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Show FOREIGN ITEMS. The guitar, as a poetio instrument, has been discarded by young Florentines Floren-tines and the ancient form of the lute brought into service. ' The expenses of the repairs of the damages caused to the cathedral of Srasburg by the bombardment amount to 323,U00t'. Gentlemen in London are getting up a fund for supplying Cairo with an Eoglish church. The khedive has offered of-fered a site valued at 2,000. Harriet Martincau and five hundred other English women have petitioned tbe house of commons to dispense witn tho " cat " as a means of punishment. punish-ment. London papers chronicle the death of Frederick Carpenter Skey, one of tho few surviving pupils of Abernetby, one of the most eminent English surgeons. sur-geons. On September 5th, 448 natives of Alsace were on board the "Franklin," which put into Queenstown disabled, en route for New York. They preferred pre-ferred emigration to Prussian conscription. con-scription. Tho "Lancet" remarks that a great deal of agitation is going on just now in tho north and north-eastern ports of England as to the supply of seamen for the mercantile marine, and the marine secretary of the board of trade is "starring it" in the provinoes and delivering Bemi-official utteranaes on the Bubject. The " funeral" of Pere Hyacinthe took place, according to the London "Ecb," on September 3. It is the custom among Koman Catholic religious religi-ous communities to consider any member mem-ber that deserts them as dead, and the ceremony of burying him ia gone through. This was done at tho Convent Con-vent of Dominicans, to which Mr. Hyacinthe Lovson belonged. A soldier in barracks at Lyons blew out his brains on August 31st by firing bis musket into his mouth. The " Petit Lyonnais " states that this man, named Lezin, had been charged, in the usual routine of his duty, with the task of preparing the dinnor for his company, but failed completely, and he beoamo bo affected by the leers of his comrades that ho committed commit-ted suicide. A few days ago a fearful crime was committed at tho villago of Ergisch, district of Loecho, Valais. In a moment mo-ment of rage, caused by drunkenness, a young man killed his father by stabbing stab-bing him with a knife. The father, feeling his end to be nigh, caused his son to be brought beforo him, when he forgave him lor what ho had done, pointed out to him the surest means of escape, gave him some money, and expired ex-pired a moment afterward. ' |