Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
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Foreign GOSSIP.
CREAM, in London, costs more than
good sherry wine.
WHY is there no such thing as an en-.
tire day? Because every day begins by
breaking?
FABULOUS rents are paid for small cot
tages on the grouse moore OF Scotland
| during the shooting season.
EUROPE is supposed to contain 30O,-
000,0 people. One hundred years
| ago the estimate was but 60,000,00O.
FooT-AND-M oUTH disease is rapidly
spreading in the eastern, midland,
southern, and western counties of Eng
land, and assuming in many localities =
most virulent form.
FoRTY-sEvEN thousand persons die
annually in England of consumption,
which the London Telegraph calls " a
scourge, compared to which cholera is
q jest and war diversion.
A PROJECT for the formation of tun.
mel under the Straits of Gibraltar has
been presented to the Spanish Minister
of Agriculture. 1t is intended to run
from Algesiras to Ceuta.
KING Az DEUS, Of Spain, is the only
monarch in Europe who drinks neither
wine nor anything that can intoxicate.
He is thorough teetotaler, and, con-
sequently, in the vernacular of the
West, his head is always "level."
VICTORIA, the most populous and
wealthy of all the British colonies in
Australia, has not SO many adult in.
habitants now by 10000 as it had ten
years ago, though there has been an
increase of 10000 in the total popula.
ton.
| ENGLAND is now enjoying the success
OF the postal telegraph system. The
increase Of messages is said to have
been tremendous. 1t is thought that
this system will, in great measure,
supersede the postal service in that
country.
THE tin mines of New South Wales
are said to be even more valuable and
profitable than the gold fields. The
exports from that colony of gold, tin,
and copper, in 1871, amounted to
S60,000,000 in value. The tin mines
are said to be the richest in the world
Lodes of copper are also being worked
to great advantage.
JAPAN, it has been reported, will dis
continue its practice of using the for
eign and ill-adapted Chinese characters
which have hitherto been its only
alphabet for writing japanese words
If this is to be done, there will be &
noble opportunity for promoting at once
civilization and philology, by the right
selection of new alphabet.
AN AntiTobacco League has beer
formed during the past six months il
France, where members IRE taking yer,
active steps against the use of the weed
on the ground of its having greatly con
tributed to the degeneracy of French
men, and their consequent failure il
the last unpleasantness." Just no
they explain the success of the Ger
mans, who certainly smoke as much a
their enemy, is not stated.
A TELEGRAPH CLERK of London, VIII
was engaged on wire to Berlin, re
Gently formed an acquaintance and al
, attachment for female clerk VIII
worked on the same wire in Berlin. II
f made proposal of marriage to hel
and she accepted him without havin
seen him. They were married, and tn
marriage resulting from their electri
, affinities is said to have turned out ad
mirably.
A WARRANTS hotel, the last of it
kind in Paris, has just been demolished
Vagabonds of all sorts found an ASYLUM
here; four sous the price of night
, lodging in large room, with a stra,
: mattress, a large tub in the center fo
additions, and the circumambient air t
dry with, but neither a chair, table no
towel. Some fragments of looking
: glass were stuck on the walls, bu
: which could not gloss the human forr
l divine.
BERLIN is no longer the first of tn
German universities. Last halfyear
had two thousand six hundred an
!, three students. 1t has now one thou
sand nine hundred and ninety only
, while at Leipzig there are two thousan
. three hundred and fifteen students, s
that Berlin has lost six hundred an
, thirteen students in twelve months, an
has now three hundred and twenty-si
fewer than Leipzig. This is the frs
time that Berlin has been outstrip pc
, by another German university.