Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-06-29
Foreign Gossip.

EUROPE is supposed to contain 800,
0O0, 600 people. One hundred years ago
the estimate was 60,000,00O.
GIrsY maidens have fallen to $5 a
head in Persia on account of the hard
times.
Two thousand women or girls are EN-.
| ployed in Birmingham, England, in the
brass-founding trade.
! Mr.. CHARLES MATHEWS, JR, son OF
the veteran actor now playing at Wal
lack :, has been admitted to the bar in
London.
MADEIRA used to yield fifteen thou
sand pipes of wine per annum; now the
yield is not ono hundred pipes of
genuine.
THE site of the building for the Wen,
ma Exhibition in 1873 will be erected
six times larger than that on which the
| Exhibition Palace was constructed in
| Paris in 1867.
| The Swedish Government offers a
prize for an essay on the best means of
putting a stop to the rapidly increasing
emigration from that country.
SOME "PoRT WINE analyzed at Liver
pool lately, contained molasses, alcohol
and logwood.
THE Irish agricultural returns for
1871 show a general decrease of grain
acreage and production, and though
there was considerable increase in the
acreage of potatoes the crop was largely
deficient
DURING the last three years England
has lost one iron. clad, with all hands !;
four have been on the rocks and rem.
dered well nigh useless and many Off
GERS of the navy have been wrecked in
prospects and reputation.
EDMOND ABOUT has become the edi
torin-chief of the new Paris journal,
The Nineteenth Century. Many noted
writers are associated with him.
THE ravages of the smallpox in
Montreal have been for the most part
confined to children under twelve years
of age and to French Canadians. The
reason of this is not any lack of cleanli.
ness, but a general and strong aversion
to vaccination.
ANOTHER morganatic marriage is on
the tapis in Paris, which has created
quite a breeze among the American
colonists there. The parties are Baron
Carl Freilander Won Forstner and Miss
Emily, daughter of Mr.. Addison S.
Wheelwright, of New York city.
ACCORDING to returns recently pub
lished the Prussian census of 1871 has
given the following results: 1901 ,O64
inhabited houses contained 5,l52,S9O
households, composed of l2,O5l, ,232
males and l2,49O,776 females, or alto
gether "A ,642 3S6 persons of both sexes;
against 23,97 1887 in December, 1867.
The luxury of fresh sea-water bath
without the expense and fatigue of
.journeying to the coast will probably
soon be attainable in London. A bill,
before Parliament will empower COM
pany to bring the water pumped from
the ocean at Brighton by a series of
s. lifts" to the summit of the South
Downs, whence it will gravitate through
enameled pipes, along the turnpike
road to the West End of London,
where constant supply, at the rate of
half a million gallons per day, will be
delivered.
STATISTICS prove that in Rome there
are 237 times as many chances of being
murdered as in England, and 1889
times more than in Prussia
In England, one murder occurs for
every l7S,000 inhabitants in Holland,
one for l63,000; in Prussia, one for
100000; IN Austria, one for $1,000; in
Spain, one for lib; and in Naples, one
for 2,750 AT Rome there is one homi-
eide ior every $50 Of the inhabitants.
In Lon' on there are, for every 100
legitimate births, 4 illegitimate in
Leipsic, 20; in Paris, As in Munich,
81; in Vienna, is; and in Rome, 243.