Show FOREIGN NOTES rosa Bon Bonheu hours bours rs last painting a tiger fighting a hyena is said to be lor ler mas ter piece A man recently kicked himself from liverpool to london 00 miles in two days on a velocipede within the year yeara it Is ia said england has bas lost loaf fifteen hundred bundred millions of dollars by the cattle cattie disease the workingmen of italy never strike there enough of them to get up a good strike the experiment of driving ostriches ostric hes heb before light buggies has nay been boen successfully suo buo ceis tried in paris A large number of conversions frem from christianity to are reported among the english at cai cal care caie e colony the austrian government hag has prohibited thestle the sale balo of the german tr angia angla tion of the I 1 life of james fisk blak it Is ia stated that the english government has determined to introduce an trish irish beform reform bill next year and that it will chiefly deal with a redistribution of seats the chief topics now under discussion in england are how to econom economise ise lse coal render meat cheaper and provide a substitute for potatoes the ribe rise in the price of coals which creates so EO much uneasiness in england is also taking takhing place in france where however it is lebs lehs keenly felt and Is ie considered a artter of high import ance chiefly ch lefly on account of the impetus it may inay afford to attempts toward discovering and working the french beds of coal dr robert the great german literary critic and generally con considered cou eldered the most brilliant lecturer of his country left his bla family after a most moat laborious and economical life ilfe tho the pittance of four dollars his friends subscribed money enough to give him a decent burial an old mau man an inhabitant of cernay cornay in alsace arrived at the german office to declare his choice of nationality you are very old said the Pru esian eblan it Is hardly worth your while to make a choice 1 I know I 1 cannot live long was the reply but as I 1 wish to go to heaven I 1 desire to die a frenchman rhe fhe old man on returning home bank sank exhausted and died holding his certificate of remaining french in his hand erckmann Histo lre ire du pig pic plebiscite hag hns been suppressed by the french government at the instance of the prussian Prue blan bian government go who consider ed that some of the were calculated to give an unfavorable impression pre selon of the conduct of the prussian soldiers during the war the suppressed edition has ilas been purchased by an english house and will shortly be ia 13 s filled tied an american gentleman writes from edinburgh to a friend saturday night in cork seems to bo be r given alven over to one huge drunk glasgow t he the same I 1 dont know low how it may be here tonight to night but if the presbyterian ministers who are attending the grand presbyterian council here her are a fair sample edinburgh must be the drunken est eat place in the world I 1 saw a number of them at dinner nt at our hotel take enough sherry champagne claret clarel brandy and hot scotch to send a great many yankees under the table tabie sir stafford North northcote cote coto told a rather good 50 etham d story of tho tilo ballot when at pow dorham derham in devonshire which has been touched up and reproduced as follows A candidate in hla hia election canvass was told that a particular publican was for the ballot it was no use his going there he wont went and the following conversation ensued are you a supporter of the ballot A no said the candidate I 1 then re replied the publican 1 I will vote for you the candidate expressed hla hib surprise as be had heard lie was in favor of the ballot soi so sol I 1 was replied the voter buti buli bull but I 1 will tell you what happ happened tined ta ane other day thero thoro was a club election and out of twenty members of the committee fifteen promised to vote for me when the ballot took place seven did 30 30 I 1 do not so mind that but MU the thing was that the whole fifteen came to me one by ore ome and said sald it was a great pity you were wera not elected 1 voted for you |