Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

An International Inventions Exhibition will be held at London in 1886 under the patronage of the Queen, the Presidency of the Prince of Wales, and the management of an executive council composed of eminent Englishmen. It will be opened In May at the Royal Horticultural Gardens in South Kensington, and will remain open until the end of the year. A Hong Kong dispatch states that the situation of the French in Tonquln is daily becoming more serious. Frederick J. Allen, Vice President of the Dublin Young Ireland Society, charged with treason-lelony, has been committed for trial. According to a dispatch from Shanghai, the French forces have occupied Tamsul. Austria, it is said, is about to establish a penal colony on the African coast Christian Christianson, of California, died of cholera in Paris—the first American victim. Matthew Arnold is about to make another American tour. Alfred Edmond Brehan, a celebrated German traveler, is dead. Drunkenness is greatly on the increase in England, especla ly among women. The recent death of Baron Alexander von Stelglitz, the head of the Bank of St. Petersburg, is chronioled. He loft $75,000,000 to relatives and employes, including the gift of tho Petcrhoff Railway to Baron Fehleiscn. Slow progress attends the Nile expedition, the Canudian boatmen having ex-

perienoed great difficulty In ascending the cataracts. In the cholera plague the municipal authorities In Paris are glad to avail themselves of the servioes of the hitherto maligned Sisters of Mercy. They are to be seen wherever the disease appears. The American and English residents ot Paris have associated to asaist their countrymen, and for the establishing of soup kitchens. They say there is no need of fear from the cholera, and In a manifesto advise only the weak, intemperate and nervous to leave the city.