Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-11-13

Statistics of the population of Siberia,
 which includesin their estimates nomadic tribes and colonists, do not make out a large total for that vast and dreary Asi-
 atic country. The total Is only ,3S5, 900 souls.
 Underground wires are being laid from Paris to Nancy, inclOsed in iron tubes, which are accessible by doors five
 hundred meters apart. This will obviate the necessity of opening the street when repairs are made.
 The strength of the regular British army-including the regular troops in India and the COlonies-is 196,000 men; of the militia l26,OO0 men, and of the re- serves, 42,0O0 men. The cost in time of peace IS S1J,OO0,OOC.
 Within twenty-one years Turkey has contracted & debt of S9J0,OO0,0O0, the unpaid interest upon which runs 1t up to Sl Sl,250,W0,oG. Her equanimity under the circumstances Is simply ineffable. She "lets the other fellow walk"
 The demand for property in New York continues active under the stimulus or an easy money msraet. The best rates rf interest on "gilt-edgeT' real estate is iis per cent, and a SIX per cent invest ment Is considered unusually hand some.
 Now 1t is affirmed in New York, of course on good authority" that MT James consented to let his name be sent in on the distinct understanding that he should be allowed to retire December lst, about which date a business engage ment goes into effect.
 A family of German immigrants passed west the other day, consisting of father, mother, nine children, forty grandchildren and eleven great at-grandchildren. Enough of them were married to make the en- tire party number nInety-five, and were bound for northern Iowa. Chicago Times.
 The SuDerintedento of the experimental tea farm at Summeryille, $. C., sent three thousand tea plants to the Atlanta Expo sition, on October 2I. The average height of these specimens which were selected as fair sample of the crop, is about nineteen inches, and they healthy and hardy.
 A President, Secretary of the the | Treasury and Postmaster-Ge all l from New York cityl There has been a | good deal of fun poked at Ohio because of the number of Ohio men in office, but | Ohio never had three men around the | Cabinet table at once. - Cleveland | Leader.
 The Minister of the Colonies WAS tendered banquet Wednesday by the Philippine Colonists at Madrid He | was congratulated on the suppression of the tobacco monopoly. Martois and his followers publish a circular repudiating solidarity, and declaring their desire for the pacific propaganda Cf the Constitu- ton of 1869.
 Dr. L. W Bacon, of Norwich, Conn.,, who was charged with breaking the Connecticut blue laws by taking eI-Pres- dent Hayes out for drive on Sunday, has written a card, in which he says he las requested the City Attorney, if he 'an find any ground whatever for com Dlaint, to commence proceedings against lim at once.
 There is doubtless no child now living hat will see New Orleans greater ex- porting port than New York, but the leXt few years will see 1t make demOr- .lizing advance on New York. Within he last three years it has advanced head of Philadelphia, Boston and Bal imore, and within the next three it will nake enough progress to casse lots of rouble to New York, however impossi- le 1t may be to surpass the trade of ! hat clty.-lSt Louis Republican.