The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-09-06
NEWS FROM ABROAD.

In Buenos Ayres It takes SO In pa
per money to buy 81 in gold.
London has more than . thousand
charitable institutions. The aggre-
gate income Of these IL over 500, ,OO, :
100.
The singing of q turlesque hymn
In q London theatre, intended to rid
ic,le the salvation Army, was firi-
ousiy Missed by the audience.
Experiments at q cost Of SIG, 900 are
being made ut Berne with view to
traction through the st. Go hard
tunnel by means Of electricity.
Queen Victoria Invariably trans
acts her public business between
breakfast aud luncheon, and hardly
once In month does she concern
ilersell with public affairs ut any 9TH
er time.
Hamil Pasha, whom the French
are desirOus to create Khedtve In
place Of Tewfik, IL alnlGst = French
man, having lived . greater part Of
his life in Paris, and adopted French
manners and customs.
Garibaldi's ''fatler-in-law," the
Marquis GiorgiO RaiInOndt OdescaI-
Chi, father Of the Amazon whom
Garibadi married during the ca':i-
paign Of 1859, and left on the same
day has just died.
Archbishop Lynch, Of Toronto, es.
tablis!,ed an Important precedent by
his prese mta,ion ut the British court
~ u preia.e of the Roman Catholic
Church, the first instance Of the kind
for two centuries.
The engagement ring given by a
wealthy young German to his bc.
truthesi, whose stepnlOther IL y New
Yorker, WIS lis first tooth set In dia-
nlonds. They have been married re-
Gently with great ectost In Germany.
Prince Leopold and his wife re.
cei, I'll tho school children Of Esher,
nearly AC,O in number, at Clarelnont
on July nth, when they had their
annual treat in the park. They were
RECALLED with an excellent ten, after
which the Duchess presented e""h
child with toy.
Mr.. Smith, a Scotch laird. his tc-
aueathed the whole Of lis property,
about SAN, 800 to his servants, a shep-
herd receiving the bulk. This fortu-
nate lcgatee has agreed to pay $751;
ND to the hcir-at.law and other rcia-
tivcs, whs would othcrwi'c attempt
to break the will.
lie Lesseps, who is opposed to tie
Sanitary Commission Mt Sucz. says
that cholera h::s never come from In
dia tO Europe by sea. IN all the
years that the French and English
rackets have run between India and
Europe they have not introduced q
sin: le case into Egypt. The caravan
Of pilgrims has never brought the
nsiady into Damascus. nor has the
caravan whicl, returns to Mccc,, into
Egypt by way Of Suez.
The Austrian navy Possesses some
powerful ironclatls. The frisatc
Kaiser Max, Don Juan Austria, nnd
Prince Eugene date from 1910 and
1877; hut the Tc-etl;oE Is tie most
powerful me n. of-war in the lot, com.
Ing thirteenth in order of strength
among all the vessels in the world.
She Is 800 fest long by 60 bread, and
her plates are Is inches thick, while
she carries IS I1-inch krupp guns,
and has engines oc ,cc!M horse power.
The executors of tie late Lord
WenlOcS, in En.lald. sued the I&tv-
er Dec Company for $50. $40, money
lent hy the decreased i.eer on the
mortgage Of the lands which the
Company has reclaimed at tile mouth
of the river. 1t was pleaded for the
defense that the act of parliament
which incorporated the Company on
" gave borrowing power to the ex-
tent ofS:jO,ON. lia-On HutldicstOn,
remarking that the defense had
made strong point, reserved his
Judgment.
Paris lost last month one .: her
lest known men about town In Hem
ry Delarge. He dwe;t forty years In
the same apartment, rented when le
first took il ut S a month. His break
fast was simply I cup Of coffee an,l
cigar, but for d;ancr lie usually had
two or three invitations to choese
from. After dinner he lOunged he
hind the scenes Of the smaller thea
tres until II a. n,., when he joined
his friend Henri de Pene. . Journal
ist, to whom he recounted the chat
he had heard during the day. His
special vanity was to be regarded -
the intimate Of celebrities. His ~.
neral was attended BY some Of thees,
including Dumas.