Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-22
.asAinotun Standard.
Foreign News and Gossip.

bridge is close on 50, 100000.
NJ. De Lesseps says that the Pan
anna Company has $4,000 wor.@n
shareholders.
Teere was quite a revival of old
time carnival gayety in Rome this
year.
Alexander Ill, Emperor and
Autocrat'of All the Russias, has en-
tered on his thirty year.
France and Spain have forbidden
the Republic of Andorra to start q
fashionable gambling hell.
Recent events have driven the press
of Russia into the unequivocal adj
vocacy OF constitution for the Eau
pire.
Austria has prohibited American
pork, in all its varieties. Not slice,
not sp9 re-rib, not q sausage, will
she receive.
J. G. Mathew, who has just been
raised to the English bench, is a
nephew of the apostle of temperance,
rather Mathew.
Mrs. Mackay's ball in Paris at the
close of last month was unpreceden.-
edly splendid. Rumor went that the
cotillon cost $40, 900.
Italy boasts of Al taxes. On fund
ed property. there is tax Of % per
cent. on manufactured goods of 81
per cent. on incomes of 20 per cent.
Upward of 2, 220 young girls are at
present attending the painting and
drawing classes in State and puni-
cipal schools in France, while l $50
are studying music in tho various
colleges.
Sir Thomas George Fermor Hes
keith, Baronet, of Easton Neston who
recently married Miss Sharon of San
Francisco, has been appointed High
Sheriff of Northamptonshire.
According to the official census
just taken, the city Of Vienna has L.
LOG, 155 inhabitants, Berlin, 1.122,-
385. Both cities have grown very
rapidly during the last ff cen years,
having nearly doubled their popula-
ton.
Englishmen regard with much in
terest the recent successful exper .
ment of shipping frozen mutton from
Australia. The meat was delivered
in good condition in London after a
voyage Of 65 days, and was found 10
be Of excellent size and favor.
A cartridge factory, provided with
American machinery, has been estab.
lished at Constantinople. 1t is capa-
BILE Of turning out 30, 900 cartridges
per day. The Greeks should now
establish a cartridge factory provided
with American machinery at Athens.
According to dispatch from Paris,
the famine which prevails in some
sections of Russia is terrible in. its
effects. In the villages people die of
starvation every day, and men rob
and pillage for the sole object of be-
ing imprisoned, where, at least. they
are fed at the expense Of the State.
Sir Henry Holland said, in Parlia-
ment, q few weeks since, that the
country of the Beers had been an
nexed because they were not strong
enough to defend themselves against
the surrounding African tribes.
Next morning the telegraph an
nounced that the English has suf-
fsred from the Beers heavy defeat.
Speaking generally, the employ
ment OF women in Austria, particular
lyi the country, may be considered
satisfactory; they are, for the most
part, remarkable for attention aud
application to their duties. In order
to obtain these appointments, candi-
dates must pass an examination of
moderate difficulty. They receive
one form Austrian money day.
James Gordon Benefits latest
conceit is the engagement for his
personal qualification, for the space
of one month, of the celebrated or
chestral leader from Vienna, Johann
Strauss, who arrived at Pau about
tho LIST of March with an orchestra
of eighty performers. This royal
caprice cost Mr.. Bennett the bag
atelle of 100000 francs, but he is
rich enough to pay for his whims.
Mr.. Lancaster, near London, has
forly-six acres of celery, and his cell
cry commands the highest prices in
the market. His plantation, 10000
plants per acre. REQUIRES 400. 900
plants. They are set in trenches,
and vast quantities of manure are
used. Seven horses are used in bis
eighty-acre vegetable garden. Rae
ishes between the celery bring. about
$40 per acre, and the celery $3.50
per acre. The labor comes to $3.50
per week in Summer and Autumn.
He was O printer, and he went in.