Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-08
FOREIGN NOTES.

The Dublin union proposes to send q
thousand paupers to Canada.
Liquor selling has been interdicted on
the estate of the Duke of Argyll.
J The hydropathic establishment at XII.
malcolm. Scotland, which COS. ESQ 900,
has for some time benin the market at the
reserve I15,OO0.
+ lsrdIal Manning having written that
Sir Garnet Wolseley's own lips gave testi.
mony to the fact that he is strict alb.
stainer from alcoholic liquors, senior
officer at the United Service Club
told the London Court Journal that Sir
Garnet had taken his wine there.
In Austria the American duel is getting
to be common among drunken students.
The two antagonists draw two balls, one
| white and one black. The one who gets
the black ball is obliged to kill himself in
any manner he may deem the most safe
and comfortable within thirty minutes.
Among these chivalric fellows there is
very general belief that but few Americans
die except by the doom of the black ball
of the duel.
The most learned woman in the world is
Miss Ramuabal, lady of 90 who is now
IN Paris. She is native of India, and can
read, write and talk in twelve languages,
having wonderful gift in that way, be.
sides being up in mathematics, astronomy
and history. She is studying medicine.
and will go to India to practice. She says
| that thousands of her countrywomen die
every year because they will not consult
male physicians.
The death is announced Of Fraser's Mag.
AmoDn tho
this publication are those of Thackeray.
Carlyle, Coleridge and "Father Prout."
1t was for Fraser that Thackeray, under
the nom de-plume of Michael Angelo Tit.
marsh, wrote some of the best of his early
sketches among others 1.-The Hoggarty
Diamond and Shabby Genteel Stories"
Most of Father Prout's clever productions
were published in this magazine.
Forty-two of the most important light.
houses on the French coast will, it is de.
clared, be lighted by electricity. To equip
them with this system will entail cost of
81 600, 600, which is to be spread over
eight years. For immediate expenditure
$50, 600 has been voted, and it is expected
that next year demand will be made in
the Chamber for $4,000 The house of
Cape Grisnez, between Calais and Bou-
ao6hS1 WA oo ehO lil5b bhhcu III HanQ.
The Italians are already making prepare.
tions for the celebration in March, 1853, of
the 40Oth anniversary of the birth of
Raphael. At Urbino, on the square in
front of the Palazzo Ducale, a monument
is to be erected, the particulars of the com.
petition for which have already been pub.
lished. 1t will be of white Carrara marble,
with reliefs in bronze, and so, 900 lire have
been fixed upon as the cost of the whole
work. Prizes of ], 800, 1000 and 500 lire
have been offered to the competitors.
Poverty and obscurity have overtaken
many of the old French nobility. but IL
would be harder to find sadder case of
fallen fortunes than that of Nine Charlie.
mont. She was married when she was Is
years old to her cousin, an officer in the
imperial army. When the empire fell her
husbands occupation was gone. He went
into speculation, lost 5000, 600, all he had.
and died broken.hearted. The widow gave
lessons in English, German and music until
she was too old to find employment, and
then, at the age of Ga, went to the poor.
house. There she remained for thirty
years, and thence she was carried, few
days ago, to the Potter's Field.
NJ. Dupressoir is making some changes at
Monte Carlo. A cafe and reading rooms are
to be established on the ground floor of the
casino, and are to open out upon the sea
terrace. The old reading-rooms, which are
on the left of the great central hall, are be.
ing converted into an arIstocratic club. where
there are to be balls from which the half.
world, both male and female, are to be ex.
cluded. Last year the gross profits of the
establishment were 81, 600, 600, az compared
with S2,S00,000 the previous year. This
falling off is supposed to be in part due to
the crash on the Paris Bourse, as the
French Stock Exchange furnishes the best
customers for this great gambling resort.
Says London writer, concerning the
announcement of the victory in Egypt
The contents bills of some of the pro.
vinaial journals were terrific. Hour bv
hour the news-boys tore through the streets
with new ones, and the way the said boys
howled aloud, Terrific slorter = and in.
vented catch-cries, was truly marvellous. I
happened to be in Birmingham when the
newp came, and there the streets were alive
with urchins invenring war news with
fertility which put our special correspond
ents completely in the shade. 'HorfuI
slorter of the Hinglish = Kepcher o. Sir
Garnet by Haribi 7 Two thousand o. the |
hensmy slain by the Dock O. Conort and
all the orribul details = Dustin O. the Suez
kernail, and lorse of hall the hiurnclads !"
II vas an immense day for Spechul
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