Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-11-23
Foreign GOSSiD.

WORTH, the great Partisan man, miller,
is said to be bankrupt.
THE circulation of the Journal de 81.
Petersburg, official organ of Gortschakotf,
is tremendous. Just $50 copies.
THE Exposition at Vienna will be an
immense success. 1t will cover six times
rs much space as the Palalsdel EXPOSE
ton of Paris.
SIR RoUNDELL PALMER, the new Lord
Chancellor of England, is to take the
title of "Lord Guisbury," from the par
ish in which he was born.
IT took exactly three days and six
hours to weigh the 5OO,OOO,O 900 francs re-
Gently sent by the French Government
to Emperor William of Germany.
AN original portrait of the poet Mil
ton by Cooper, taken while he was at
Cambridge, and said to be the only au.
thentic likeness of him at this period of
his life, has inst come to light in En-
gland.
THE sale of about twenty American
journals is prohibited in the States OF
the German Empire. Among them are
about six New York papers. The gen
eral cause of their prohibition is hav'
ing spoken disrespectfully of German
princes.
DURING the last year, 226 new streets
have been opened in London, with an
aggregate length of 3S4 miles. During
the past ten years, 10000 houses have
been built in London, and new street:
opened involving length of 635 miles
IT is said that, when the Pope heard
OF Pere Hyacinthe's marriage, he gave
expression to his feelings and surprise
after this fashion 1.-THE Saints be prais
ed ! the renegade has taken his punish
ment into his own hands. The ways o.
Providence are inscrutable."
IT has always been supposed that En-
gland carried off the banner for SUI
preme ignorance of American geography
but such is not tho case. A Paris pa
per describes the Victoria bridge ovel
the st. Lawrence as ding from,
the shore of Portland, in Maine, to Port
Sarnia, near Lake Huron" The Cana
dams build awful long bridges.
GARIBALDI, it is said, has grown ole
terribly of late. He can walk only with
the aid of crutches; his fingers are dis
torted by rheumatism, and he looks as il
he would not be able to leave his resi-
dence, except in litter. He is still
cheerful in spite of his crippled state
and his face has preserved its fresh color
and genial expression.
ANONYMOUS writer's cannot be shielded
by their publishers in Switzerland. A
case has been decided there in which
the editor of the VolksJlan refused tc
give the name of the writer of an often
sive article. He was then summoned as
a witness before an examining magis
trate, who, supported by decision Of
the Supreme Court, forced him to give
the name of the author.
A CIRCLE of ladies of the Fauburg St
German, in Paris, have proposed the
levying of heavy tax upon their dress
makers bills-to declare to Government
that they are ready to bear themselves
and to infict upon their sister Paris
iennes, tax of ten francs on every one
hundred for all dresses costing more
than one hundred francs for the pur
pose of aiding in the national budget
This idea is a proof of patriotism which
has no small magnanimity about it, es
pecially if women pique themselves up
on dressing with as great and still great
er luxury than before this voluntary in
crease of their toilet expenses. Nc
doubt this self.imposed tax will be es
pecially grateful to the pa triotic feeling.
of the husbands of the Fauburg St. Ger
main ladies.