EUROPEAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1356, 3 December 1872, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. AuothfcT " barmaid show " of 35 young women has taken place at the North Woolwich Gardens. In a recent article in the " Dublin University Magazine," insanity is defined as dyspepsia of the brain. Galignani says that the operation of weighing the five hundred million francs recently sent by the French Government to Germany lasted three days. The claims lodged for compensation arising out of the Belfast riots amount to L 14,000, exclusive of L3OOO claimed by the widow of Constable Morton. M. Leon Laya, a well-known Parisian dramatist, committed suicide immediately after attending the rehearsal of a new comedy of his own entitled " Anna." The Lambeth paupers are growing refined in their tastes. After being indulged with cabbage and. bacon once a week for a month, they object to go back to Australian meat. It is reported that the cupola at St Peter's at Rome, shows unmistakeable signs of decay. A Commission of Papal

architeota and engineers have been appointed to examine it. A letter has been published from the sister of a Fenian prisoner, complaining of her brother's ill-treatment in an English dungeon. The "ill-treatment 1 ' complained of consists of his not being allowed to receive certain "patriotic poems " which she enclosed to him in a letter. Summoned for permitting drunkenness, a Birkenhead beer-seller ridiculed the charge, on the ground that Vhe was a strict teetotaller, and did not lniow the taste of drink." He would not permit men to "heave their money away" at hik boose. ; A tradesman in Bristol has just made A monster umbrella for an African chief. It is 65ft in circumference, the lancewood ribs being Oft long, and there are 140 yds of material in it. It is covered with red, blue, and white chintz, and takes two men to expand it. . Nilason'a marriage was the result of a promise made ten years ago. Ten years ago, Auguste Rouzand asked the future queen of song to marry him, and Bbo replied, " Later, when I am rich and celebrated." She has now kept her word, and has married the man of her own heart's choice, achieving one of the sweeteat romances ever heard of. The following is a copy of a notice served by a Sheffield milk-seller upon his customers :—" Sir— As the provision* of • the Act passed and now in force for' the! adulteration of food inflict a penalty of L2O on persons selling adulterated or watered milk,'\[ give you notice that the milk supplied by me on and after the 2nd of September will be charged 2hd per quart." As an instance of the Emperor William's economy, a late visitor at the Babelsberg Chateau mentions that, from a high desk, placed near a side window, the strings of parcels, which the Emperor opens himself, are seen hanging. These ends are saved for the purpose of re-ÜBe. It is said, at Berlin, that the King even returns to the various departments the envelopes of the documents submitted for his signature. In a fashionable Scotch church in London there has just been a "scandalons" little incident, very painful to one unfortunate man, and very amusing to many others. A gentleman well known in society recently deserted his wife, and I she, poor creature, has since been roam- j ing about the world in search of him. ] Having been informed that her husband "worshipped" pretty regularly in the church alluded to, she went there in a great rage, and during the services fixed her eyes on a highly respectable elder, who, though not her husband, was amazingly like him. Immediately after the services concluded, the excited woman rushed from the gallery where she had been sitting, and without waiting to make certain whether she was right or wrong, seized the unfortunate elder by the whiskers, and poured a shower of blows on his head. Before her mistake was made known to her and an explanation given, the poor elder's frontispiece was black and blue. He did not give the woman into custody, but, like a good Christian, took her home with him to dinner. Pleasant times the political chiefs have in the United States. Mr Horace Greely recently visited the capital of Indiana, and although treated with official discourtesy by Senator Morton, "who rules Indiana," through whose influence, it is said, a police detail was refused, he was amply compensated by the enthusiasm of 40,000 men, and the kisses of as many pretty women as could approach "the stage." Here is the scene at the hotel after Mr Greely's speech, as described by the .correspondent of the New York Herald:— The girls commenced kissing the venerable sage. One bnxum Hooaier lass* had been noticed expressing her impatience on the preference given to the horrid men in all the arrangements by stamping her feet and scolding her tall escort, and finally she said, in her vexation, " I'm goin up and I'm goin' to kiss him, too !" and she elbowed her way through the crowd and bestowed a hearty salute on the philosopher's chaste cheek, which he received with the meekness of a lamb. Then an irruption of kisses commenced. The Hoosier girls broke from their escorts and showered their genial favors on the fair face of the liberal chief in such profusion that he found it a more difficult duty to respond than usual. One girl, returning to her big beau, said triumphantly, "I've kissed oar future president right in the mouth, 11