The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-02-24
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.

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ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
IN Slgnor Berti's plan for re- forestino
Italy about $1,000, 1000 is apnorfiona35
among the provinces. = '''-'oe'
BARTHoLDI's statue In lard fen feet
nigh, Will be one of the supper exhibits
at the French cooks ball.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered +bot
that the storming Of Tel-el- Kebir be
painted for the royal collection.
HE King Oak 10 Windsor Forest
England, is ], 900 years old, but the old,
est tree III the world is the 30 tree of
the sacred city OF Amarapoor. in Bnr-
nah. Ii was planted 28S b. G. and u
therefore now 2, 40 years old.
TIE people OF Burslem. England
we're pleasantly excited one evening re-
| Gently by tue town crier, who had been
| sent around 10y n chemist to cry that he
the chemist, had sold poison instead Of
magnesla to some person unknown.
A GENTLEMAN fresh from the Sand
wlch Islands says that the race Of ma
tlyea of those far off cases Of the sea is
tast Disappearing; that there are less
than 30, OOO ful-blooded natives. where
100 years ago 100000 existed. The
cause he attributes to disease.
SCIENTIFIC authorities now denounce
the system OF water tight bulkhaads in
ships as useless and absurd with as much
Vehemence as they once urged them as
a necessity to safety. England intends
| 10 appoint royal commission of in
curry into the construction OF ocean
ships.
A FELLOW of the Royal College Of
Surgeons was lately tiaed SO and costs
Tor 'Iuuously riding a tricicle" He
was travelling so rapidly thai q constable
on horseback had great dificnIfv in
catching HIM, though it was shown in
court that the surgeon had already
travelled sixty miles that day ON his ma
chine.
The fire department Of Paris use hand
and steam pumps to extinguish fires:
but they have no. horses and depend
upon an omnibus company to supply
them when needed, so that fifteen
minutes is the shortest time steam
pump can be got INTO action. This
primitive machinery, however, is han
died by large and weIl-trained force.
ONE day last week throughout the
whole OF Germany a census was taken of
cattle, horses, asses, mules, sheep,
swine, goats and bees. Very strict and
annoying regulations had been issued by
the government with the object Of OBJ
tanning full returns. Several great an
num fairs were postponed, and all the
live markets iuterfered with for q weef.
Two foxes closely pursued by Sir
Watkln Wynn's hounds recently jumped
tae park wall of Broughton Han. the
residence OF Mr. Robert Howard. and
one OF them ran into the mansion
through the front door, made the circuit
of several rooms to the amazemeut OF the
inmates, and fled through the back door
only to be net there aud dispatched by
the mounds IL short order.
TIE colors OF the seyauty-firsb High-
lauders, captured at Buenos Ayres ia
1906, have been returned to the com
handing officers. They were taken to
England a few weeks back to the Duke
OF Cambridge in accordance with the DIV
ing wish of an influential man in Ruenos
Ayers, who had possession oil them, and
kept them II hope of personally present
ing them to some member OF the royai
family.
KING john, Of Abyssinia, has lost bis
throne, though he retains his kingdom.
This apparentparadoxm means that band
OF rascallY BedOGi4s have stolen brand
new throne made to Ocder for the king.
regardless OF expense, by au English
firm at Alden, and entrusted to q caravan
for safe conveyance and delivery. Ihe
robbers attacked the caravan Just out
side OF Alden, and not only got away
with the throne, but also carried off six
hundred decorations OF the A5ysslnian
Order of the Seal OF Solomon.
GEN. BoorB, cf the English Salvation
Army, in his year book "points With
pride 70 the following evidence of the
popularity OF his troops In England:
During the year 1892, 500 Of our sol
diers, 10 our knogedge, have been
knocked down, kicked or otherwise bru-
tally assaulted, 25l being women and %
children under Is. No less than So of
tackled, nearly all the windows being
broken IN many cases, and in many
others even more serious damage being
done"
NJ. PAUL BERT saw at Geneva a Curl
Gus specimen Of humanity that would be
worth a fortune to a Bowcry museum or
travelling show. it was d child five
years Old, or somewhat more than one
child, for it had two heads, two chests
and four arms, but only one abdomen
and one PAIR OF legs, the fusion Of the
two bodies into one occurring at about
the waist. Each head has control OF the
leg on its side. The two faces are much
alike, anu the two intellects already I'M
derstand several languages. The food
which one takes does not satisfy the
hunger of the other, and they eat and
sleep alternately. One has had fever
without the other being III.