Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-25
Foreign Notes.

HUNGARIAN AUSTRIA anu turkey are
the natural enemies of Russia, and are
so estimated by the Gear and his gov.
eminent.
Ir is not alone to this country that
the japanese are sending their young
men to be educated Sixteen lately
graduated at Berlin.
THE Marquis of Ripon has been
time, Most Worshipfll Grand Master
of the Free Masons of England.
THREE rScals, whose business it was
to rob graves for the purpose of sup
plying the chignon market, have been
arrested and imprisoned at Lyons.
France.
RUsKIN has ordered the new edition
of his work to be bound in rich purple
calf, with gilt edges, and not single
copy will be allowed to go out in any
other shape.
Mr. JOHN MARTIN, member of Par.
lament from Meath, never votes. This
is his tacit protest against English in
Justice to Ireland in not giving her a
Parliament of her own.
RECENTLY daughter Of an English
clergyman was burned to death while
dressing for ball 4 young lady
who attempted to assist her was dan
gerously burned.
THE Russian my to-day is admira-
bly, appointed in all its effective de-
partments. The rolls embrace the
names of eleven hundred generals.
THE town OF Sedan has sent vote of
thanks to Count Orloif, the Russian
ambassador, for his successful efforts
in disinfecting the battle. field round
Sedan and Metz.
A WRITER in the London press SAYS
that the habits of the best workmen in
the metropolis are extremely dlssipated.
Beer and gin are the trouble.
PARIS is justly celebrated throughout
the world for the character of its medi-
cal hospitals. The city contains forty
of these first class institutions.
THE restlessness of the working class
es has extended to Switzerland, where
unsuccessful strikes have resulted most
disastrously to labor and capital,
SWIMMING being now taught in the
British army, cas- a military duty"
the number OF fatalities from drowning
in that service has sensibly diminished.
WIFE-BEATGNG, according to the Eng
lish newspapers, is becoming very
general thing among the lower classes
of that country it is nothing new,
however, only it has become more pub
lie.
The japanese are not intolerant in
the matter of religion, rs they have
three different religions and 30 differ Mt
scots. The persecution OF the Chris
tians in the 18th century was not theo-
logical but political.
Two hunchbacks celebrated their
nuptials in Paris the other day III the
presence of thirty invited guests, also
hunchbacks. AT the wedding ball all
the musicians were hunchb acks-as
was every dancer.
BLANQuI, the Abb, of The Member
for Paris, the originator of the lnsur-
rection of the Commune in Paris, is
suffering keelly from nervous maladies
caused by his political troubles and
labor.
THIS summer the meteorologlsts are
Il
Vienna, and the inhabitants OF that city
are in a panic at the prospect of the
awful varieties of weather they will
bring with them.
FREEDoM and education go hand In
hand together. There are now in Rome
% public schools and an aggregate at
tendance of 5000 1t IS but year
since no public school was to be found
in the Eternal City.
A GENTLEMAN who does not wish his
name to transpire at present, has pre-
sented the city of London with an
equestrian statue of the late Prince
Consort The sculptor is Mr.. Bacon,
and the site chosen is the Holborn Cir
Gus.
A GENTLEMAN from London lately, in
making a return of his income to the
tax commissioner, wrote on the paper
For the last three years my income
has been somewhat under $50; in the
future it will be more precarious, as
the man is dead of whom | borrowed
the money
PUBLIC libraries are encouraged by
the state OF Chill, aud some few towns
now have then. The newspapers OF
Santiago are in raptures over Val
paraiso bookseller, who proposes to let
out books tor reading. HIS charges are
dollar month, and book can be
kept out for two months.
CALIFoRSIA's BIGGEsr NUGGET How
much we owe to California Her
precious metals have enriched thous-
ands of our fellow citizens, and have