The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-10-10
Foreign Notes.


Foreign Notes.
The Arehduchess Marie Christine,
in addition to her other accomplish
ments, occupies herself with woOd-carv-
ing.
The Communists shipped back from
Caledonia to Paris complain bitterly of
the treatment inflicted on them by the
MacMahon authorities. They were ILL
fed, OverwOrked, and constantly ex-
posed to the burning sun.
In the silk factories of Italy 12O, 428
women are employed, besides 26,976 in
cotton, and -, 7O7 in tobacco factories.
There are 9,177 manufacturing estab-
lishments of all kinds in the kingdom,
employing 392, O48 labOrers, 1873, 486 of
whom are women.
DR.. Petersen, a German tourist,
lately reached the highest point of the
Jungfrau, 12,S28 feet. He was re-
warded by an hour of clear sky. He
declared that he could see the whole
chain of the Alps, from the furthest
Tyrol to Dauphine, including Mont
Blanc and the other southern giants.
The present theatrical wonder of
Paris is 'sThe Black Venus,'' play
representing the adventures of trav-
eler in Africa. The quantity and gor-
geOusness of the costumes and scenery
are unprecedented on the stage; but the
most striking feature is caravan, in
which more than hundred African
beasts, from the zebra to the elephant,
are introduced.
Even in plodding Holland public
men enjoying unlimited confidence
sometimes turn out defaulters. This
has been the case with Dirk Null, bank
err, of Winschoten; but the Dutch do
not yet take such doings cOolly, and all
Mul's windows were smashed, and his
brother, a goldsmith, underwent the Vi
carious sacrifice of having his store
sacked.
Lionel TennysOn, son of the poet,
is to sscceed to the Lincolnshire estate
of his uncle, the Rev. Charles Turner,
whose surname he will consequently as
sumo. He is the Laureate's younger
son, and he married the daughter of an
other poet, Frederick Locker, in the
Abbey, about two years ago. His ia
Their lately refused to take the property
with the condition of changing his name
to Turner.
The royal family of Spain have
spent the summer in the Guadarrama
Mountains, $500 feet above the level of
the sea. It was bought from monks
by Philip w., the Bourbon Prince who
undertook to perpetuate the Hapsburg
dynasty in Spain as heir of his grand
mother, Maria Theresa. Philip V. built
here palace. and laid out gardens in
imitation of Versailles, employing his
time from 1719 to 174O with such disre-
gard of the cost that the gardens alone
caused an outlay of $45, OOO, 600. 1t re-
turn for this expense the King had, as
he was heard to say, the satisfaction OF a
habitatiOn higher in air than any other
sovereign in Europe.
"A new feature in London society is
the employment of paid amateur per-
formers at private entertainments. I" You
90 to one house," says a monthly mag
azine, Sand listen to young man
pleasantly warbling at the piano to q
hushed crowd, and your hostess tells you
in whisper that he is very much in re-
quest and that she pays him 10 guineas
for his three songs. The next evening
you are at dinner, and there, opposite
you, is the young man, whom, in the
simplicity Of your heart you regarded as
an ordinary professional vocalist, and
you find that he is an officer retired from
service, and the nephew of Bishop:
At third house you meet medieval
designer; at q fourth, a comic enter
tainer; at fifth, a reader; at sixth,
an amateur actor, and so on-all young
men of the most irreproachable cOnnec-
tons, all in society,"; and all who re-
ccive payment in solid cash for their
services
Odds and Ends.
You may brush, you may crush
your old coat if you will, but the smell
of the camphor win cling to it still.
Woman are archers by nature. The
bent of their inclinations is to bend