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FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

An elevated railway has been built in Hungary of wire rope for the transportation of ores.

Nate Saulsbury. Buffalo Bill's partner propposes to introduce pop-corn in london this summer.

The cultivation of wheat in Brazil on an extensive scale is a question now occupying the attention of agriculturists in that Empire.

The [porte?] has prohibited the importation into Turkey of all Greek journals, in consequence of the publication of articles hostile to Turkey.

The invention of the war cycle, a [velocipede?] that carries ten soldiers, is considered so valuable in England that one is to be built for twenty-six men, thirteen to work the cycle and thirteen to ride.

A torpedo-boat built for the Italian Government, made on her trial trip at Gravesend, England, a speed of twenty-nine miles an hour. The Italian cruiser Dogali at the same time made twenty-two and one-half miles, which makes her the fastest cruiser afloat.

Among the attractions of the convict settlement of Nonmea, New Caledonia, is an orchestra which is said to be the best in Oceania. It is composed of 120 instrumentalists and is conducted by a former musician of the Paris Opera, who is under a life sentence to hard labor for murder.

The St. James' Gazette says that the British Government is ransacking Canada and other remote places for cavalry horses, while French and German agents are buying suitable horses for the same purposes from the Yorkshire farmers. The Yorkshire horses have, however, had their tails docked, which rules them out of the British cavalry service under army regulations.