
LOUIS NAPOLEON is said to be enam-
ored of a young English lady of rank
residing near Chiselhurst, and Eugene
is proportionately jealous.
GEORGE KELLY, under keeper in the
Halifax city prison, who is r. ported
to have become the heir to three-quar-
ters of a million pounds in Ireland, has
sailed to look after it,
A REGATTA for steam launches, row
and sail boats, in which Germans.
Americans. Spaniards and Russians from
the men-of-war in the harbor partici-
pated, took place Friday, at Havana.
The steam launch first prize was won
b1- Io
cans, and the third by Spanish. Russia
won the prize for sailboats.
LONDON is to-day the largest city in
the world, far surprising all those of
antiquity. According to Gibbon. the
population of ancient Rome, in the
height of its magnifcence, was l, 200, :
600; the population of Pekin is sup.
posed to be about 10000 900; that of
London is over 5000, 000-one twelfth
as many souls as the population of the
whole United States.
THE nuptial tlsages and phrases now
common in England are chiefly of Ro-
man origin. 1t was rule among the
Romans that the bride should be
brought to her husband with a covering
or veil cast over her head, and hence
the ceremony was called nuptiei, from
1au6o, to vail. The cefeIao ny OF put
ting on the wedding-ring was imported
into that country by the Normans.
In GA Classical Dictionary Of the
Vulgar Tongue" published in 1855, we
find the origin of the saying, 1.-The
nine of diamonds is the curse of Scot
land" thus accounted for: "Dia.
monds imply royalty, being ornaments
to the imperial crown, and every ninth
king of Scotland has been observed for
many ages to be tyrant and curse
to that country"
SINCE the Union with Scotland, the
title of the Prince of Wales has been
prince of Great Britain" but ordi-
narily created prince of Wales" and
as eldest son of the King or Queen Re-
gent of England, he is Duke OF Corn
wall from his birth, as likewise, Duke
of Rothesay and Great Steward of
Scotland. He is also Earl of Chester,
Carrick and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew,
and Lord Of the Isles.
The Princess Strozzi, who gave one
of the grandest fancy balls of the car
nival at Florence, received her guests
in dress-the actual dress of Louiza
Strozsi-so heavy with jewels and gold
damask that, as soon as her guests had
| all arrived, she changed it for lighter
| costume, which could enable her to
move with something like ease. Several
of the ladies present were dressed in
| historical costumes, and in the same
lace and Jewels as their ancestors; others
faithfully copied the historical pictures
III their galleries.
\ PARIS correspondent of the San
Francisco Post says Strange changes
are taking place daily here. You will
remember Pierre Bonaparte, the fellow
who murdered Victor Noir, couple of
years ago. Well, his house. at Anteuil,
near Paris, was sold the other day for
| a debt of |, 943 francs, which he owed
a lumber dealer; but, what is stranger
yet, is that the man who served the at
tachment is one of the victims of Napo-
leon Ill, Mr. Dorlin, who was trans.
a Bonapartist.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Times gives an interesting
sketch of the enormous ornaments of
the continental powers. Germany has
at her immediate disposal 1000, 600
men; the French army will be raised to
$50, 600, and in II years will be doubled.
Austria has more than 500. 900 men i'm.
mediately available; and In few years
the Russian army will number 1900
600 men. The correspondent mentions,
incidentally, that the CENTRE loss of
Germany in the campaign has beenlately
ascertained as something like $50, 900
men, rather more than one-half of
whom are invaded.