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Show KORKU; ITEMS. Persian ladies call a European lady's la-dy's dress "trousers with one leg." Louise Muhlbach has built herself a cottage on the 'suburbs of Berlin for $12,000. Tho wheat crop of Russia, which was harvested aWuttivo. weeks ago, was one of the best ever raised. General Von Moltkc refuses to send locks of his hair to church fairs; reason, the top of his head is a shining mark. Statistics prepared by the Italian minister of commerce show that trade between Italy and America has greatly great-ly increased since the Franco-German war. Of the 10 United States eonsuU at German ports, five are nutuiiili.txl Americans, one of whom was born : in Canada. The five German consuls arc those at Berlin, Bremen, Stuttgart Stutt-gart (Saxony), Chemnitz and Wur-tcmberg. Wur-tcmberg. Toor little Denmark has its ( roubles, rou-bles, too. , Fio, Brix and Lcloll have each been sentenced to penal servitude servi-tude for "attempting to create a revolution revo-lution by organizing the lakning classes in order to overthrow the existing ex-isting constitution." A genuine autograph of John Bun-yan Bun-yan has been discovered in the flyleaf fly-leaf of an old book called "Dwelling with God the Interest and Duty of Believers," Be-lievers," once a well-known and popular pop-ular work of Puritan theology, pub-. pub-. lishctl in 1070. The treasures of the Sultan of Turkey, Tur-key, ou exhibition in the Wcltauss-tcfiung Wcltauss-tcfiung at Vienna, arc worth forty millions of dollars. The principal piece is the throne of Nadir Shah. It is of gilded wood, covered nil over with garlands and flowers and traeery in pearls, rubies and emeralds. . M'me Bres has received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, m France. Her certificate rims thus : "M'me Brcs, a married woman and mother of two children, does not pursue the study of medicine as a past tine or by reason of scientific vanity. She fulfils ful-fils all tho duties of her profession. During both sieges of Paris she never left tho bedside of our wounded soldiers." sol-diers." Tho Loudon Onhastm says : " A proposal that Americans should have a special memorial to Shakspcare at Stratford-on- Avon, has met with much favor, and the memorial is to Like the form of a painted window, the subjects sub-jects being scriptural illustrations of the "Seven Ages of Man." The window selected for the memorial is that which immediately adjoins Shakspcarc's monument in the chancel chan-cel of the church. Most of the contributions con-tributions for thisVork will come from New York, Boston and Philadelphia. A letter from Japan corrects the re-' port about the extensive reforms that were said to have been introduced there BuddhUt temples and priest-swarm priest-swarm in every direction. Not n hundred yards from the centre of Yokohama, Yo-kohama, stands a vast BuddhUt con-Wiit con-Wiit Ut full blast, the magnificent bell of which is daily ringing a call to ' Pr,ty.T Tho hp!uI-sbaving is still in . Hill blast, an a hundred thousand pates in Yokohama testify. As for cfress, what little tho Japanese use is after the old-fashioned dressing-gown. The one hundred deputies of the ! national assembly in France, who lately sent an address to the Pope pave received a papal brief in reply' . ni which the Pope savs : " I have never doubted that the son of justice would rise for France. The Virgin Mary is re-establishing a kingdom for herself in France. The pilgrimages are a spectacle worthy of angels and of men." |