Sharp County record., 1878-04-05

A letter was found on his person from
his sweetheart, discarding him, and his
friends state he said he was tired OF Life.
Foreign Notes.
-Garibaldi will visit Paris during
the Exposition, and be the guest of Vic
tor Hugo.
A Paris journal estimates at $4,000
the number Of American visitors who
will spend freely the dollars of their
daddies at the Paris worlds fair.
The German Government is about
to commence experiments with the tele-
phone, with a view to introducing that
instrument into the governmental tel
egraphic service.
The Italian exploring expedition,
which attempted to penetrate into the
interior of Africa, has been attacked by
the King of Shoa, and compelled to re-
turn to the coast.
Col. Forney says that a study Of
the faces of the members of Parliament
shows them very like Our own Congress-
men, "with this marked difference
not one of them was a tobacco-chewer,
and there was not symptom Of dlssl-
patton"
The St. Petersburg Gazette celebrated
its 152d anniversary last month by pub
fishing fac Sin1jle of it first number.
The language Of the initial number was
2 mixture Of Russian and Slav, and is
found difficult of comprehension by
modern Russians.
Every editor Of a paper in Madrid
has received the grand cross or com
mandery of Isabella the Ca5holic, and
among other recipients of favor com
memorative of the royal marriage are a
musical critic, painter, and large
body of professors and inspectors OF
schools.
The fighting editors of the Paris
papers practise fencing during their
leisure hours. A S0lle d'arn1eS has been
opened in the offices of the lie FE00To,
and the brain-workers frequently drop
their pens, and, donning plastron, mask,
and gloves, find relaxation in inVigorat-
ing exercise.
The name of D'Israeli has never
been borne by any other family than that
of the present Lord BeacOnSfeId, and,
as he has no living relatives, will expire
with him. Among the6OO,OOO Jews eX-
PEELED from Spain in the sixteenth cen
tury was an ancestor of the Premier,
who at that time assumed the name Of
D'Israeli. The father of BeaconStleIi
withdrew from the Synagogue in Lon
don because he had been fined t4O for
refusing to serve as Warden.
At the recent royal wedding in Ber-
lin, a special attraction Of the supper
was two gigantic wedding-cakes which
the Crown Princess had ordered from
England, and which were new to Ger
man eyes and mouths. At the royal
table, Princes and Dukes handed about
soup-tureens and poured out the spark
ling wine. These important functions
are hereditary, and appertain to some
of the most distinguished families in the
land.
Edward King writes Of bumptious
scion of royalty now in England: "The
young Crown Prince of Austria has not
made many friends here personally,
however people may feel toward him
politically. He is altogether too exact
ing, and can not understand why it is
that noblemen and gentlemen don't bow
and scrape before him as they are com
pelled to do in Austria. When he is
riding after the hounds, if any one dares
to get ahead of him-as many people
do, for an earthquake would not stop an
Englishman who is about to clear a
fence-he flies into frightful rage.
Folks began by laughing at him; they
are concluding by being very angry with
! him for his assumption. -