Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-11-23
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes. ~ ~
The Eighteenth, ACCOMPLISHMENT,
the most beautiful quarter in Paris, is
inhabited by one hundred Cresuses.
The Rothschilds family, and all Of the
wealthiest financiers, representing re-
markably large part of the wealth of
France, have dwellings in this vicinity.
"A Turk, residing for the past eight
months in Paris with a seragljo of eight
ladies, has been arrested. He at first
lived very privately, and his domestic
arrangements were not interfered with,
but the ladies finally formed acquaint-
ance with others and created q scandal
in the neighborhood. .....,.. ..., -.
When Lord Dufferin went to ball
at Reykjavik, he knew no Icelandic,
and so hazarded to che young ladies
some little complimentary observations
in Latin. But he adds: 6 can not say
that l found that language lends itself
readily to the gallantries OF the ball
room"
The Crown Prince of Germany has
recently distinguished himself in the
world of letters by well written little
narrative of his trip to Egypt to attend
the opening of the Suez Canal. The
book is entitled "My Journey to the
Land of the East in 1862" and only
forty copies have been printed and dis
tributed among those persons who
were the Crown Princes travelling COM
panions on the occasion.
Odds and Ends.
Buttons on the feminine dress are
smaller this winter. The old ones,
quoits-though some of them are too
heavy to pitch over 10 yards.
-" What is heavens best gift to
man?" asked young lady ON Sunday
night, smiling sweetly ON q pleasant
looking clerk. ga horse," replied the
young man, with great prudence.
In consequence of the alarming
war news from Europe received here
yesterday, real imported Havana cigars
in this city suddenly advanced from
three to two for five cents.-HGaOk-eye
Somebody remarks that young
ladies look upon boy as nuisance
until he is past the age of 16, when he
generally doubles up in value each
y
is priceless.
Christmas morning they stood be-
fore the altar, and the music of the
marriage-bells was sweeter to them
than the music of the spheres. Christ
Das morning four years later, bald
headed man jumped out of bed, half
distracted, and wanted to know why
his wife was such an internal fool as to
put a Christmas horn in that boys
stroking Brooklyn Argus.
Professor Cleland, of Galway, has
issued new work entitled ga Diction-
ary for the Dissection of the Human
Body" Such work supplies a long
felt want and must have large sale.
There is nothing more provoking and
discOuraging than to undertake to carve
q human body, and, being unable to
strike the joints, be compelled to twist
leg off in most painfully unscientifc
manner! The book will be handy to
They had performance of "Ro-
meo and Juliet''a at a Western rural thea
ter last week, says the New York Conn.,
n,ercdal, and when Juliet appeared on the
balcony with black eye, and Romeo
came bounding in arrayed in an Ulster
overcoat and beaver hat, it was too
much, and the audience, consisting of
three newspaper men, fourteen farmers,
and woman with baby, Indignantly
arose and demanded its money back.
Henry Islop McIvar, a native of
Edinburgh, is leader in the Servian
army. He has fought on four conti-
nents in twenty years, and almost al
ways on the side of the smallest num-
bers. He gained a medal in the Indian
mutiny, fought under Garibaldi in 1859,
under Lee in 1861, for the Mexicans
after the rebellion, with little Indian
skirmishing in Texas. He was in the
Cretan rebellion, served in Greece
against the brigands, was in the patri-
OF army in Cuba for while, and then
had a cavalry command in Egypt. He
fought in France under Faidherbe
against the Germans, turned up in
Paris as Communist, went to Herze
govina as correspondent of a London
paper, and is now leader OF Sevian