Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-15
FOREIGN TOPICS.

It 10 proposed to build an underground
railroad in Paris. The cost of its construc-
ton is put at $50, 900, 900.
The amour. of capital subscribed thus
far for Mr.. Kavanaeh's Irish Land Corpo-
ration scheme is f274, 600.
A coming marriage is announced between
the fifth daughter of the Frankfort Roths-
childs and the Prince of Wagram, brother.
in.law of Prince Murat.
There is an American colony in Berlin,
including 200 native born members. About
80 of these are students at the University,
at the Veterinary School. and at the con-
servatories. There are also many German
Americans who belong rightly to the col
ony.
A memorial tablet will be placed in
Colonel Chester, who was the editor and
annotator of the Abbey registers. Colonel
Chester was an American, though long a
resident in England. Upon genealogical
questions his authority was unrivaled.
The World, of London, states that it is
Lord Elcho's practice, when others seek to
lead him, to resent the insult "by seeming
to follow them for while, and then turn.
ing round and firing a revolver in their
faces" 1t is hard to see how his Lordship
can gracefully execute this curious move.
ment.
There is about to be formed in Great
Britain Z" Green Riband army, composed
OF all members of the Roman Catholic tenn.
perance organizations throughout the king
dom. A green riband will be worn at the
button-hole by each member of the army.
There is already in active work :" Blue
Riband army.
There are now nearly fifty public libra
RES IN the villages of one department in
France. Thirty-four of these are communal
libraries, and are paid for out of the funds
OF the commune. The others are kept up
by private subscription. An annual sub
sidy of 500 is granted to all alike. In Paris
there are seven public libraries, and the
Bibliothique Rationale contains 1000, 900
volumes.
At the Masonic obsequies in memory of
Garabaldi, held in building at Monte
video, South America, an alarm of fire was
given, and 300 panic-stricken persons
rushed for the narrow staircase leading to
the door. Twenty persons were trampled
to death, and ten Others were almost killed.
A public funeral of the victims followed
this holocaust on the next day. The fire
was caused by an oil lamp falling on cat
afalque.
A correspondent eulogizes, in one of the
English papers, the coolness, pluck, and
steadfast reliance on England exhibited by
the Khedive during the recent Egyptian
crisis. His Highness has won, declares
this correspondent, the sympathy and ad-
miration of the whole natien. Yet there
are persons who described the Khedive as
cowardly nobody. 1t should be added
that this correspondent takes pains to say
that he is not an Egyptian bondholder
The Photographer Of Truth, in London.
addresses his confrere of the World, the
anti American and equally personal Ed.
mund Yates, after this fashion MY
dear Edmund, that story of yours last
week, so true and quite the best joke OF the
season, was told to me when was little
boy IN ashort tunic and white drawers with a
frill, and it had been rehashed up in q
sporting paper only fortnight ago. What
with you and your beat stories of the sea.
son, and my old friend Punch and his gon.
dola anecdotes, my letter. box will have to
be enlarged"
An English journalist-who is apparently
well informed-points out that, whereas in
the United States the prevalent saying is,
LETS take drink, )" in France it appears
to be, Let's take an OATH" For instance,
when NJ. Ferry concluded his Grafton at the
tomb of Michelet the other day, he ex.
claimed instinctively, Let us take an
oath" The veracious journalist who is
quoted declares that the whole population
of Paris goes out occasionally to take an
oath on the Champs de Mars. The French
should adoptthe word of Hamlet, "Swear p