Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

IREAT britain has nearly 900 miles of
inland boat navigation.
GREAT BRITAIN has nearly Ave thousand
miles of inland boat navigation.
SPAIN, Mt the present time, has $50
generals ON the active list of the army.
A LEADING hotel in Dundee, Scotland,
is furnished throughout with furniture
made in Grand Rapids, Mich.
TnE difference between horse radish
and reddish horse is this: One is not
a horse at all, and the other is horse of
another color
IT is said that the Russian minister of
war intends to form no less than fortys
five camps this year for the INSTRUCTION
of troops for the Russian army.
THE Chinese are given to charity. In
summer vases of cold ten are sometimes
set at the doors Of the rich that the poor
wayfarer may drink and I've refreshed,
and IN winter the tea is replaced by hot
ginger soup.
The Notifications Mt the mouth of the
Thames and Midway are nav completed,
ant. as soon as the chain forts are fin
ished tho approaches to London may be
chased as inyunerable against the at
tempts of an enemy.
THE bamboo lance, says London Truth,
has been Tor many years IN use IN our
Indian army lately it has been adopted
by the Germans, and at last, after much
stupid indecision, it is to come into use
in the English cavalry,
"THE Temple of Glory of Russia 5" is
the name of building which it is pro-
posed to erect on an island in the Neva at
St Petersburg, opposite the Winter
palace. The internal arrangements are
to represent the history of the empire.
A YOUNG man who recently abeconded
from q postoiiice in the south Of France,
after committing embezzlements, has
beer arrested i'll diapers shop IN the
Faubourg st. Denis, IN Paris, in which
he was serving behind the counter M n
female.
FARHIoNABLE pickpockets of London
tickle the noses of ladies who happen to
be looking into shop windows, The fair
hand involuntarily applies the white
handkerchief to the itching nose, and
the naughty thief steals the purse from
the exposed pocket.
A PEASANT who had during fifty years
dressed in female attire and being con-
sidered woman, was recently sent to a
hospital in Milan, and was there discov-
cred by the surgeon in charge to be n
man. The supposed woman had been
formerly married to man.
COUNT CoRTI'sremnins have been taken
to Milan for C nation. II has now be-
come the fashion for nristocratic Italians
to have their bodies reduced to ashes
and mt Milan incarceration has become sO
ordinary thing that the administration
has published regulations concerning it.
M. GUsTAvE GIRET, Frenchman, has
discovered method of preserving vine
leaves for food, which he has tried for
two years. After being preserved for
several months the leaves are in M good
condition M when fresh cut, md sheep
and oxen are said to be very fond of
them rs food,
ENGLAND has a new pest, the tipula
grub, which ultimately blossoms INTO II
Daddy Longlegs 1t goes to the root Of
every green thing with amazing appetite,
and so serious are its ravnges that the
Royal Agricultural society has issued nm
elaborate description OF it and Its little
ways.
TURKISH papers announce that, during
an earthquake which took place couple
of weeks ago, the village of He1eddi, in
the neighborhood of Smope, WAS com
pletely swallowed up by the sea. Not n
trace remains Of its sixty houses and
mosque The villagers were all able to
save themselves SO that not one of them
suffered any harm.
THEY are expecting in Paris Swede
who travels IN wagon drawn by three
large Icelandic dogs. In his wagon are
provisions, clothes, guns and ball cart
ridges. He left Stockholm nearly three
months ago, has traversed Norway and
Sweden, and Will, after visiting the
Hague. Brussels and Paris, return as he
came. He wasin Berlin at last accounts.
The Brighton and South Sea com
pany have rcviveds the project
Of! supplying London with sea
water. Engineers have shown over
and over again that the thing is feasible,
and statisticians have proved IT would
be profitable. Seeing that the estimated
cost would be sixpence per gallon, the
eau dc D1er will clearly be within the
limit of luxury The idea of the pro
moters TO establish little bathing houses
and the imitation seaside, not even in
suburban haunts, but even in the back
yard Of the private citizen, with salt
water tank, few loads Of sea-sand to