The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-17
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The London Balloon Society proposes to
fetch down some fog to analyze.
The bad times have caused a very serious
diminution, in many cases expected to be
permanent, in the income of the Oxford and
Cambridge Colleges.
The estate of an English miser named
Rhodes was lately wound up. 1t realized
$3.50, 900. The sale of his effects i'm his resi-
dence resulted in s2s.7 The property goes
to two charities-the London Free Hospital
and the National Life Boat Institution.
1t is wonderful how short-iived is Par
liamentary fame in England, when the
prominence ii gives at the time is consid-
cred. Thirty years ago Colonel Sibthorpe
and Joseph Hume were names as familiar
in the United Kingdom as Gladstone or
Disraeli. To-day not one man in 100 knows
who they were.
A very singular book has been published
in Germany. 1t purports to be written by
a lady to whom old King Leopold of Bel
GUM was married secretly about 1927, on
the condition that If he were called to a
throne the marriage should be considered
null and void. To this the lady consented;
but she now not only discloses the fact but
gives detailed account of the transaction,
and of her married life with Leopold.
In France horse-fesh, brought into FASH
ion at the siege of Paris, is gaining rather
than losing favor. Since 1876 the amount
consumed has risen from III 800 pounds to
nearly 1000, 900 pounds. In the year 1870
there were consumed at Marseilles $50
horses; in 1875, lob; in 1873, 1888; at
Nancy, in 1873 l65; in 1876, $50, and in
1878, 705. Similarly in Rheims and Lyons
the figures have advanced from year to
year.
In Roumelia the rose harvest is reported
to have been an exceedingly abundant one
this year, the value of the total yield exceed
ing it is estimated, 100000 francs. The
richest harvest of late years, however, was
in 1876, when $500 pounds of altar of roses,
of the value of 932,017 francs, was exported
from Philadelphia alone. The altar is prin-
cipally exported to France, Austria, Amer
lea, and Germany, England obtaining what
she requires from India. The French scent
manufacturers and especially the Partisan,
buy the finest qualities of altar, while the
second qualities are mostly sent to Russia
and Austria.
A duel was fought few days ago in
France between NJ. Alfred CASTER, the auth
or of the prohibited play "JuareZ," and NJ
de MiramOn, son of the former President of
Mexico. who took exception to the mention
of his fathers name in the piece. NJ. de
MiramOn received slight wound in the
hand. A curious feature in cOnnectiOn
with this duel is that though NJ de Mira
mon is an excellent fencer, and NJ. Gassier
had never previously handled sword the
encounter lasted over half an hour and
ended in the inexperienced swordsman
gaining the advantage.
The organization of the Partisan police
dates from the commencement of the pres
ent century. Dubois, the first Perfect APP
pointed, was man of great administrative
ability; and to his vigorous initiative the
new department owed its speedy establish
ment upon n broad, sound basis. In it's
main outlines this early organization re-
mains unchanged to this day. But natur-
ally it has been greatly amplified and ex-
panded in the course of years. II is now a
mighty engine, working with unfailing
regularity and far-reachipg action, and
holding all Paris-indirectly all France-in
its grip. Nothing is too great or too little
for its watchful attention.
Mr.. James Redpath, who Is to be indicted
by the English Government for his seditious
speeches in Ireland, was born at Berwick-on-
Tweed in 1888, and came to America with
his parents in 1S4S AT the age of nineteen
he became connected with the New York
Tribune. He was in Kansas from 1855 to
1857, and took an active part in the free soil
struggle. During the civil war he helped to
organize the colored schools IN Charleston
5. c. Afterward he became interested in
the movement for Haytian independence
and was one of the Joint Commissioners
sent by the Government to Washington In
1865 he went into the lecture agency bust
ness. At one time Mr.. Redpath was very
friendly with General Butler, and did a
great deal toward securing the Generals
second nomination to Congress in 1868. He
considers the Irish race at this moment to
be struggling against oppressors, and this is
probably the reason why he first went to
Ireland as correspondent, and afterward
took an active part in the agitation. He will
have only himself to blame if he is put into
an English prison.