, 1873-03-10
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

4 girls school for type-setting has been open
| ed in Vienna.
American ladies are said to be among the
most conspicuous gamblers at Monaco.
Nearly all tho officers OF Victor Emmanuel's
| household are furnished with American wives.
1t is proposed to add the nice sum of $780,
900 to the annual allowance OF the Prince Of
Wales.
Count Leopold Ferri, Of Panva, had library
consisting Of $4,000 volumes, all OF them COM
posed by female authors.
,-Bulwer tytton is credited 9Th tho remark
that *tthere ii something IL spirituallsm, but
nothing to benefit mankind
The British Royal Inirmary now admits lady
medical students to its wards: There was hot
contest over the question, and the vote Was very
close.
~. De Rosenthal, the celebrated chess play
er, played twenty games Of chess siraultane-
ousiy with as mauy Of the best players in Paris,
and won all but two.
"a You are q coward!" said q low cockney to
= poor countryman who had refused t2 fight.
:tNo,U boan't" said the ecountryman. IT have
nothing to do with cows, am a shepherd"
a French satistican who vouches for the
facts, states that Paris contains I, $50 hunch-
backs, 1924 individuals who have but one arm,
1145 with one leg. ITO crippleB IT without noses,
and without either legs Or ar1ns-
Evidently the Pope has heard OF the Credit
Mobilicr affair. He said to deputation OF
Americans, recently, that he hoped that material
things would not become the sole affections OF
IEQplc AOA 0AGS1o1AsO ANf0 UA A4%44Vo
corrupted the heart
-Telegaphic rates are far cheaper in the old
world than with us, yet the unthankful Europe
ans are not satisfied with the privileges which
they enjoy in this respect. The Edinburg Cham
ber Of Commerce has Just memorialized the
Postmaster-G General to reduce the existing tar1n
to the rata of sixpence (twelye cents) for twen-
ty-vord messages throughout the United King
dom.
The undergraduates Of Trinity College,
Dublin, have been indulging in the sport Of
snowbaEling within the college precincts. The
authorities evidently regard this rs crime only
less heinous than high treason, as they have
taken away = valuable scholarship from one
offender, banished second for year, and heav-
ily fined several Of tho others.
1T is rumored that shortly after Amadeus
first arrival at Madrid, tolerably conclusive proof
Was placed in his hands that the plot for the
cocted by, the Duo de Montpensier. The neWa
of Prim's assassination, it will be remembered,
reached the King as he first landed in Spain, and
ho WAS very anxious to bring his mu1derers to
JUSTICE but he was overruled in this as in nearly
everything else.
We read in the French papers that the
young King Of Bavaria has given 8 commission
to the celebrated Halbig for d colossal group
representing the crucifxion, to be erected on =
mountain commanding the valley Of the A1nmes,
in the Bavarinn highlands, the sceno OF the do
cennial Passion Play. The figure OF tho Saviour
il to be carved out OF an imnenso block OF mar
ble weighing upwards of !, 500 cwt:
DR.. G. Robinson, British electrician. has
consists in applying platinum wire heated to
1edness or Wilderness BY IN electric current to
the trees or woods which afo to be severed,
much in the same manner as It has hitherto been
employed on smaller scale in surgery. By 1T
ting the wire with handles, so az to bo able to
guide it in any direction, the most intricate fret
work eau be cut.
-Workmen will shortly be occupied in clear
ing away the ruins Of the Tuilerics, and the OPP
portunity will be taken to search for any objects
OF art that may have escaped the flames and the
Communists. The Pavilion Marsan, which is
still in the state to which it was reduced BY the
fire in May, 1871, will be the first attacked.
Hopes arc entertained Of finding several articles
in metals which the insurgents had not time to
carry of.
Prof. Chovreul, the eminent French chemist,
has made series OF experiments on tho stability
Of dyes impaired to silks, danaaks, aud fabrics
used in furnishing. The blue colors. he finds,
produced by indigo are stable; Prussian blue
but not OF soap; scarlet and car1ninos produced
by cochineal and lacdye arc fast; the most
stab1eyellows on silk are produced by weld.
1t is suggested in England that . law shall
be passed requiring that no strike including more
than 800 men shall be regarded ~ legal unless
the opinion of the norkmen has been first ex-
pressed in it's favor by ballot; aud also that dur
ing the progress Of the progress OF the strike &
minority Of reasonable number, may demand 3
fresh ballot to decide whether the strike shall
or shall not terminate. This plan is proposed
to counteract the exercise Of terrorism, which it
is SAID commonly causes and pro1ongs strikes.
The marriage OF Miss Rothschild, daughter
Of Sir Anthony Rothschild, aud the Hon. Eliot
Yorke, son OF the Ea1l OF Hardvicke, has
created Soma sensation in England, in conse-
quence Of . section OF the clergy Of the Church
OF England lodging cavcat in the diocesan
court At Ely against tho wedding being allowed
to proceed in the parish church at Nimpole, tho
bride being q Jewess. The Court, however,
wisely declined to interfere, and, after civil
be1ore tho eRe.ister-Gene:al. the second