Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-01
Two Dollars per Annum, in Advance,
WHOLE NUMBER 275.
Foreign Gossip.

| Foreign Gossip.
| THIRTY ONE wagon loads of gold lately
arrived at Paris, by railway, for the
Rothschilds.
| PAULINE LUCCA is baroness, has a
husband living, and two beautiful,
golden-haired children.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's head gardener,
George Fitzroy Rose, recently died,
and had large and imposing funeral.
They now say the Pope's illness is
only a sham, and that he is really IS
gay and vigorous as he was in middle
| life
The King of Denmark has offered a
prize of one thousand dollars for the best
history of the United States of Am erica
since the civil war.
The Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, is to
be replenished, after the havoc caused
| by the exigencies of the Prussian siege,
| with the spoils of Wombwells royal
| menagerie, which was recently sold at
auction in Edinburgh.
The vacant lot where the last massa-
ere of hostages occurred during La
Commune, has been bought by an asso-
citation which intends to build there a
memorial chapel and an old mems re-
treat.
ACCORDING to the Bombay Gazette the
heat has been as exceptionally great in
some parts of India as it has in New
York, the thermometer ranging from
ITO to Is in the shade. s..
OF the thirteen and one-half millions
of producers in England, eleven and
one-half millions receive as wages, on
the average, only $3.50 year.
In the recent trial of Du Bourg, in
Paris, for the murder of his wife, all
the bachelors on the jury were chal-
lenged.
NOTWITHSTANDING the conspicuous po-
sition which President Theirs occupies
at the present time, it is said that less
copies of his works are sold now in
France than at any time during the
past twenty-five years.
| SOME of the best wool known to COM
merce is brought from New South
Wales, where the English statistics
show us there are over sixteen millions
sheep, and the number increasing.
The papers of Russia very freely dis
| cuss educational matters in that coun-
as to its universal diffusion. The impe-
rial budget embraces 99,5OO,OOO for ed
ucational purposes.
The Turkish Sultan, they say at Con-
stantinople. is, in reality, an Legitimate
son of his predecessor; and it is very
questionable if, under the Ottoman
| laws, he has any right whatever to the
Turkish throne.
A BERLIN physician recently tried to
| dissever the bodies of two twin-girls
| grown together like the Siamese Twins.
| One of the girls survived the operation
one day, and the other fingered for three
| days.
| A PROFESSIONAL tea-taster, in England,
| recently met with an accident on a
railway by which his sense of taste was
impaired, thereby injuring his business
capacity, and jury has awarded him
$1,000 damages.
THE proposed visit of the Emperor of
Austria to Berlin is the subject of con-
! siderable gossip in the Austrian and
German capitals. 1t is regarded as the
natural consequence of the meeting at
Ischol and Salzburg last year. Since
| 1866 there has been a GOODNESS between
the two Kaisers, which was in part
cleared up by the meeting of 1871. The
visit of Francis Joseph to Berlin this
year will complete the work of recon
| ciliation begun last fall.
| HE fdflS COTrOSpOnOSuI vi tAO N0W
York World says Buffon's brains have
just been placed in front of Buttons
statue at the Geological Museum of the
Garden of Plants. Voltaire's heart is to
be seen in a silver case in the Imperial
Library. The vertebro of the spine of
Archbishop Attire, of Paris, who was
killed on the barricades of June, 1S4S,
are to be seen in Notre Dame. Several
portions of ST. Vincent de PauPs body
are to be found in the Lazarists' Con-
vent, Rue de Sevres. The skeleton of
! the Arab who assassinated Kleber is on
view in the Garden of Plants. Scarron' g
skull may be seen nSt. SEVERN Church.
Moliere's jaw is in the Hotel de Cluny.
ENGLAND is growing richer and richer
every year. The gross revenue of the
United Kingdom for the fiscal year
ending June 80 was nearly $4,000, 900
more than any one expected it would
be-that is, it was e76, ,266, ,03S, in place
of 970,472, 400, and this increase was in
| spite of a number of reductions OF
| taxes. Never was England so prosper
Gus as she now is; never was trade so
great, wages SO high, and money 30
plenty.
IN the different countries of Europe
there are the following number Of thea
ters: Italy has S4S, France, S37, Spain
16S, England $50, Australia 152, Ger
many 1O1, Russia A, Belgium "a, Hol-
land 33, Switzerland 20, Sweden 10
Norway 8, Portugal 16, Denmark To-
Greece 4, Turkey 4, Roumania 8, Ser.
via l. 1t is rather extraordinary to see
in this list how much larger, in proper
ton to the inhabitants, the number o.
theaters are in Italy and France than in
other countries. 1t is significant com
ment upon the temperament of tine
people.
Credulous Englishmen.