The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-11-12
FOREIGN Notes.

Foreign Notes.
The new opera house Of London 10
be built on the Thames embankment
will be the biggest and grandest in the
city. A railroad will be run up TO it,
doors for the convenience Of the theater-
going public. Mr.. John Fowler. the
eminent engineer, will superintend the
building Of the new structure.
If the proposition Of abolishing
clerical patronage in Prussia is adopted,
there will be quite a revolution in the in
terests Of the church In connection
with the Roman Catholic Church there
are over 1860 ecclesiastical offices in
the gift Of private patrons, about 800 in
that Of the State, and $500 in that Of
the Bishops.
An English surveying party in the
interior of India succeeded lately in
capturing a couple of wild people, a
man and woman, who inhabit the noun
famous district Of the Western Ghauts
They are of dwarfed stature, and have
no fixed dwelling places, but sleep on
any convenient spot, generally between
two rocks OF in caves.
English fruit growers claim to have
discovered destructive enemy in the
bee, and "A CORES pondent Of the London
Times writes that in the Argentine Re
public the grapes were destroyed yeal
after year by the honey-gathering in.
sects, until at length the evil becam,
un bearable, and a law was passed pro
viding that bees should not be KEEP
within circuit of six miles Of a town,
which is still in force. Another CORE
spondent of the Times, writing from
France, saws that during six years thai
he occupied large garden at Caen full
of the best fruit and averaging 5000
punches of grapes, half the crop anc
usually two-thirds was destroyed every
year by bees.
1t is Just little curious, says the
London World, that Mr.. Henry Aler:
Hankey, whose house and observatory
at Queen Anne's gate were burnt down
last week. has been for many years al
most as great an amateur or follower %
fires as the Duke Of Sutherland himself
Many years ago Mr.. Hankey built him
self an observatory on the top Of his
house in Portland Place, which he de
lighted TO use as a smoking room of al
evening, having brougham ready be
low to start off directly he noticed the
glare of fire from his watch tower
But the physician in this instance coulc
not guard himself, and Mr.. Hankey ha:
now fallen a victim to the devouring
element" whose ravages he has fol
years been so fond of watching.
1t has been said that the only way
10 be sure that YOU get undiluted milk
is 10 have the milking done under your
own eve, but even this cannot always
be depended upon. In Europe, where
asses milk is much esteemed for IL
curative properties, it is a common
thing to lead the animals To the Gus
toners door to be MIXED. A recent
Continental traveller, referring to thi:
custom. asserts that "the ass-milker:
i'm the Italian towns usually carry Z
bladder of lukewarm water under THEN
cloaks, kept up to the heat Of the body
under the armpits, Of the contents OF
which they furtively infuse portion in.
to the several milk-jugs in the face 81
the domestics. who never suspect the
trick. Thus are poor patients, when
given up by the faculty and sent to Ian
guish under an Italian sun, and die
turned over to the tender mercies o.
tricksters, generally the associates ol
creatures of cheating hotel keepers"