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Show FOREIGN ITEMS. Coal from the north of Franco is now being sent to England. It is proposed, in Paris, to designate the different business houses and offices offi-ces by means of oolored lamps. An English expedition is exploring the interior of Iceland, of which as little lit-tle is at present known as of the source of the Nile. Mons. Paulus, the leader of the French band, proposes to issue a volume vol-ume giving an account of the visit of the band. to this oountry. The mikado of Japan ha3 had his photograph taken, a large number of opies of which have been bought by his loving subjects at fifty cents each. It is rumor;d that the Isle of Man is to be made a convict station, and that the Port Eriu breakwater and thellam-sey thellam-sey and other harbor works are to be completed by the convicts. Princo Arthur, the third son of queen Victoria, who is an officer in the English army, will, it is Eaid, shortly appear as an author in a series of contributions con-tributions on military subjects, to a London magazine. The Parisians are learning to dine at home. It is a bard lesson, but then the restaurants are now charging ox-i ox-i travagant prices for everything, and the inhabitants of Paris are, as a goneral thing, an economical class. The Levant "Times" of the 9th ult. says: The oontraot with Mr. Winchester Winches-ter for 200,000 Martini-Henry rides at 62s each, was signed at the Seraskie-rate. Seraskie-rate. It is believed in certain quarters lhat the Martini-Henry rifle will be abandoned by the government before the execution of the contract. The new grand vizier is said to be in favor of a repeating lifle. Atonooftho inquests most lately held in Whitet-hapel, London, the jury called attention to the disgraceful state of the shells in which paupers were buried. One gentleman said they were nothing better than egg boxes painted black, and it was a great wonder that the weight of the bodies did not break through the rotten boards. Tho coroner coro-ner acquiesced in what had been said, and a resDlution was passed to make a complaint to the parish authorities forthwith. |
