Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-11
Foreign Notes.

IVActSH NOTES.
The foreign papers throw out some
h!nts to the effect that the King of Bel
gum, Carlotta's brother, has lately ex
hdblted, on divers occasions, symptoms
of insanity.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is famous for his lone
walks, and, like many other EnoIisb'
men, thinks little of performing q No
destrian feat of ten miles. or even f1van r.
on occasions.
A PARIS firm employs thirty workmen
In manufacturing kindling wood from
corn-cobs, by immersing them in resin
and tar. The sales of the firm amount
to $4,000 annually.
LIEUT.. GEN. DE ScHw1N17z, the Ger.
man Ambassador at the Austrian Court.
Is matrimonially engaged to a daughter
OF the Hon. John Jay, the American
Minister to Austria.
IT is said in one obituary notice of M.
Cont, Louis Napoleon's Cabinet Chief.
that " he had the courage to write poetry
without being forced to do so, and mod
esty sufhc1ently intrepid not to publish
The Baroness Burdett Coutts. who is
always engaged in some deed of charity.
has again commenced to erect houses
Tor the poor of London. as well as LARGE
drlnklng-founta in Edinburgh, Scot
land
A HAVANA letter states that at the
banquet given by the Captain General
to Alexis, the only toast was that bv the
Grand Duke, who, rising and bowling to
Admiral Lee, gave, The United States
forever"
AT recent Florentine ball a white.
armed demoiselle was able to disnensa
with all covering over the shoulders. as
her cunning dress-maker had SO FASH
Toned the waist that it did not need sun
port from above
GERMANY has the honor of owning
nine executioners whose annual income
exceeds ten thousand dollars The
price to be paid by the Government for
beheading a criminal is fixed at one
hundred dollars.
MADAME REGINA DIAL CIN. a lannon's
surgeon OF Austria, having performed
$50 successful operations in the City
Hospital at Trieste, was rewarded by
the municipal authorities with letter
of thanks and purse Of gold.
ONE of the participants in the ceIebra-
ton at London of the anniversary of
Tom Paine's birthday was an old book
seller named Truelove, who was fire..
quently fined and imprisoned in other
days for selling the Gage of Reason"
A JAPANESE woman, whose lover is
taithless rises at o'clock in the morn
ing and drives nail into sacred tree.
vowing that when her lover dies she
Will pull it out. She believes that the
god, to save his tree, will strike her lover
dead.
COUNT MURAT, who has just been ex-
PEELED from France, is a descendant of
Napoleon's famous Marshal, and was
several years engaged in diplomatic
duties. He was fifteen years in the
Corps Legislatif, and was present at the
cornation OF Alexander H., Of Russia,
which he described in print.
In Salisbury, England, there is an
eccentric gentleman named John Bull,
who insists upon wearing dress in the
fashion in the time of King Alfred, and
when recently charged with indecent
dressing, quoted in his defense a statute
Of that monarch, which says that "any
dress that covers the body from the
neck to below the knee cannot be in.
decent"
The gigantic elephant shot by the
Duke of Edinburgh, at the Cape Of
Good Hope, has been stuffed and placed
in the South Kensington Museum. The
head Of this monarch of the desert
weighs one ton, and thirty to forty men
were required 10 place it for the photo
grapher to take its likeness. 1t is
probably the largest sporting trophy in
existence.
A CURIOUS set of chessmen has been
made by Munich soul ptor. The rival
Kings assume the shapes of the En-
perors William and Napoleon, the off
GERS one side being statuettes of the
Empress Augusta, Prince Fritz, Bis
marck, Moltke, etc., and on the other
the Empress Eugene, Theirs, Gambetta,
and the successive leaders Of the French
nation. Among the pawns Uhlans and
cheUeaur tesers are pitted against Turcos
and gardes mobiles.
LADY CHARLES KERR, daughter of the
Duchess of Roxburghe, while recently
following the hounds near Langley
Marsh, met with an accident which may
have since proved fatal. Her horse
stumbled at the first fence-a small
crumbling bank-which gave way under
hun, and she lost her seat As she lay
on the ground, the animal, recover
ing itself, struck her on the side of the
head with his forefoot, completely sever
ing the ear and causing fearful concus-
sion of the brain.
Jim Fisk'S First Composition
From, Nc ifa and T;,oae 80 T...a.