Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-19

The next meeting of the international con-
gress on prisons, which has just adjourned in
Stockholm, will take place in Rome. Ameliora-
tion of prison life is its object.
Paul de Cassagnac has renowned dueling,
and intends to fight no more, except under ex-
treme provocation. There's nothing like
niatrimony to tame man down.
The Ursuline convent at Breslau, founded in
1888, has been suppressed by the German
thorities. The nuns will probably retire to
Marseilles where they will teach.
The Rev. Mr.. Cowan, formerly Presbyterian
minister, and recently of the Reformed Episco-
pal Church, has been confirmed by Bishop
MacLaren, of the Episcopal Church.
Cardinal Franchi left no will. His fortune
is valued at $l60, 900, which will be divided be-
tween his brother, Signor Curzio, a notary of
Rome, and his three married sisters.
A Presbyterian paper reports that worthy
minister desires q decent suit of clothes in
which to appear in the pulpit. He gives his
height six feet and weight $50 pounds.
tavern keeper in Bristol, England, has re-
linqnished selling beer and strong liquors over
his bar, and confines himself to milk. He does
good business and has no license to pay.
At Montery, at low tide, can still be seen the
wreck of the Natalia the ship on which Napo-
leon escaped from Elba. She brought to Cali
Mr.. Buck. of Meriden, Conn, has made of
fifteen grains of gold and silver perfect steam
engine, which will run for twenty minutes with
| the steam generated from three drops of
| water.
Two superhuous thumbs were cut away from
| the hand of the child of Oliver Metty, of Mon
roe, Michigan, when 1T was but few hours OLD.
This is the youngest victim of the scalpel on
/ record.
Mayors in Italy do not appear to command a
very high price. The mayor of Fusignano, near
| Bologna was carried off by brigands few
days ago, but was released on paying ransom
of $120.
Wedding cards are advertised, in large type,
in some of the Texas newspapers. One couple
| filled half column with an announcement of
the ceremony and an invitation to their friends
| to attend.
The Baroness Burdett Coutts entertained all
her tenants at tea recently. They numbered
| about thousand and had a very pleasant
time in going over the mansion and grounds at
Highgate.
A French senator and magistrate has been
caught cheating at cards. and the authorities
are somewhat puzzled to get at him, since as a
| senator he is inviolable and as magistrate not
| to be removed.
Gamb ling has been largely on the increasein
| London this season. The sales of one of the
| leading manufacturers of playing cards show
an increase of eleven hundred dozen packs
| over last year.
An artesian well $3.50 feet deep has been
bored in Pesth, Hungary. 1t is the deepest in
| the world, being early twice the depth of that
in Paris. It sends up a jet of nearly boiling
| water forty-two feet high.
Cardinal Manning says that Mohammedans
and Hlndoos are water drinkers and that their
only way of intoxication is from opium. In
toxication by distilled spirits, says the Cardi-
nal, is peculiarly Christian vice.
Montreal has decided to clean up little
| but the decision arrived at only after the
Post had stated that it was customary to leave
a dead horse on the public thoroughfares until
the dogs removed him pound at time.
The United States is the only great nation
to-day in the happy condition of exporting
much and importing little. All the others are
compelled to go outside of their limits for
bread and meat and other necessaries OF life.
English steel pens are almost entirely made
by women. In 1881 the first gross of ''three-
slit' steel pens was sold wholesale at e7 As. the
gross. In 1880 they had fallen to IS. and in
1882 to 6s. the gross. A better article is now
sold at Cd. per gross.
Mr.. Frederick Vokes the leading member of
| the Vokes family, has sustained severe loss
by the destruction by fire of his picturesque
suburban residence, Lillian Lodge, Fulham
road, London. TIE house, formerly known as
Arundel house, was erected in the reign of
Henry VIII.
The Roman Catholic episcopate counts 1,127
prelates, 80 of them of Leo Kills creation,
1,020 of Plus ks, and " of Gregory XVI.'s.
Two hundred and ffty-two of these-9 cardi-
nails, patriarchs, At archbishops, 1914 bishops
: Lifelong to the various orders; of these only 10
are Jesuits.
The letter boxes at Liverpool have spring
attached to the flap, and when a letter is push
ed in plate moves and shows the hour of the
last clearance. People can thus tell if they are
in time for certain mail, and a check is had
on the postman charged with emptying the
box.
The Duke of Westminster recently enter
tanned the company from the London Opera
Comique at his riderside retreat at Chiveden
| They went up in steamboat dressed out with
pinafores instead of flags, in allusion to the
piece, III: NJ. s. Pinafore," which they are
playing at present.
Mrs. De Gross and her 10-year-old daughter
| made up their minds to drown themselves in
the river at Alton, Ill. They waded into the
stream, and the mother obligingly aided the
child by holding her head under water; but
her courage failed when her own turn came to
| die, and she got ashore.