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Show FOREIGN ITEMS. A new Paris enterprise agrees to furnish provincial journals with political politi-cal copy at tho rato of 500 francs a year. In Franco a snciftty with a capita of five millions has twcri nreanizd, whose object it is to secure the erection of school houses in destitute places. No less a sum than $750 gold was asked of a Kupsian dig oitary for three rooms for the eight days during which tho emperors were present in Berlin. The Caribhce island, by reason of the lite hurricane, have scarcely a roorcd houe left standing. Being the dry season the Caribi care naught about it Sir Charles Dilko lectured at Glasgow Glas-gow on Monday nitrht on class legislation. legisla-tion. 1 he authorities took precaution against anticipated disorders, but there was no disturbance. Some Mexicans at Acapulco took six of the crew of tho Swedish bark "Amny" and held them prisoners for a week, for no other purpose than to extort ransom from the captain. A species of monster eel is found on the west coast of Africa whioh sometimes some-times attains tho length of forty feet. This creature is probably tho origin of the stories of sea serpents seen in those waters. In China last month, a Tient-tsin man kidnapped a Chincso child and took it on board the American steamer Shansi. The American consul turned the compracheco over to the Chinese authorities, who gently beheaded him at once. Mr. Jenkins, the author of "Gink's Baby," and ''Lord Bantam," has written a letter to the London "Times" saying " that the last ideas that he should think of helping to prorogate would be those now oalled republican." An usher in a publie school at Caen, France, has just applied to be committed com-mitted to a lunatio asylum, because he could not conquer a diabolioal impulse im-pulse which nightly bade him arise and strangle some of the infants com-minted com-minted to his obarge. Mr. Mechi, who writes letters to the London "Times" every year on the orop prospects, Bays: " I am no alarmist, but 1 believe we shall have to pay for foreign corn, in quantity and price, fifteen to twenty millions sterling more than in a good wheat season." A traveler writing from Venioe says, At least four thousand gondolas are now in daily use in Venice. They are along all the quays, at all points in the Grand Canal, at all the prinoipal bridges on the branch oanal in a word, wherever a stretch of the oanal is in sight, gondolas are certain to be seen. Schneider is spending her days in the odor of sanctity at Lnohon, in the Pyrenees. Retiring from the pomps and vanities of the wicked world, the famous duchess passes her time in the society of her poodles and her son, whose moral training is her ohief oare, as she sends the young man to mass every morning. The compulsory education act in England is not working quite as satisfactorily satis-factorily as was expected by its promoters. pro-moters. It is thought, however, that the spirit of opposition manifested towards the act among certain olassos of the people will disappear when the benefit of the measure is more fully understood. |
