The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-25
Foreign Notes.

Out of . population Of about half
q million in Liverpool, 49, 600 were
brought before the local justices du-
ring the twelve months ending Sep
TENDER %.
Sir Wiifred Lawson, the temper
ance member of Parliament, says
that Jail chaplain once told him
that in his experience only one tee
totaler was ever brought before
him, and that was q man who
thrashed his wife for getting drunk.
The Duke of Portland who has
given such magnificent donations
for the relief of the sick and wound
ed in the East is q hypochondriac
of 70, with an income of $4,000 a
year. He suffers from q disfiguring
mslady, and lives in seclusion.
At public exhibition of strength
In the Assembly room st Wigtown,
in Scotland, ene Wilson lifted the
enormous weight of LOO lbs. He
also lifted with his teeth, and with
out the AID of his hands, from the
floor, eight 56s on strong board.
The weights did not touch his body.
At the fair held a few weeks ago
in Scotland, for hiring farm serv-
ants, an immense number attended,
but q very small proportion got
| places-wages having gone down.
| A terribly hard winter is anticipat-
ed in England, Scotland and South
Wales, and the average poor rate
will probably be higher than it has
been in twenty years.
Tiflis and Bucharest are the two
head centsrs in the rears of the Rus
sian armies operating in Europe and
Asia, to which officers withdraw
whenever they can get away, for re-
Taxation, cards, champagne, balls
and theaters. Times never were so
lively and stirring in those two
towns.
Epplng Forest, nobly rescued
from powerful encroaches by the
exertion of the corporation of Lon
don, will, when certain purchases
agreed on are completed. consist of
2,466 acres, readily accessible from
the poorest districts of the great
city, forming q splendid free play
ground for the people.
Last year $4,000 cattle were de-
stroyed by wild be asts and venom
Gus snakes In India, and %, 35I wild
animals and 270,lS poisonous
snakes killed; 120,0I5 rupees ex-
pended in rewards. In the current
year 9,2I3 persons, and $3.50 cat
tie have been killed, 124,574 rupees
expended in rewards.
The Duke Of Norfolk gave to his
4 Ill ~
set of rubies and diamonds, consist
ing of necklace, tiara, two bracelets
and pair of earrings, SO arranged
that the dismons can be substituted
for the rubies, and SO form q perfect
diamond parure.
In France each inhabitant drinks
on an average three-quarters of q
gallon of spirits annually. Sudden
i deaths, the consequences of drink,
are most frequent in those depart
ments in which spirit is drunk
they are rare were wine only Is
consumed. Cases of intexication,
sufficient to bring the drinker un-
der the notice of the law, are also
1--we times more frequent in the de-
partments which consume much al.
cohol than in those in which wine
is consumed.
After q very careful and painstak-
ing inquiry, Mr. Geo. Darwin has
come to the conclusion that ''the
widely different habits of life of
men and women in civilized nations
especially snong the upper classes,
tend to counterbalance any evil
between healthy, closely related per-
sons." Mr.. DarWin's views are in
a measgre sustained by DIR. Vorni's
inquiry into the commune of BATE
Raiz is rocky, secluded, ocean.
washed peninsula OF the Loire In
ferieure, France, containing over
5000 people, of simple habits who
don't drink, and commit no crime.
For generations they have intermar-
ried, hut no oases have occurred OF
desfsmutism, alhiaoism, blindness
or mslformation, and the number
of children born is above the aver
i. ara