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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. Nearly 20,000 Norwegians emigrated in J, S69 to this country ; on the other hand, the emigration of the Swedes to Norway is steadily increasing. A French translation of Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," followed by that of some of Longfellow's poems, has been published by M. Lucien de la liive. The coavent of Casamari has become the head-quarters of the brigands who prowl around the Roman-Neapolitan frontier, aud labors hard to out-marathon Marathon. The Grand Cross of the order of St. Michael and St. George, has been conferred con-ferred upon Pdnce Aithur, notwith-s notwith-s anding the fact of his having dined witti thirty-six eminent New Yorkers. trancis Joseph has conferred upon Baron Anselm von Rothschild the Great Cross of the Iron Crown, carrying carry-ing with it the title of Excellency, which has never before been enjoyed by Austrian Hebrews. Aga Khan, the English business man in Central Asia, has written a letter to Queen A'ictoria suggesting the appuintnietit of the Duke of Edinburgh Edin-burgh as A'loeroy of India, as an antidote anti-dote (gainst Rus.-ian aggressions. Victor Emmanuel is in a bad way. His physicians do not allow him to eat meat or to drink wine. Another apo-pleiic apo-pleiic fit would, it is feared, put an end to his eventful life, and place upon the throne the unpopular Prince Humbert. Hum-bert. France enjoys a revenue of 100,000 - 000 francs from the postal service, one-fourth one-fourth of which is paid into the Treasury Treas-ury as a surplus fund, while another fourth goes toward the' support of transatlantic steamers. In order to keep intact this immense revenue no postal concessions are to be made to the A mer can Government. Lord Milton, son of earl Fitzwilliam, who made himself ridiculous the other day by suddenly leaving the House of Commons in a passion, because Mr. Gladstone did not personally reply to some inquiry of bis, is a fussy little man, who visited the United States in 101, and amused everybody by the confast l.etween his small size and small brains and his large pretensions. S jine years ago he traveled in the east in company with a learned Irish gentleman, gentle-man, and on his return to England deli vered lectures, in which he appropriated appro-priated his traveling companion's karn- 1 'ng. |