Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-11-11
Foreign Notes.
The centennial anniversary of
Cristofort, the inventor of the piano
forte, is to be celebrated in Italy.


The Germans have started a paper
in Alsace called the "New Strauss
burg" The Alsatians are lukewarm
in subscribing to it.
Don Carlos is still alive, and re-
fuses to be baptized either as Gran
dee or an Infant of Spain, as pro-
posed to him by his cousin Alfy.
France exports rags to America,
and we make paper money out of
them. If John Law was alive he
would emigrate across the seas.
Our of every hundred Russian
couples tying in wedlock fifty are un-
der twenty years of age, and two
thirds of the latter end in divorce or
French Consuls and Diplomates
are always in stew over trifies in
the countries where they are accredi-
ted. The phlegmatic Germans set
them an example of a different sort.
Out of forty brigands disturbing
the immediate enyirons of Palermo,
all but sixteen have been killed off.
The citizens there are beginning to
enjoy relative feeling of security.
The submarine tunnel between Ca
lais and Dover is to be fifty kilome-
tres in its entire length, but only
twenty-six viii be under the sea.
Its whole estimate cost is fifty mil
lions of dollars.
In France ''Old Probs" does not
exist. His functions are usurped by
astrologers and sorcerers, who pre-
diet in the almanacs what kind OF
weather there is to be during the
year following their publication.
Germany is the only modern Ma
tion that may be said to have cultiva
ted war scientifically. A sorry sci
ence to cultivate; at any rate she
had better stop that business now,
and try her hand on something less
noXious.
The Almanack de Gotha refuses to
include the Pope among its list of
reigning sovereigns to the, great
rage of the Big Toe circle. This
year it gave a prominent niche to
Mac Mahan, ruler of the oldest daugh-
ter of the Church.
Prince Frederick Charles, the "Red
Prince" who took Metz and Orleans,
is very fond of passing military re-
views. He didn't get belly full OF
soldiers and cannon during the late
war, as some of the privates in the
ranks did.
The Robecchino, an old block of
novels long renowned. and standing
in the neighborhood of the Cathedral
at Milan, was demolished by order of
the city authorities, in order to make
room for the late festive display in
honor of Kaiser William.
In Sicily some advanced thinkers
are endeavoring to establish the
germs of a National Catholic Church
without the aid of the Pope. Ad-
vanced thinkers are very rare in that
island, and some delay in effecting
the scheme will be inevitable.
Garibaldi, from Caprera, has is
sued a proclamation to the various
tribes and peoples of the East urg-
ing them to rise up and shake off the
Mussulman yoke; in other words, he
openly calls upon all the Sultan's sub
jects to cast that loving Beelzebub
out of Europe into Asia.
Field Marshal Won Moltke is very
punctual in attending the sittings of
the German Parliament. He is call
ed by his colleagues the "Great Taci-
turn" Probably he has little to say
because he feels like a fish out of
water among so many fine takers.
In the grand staff office he appears
quite at home, hugging his long sa-
ber.
In Rome murders and assassina-
tions have decreased since law and
order were introduced under the agis
of the Nation. Statistics also show
that the Romans are rapidly being
educated; but these statistics are not
issued by the Voce and Observatore'
the Pope's pet organs of public opin-
ion. These journals, on the con-
trary, tell a sorry tale-but it is a
false one.
bismarck has decided weakness
for strewing around loose kid gloves
and bucRskin gauntlets, odd and even
on his desk, chairs and sofas. It's
an innocent weakness, which doesn't
explode and kill any of his visitors,
and that's something gained to the
cause of humanity. Another OF his
affectations is the guarding of the en-
trance of his Foreign Office with two
huge statues of Sphinxes-inscruta-
BILE not infallible, like His Holiness.
The Prussian nobility is the most
punctillious of all Europe, being the
Youngest and most upstartish. A
noble officer of the Royal Guards re-
Gently undertook to marry an estl-
mable young lady without title, one'
in short, ''not born," when his com,
rades turned their back on him ana
contrived to make him leave tnat pi,
ticular branch of the army. Cas1e
is a fiourishing weed in the Deu'scn
Garden. j..
Herr Bibel, the famous SOCIALIST oil
Ie;nzio maintains that-in ten years
from now the cause of communism
will be triumphant in Germany.
bismarck, he says, is helping 1t
along pretty rapidly, but in order to
make punctual connection, the Com
munists themselves are working like
bees. Bakounine, the head of Rus
sian socialists, requires little more
time for his country, which is vast,
and, besides, before the Muscovy
Commune can be successfully estab-
lished it is essential, in his opinion,
that the masses be thoroughly inocu-
-. e