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Show FOREIGX ITEMS. LUncroft Davis returned to Geneva on Friday night. London literati complain of a lack of good caricaturists. The foot-and-mouth disease is again bothering English horned cattle. fSignor Abrugnedo is tho name of the next "coming man'' in tho tenor line. Auber is to bo commemorated by a monument, to be paid lor by public Bubsoription. France smokes 294,000,000.000 oie-aretts oie-aretts annually, or at the rato of 9,223 every second. Roundel Palmer, of the arbitration bonrd, has recovered from his recent indisposition, The young French prince imperial has taken tho stump for the LjnJon Home for Cripples. The Portland, England, breakwater was formally opened yesterday by the Prince of Wales. The Scotsman states that the crew and passengers of a steamer just arrived ar-rived from Iceland affirm the existence of a new geyser. Passenger fares and freight tariffs on the English railways have been increased in-creased in consequence of an advance in the price of coal. In the vinery at Windsor Castle there is a vino, bearing grapes of the. Black Hambro' variety, said to bo the largest in Europe. It was planted in 176S. Queen Victoria is at the Isle of Wight. She will shortly proceed to Balmoral, in Scotland, and will not resume re-sume her residence at Windsor until November. General Sherman visited tho Woolwich Wool-wich arsenal yesterday to witness tho experiments. He subsequently dined with tho officers, and returned in the evening to London. t A Geneva dispatch says tho queen's messecger, bearing dispatches supposed suppos-ed to be of little importance, left there yesterday for London. Nothing new regarding the action of the tribunal. |