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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. A new comic papr is to be started at Dublin under the appropriate title of Blanwy. Telegraphic communication between Malta and Gibraltar is now perfect. The motion for abolishing capital punishment in Bavaria was rejected by 76 votes to 67. Sir John Trelawney acted as reporter for the London lima during the late exclusion of reporters from the House of Commons. The French small-pox appears determined deter-mined not to tarnish that nation's reputation rep-utation for callantry the victims are three females to one male. The international league of peace and liberty will commence its fourth congress at Zurich, Sept. 12. A free-trade congress of English and foreign political economists will beheld in London next year. A Yorkshire paper comments on the news that parliament has been.discua-sing been.discua-sing the "Marriage with a diseased wi'e's sister bilL" Frenchmen, of a suieidal turn of mind, look to hanging as the most preferable pre-ferable means of self destruction ; then comes drowning, then suffocation by charcoal, and lastly poison. The Prussian executioners have joined the eight-hour movement and struck for higher wages, under threat of ref using to suspend their operations. opera-tions. Paris annually sends twenty-five thousand children iuito the country to the charge of nurses. Of this number about eleven thousand die in the first year from insufficient care. The heat in the Suez canal is so intense in-tense that onf VPs.ie! which neglected the usual precaution of putting its stokers in the ice-box during the passage, pas-sage, found them all broiled on emerging. emerg-ing. The Hamburg GzHtc . says, in speaking of the influenza or grippe, in Hanover, "the disorder is, however, of short duration, being over in two days, especially when the patients remain re-main quietly in their chambers, without any medical advice." An English tailor has invented a pair of trowsers with wheels at the end. The experiments are said to give the speed of a horse and the power of instantaneously stopping. ! tThe new English naturalization act informs its readers that "disability" shall mean "the status of being an infant, in-fant, lunatic, idiot, or married woman." wo-man." That is the "unkindest cut of all." Marriage must hereafter fall be lew par. Deal with them tenderly, ladies. |
