Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-01
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes.
Mime Perron, who lately died in
Paris, has b~equeathed the sum
of $1,000 francs to the municipali-
ty of Marseilles for founding an asylum
for unfortunate dogs and horses.
-Whes King Theodore of Abyssinia
committed suicide, the English officers
found and brought away a little boy,
the son and heir of the dead King. The
lad has been educated in England, in
fact the Queen has in g. manner adopt
ed him. The Prince of Abyssinia is 10
at Rugby, visits the royal household
during his holidays, and is studious but
not smart.
"A widespread association, under
the name of Federation and Liberty;
has been discovered in Moscow, whose
aim it is to make Russia 8 Federal Re-
public. The Empire is to form five
separate States, united by a federation.
The dynasty is to be set aside, the aris-
tocracy abolished, and communal and
republican institutions to be introduced
on the most democratic basis. Numer-
Gus arrests have consequently been
made in Moscow.
The Empress of Germany is of
the most simply dressed of women, ex-
cept on occasions of ceremony. Her
bills are said to be less in amount than
those OF the wives of many of the Ber-
lin merchants. She not u~nfrequently is
seen driving out in a calico dress, and
the Princess Bismarck, fresh and come
ly, though past 81, s~uperintends her
farm work, goes about the house with
a great bunch of keys at her girdle in
the good old style, and her bedrooms
are filed with knitted quilts and such
articles, evidences of her own skill and
industry.
The town of Gheel, in the province
of Antwerp, has been for six centuries
an abode of madmen. There are H.
600 inhabitants in the place, and they
have charge of 1900 lunatics from
abroad, who are among the families,
and are treated with great considera-
ton. The children from youth are
familiarized with the business, and all
the people know how to manage those
committed to their charge. One OF the
greatest social punishments that a be
inflicted on a family is to declare that
it is unfit to receive such boarders. The
lunatics are disposed of among the in
habitants according to their wealth or
stations, the better families receiving
the weather. patients. The cures aver
age, it is said, from so to IS to the
hundred. Gheel is divided into four
districts, each with it's overseer and
physician. Large sums of money are
spent in the place by the patients, and
families generally are desirious of hay
ing one or more lunatics on their hands.
Odds and Ends.
in every man there is a poet who
dies young.-Ste. Bemve.
How difficult it is for a suffering
man to be a good mani Goethe.
Wisdom is the talent of buying vir-
tuous pleasures at the cheapest rate
Fielding.
in our windy world what's up is
faith, what's down is heresy.-Iemny
sons " Harold"
One of the most fatal temptations
to the weak is a slight deviation from
the truth, for the sake of apparent
good. :.
As riches and favor forsake q man,
we find him to be a fool; but nobody
could find it out7@in his prosperity
BTuyere.ye4 req ht9&T ~ aiss8 ssgiq31aJ IL
Beware of those who are homeless
by choice! Youtlave noahold onraaman
! whose affections have no ,%tap1root.-
Eoe@sHega Tag IfO na2ara tsaa xanisaaM
-Ho--Our Lord Godsdoth not like. . print,
Settsth the letters backward;sWe
Fseeaand feef weH the setting, but w
shall read the print yonder in the life
to come.-Marttn Luther.
Better to be a liars dog, and hold
My master honest, than believe that lying
And ruling men are fatal twins that can not
Move one without the other.
l -Xeasgson's Harold.