The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-11-29
Foreign GOssip,

ELEVEN thousand shilling subs GRIN.
tions TO the Burns Monument fund
have been received in the city of Glas.
gov.
FERDINAND l., who abdicated the
throne OF Austria in lS4S, in favor of
Francis Joseph, is approaching his
death. He is nearly 80 years of age.
The Prussian Government has adopt.
ed the use of American fiber paper in
the manufacture Of bank notes, to pre-
vent counterfeiting. The same paper is
used exclusively in Washington.
TnE displeasure of the Austrian Gov.
ernment with certain American Jour.
mails, it is said in Vienna, will probably
lead to the imposition of five cents on
every issue of political papers published
in the United States.
Ex QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain still con.
tinues to figure in social life in Paris.
A correspondent describes grand
birthday reception at her handsome
abode in the Rue de Reservoirs, on
which occasion about one hundred
grandees of different nationalities gath
cred about the stout lady who is so re.
markably ugly and uses fan with such
remarkable elegance.
THE present revenues of Hawaii, Sand.
wich Islands, do not seem adequate to
meet its expenses. The population,
which numbered l3O.316 in 1910, has
steadily decreased, owing to disease and
the absence of immigration, until, it is
estimated, it does not number at this
time more than $4,000 souls. Yet the
Government expenditures for the fiscal
year 1872 foot up 81, ,l30, ,24l, nearly $50
for every inhabitant.
The United Kingdom Savings Banks
report, just published, is almost start.
ling. In England alone the deposits
amounted, at the end of the year, TO
the enormous sum of $l55, ,000, 600, which
shows an average ef moro than 81 per
head for the entire population. In the
whole United Kingdom the amount of
such deposits exceeds S2S5, 5,OOJ, 900, not
counting the sums deposited with the
numerous friendly societies and similar
associations.
LEASDER used TO swim across the
Hellespont for love: Of Hero, and Lord
Byron. out of ambition, performed the
same feat and now Lieut.. Moore and
Gunner Maloney, Of the British sloop-
ofwar Shearwater, have followed these
noble examples, swimming, on the 25th
of October, from Abydos to Sestos The
distance is about three miles, but the
current lengthcns the dsenturous
swimmers course to about seven miles.
The modern name of the strait is the
Dardanellts.
They try TO do these things better in
England-Governmen regulates every
thing abou. railways. The road.bed is
laid under Government supervision
royal oversight ia taken Of every rail.
No road can cross another or cross a
highw y on the same level; bridges or
tunnels must be rcsorted to. 1t is a
felony for passenger to cross the track
fro n one side Of the station TO the other
Switchmen are choicely selected. A
house is erected over the tracks, inclosed
with glass windows, carpeted and warm
ed. The handles of the switches come
up into this room. They are all num-
bered and are called "points." Con-
spicuous in the room i. the painted
warning, "Mind your points" If the
switchmsnmakes a mistake, something
worse than dismissal awaits him. His
olfense is a crime, and the State will
punish him by fine and imprisonment.
Two HUNDRED years ago Alsace and
Lorraine underwent a similar but much
sevcrer depopulating and denational-
izins to the one of the present year. In
October Of 1860, Louis Fourteenth, after
con9uering, obtained possession Of the
contested province, set to work to turn
the inhabitants into Frenchmen. The
Cathedral was taken from its Protestant
worshipers and given to Catholics. No
Lutheran official was allowed. German
names were replaced by French. and an
order was given compelling all the
wome n TO adopt the French fashion in
dress, and forbidding the men to wear
the high pointed hats of the country.
Enormous taxes were imposed, not only
on men, women and children, but "six
kreutzers on every cock ard four
kreutzers on every ten." The treasures
which were kept at Nancy were all re-
moved to Pari., and for while the
French rule was as irksome as is the
present German.
Western Patents.