Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The German Government ha? given an English shipbuilding firm an order for the construction of * torpedo boat of enormous proportions—the largest ever built... .Bls

reported from Toulon that five persons afflicted with cholera have been cured by mhaling pure oxygen. The effect, it is said, is that immediate warmth is restored to the system and the pulse becomes normal The cure is the subject of general comment and investigation by physicians and surgeons. Some of ths leading patriots in China ore rousing the people io repudiate the recent Franco-Chinese treaty. France threatens that, in case China does not cany out the agreement fixed upon, she will demand a large indemnity. Rather than pay this, the Celestial Jingoes propose to go to war. • „