The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS DRIFT
FOREIGN NOTES.

English army officers gave $4,000 set OF
gold and silver 10 the Duke of Edinburgh's
beautiful Russian Bride.
The Swedish government has proposed to
the Chambers an increase Of30 per cent.on the
salaries of all officials of the State
The immense balloon, LIE Condor Trans
atlantique, it is said, will soon leave France
for the United States, under the guidance of
M. Poitevin. The Graphic has no connec-
ton with the enterprise
The oldest OF the trees in the Jardin des
Planfes, the acacsi virginensiz spinosa,
brought from America by Jean Robin in
16O1, shows signs of approaching decease.
The republican simplicity of the French
government is well illustrated in the ball
which was recently given by President Mac
Mahon in Paris, which cost about forty
thousand dollars.
According to recently published state
ment, there are 34S theatres in Italy, 3S7 in
France, 191 in Germany, les in Spain, 152 in
Austria, 150 in England, A in Russia, 81 in
Belgium, u in Holland, 20 in Switzerland, 16
in Portugal 10 in Sweden, 10 in Denmark,
in Norway, in Greece, in Turkey, in
Roumania, in Egypt, and in Servis. The
general total of dramatic, lyric, and musical
artists and employees is 2, Isl, 800 women and
3y027, 900 men.
At a recent examination of candidates for
government offices in China, there were
2o6 applications, the youngest 20 years of age
and the eldest 102. The elderly one showed
his intellectual vigor by the brilliant man.
nor in which he passed the arduous trials of
his examination, and his physical energy
by the rapidity and activity of his move
ments. That boy will make something yet.
: Fraternity is the watchword of commun-
ism and unions. 1t is a sad word, and has
cost France dear. In the great revolution,
q" fraternity" cost 2,O22, 9O3 lives; in 1S4s,
S9,563: in 1871, 1882. The word is also ex-
pensive, as in February, 1S46, 800 barri-
eades were raised in Paris, which, allowing
S45 paving stones to each, would make atotal
of ,267 500 torn up by the sovereign
people;" 3,013 trees were uprooted, 3,704
lamps broken, and innumerable police Of
nces burnt down.
Ben1ghter Constantinople can teach CIV
ilized New York a lesson in travelling ae-
eommodations
All persons using the Tramway Com
pany's cabs receive from the driver prin-
ted slip bearing number, and every two
months lottery is drawn,I the winning
various prizes. AT the last drawing the
prize of EGO fell to the lot of the luckyown-
er of No. 81, 547. The lottery is, says the
Levanant Herald, not only an amusement
10 the public for it enables the company to
exercise control over the pecuniary hon.
esty of their drivers, as the books from
which these numbers are drawn have coun-
terfoils with corresponding members, and
persons who use the cabs have an inter-
estiin preserving the tickets given to them.
A convention is in progress between the
governments of Turkey and Greece for the
suppression of brigandage on the Turco-
Greek border. A fixed reward will be paid
for every captured brigand dead or alive.
The London Athen8um says: Weare au-
thorized to state that the letters and journals
sfLord Macaulay are Sin the hands of Lady
Holland and Mr.. Trevelyan, with view to
publication.
A remarkable movement, headed by a ma
tive, has set in among the people of Eastern
Bengal. The leader has number of follow
ers who read the Scriptures and endeavor to
live after the example of the Apostles and
early Christians. They are vegetarians and
discard the use of Medicine, seeking the
cure of sickness by prayer to Christ.
An assault was made upon the King of
Saxony while walking in the Great Garden
outside Dresden, short time ago, by lu-
matte who has once before, in 1868, assaulted
His Majesty very nearly in the same spot.
The culprit is by trade an umbrella-maker,
by birth the illegitimate son of Saxon no
bleman. He is under the belief that the
King is his deadly enemy, and persecutes
him with all his power. He has been re-
moved to a lunatic asylum.
Minister Dowell writing from st. Peters
burg saws of the banks there: Banks have
been regularly chartered here now for about
ten years, and pay all of them s, 8, 10 per
cent. dividends. These stocks are all worth
from 40 to $50. The Government exercises
strict watch over them. and defalcation
would be simply the army for life or the
Siberian mines,' and criminals do not
cape here.
The Police force in the City of Paris costs
an annual sum of about ten and half mil
lions of francs, of which the chief items of
expenditure are the following: l Commits
sioner, i Sub-Commissioner, Chef de Blu
reau, "a clerks, 5 Superintendents of divis-
ions, and SO COmmissaries, receiving together
14l $50 francs: % principal Inspectors and
100 Brigadiers, costing 10000 francs, and 200
Sub-Brigadiers and 6, 800 ordinary police Off
GERS, whose pay amounts to 8,90S.OO0 francs.
Reports of the French military tribunals
engaged in trying Communists, have been
made. Up to the present the courts-martial
have given 1906 decisions, including 24,OOO
declaring there to be no cause for prosecu-
ton, 2 800 acquittals, and % 900 condemna-
lions. There remain $50 cases OF individu-
ais who have disappeared, and j, 100 which
are still being investigated. Seven cases are
disposed of every week, and all will be ter
minated in three months. The Committee
ofPardons have given 5000 decisions-name-
1y, 1900 in favor and 1000. against the per-
sons under sentence.
The press OF North Germany, is making
war on woman's influence in the elections.
9. All the qualities of woman" says the or
gan Of Prince Bismarck, " are made to dis
turb and bewilder the factors of man."
The cause of the dI cad of the weaker sex ex-
pressed by the official journal, lies in the al
legation that the women of Germany, as
elsewhere, are. in general, subject ts clerical
di ctat ion- mission for Susan b. and Co.
Some of Gov. Dix's admirers have given
him cheese weighing 300 pounds. He