Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-11-18
roREICS NOTES.

The vic0-.s tA1s,ralia) Parliament, during
its recent session, abolished al STATE aid 20 re-
lg5r.
American merchants in China hsye subscribed
$4,000 tr geological suryey of portions Ct
that country.
The American Representatives IN Its'y hsye
followed the Italian court 90 Rome, and estsh-
iishei taeir otlcisl residence in that city.
NeYt year viii be tbousanith anniversary Of
tie ascension If the English throne by Alfred the
Great, and the English are already planning
/ ceie5Ia'ious Of the event
Bauiitt are So troublesome IN Spain that the
+ msyor Of Seville re-entiy issued proclamation
warning all rich people 20 be careful about being
/ cut after sunset
The f-st newspaper in Central Asis has JUS;
I been issued in the city Of Tsshkend, in TuFaes-
I tan. l. is called the IGrkie1uskaj. Yjeieu1sii.
/ We do nc, exchange
The outlay ty England in the purchase Of
pictures last year for the National Gallery, WAS
213, SIS francs that Of France 200 francs.
Professor PAM Cbslamal. OF Graft. Austris.
proposes % make 81 exhibition Of 4 collection Of
sii the newspapers Of tie world, tee proceeds 70
g 70 the support Of German and French wound
ei, their widows and orphans.
The Legislature Of the Ssn3Tich Islauis hiss
recently p,ssei IN set 10 encourage the erection
Of cotton and wooden Histories on the issn is. Z;
allows the free importation Of machinery, places
q duty % imported fabrics. AMI appropratcs
$500 a bonus 70 the nIlls.
The liberal papers Of Germany clanc- Eo7 the
abolition Of toe blsck white and rel banner Of
North Germany rs a sectional flag, sni tie res
tors,ion Of the old imperial c0lors Of black, red
and god, 81 acceptable to South as to North Ger
many.
The Indian Government finds thsti canu0ta a.
ford to psy so literally as heretofore :or Staying
tigers and Wild beasts. and besides distributing
strychnine to poison tigers as a substitute for
rife balls, it has now patr1nized cheap tiger
trap, made Of the old muskets. each with n few
yards ofstring.
The atmosphere of western Europe is said by
German surgeons 10 be Just now very favorable
TO the rapid healing Of wounds, and the severely
wounded al Rezonyiiie, who have been Quartered
az DIrkhein, are nearly eli able 10 leave their
beds
Lord Salisbury believes that the next census
vii show s population in London Of nearly
100000, serious proportion Of whom are. be
states, in a state Of social and moral degradation
20 great that unless something is done to i'm
prove them, the British Constitution will not be .
worth a quarter Of A centUry's purchase.
Roberts collere'of Cons,sntinople, has bad its .
commencement and graduated one student, Mr.. .
Garabedisu by rame But the total number q .
students the past year vas nine;y-six, and they 4
we're drawn from eleven different nstonslities.
The annual examinations gave evidence Of msrk-
Ell proficiency and thoroughness On the part Of
the students
The president Of Hsyt, in his recent message,
speaks thus Of Dominican annexation to the Unit
cd States - TIE project for the annexation #
the Dominican part Of the island has been re-
jected by the American Senate The anxeties
which this annexation caused 10 spring up have
been dissipa,ed by the good sense and wisdom of
the Senate at Washington
The Minister Of Public Instruction in Italy mas.
during the last fvE months, sent to the National
Library Of Florence more than two hundred
yolumes and pamphlets, printed and litho-
grsphed at Cairo by Signor Cssteli, who has
presented them to the Italian government for
that purpose. During IS years Signor Csstelli
has published in his establishment at Cairo more
works in the Arabian language than many Itsl-
ian editors have published in Italian during the
same period Of time.
The manufactures of Turkey are reported, on
recent reliable authority, 10 be on the decline.
The steel manufactures for which Damascus
vas famous, no longer exist. The muslin looms
II Scuisri and Tirnovs, which numbered two ;
thousand in 1872, are now reduced 10 less than
wo hundred spiniles; and B oussa and Diabe-
;ir, once famous for their velvets, do not now !
,roiuce one-tenth the amount they did forty
'esrs ago. '
Switzerland is suffering immensely under the !
resent war. She has no coal mines, and pro- {
ures her coal from Germany. But coal, grain
nd many other necessaries oflife, have been de-
Jared contrabaDd Of war by the South German
and are not suffered 10 pass the
order In consequence all factories in Switzer-
and have been compelled to suspend operations /
According to the Pitt,5urger Volks5lGf, 2
lsny jews who have emigrsted to this country '
rom Germany are either lukewsrm towards the +
md Of their nativity in the present war or in ?
line to sympathize with France the cause OF Z
ais being that in France, since the revolution. '
ews have been respected and allowed peacesbly !.
hold high positions both in civil life and in
lie army, while in Germany their condition has
cen less assured -
An average Egyptian can see nothing dis >,
nctly at distance Of more than 500 yards,
ID has no acuteness in detecting an object
thin as many feet. A recent traveller says Ell
lat when the railway was constructed the ut 81
ost difficulty was found in procuring men capa- q
e of seeing or recognizing the difference be- u
reen signals only hundred yards off, Many Ct
ndidstes came, but few passed the test. One ar
an Was nearly passed. but the engineer wss .,
II quite satisfied that the fellow had not been
making good sho;s' at the colors. So he held or
, his hat at one hundred and fifty yards, and II
9 hapless signal-man pronounced 1t to b " the ~
d Tag"