Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-03-22
FOREIGN

The British forces In GamG a have
captured Gonjw, one Of Chief Fodi
Silah's strongholds
NJ CarHot completes his term Of
office as president OF the French re
public December 3 next
The English commons adopted the
amendment To the queens speech de
handing abolition of the house of
lords but afterwards took it back
President Hippolytc, Of Hayti, it is
reported, captured the mysterious
yacht Natalie ana had all her crew
shot
President Pcixota Of Brazil refused
DGamu's term Of capiulation and
opened fire upon the insurgents, who
afterwards surrendered uncondiuon
ally.
Lord Rosebery in a speech announced
that the policy of the liberal party un.
der him as premier will be precisely
the same as under Gladstone
Queen Liluokalani told CORE
spondent she grieyed for the distress
of her people aud expressed confidence
that She would be restored.
An exhibition Of gold ores and of
precious metals and stones is being
organized at St Petersburg 10y the Rus.
sian Technical society The date Of
opening has not yet been arranged.
Siegfried Apt the naturalzed Ameri.
can citizen who had been forced into
the German army, has been released
through the cXertions If the United
States embassy in Berlin.
Johann Strauss, the celebrated com.
poser of waltz music, is shortly to
celebrate his artistic jubilee in Vienna.
lie made his debut in 1914 at the head
of dance band in the gardens al
mched 10 o Nieuuese restaurant
exhaustive experiments i'm the cult.
walton 9t tea are soon % be made i'm
Russia. The ear is personally inter.
gsted in the plan. and experts are ar
ranging for the cultivation Of the plant
u the western limits of the Caucasus.
where the temperature is much the
same as that in which the plant grows
i'm China
some high prices were realized for
postage stamps at four days sale ia
London two weeks ago A Madrid two
reals brought $500, 1t Geneva double
srawn Nl1u. Cape of Good Hone
.re.r p,""E stamp, 1.tn S210. and
Canada l2peauy black, $3.50. The
proceeds OF the autire sale amounted rs
about $4,000
Three thousand three hundred and
forty-oue vessels passed through the
Suez canal last year. less number
than In three years previous. The mum .
beg ln 1N92 was 1868; ia 1891. 4.2O1. .
and Ia 1880 1855. OF the 3.G41 YES
sells using the canal last year 2.2G2
were English, POO German. ia Dutch.
and but 1850 French
About 5000 square kilometers of ter.
rttoly have just been added 10 FRANCE.
uor hy annexation. but by an elahorat,
system of rCmeaSuremeut If the area
ot the republic some years ago Rus
sian, cen Stebnjtzk. created a SEN
s1uon by asserting that the actual size
n' sc EnunuaH countries differed
widely from their published areas.
France and Italy the most ot any The
geographical department Of the French
government inquired into the matter
end a rehabilitation has yielded The
gratifying result mentioned above The
method adopted was e cut the country
up INTO yurytltnear Quadran-IcS by the
meridiau~ and parallels Of ten min
utes. The coast lines ana frontier
boundaries required eyaluatan hy
planimater. The area has been i'm
creased from $4,000 square kllos to
5&6 ais ar 53G.GoS kjios. the experts
can't quite decide which