The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-04-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The Vatican Library contains
10000 printed books and 25'OW manu-
scripts.
The bleak and remote farm of
Craigen Puttock, Dumfrieshire, where
for six years Carlyle lived in deep seclu-
sion with his wife (and which he has
now bequeathed to Edinburgh Univer-
sity). came to him from her. Mrs.
CARLYLE. NE Welsh, was descendant Of
John Knox.
The exposition for inventions and
applications of electricity to be held in
Paris is to have exhibits from Germany,
En- gland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Swift |
zer!and, the United States, and perhaps
o.her nations. The Germans expect to
make n sensation with locomotives pro-
PEELED by electricity.
--Thc total completion Of the St.
Gothard tunnel will very likely take
place next July; the railway is to be
opened in July, 1882. The mailbags are
even now carried through the tunnel by
messengers when rough weather pre-
walls upon the mountain. Arrange.
ments will, be made to illuminate the
whole tunnel by electric light.
Three young women of St. Denis,
Paris, were married recently and dow
cred with some gifts provided many
years ago by benevolent gentleman
for annual distribution to "three poor
and meritorious' damscls Of that city on
the occasion Of their nuptials. They are
known Us the three annual r0Sieres.
Each of them received $l2O in money, q
diploma certifying that she was meri-
torious, and a silver medal.
The London Society of Arts has de-
cided to award three silver medals for
as many London houses Us may be found,
on examination, to be furnished with the
best known sanitary appliances. The
conditions include proper provisions
against frost, infection, damp, and 9TH
er cognate evils. The comment Of an
English contemporary on this is that If
the Judges have to visit the metropolitan
houses until they discover three worthy
of the prizes, the peripatetic labors of
Diogenes will be trivial compared with
their task. "a. 4u.. ,......
The late Prince Imperial was the
last Napoleon that set foot in the park
at Alalmaison. He was playing there a
few days before the outbreak Of the war
that cost him his inheritance, and a
! thunderstorm rising, the lightning
struck the tree planted there by Napo-
leon /. in the presence Of Josephine.
; The tree gradually withered, and it was
at last cut down with other decaying and
defacing timber, and as it happened, to
: the satisfaction 9of the superstition Of
, the neighboring country people, on thu
very day that the Zulu dssegais laid low
,, the Prince. -YeF r. T, y.
Previous to his marriage, Mr.. w
l.. Ashmead Bartlett had applied fol-
and obtained lie royal license to assume
the name of Burdett. Coutts, which HI
! electedto bear before that of Bartlett
> He was unwilling to allow his famil.
name to disappear, - it would probabl!!
. have done had it been placed before
that of Burdett- Coutts. This change 0
:. name has nothing to do with the will o
. the Duchess Of St. Adams, but has beer
: made in order that Mr.. Bartlett should
as is not unusual in cases of marriage
= with great heiresses, bear in conjunc
Z ton with his own the namo Of the lad!
! he has married. Mr.. Bartlett will appl!
!. ut once for the additional name Q
|. Coutts, In compliance with the injunc
;. ton laid down in the Duchess's will, T.
! the effect that any husband Of the pos
" SCISSOR Of the bank property shall, with
= in six months aftorthe marriage, assum
:. the name of Coutts. BY this arrange
- ment Mr.. Bartlett will comply with tn
y Duchess's will, and will, in addition
= bear the name Of the baroness.