The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-01-06
Foreign Items.

ENGLISH Methodists have purchased
property in Rome at a cost of $50, 600,
and established mission station.
MoNsEIGNEUR TREPPEL, Bishop of
Anglers, is about to found a Catholic
university in that city.
THE Russians are said to be the best
hnguists and worst dancers in the
world
Miss LAURA HARRIS, the American
prima donna, has been engaged for the
season at the Carlos Theatre, Lisbon.
Mr.. RUsKIN is about 10 offer to the
University of Oxford the sum of $685.
900 for the endowment of master of
drawing.
LADY MoRDAUNT's friends are still
doubtful as to her soundness of mind,
aud she has been placed under the care
Of experienced medical men in Eng
land
BARON Won PRoKEsCH OsTEE, repre-
sentative of Austria at Constantinople,
has decided On retiring, after his forty
eight years Of service. He has received
the title Of Count.
VICTOR EMANUEL is reported to have
y presentiment that he will die in Lon
don, and for that reason, it is said, he
cannot under any circumstance be per-
suaded to visit the British capital
THE latest story about Disraeli is that
be has been baptised as a Roman Cath
Ole by Archbishop Manning What
was probably a Jest at first has been
translated by repetition into literal
fact
VICTOR EMMANUEL IS reported to have
had presentiment that he viii die in
London, and for that reason, it is said,
he cannot under any circumstances be
persuaded to visit the British capital
VIEUxTEMPs, the violinist who per
formed with Nilsson last year. has &C
cepted the position of first professor
of his favorite instrument in the Brus-
sells Conservatory.
NJ CHARLES BLANC Gouis Blanc's
brother) is about to form In Paris a
new museum, consisting of copies by
the best artists attainable of the most
famous pictures and statues IN the
world
ALExASDER II, the Gear of Russia,
has signed the temperance pledge at
the solicitation Of the Empress. Per
Contra Somebody asked Bismarck
why old King William was so healthy.
each well, said the Premier, "because
he drinks no water, and wears red fan
mel next his skin"
a MONUMENT has been erected to the
memory of Flora Mcdonald IN the
church yard at Kilmuir, Isle of Svke,
over the grave Of the heroine. 1t oc-
cupies a commanding position on a
height about 800 feet immediately above
the sea at the extreme northwest OF
Syke, and viii be conspicuous object
to persons passing up the Minch with
IN sight Of land.
PRINCE BISMARCK and his most form
liable adversary, Bishop ketteier, of
Mayence, were students together at
GBttingen, and there fought a duel in
which ketteler was wounded, After
wards they became fast friends and
members of the same corps" of stu
dents ketteler is now tie leader of
the anti-imperiaiist partly in the Ger
man Parliament and by far the ablest
and most eloquent Of Bismarck's ops
ponents.
The manager of the Queens theatre,
london, has made a hit in pleasing his
patrons. The movement consists in
allowing his audience to decide by vote
what play shall beacted, Ballot-boxes
are placed in different parts of the
house, and voting-slips are attached to
the programmes. The audience are re-
quested to detach and place In the box
rs their respective votes, and the result
is subsequently made public, and the
viii Of the majority complied with