Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-07-11
Foreign Gossip.

THEY have Dolly Warden hops in Eng
land.
MILE. NILSSON, according to the Swed-
ish papers, will be married in July, to
French gentleman named Rouzaud,
the honeymoon to be spent in Sweden.
ACCORDING to the Court Journal Gen.
Schenck gives pleasant receptions on
Saturday evenings, and is very well
liked. Having had his right arm
wounded in the war, he shakes hands
with his left. He is not exactly Talley-
rand, but he has some able men around
him /; and Mr.. Evarts, the American
lawyer, who is retained to advise the
American Government at Geneva, is a
very clever man, so clever that his
fellow-countrymen think that Lord
Granville will fare no better in his hands
than a bird under the influence of
snake''
OFFENBAcH has, it is reported, de-
clined an offer from this country to give
one hundred representations of his best
operettas for the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars.
THEY are having a dispute abroad as
to what is the right Welsh word to be
used for aquarium. The latest authority
says, As the best Welsh word for
aquarium | beg to offer Pysgddan-
COSTA. Every Welshman can sound
Pysgddangosfa,'" he says. Happy
Welshman
Some idea of the cheapness of English
rents may be gained from an advertise
ment in the London Telegraph. of June
6, of an eightroomed villa to let, with
an acre of land, lawn, flower and vege-
table garden, large variety of fruit, green
houses, lighthouses, shade-trees, gas,
| and water, in an excellent locality, for
$40 year.
Up to the year 1871, six hundred and
forty thousand copies of Franz Abt's
song, When the Swallows Homeward
Fly" had been sold in Germany. The
composer received only $40 for that pop
ular production.
THE Burmese Embassy, which recent
ly landed in England, presented Queen
Victoria, among other costly pesents,
with magnificent bracelet, the gold OF
which weighs seven pounds.
Mr. VERNON HARcoURT has written
another letter to the London Times on
the chances of invasion-a N after which
recently has greatly agitated the British
mind He holds that no possible in
crease of the land force can Prevent a
landing, while even moderate naval
opposition will make such disaster i'm
| possible.
MARSHAL FoREY, who has just died al
Besancon, France, in his 66th year, was
i j Il
Marshals under the Empire, and was
one of those who greatly contributed tt
the success of the coup d'etat. Since
that event he figured prominently il
the Italian campaign, his services il
which gained him the grand cross of the
Legion of Honor, and in the Mexican
exnedition, of which he was the military
head.
A LOUISVILLE lady's Gather dear
darling Tommy-sickened and died tn,
other day, and the weeping nader
{ buried it decently in the back yard
, wrapping the carcass in white shroud
Two ancient maiden ladies who livec
next door witnessed the interment from
an upper window, and were profoundl,
Mortified. OF course they went to tn,
! police about it, and were ready TO swea
thew had heard the child cry as it wa
carried to its burial. Two officers, armed
with spades and followed by GROVE
from the street, allowed the ancien
females to guide them to the spot wher
: the evidence of the infanticide lay buried
The cat was exhumed and the old maid
r departed wiser, but undoubtedly saddel
] females.