Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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DRESDEN is called the haven of
brOken-dOwn American familieS-peO-
pie of more name than bank notes.
THROAT and lung diseases are cpl
demic in Madrid. The drainage of the
city is said to be the worst in all
Europe.
IT is no secret that the Car hates
mis- English sOn-in-law, because of his
shabby treatment of his wife in public
on several occasions.
THERE were last year 1859 desert
ers from the English army, and for
some years past the assertions have
averaged twenty day. On the other
hand, there has been for the past six
months marked improvement in the
number as well as in the cases of re-
cruits at the military stations through
out England.
RESIDENTS in the neighbOrhood of
Mt. Vesuvius are apprehensive Of
trouble. The crater OF the volcano
has been chOked up by an immense
caying in Of sand and scaria, and the
mountain is making an effort to force
an opening in some direction. To do
this an extraordinary eruptive force
will be necessary. and the results will
be correspondingly serious.
ONE of the latest Partisan toys is
called the Eastern Question" 1t is
a steel crescent, around which hang a
certain number of rings strung to-
gether. The problem is to bring order
out of confusion, but the more one
tries to arrange them the greater is
the confusion. In the end, the toy
seller divides the crescent into several
pieces, and the rings arrange them
selves in the simplest way imaginable.
THE London papers record an ex-
traordinary shooting feat performed
recently by Cholmondeley Pennell.
He laid long odds that he could shoot
consecutively 100 pennies tossed in
the air. He selected some of the old
Georgian coins, as being heavier than
the modern bronze pieces, and less
likely, therefore, to be caught by the
wind. An old soldier threw each
penny up three feet above his head,
| and, as he threw, Mr. Pencil fired
with small shot, and hit every one of
the 100 cents.
THE Pail Mall Gazette advises all
travellers by rail to carry red hand
kerchief, and assigns the following
reason for so doing: A story is told
which shows the value of these arti-
Giles in moments of emergency. At
collision which occurred ut Wolver-
ton, on the London & Northwestern
| Railway, a short time since, the red
| lamps on the trains We're smashed and
rendered useless. The Scotch express
was due in few minutes at the scene
of the disaster, and consequently a
red light was urgently needed. Hap
PLY somebody present had red
pocket-handkerchief, which, being
placed over white light answered
the desired purpose, and the express
was brought to a Stand-still Just in
time to prevent still more lamenta-
bic catastrophe.
A PARTY of young peasants were
carousing in loft in Vouyray,
France, when one of the hungriest of
the party offered to bet five francs that
he would eat the nose and cheeks of
any one present. "A companion, well
endowed by nature, accepted the bet,
and lay down to the sacrifice. The
anthropophagist bit off his nose and
ate it. but when he came to the cheeks
the obliging companion paid the bet,
and, jumping up, tried to perform the
same delicate operation on his rival,
who declined to submit. A general
fight closed the savage scene, and the
jsvial party found themselves in the
police-station the following morning,
with the exception of the noseless
man. who was taken to the hospital to
have the stump of his prominent
facial organ attended to.