The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-14
Foreign Notes.

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Gwalior, distributed 800, 600 in presents
on the occasion of his marriage.
A STATUE by Foley, to John Stewart
Mill. is to be erected III the gardens ot
The Victoria Embankment at London.
The funds are already provided.
The work on the great Gothard tuni
mel is carried on by twelve hundred
laborers. On the Italian side the
opening is constantly flooded by water.
The death is announced of retired
Admiral Gill, in his ninety year.
He entered the navy in 1874, and was
present at the capture of Port-au-
Prince, st. Domingo. He was twice
wounded III action,
Ar Caen, ali actor who took the part
of Viceroy III ala Perichole" made
himself up as a caricature of Napoleon
Ill and introduced sighting and often
sive remarks about the dead emperor,
The play was interdieted by the per
feet
The first iron-clad built III Hull was
launched on the Goth ultimo. She was
christened the Almirante Cochrane.
The vessel belongs to the class of sea-
going iron-clads, and is for the CHILEAN
government. She is armOr plated, and
armed with six l23 ton Armstrong guns.
A sPLENDtDLY enamelled ehalice, the
work of Paul Raymond, the celebrated
enameller Of the sixteenth century, has
recently been acquired by the Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild. The chalice
was discovered by NJ Gerandau, an an
tiquary of Marseilles, who sold it to
the baron for 10, 00Ct
An important discovery of art OBJ
iects in gold, silver, bronze and iron,
belonging to a period previous to the
introduction of Christianity in Russia,
has been made in Alexanderople, in the
province of Erivan and, close upon
Alexandrianople itself, pagan temple
of vast dimensions has come to light.
YANKEE inventors of patent medicines
are not the only ones to detace nature
with advertisements of their uostrums.
The foreigners have caught the infec-
ton, and the very peaks of the Alps
are being daubed with the mammoth
lettered advertisements of Partisan shop
keepers.
WoRKA1EN have begun laying down, in
San Paolo, the finest mosaic represent
ing the Madonna di Monte Luce, exc
cuted by arrests attached to the studio
in the Vatican The Pope has ordered
from the artists copy in mosaic of
Raphaels &" Conversion Of St. Paul"
ENGLAND is not slow to honor the
claims of her successful sons. Capt.
Lambton Lorraine, the perfect brick"
of the Niobe, has been promoted to
Admiral, and already Sir Garnet VOL
seley finds himself elevated to peer
age for his splendid conduct of the Ash
antee war.
EVIDENCE was given in a poaching
case, heard by the bennington 'nagis-
trates, that trained dogs are let out to
poachers at a shilling night. The ami
mails, it is said, have quite lost the
canine habit of attachment to one par
ticular person, and will go with any one
provided he carries rabbit nets.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette points out that III Ans
tria socialist propaganda, which at one
time possessed a certain Importance,
has become SO insignificant as no long
er to attract public attention. One of
the chief causes of this is the enor-
nous increase in the rate of wages in
Austria produced by the Vienna exhi-
bltion.
A TERRIBLE explosion of fish tor
pedo occurred on the 2Sth ultImo at
Woolwich Arsenal. Six men were oil
ing the bearings and turning a screw
to make the machinery of the torpedo
work more freely, when the air cham
Der exploded with loud report. One
man was killed on the spot and another
was fatally hurt. Only one of the six
men escaped serious injury.
THE French Government, acting on
the recommendation Of the Committee
on fortiication, has determined to keep
for the next five years 5000 pairs of
carrier pigeons for breeding purposes
for service in war time. Each fortress
will have military pigeon home, and
each pigeon home viii contain 5000
birds. Two general stations viii be
established, at each of which $4,000
pigeons viii be kept. The German
fortresses at Metz and Strasburg have
been for a year past connected with
other German forts by a system of
carrier pigeons.
SOME time since the steamer Dhoolia
was wrecked in the Red Sea. Among
the wreckage, sold for mere song, was
a box, supposed to contain nothing val
liable, but afterward discovered by
Egyptians to contain damaged Indian
postage stamps to the value Of about
four lakhs of rupees (E40, 000). The
stamps had been manufactured III Eng
land for the Indian Post Office, and
sent out as cargo with no proper de-
scription or declaration of value These
stamps are finding their way into India
through various channels; they would
be no loss to the country if at the bot
tom of the ocean, but, being found and
sold, are likely to cost the Government
of India little short of G40, 600.
The cultivation of the iquorice
plant in England is confined to the
neighborhood of Pontefract The plant
resembles a bunch of young ash sap
hngs, growing in twigs of four and five
from each root to about two feet in
height. The roots are about two or
three feet deep, requiring very deep
soil for full growth. At first it is set
III deep trench, and afterwards earth
ed up like celery. Cabbages are gener-
ally grown in the burrows, which come
to perfection some weeks earlier than
those on the open market gardens, from
the shelter of the ridges.
A LETTER from Florence to the Bos-
ton RepIStar dated Dacar, bar 90 Oovc