The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-07-06
Foreign Notes,

IHE Grand Duke of Mecklenhuro
has been presented by the Vicerov 81
Egypt with an obelisk to be erected in
the castle garden at Schwerin.
THE celebrated lion from which
Landseer took his models for Nelson's
monument, IN London, has Just died nj
the Geological garden, aged %
HE Milo Venus IN the Louvre mn.
scum has, it is said, been entirely 70,
Vlved by renovating process tried
upon it,
DEEs1DE, the line of railway from
Aberdeen to Balmoral, over which the
Queen travels to her Highland home,
has the most lovely scenery in Scot
land
HE settlement of Napoleuh's civil
list shows that France owes the ex-Em-
peror 5000, 900 francs. President
liners has directed this sum to be paid
HE first part has Just appeared of
the long expected "Flora of British
India, by DR.. J. y. Hooker. publish
ed under the authority of the Duke of
Argyll
HE cochineal insect is now largely
raised III the Canary Islands, and Qua
temala is suffering from the competi-
ton.
HE famine IN Persia is likely to be
followed by season of plenty, as the
crops are reported to be III magnificent
condition
A ST. LoUIsAN was recently impris-
oned Tor three days in France on the
hot no, n, ~
The favorlte room of President
liners, at the Palace Elysee, III Paris
is the same in which he refused. in
1919, to become a Minister of Louis
Napoleon,
PROBABLY the finest museum of paint
lngs III the world is that at Madrid.
containing over 10 original Murillos.
10 Raf&ls, 90 Rubens, 40 Titlans, 60
Nalesquez, etc.
Among the passengers carried on
railways there are killed or injured in
Great Britain | in 40, 600; III Belgium.
L IN 900, 600; IN Prussia, | in 1000
900 and III France, in 4 geo. 600.
A man who is known as SILLY Kel-
lev = died the other day at Edinburgh
at the age of ei2hty-two He had been
convicted III the police court $50 times.
and had spent upwards of forty years
III prison.
Austrian abso ,utism has lost its main
pillar Ill the death of the Archduchess
Sophia. The seyerest blow TO her
PRIDE, II not to her affections was the
execution of her eo,1 Macmillan In
Mexico.
Baron Ausfess, the founder of the
Nuremburg museum, was recently
kicked to death by two German profess
sors ut the opening of the University oil
Strasbourg. The German savans mis-
took him for Frenchman
The new express from Paris to Rome
began running June |. 1t consists of
tour tirst-class cars, travels 40 miles
per hour, and completes the distance
III 81 hours, starting from Paris at
A Nj, and arriving at Rome at 6 P. NJ.
on the following day.
LORD IYTroN, now Just 81 years old,
lives IN almost complete retirement.
looking after his health. He stoops,
is exceedingly deaf, and has altogether
strange look Of antiquity His only
son, "o"en Meredith, " now a middle
aged man, is in the diplomatic service.
NJ THEIRS dinners ut EIyses are done
by contract. They cost 40 francs a
head-Orleanists, legirmists and radi-
Gals all costing the same, without ref
erence to the quantities they may re-
spectively consume. The cost of the
buffet for the evening is $3.50
\ STOCK of carrier pigeons are TO be
Systematically raised and trained in the
geological Gardens of Berlin, the ex-
perionce OF the late war being assumed
To have shown that in sieges carrier
pigeons are of great value to the be
sieged. Carrier pigeons have been dis
trlbuted among the principal fortresses
already.
GARIBALDI is growing old very fast
He now can walk only with the help of
cruuches; his fingers are distorted with
rheumatism, and he looks as if he never
again would be able to leave his resi-
dence, except IN Il litter. lie is still
cheerful in spite of his crippled state,
and his face has preserved ITS fresh
color and genuine expression.