The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-09-09
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land Than II has been Tor thirty years.
Seven hundred and fifty million
pounds sterling have been invested in
English railroads in hfty years.
Balloons have been added to the camp
requirements at Aldershot for expert
ments in seeing an enemy's position.
The Rhine vineyards will, it is stated,
yield a small crop this year, but the
quality is expected TO he good IL the
weather continues fine to the end Of
September.
The Golos says that the project for
connecting the Dneister and the Vistu-
la by means Of a canal, thus bringing
the Baltic and the Black Sea into di
rect communication with each other,
first mooted in the eighteenth century,
is beginning TO assume a practical
shape, and has been discussed ut some
length in the Galician Diet.
Whitehall Rerietc: at is principally
owing to the resistance Of the Austrian
goyernment-probably secretly backed
up by Prince bismarck, who still uses
Austria as his catspaw-that so little
progress has been made in the final ar
engagements to be agreed upon by the
powers TO enforce the decision Of the
Berlin conference with regard to the
cession OF territory TO Greece"
The philosophical society OF Glasgow
has resolved on holding an exhibition
Of coal-gas apparatus and appliances; of
oil lamps, oil gas and other artificial
means Of illumination, and Of electric
ity, showing all the modes Of general
ing the power and its applications rs an
Illuminating agent and as n motive
power. The exhibition will be open for
four weeks from the 2sth of September.
There are In Germany twenty-one un-
iversities, with nearly 1900 professors.
In each university there are classes in
the five principal faculties OF theology.
law, medicine, philosophy and letters.
A writer on the subject notes that the
most popular faculty is philosophy,
which includes mathematics, save at
Strasburg, where 1t is n different facul-
ty.
The duke OF Norfolk is sending out
circulars announcing that a pilgrimage
has been arranged from London TO
Lourdes, and that ait is earnestly:hoped
that all who can do 50 will join In
the first pilgrimage to this great shrine
of the Mother Of God" The pilgrims
will start ON Friday. September 3, and
the whole expedition will occupy about
n week.
at Is the right thing Mt st. Peters,
burg" says the Whitehall Rerieu, "to
patronize the missionary operations of
the Russian Orthodox church In Japan.
All the ladies have been embroidering
altar cloths or trimming sacredotal
robes for the cathedral which the synod
is going to build ut Toxic. Count Che
remetieff has given 20, 900 rubles toward
the fund for endowing the bishopric-a
large sum rs incomes go in Russia"
The Ailgeneine Zeit,mg states that
several steamers have been lately built
at Rostock for a Russian commercial
firm designated specially for service on
the Caspian Sea. They will DO worked
with two screws, and the heating APP
paratus has been sc designed IS to al
low the use of Russian petroleum. With
machinery and cargo these vessels will
draw only four and n half feet Of water.
Their first employment Is to he the
transport of great quantities oi rails for
railroads to be made through Russian
Turkestan.
1t is officially certified by the Statist-
ical Bureau at Berlin that the emigra-
ton from Germany by way Of Bremen,
Hamburg, Stettin and Antwerp has
been, during the past six months Of the
year, 50,442 persons, against 5000 in
1870, 1854 in 1878, and 12,02l in 1877
that is to say, three times greater in
1880 than in 1879, and four times great
er than in 1878 or 1877. The clerical
newspapers attribute the enlarged ex-
odus to religious persecution, the radio
al papers TO political reaction, the So
cialist papers to the pressure of increas-
ed taxation and increased cost of living,