Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-12
Foreign Gossip.
OFFENBAcH's real name is Jacob Bien

OFFENBACH's real name is Jacob Bien.
GERMANY gives eight pairs of gloves
and white hat to each of her enlisted
men.
AUSTRIAN army officers are forbid
den TO wear boards more than an inch
long.
PAREPA Rosa has received the Beetho-
ven gold medal from the London Phil
harmonic Society.
THE army of Austria, on its new war
footing, numbers l,269,000 men.
A FEMALE oircus-clown is the latest
development of woman's intellectual
supremacy in England.
QUEEN VIcToR1A's eyesight is still un-
impaired. She discovers "growing
prosperity in Ireland"
LUDGATE HILL, London, England, is
to be paved with an American wooden
pavement, TO cost 100000.
publish SANKEY'S book. The expedi-
ton cost the Herald over $4,000.
The Figaro, in Paris, pays its assistant
editors 5000 francs a year for two
hours labor daily.
THE statues of Francis l. and Louis
XIV. has been discovered under a lot
of rubbish in the cellar of the Hotel de
Vile at Paris.
Mr.. DANKs, the inventor of the re.
volving pudding furnaces, has taken
Austria, Germany, France and Spain.
AMONG the petitions presented to NJ.
Theirs is one presenting a plan to pre-
serve the heads of the guillotined, and
TO exhibit them from time to time as a
warning to evll-doers.
IT is reported that the cupola of st.
Peters at Rome shows unmistakable
signs of decay. A commission of Papal
architects and engineers has been APP
pointed to examine it.
THERE were ASH suicides committed
in 1871 in France. These were their
causes Poverty, 1888; family quarrels.
512; love, 70l incurable disease, $50;
quences of crime, %; drink, 231.
THE demand for the first volume of
Won Moltke's war book, recently pub
lished in Berlin, has been so great that
the printers have been engaged day
and night in supplying the demand.
The proceeds of the sale are to 90 to
the relief of the war sufferers.
A RUSSIAN monk is said to have sue.
cessfully combined sacred and secular
business by founding a new religious
order, initiation into which was effected
by shaving the neophyte's head, and
selling his proselyte's hair to the manu-
facturers of wigs and chignons.
An enthusiastic admirer of Victor
Hugo arrived recently from Russia in
Paris. He brought with him a huge
trained bear, which he desired to pre-.
sent to the author of "The Man Who
Laughs" NJ. Hugo gratefully accepted
the present, but had the bear sent at
once to the Jardin DIES Plantes.
Ice is still regarded in Europe as q
luxury only attainable by the wealthy
Its use in English households as an arti
Gle of daily consumption is unknown,
and even among the more expensive
GLASSES vi uOlSlS ice Is US0O SpdrlnglV
and in small quantities. Paris, we are
told, has been without ice during the
hot weather, and butchers, fishmongers
and other dealers in provisions have
suffered heavy losses from the heat
The deep cellars of the city have been
resorted to as refrigerators.
IRELAND has a genuine aristocratic
scand |. 1t is nothing more nor less
than the Identification of an actor in q
low music hall with future earl. This
individual has been performing for two
or three years past as pantomimist al
several disreputable places, and it now
transpires that he is the Viscount Hin
ton, heir to Earl Poulett. To con
tribute an additional element of morti
fcation to this development, it has alsC
come to light that Miss Smythe, per
former in the same hall, will in du,
time become the joint possessor will
her risky husband of one of the oldes
earldoms in Great Britain.