Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-21
FROM OVER the SEA.

Rhein" was improvised by It's omposer,
Carl Wilhelm, has Just been sold at Ber-
lin for $500.
The Austrian Railway Club has nearly
800 members. II directs in Vienna a
railway school, to the cost of which Aus
trian railways Contribute.
DURING the past twelve months Ameri-
can newspapers have been received by
mail in England at the rate OF more than
%, 900 day, or 10, 900, 900 year.
THE English are making rapid prog
ress in vegetarIanism, and in some Of
the large towns dining-rooms have been
opened where no flesh food is served.
RENTS in Scotland still continue to
fall. A large farm in Berwickshire was
recently relet at $1,000, after having for
many years commanded 1850. This is
reduction Of about 35 per cent. The
conditions Of the new lease are said, In
addition, to be very liberal.
SCOTLAND is not great in territory,
but the making Of an ordnance survey
there has been the work of thirty-seven
years. The survey was completed last
week, and the surveying staff has been
withdrawn. During the last few years
nearly hundred men have been en-
ployed in the work.
One Of the rarest of coins has turned
up at Brunn, in Moravia. 1t is a silver
piece, hearing on one side a portait in
relief of Attlla, the famous king of the
Huns, with the inscription "Attila Rex"
and on the other the outlines of forti-
fed place, with the word "Aquileja."
Its age is about l, 400 years.
The favorite dog of the late Emperor
Alexander Of Russia, which accompanied
him on all his travels, died of old age
lately at Pau, in the apartments of the
Princess Dolgorouki, the emperor's
widow, who had cared for the creature
since his masters death. A marble slab
is to mark his resting-place.
The Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia,
at present in Paris, possesses herculean
strength. As an evidence of 1t, it is re-
mate friends and does not find him at
home he is accustomed, instead Of leav-
ing his card, to leave a piece of silver
money, which he doubles with his
fingers as easily as If it were hit of
card. board.
TIE advanced republicans Of France,
who already have civil marriages and
civil funerals, are now beginning to prac-
tice civil baptism. fortnight ago, at a
village in the Indirect Loire, the mayor
officiated, and pouring some white wine
on the child's head, pronounced the
words: "Pierre Victor, | Laptize thee
in the name of liberty, equality, fra
ternlty. Iirc Ia Rcpubliqwe.
Is some parts of Spain where butter
is a rare article Of merchandise il is sold
not by the pound, but by the yard. 1t
is brought from the mountain districts
in Sleeps iutestines, like sausages that
are 4" tied off with string III lengths as
required by the buyer. To travellers
butter 10y the inch seems rather curious
bargaining, the product Is usually
neither palatable nor particularly clean.
PARIS il about to adorn itself with
another work i'll sculpture. Gustave
Crauk has been at work for the last two
years on marble sarcophagus in
memory of Admiral de Cohgny, now
finished, and described as slugularly
beautiful and original. Coligny is repre-
sented as standing erect, supported by
the Fatherlaud and by Religion. The
monument will be unveiled behind the
Temple de rOratolre, IN the Rue de
Rivoli
A SCOTCH doctor has won three nil
lion francs at Monte Carlo. according 10
the London Truth. Noticing that some
numbers came up more often than others
at the roulette tables, he came to the
conclusion that the cylinders must be
faulty, and by the employment OF pro-
fesslonal piquers he discovered the
numbers that had come up most ire-
quently during the space OF week At
two Of the tables, aud these he backed
with the result stated.
PERSONS interested in the higher edu-
cation OF women will be glad to know
that Girtou College, Cambridge, EuS
land, has outgrown its accommodation,
and the building is to be enlarged.
The fees paid by students defray current
expenses, but the expenditure entailei
by this addition to the capacity OF the
college must be met by outside contri-
buttons. The success OF the Institution
will doubtless render an appeal TO the
public readily productive OF generous
assistance.