The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-19
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign GOSSIP
The lady students Of Edinburgh Uni
yersity have to pay S4.2il costs in the law
suits To establish their claims 10 medical ed
ucation.
1t Is stated in AN official document just
issued, tat during the last three years no
less than l.63s sailors in the British mer-
chant service have been sen 10 prison for
refusing TO 20 TO sea.
1t is said that no less than $4,000 Amer
lean citizens spend their money and show
their patriotism by residing in Paris. One
of the most extravagant of these non-resi-
dent citizens for whom their own country
is not good enough owns a patent on a
sewing machine, from which he draws his
revenue.
The Grand Duke Alexis. who is said
10 have been sent abroad TO see ii SOM OF
the princesses of the world would not cap
tiyate him. is not To be captivated. but re-
mains true 10 his love for Mademoiselle
Ionvoski. the daughter of the Cars for
mer tutor. and his imperial papa has con-
sented TO a morganatic marriage with her
such as the Duke of Sussex made with
the Duchess of Inverness.
A correspondent writing from Lon
UDl. rtNHs Int Il Illtt-~ vi III II Oiit
of the l~oyelicst looking women ] ever saw.
She Is tall and perfectly formed. Herman
ners are winsome and wholly unaffected.
and her every movement graceful. Her
face is all sunshine and sweetness. and n
never to be forgotten. Her popularity in
England j. very great. all classes regard
ing her with peculiar affection, moi more
for her peerless beauty than for her FAULT
less character as "A wife and MOTHER
Visitors TO Vienna are cautioned by
DIR. Maddox. who recently read a paper
upon parasitic worms at "a meeting of the
ROYAL Microscopical Society. London.
against eating beef that Is not thoroughly
cooked. Austrian oxen are very subject TO
the fivecapped bladder-worm. which is m
of the forms Of a species of tape-worm.
Persons eating beef in which this parasite
exists in it, embryo condition become I'M
whiting and unwilling hosts OF this I'M
pleasant parasite.
Recent accounts confirm the report of
a religious reaction in Japan. The stu
dents of the college at Jeddo have been
forbidden TO attend Christian worship.
The seventh-lay rest. adopted with the
change of calendar. has been abolished in
the Department of Education. and a fiffh-
dav rest substituted. The Department of
| IuiAtstllDil itsAN IL al - WfFAa
ding the employment of religious teachers
and missionaries in any school. public or
private. There has been al the same time
Il revival of the heather spirit i'm an at
tempted combination of Buddhism and
ShintoOism.
"A letter from Japan says that a Life
of Washington" j. announcedby a leddo
publisher. This literary novelty i brought
out in no less than forty-four volumes in
the Japanese characters. and u proflsely
illustrated i'm the highest style of art.
Washington Is represented in the clothes
and fashion of the present day. and with a
mouStache. carrying a cane. and accompa-
MED by skye-tcrrier. He is gazing at a
lady with a train. a Grecian bend. and a
hideous waterfall. Asst j. the first attempt
of the kind. and as il is a great curiosity
in itself. the book would be "A great addi-
ton to the collection of a bibliomaniac.
Henry WatterSon. writingto the Louis
Vile C0uricr-JoHypdi says OF living" in
Paris, that beef and mutton form the basis
Of everything. BY the aid of t%rufiies.
mushrooms. and olives they are tortured
into a thousand forms; and. to this extent.
one has no right To complain. lie can
not complain of good beef. lie
cannot complain of good mutton. lie
Is an ass if he complains of trutiies. mush-
rooms, and olives. But i'm the long un. a
man gets tired of cen these Injuries. and
beginsto :. hoan" after something dn Hatu-
rel. such as n bit of stewed terrapin, or a
crisp soft-shell crab. or canyas-back duck.
or "A pompano, ora plump. fresh partridge.
or a young. c%ontrahand prairie hen. or
even chicken. He can get none of these
in Paris. Their game j. nearly always
foul. If YOU ret ii pure and sweet it i by
chance. In cities of such magnitude n
this the keeping of game i a sort Of neces-
sity. This being the fact the Paris caterers
long ago got out the notion that game
is better the longer ii is kept-a rank and
poisonous lie.