Show IN EUROPE A NOVEL excursion has haq just left the new world for the old consisting of upwards of american school teachers of both sexes the feminine largely preponderating they left new york on the steamer victoria 1701 oria orla for glasgow p about a week awo ago ngo almost all the states in the bunion union were represented they are under the management of a man named cook he putting the party through portio portions ns of europe and returning them to america in august for a stipulated price public attention on the other side of the water has been directed to these excursionists at edinburgh they are to have a public re caption cep tion at derby a hallwa railway y we welcome at alton towers the earl and countess of shrewsbury will receive them thera in person at london they are to be entertained at a ball and a conversazione conversa by the british and foreign bible society and efforts will be made to secure them an audience with the queen so that they have promise of a good time when wilen they are upon Eu ropes shores the tile new york advertiser speaking of the party in when hen in that city says there is something Ind escrib ably well considered and well perfected even about their tra velling gear which one la Is not apt to find among travelers whose lives have not been schooled to the multiplication table A severe plainness was stamped upon the apparel of the ladies and the regnIa regula regulation tion camp stool rug waterproof water proof and field glass lass told that hints to european tourists cad tad had nov not no been made in vain there was only one exception and that was a young lady whose genteel frippery of sont soft textured polon polonaise alse alge and marie antoinette ruff and black and white Margue chapeau chape att ait provoked contemptuous glances from better schooled companions the people of england and other portions of europe will now have hav e the pleasure of seeing fair spec spee specimens of the finstra instrumentality men tali tall ty employed in teaching the young idea how to shoot jon ron lon on this american side of the water ANo ANOTHER tiler OLD F GOING the tc myths of the middle ag age e sa sare are becoming more and more numerous owing to tile the irrepressible and audacious nature of modern research now it is our honored old friend christopher columbus who is is to be removed from his pedestal as the original european discoverer of america the norwegians Norwegia ns have hate lately discovered that one of their countrymen leif erikson by name landed on the cost of I 1 N new ew E england in the year 1000 and spent that winter at or near fall river massachusetts this was nearly years before the landing of columbus ole bull and a number of other egins of note propose to erect a lomo 1000 monument to the memory of erikson at madison wisconsin and the enter enterprise p rise lias has already got a good starl start if erikson really made the discovery attributed to him he should be duly lio iio honored nored for the same but he certainly appears to have made very little noise about his great discovery and if nobody else eise had discovered it besides him this continent would have been an indian wild wilderness ernes at this very time of writing and how much longer i Y hard to say I 1 |