Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The widow of Ratazzi, tlis Italian Minister, has been 'sentenced by a Pans court to three months’ imprisonment for bribing an official to cause the demolition and rebuilding of several houses which she owned on the Boulevard Hausamaim. Prince Charles, of Monaco, has driven tho Jesuits front his quarter-section because they printed a list of suicides at the gaming tables. Reports from Eagle Island show that dreadful distress prevails among the Irish residouts. The people have almost nothing to eat, and no money whatever with which to buy food. Petitions for aid to the Dublin Can tic authorities havo been met with the reply; “The poor-house is open.” There, has been a domestic war in the Italian royal household that assumed proportions demanding the attention' 'll the newsgatherers. King Humbert became?' alarmed at the family expenses, and was particularly shocked at the discovery that IrtV* censor!, s Queen Margherita, insisted on hay-ing.-a hea'ping plate of strawberries every day .n*ttie year. The royal pair finally arrived at an ■-agree that tho Queen would content herself yratU her-' ries twice a week if the King woujdMi his old giving them awaf, and peace was restored. - ’