The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-01-20
Foreign Gossip,

dukes Is twenty live tuOuSauu uollarS
year.
The Prince of Wales is said to have
made a VOW to let strong drink alone
henceforth.
The Orleanists of France oppose the
establishment of the seat of govern
ment at Paris.
A LANDSLIDE has so filled the new
imperial docks at kiel that keel vessels
can't get to them.
The Marquis of Lorne, at one of the
penny readings at Inverary lately, read
some TRANSACTIONS from Schiller and
other original pieces from his own
pen.
A HUNGARIAN scholar, Eberdeny, has
published Greek, Arabic, Persian and
Sanscrit translation of five poems,
among which is Bryant's Thanatop-
sis "
ALL the Germans having declined to
vote in the recent elections at Prague,
the Cze CHI candidates came in first in
stead of czechond.
MARIE RozE is singing at st. Peters
burg at 10, 900 francs a month. Nlco-
lini, the tenor, is also at the Russian
capital.
THOSE Jolly fellows of Valence.
France, who follow the cheerful bus
mess of pall-bearing have struck for
higher wages.
THE little Kingdom of Sweden IS
making preparations to send out a new
polar expedition next spring. Trips to
the artic regions are becoming all the
style.
PRINCE CHARLES Of Hehenzollern, the
Grand Duke Of Roumania. is married to
a young italian woman whose acQuaint-
ance he made at Genoa the year before
he became ruler of the Danubian Prin-
cipalities.
II is now said that NJ. Henri Roche
fort will be confined In the Island of
Sainte Marguerite, on the coast of
Provence, and that he is to occupy the
cell in which the Man in the Iron Mask
was imprisoned for several years.
A FRENCH woman, calling herself
Madame Brigham Young, has been ar
rested IN Paris for INDUCING in what
she called the "Utah Cancan;" per-
Torrance compared to which the Paris
article is but a humdrum affair.
TIE Swiss Minister at Copenhagen
has been recalled by his government.
For several years he has done a thirty
ing business by importing goods into
Denmark free of duty, under the pre-
text that they were his own private
property.
The oriental carpet, that peace offer
ing from the Ottoman empire, IS to be
taken from the east room of the White
House and laid in the hall The fabric
was SO superlatively ugly that even its
elegant texture could not save it from
Punishment.
ALEXANDER II, the Gar 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 We'll" said the premier, "be
cause he drinks no water and wears red
flannel next his skin"
A LONDON letter says that at least
one-third, if not one-half, of the entire
population of that city is in favor of a
republican form of government in Great
Britain. The spread of republican
principles has been extraordinarily
rapid in England during the last two
years, and is now more rapid than
ever.
The Royal Horse Artillery have a
comfortable practice OF galloplng in
close section" The least false step
of horse, causing check in its speed
entails the certain destruction of its
rider-the whole battery passing over
him. A promising young officer IN
India was recently killed by this prac-
tice
THE damage done by the fire whicla
occurred in the Magazine des Louvre.
will not exceed $125, 600. The fire was
caused by the imprudence of one of the
gas conpany's workman, who was re-
pairing the gas pipes. The French in
STrance companies interested intend to
recover their losses from the gas COM
pany.
THE English arc a beer drinking peo-
pie. The last annual report shows q
total Of rl34s5se f Sew 6, 900, 600 and T.
900, 600 barrels year, and they pay a
license fee which foots up very nearly
So 900, 600 of our money. The value of
the beer exported from England to the
East Indies, China, Australia, United
States and elsewhere is neGr $4,000
600.
THIS is a description of terrible IN
FAINT In Fcntress county, Tennessee:
1.-The prodigy Is only three years old.
and weighs seventy-fve pounds; has
as much beard as twenty-year- old;
his feet are eight inches long, though
small for one of his build he is fond of
the society of girls, but the boys he de-
tests. His voice is coarse, and his fits
of passion are terrific"
A WHOLE page of the London Times.
December II, is occupied with an ad
vertisement of "The United Kingdom
Alliance 70 procure the total and I'M
mediate suppression of the traffic in all
Intoxicating liquors." 1t is proposed
to raise fund of 100000, of which
about e73, 600 has been already sub
scribed
THE investigation at Halifax, n. s.
into the conduct of DR.. Gussip, of the
steamship Franklin, continues. Fvi.
dence confirms the report that there
were twenty-eight deaths from cholera
while on the voyage, and two deaths
while the ship was in the harbor and
that the bodies were thrown overheard
The disease was Asiatic cholera.
A SOMEWHAT curious chase of pirate
is now maintained by the English gun
boat Growler, stationed at Rhodes.
which is engaged in constant pnrsuit
Of a Greek corsair, completely equipped