Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-07
FOREIGN NOTES.

The czar Of Russia spends $S,OOO,-
600 year,
The city cf Hamburg proposes spend
ing hundred thousand marks (of which
the empire will give 100000 in rebuild
ing the free harbor.
IN India. Ceylon and Burmah there
are over 500,000 native Christians, aud
of these over 100000 have been added
during the last ten years.
THERE ere over 1000 savings institu-
tions in Italy, and the total deposits show
that the people are saving at the rate of
about $25, 100000 q year. There are
now on deposit almost 1900, 600 books.
Ir has been said that on founding
colony, the first thing Spaniard does
is to build gallows, Portuguese to
builda church, an Englshman n drink
ing booth, and Frenchman dancing
| floor.
Mr.. GLADSTONE draws ei,929 year
a year; Mr.. Dodson, G3, l6S; Lord Spen-
Ger, G42, ,2l9; Lord Kimberly, G24, 993;
Lord Northhrook, ell, 900, and Lord
Derby, el7O,32O.
AMONG the Berricors Of France the
traditional form of obtaining wife by
capture is still preserved. The brides
house is barr.caded on the wedding day,
and the bridegroom is only admitted
after long parley.
AMONG the many curious and memoir
/ ai>io clubs of London, one of the Oldest
is that of the Eccentrics, which has had
about 1000 members since its founda-
ton. Sheridan, Lord Melbourne,
Brougham and Fox belonged to if.
Even some savages arc polite. An
English officer dining with cannibal
king was asked what religious denomi-
nation he affiliated with, as it might be
more agreeable to him to have the mis-
sionary about to lie served of another
faith.
A FRENcnMAN has recently gone deep
ly down into statistics i'll regard to
matches. His figures show that an Eng
jishman burns eight matches day, a
Swcde nine, German eleven, and q
Frenchman fifteen, The number of
matches consumed in Europe every
year amounts to 1000, O0O,0 900. Nobody
is likely to dispute these figures.
THERE are in the four universities of
Swltzerland-Basle, Berne, Geneva and
Inrch-a a total of 5i3 medical students,
OF which 81 arc women. The largest
class Is at Zurich, where the number is
$50. AT Berne the number is 1914.
There are women medical students at
all the universities except Basle. At
Berne there are 2G, at Zurich II, and at
Geneva 8.
TIE Belgian Annuaire, just out. shows
, That the Belgian population was on De-
cember 81, 1881, 1855, ,S46. In 1880
, Belgium had $40 converts for women
/ and 2lS for men, containing altogether
{ rs, 1862 persons. In 1916 there were but
7S9; in 1856, 993. The number has
!. steadily increased. The most conven-
! tual province is East Flanders, which
has 6,uG6 people III converts; the least
so Luxemburg, with AT.
a CURIOUS exhibition has lately been
on view i'll the north of London. 1t
/, sisted OF an array of cigar ends collected
i during seven years. peregrinations ur
aud down the metropolitan thorough,
fores. The cnteIprising collector reck
ors that in this time he has travelled
nearly $4,000 miles on foot, and be has
picked up GEO, 900 pieces Of cigars averag,
! ing an inch and half each. He is SAID
TO have valued bis stock, thus literally
composed of odds and ends, at El, 800.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in London newspaper: "a
, widow would be glad to hear of school
master of the old school, in London,
who would undertake to punish her son,
!, boy of II, who, though docile, is ex.
: ccsslvely y idle and careless, and she would
III return be willing to offer any reason.
able compensation. Address, stating
terms and when the boy may be sent to
him, -" The Echo remarks that the
widow omitted the most important par.
ticular, namely, the height and fighting
weight Of her refractory offspring.
GERMANY has twenty universities, .Bel
, lln with 5000 students, Leipzig will
5000, Munich with 1000, and the Others
! with from l,500 to 250- a total of 25, 52C
:, students. 1t has 1856 gymnasia or high
schools, 1876 real or commercial high
. schools, 3lS other upper schools, IS, ,OOO
common schools, ten scientific high
u schools, seven art schools and twenty
+, four industrial schools, and attendance
on schools is compulsory for all from {
to ID years old. OF the recruits for the
army only .54 per cent. could not read
j Or write.
WHEN Magololo suspects his wivo
he places a stone i'll jar Of boiling
Il water or oil and orders them to fetch ii
/ outwith their bare arms. He then Judges
. of their guilt by the amount of injury
they sustain. When a woman is thus
!, convicted he makes her confess who Sc
: dnced her. In vain does the helpless
Q creature protest that she is innocent,
0 Notwithstanding that her arm is severe
ly scalded, she is subjected to the most
$ cruel torture by kind of thumbscrew
u (amJ0nilo), which is applied to her head.
/ A small tree is partly divided along the
middle, the skull of the poor woman is
inserted as If it were wedge for split
It ting the tree still further. Great pres.
It sure is exerted by forcing the halves OF
thetree together, with the aid of pulleys.
The baronetcy conferred on DR.. T.
- Spencer Wells brings the number Of
;, such titles conferred on members of the
J medical profession up to over twenty
7 George LII. bestowed baronetcies on Sil
= = Richard Jebb, Sir Everard Home anG
II Sir Henry Halford; George Nv. on Sil
Il M. Tiernay and Sir Walter Farquhar
g William Nv. on Sir Benjamin Brodit
and Sir Charles Mansfield Clark. The
IS following is an Approximately complete
" list of the baronetcies conferred on thu
d medical profession by the queen: Sl
e James Clark, Sir Henry Marsh, Si
'f Philip Crampton, Sir Henry Holland
n Sir Charles Locock, Sir William Law
II renee, Sir William FERGUSON, Si
n James Simpson, Sir David Corrigan, Si
e Thomas Watson, Sir William Gull, ST,
d James Paget, Sir William Jenner, Si
X George Burrows and Sir Robert Christi
70 son.
If How Col. Taylor Lost Wager.
n The Carson Appeal recalls an inciden
which happened years ago on the Con,
ctnrk Rob VoyIor tl,o lox,,,,a, .,.ol !