The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-06
FOREIGN FACTS.

FOREIGN FACTS
Every able-hodied man in Norway Is I
receive musket and be 1. 'StrrcteI in II
use at the expense of the state. Thi
measure will render the large 4, rms, wilt
their great number OF servants And farm
hands, little earrisons, and the N'arlik
spirit OF the farmers will receive resi-
stimulus, which is likely TO break ont il
open disloyslty TO King Oscar.
A proposition in England is to bu,ld
steam hre-epgines with separate and dis
connected boilers, IL is claimed by m,
builders that two horses cannot haul
more than ioar wheels than is massed in
the present steam hre'engines, and this
puts limit to the increase OF power but hy
the change suggested the power can h.
trebled with only double the number 81
horses.
Cremation is progressing in Japan and il
said now to average 1900 bodies wear Ths
cremaIing establishment is a stone and Co
ment structure with towering Chimney
making 1t look like u factory. la the yesti,
bule are number OF red urns and small
shoyels, which the relatives of the deceased
purchase to collect the ashes after burninr
After the cremation the ashes are collected
placed in an urn, and then buried i'm n
cemetery.
The latest news from Moscow In rela.
ton to the coronation preparations are that
| no fewer than 1900 electric lamps cover ina
cupola OF the great belfry tower. and ION
the cross that new parquet flooring is being
laid down in all the grand halls of the
hremlin that n soldier with fixed bayo.
net stands over every group of workmen
ana that the hotel prices have already adj
\ IN fol Vtl 81.
the ceremony having AS vet been issued
only to men, some anxiety exists Mt 81
Petersburg among the ladies.
The immigration into Russia more than
offsets the emigration from that country
| Thus. while in the year 1851 no less than
| 7i3,OO Russian subjects left the country
| 10000 foreigners entered il. During the
past year nearly 2oO0o more souls entered
! Russia than left II. The largest contingent
OF emigtantS is German. The Germans
found larae industrial establishments. and
Russian Poland especially is full OF German
| factories. Russians are beginning TO com.
plain OF these numerous arrivals, and all
sorts OF proposals are said To have been
started for checking "the appropriation of
Russian soil as soil for German Industry -
Millions are wasted by the French n, :
public and the government has become as
corrupt AS 1t WAS under the empire, The
departments swarm with officials with large
salaries and little to do. In one small
branch OF the agricultural department
there are thirty'two officials to superintend
iiity.ilve clerks. The premier syndicate, i"
winch was.tha OF the national defense left
deficit of S50000,0C0, of which the
court OF accounts could never find a trace.
The second syndicate was instituted for the
loan designed to pay the national ransom.
One OF the bankers interested in this opera.
ton made net profit of S6,000,0OO. The
ministry OF commerce cost III 100 600 In
1870 but Tor the present year its expenses
are SiUOWO. In the same period the ex .
penditures OF the ministry OF agriculture
have increased from s., zoo, 900 to As 900 900
As regards the new railroads, the Figaro
observes that NJ. De Freycinet has sub.i.
died o,5lI miles OF new railroads, granting
to deputies all they asked for themselves
and their friends, and that thus $500, 600 OO9
has been squandered for electioneering pur.
poses. This is paying each deputy of the
majority at the modest rate of g. 100000 Il
head.
The income of Emperor William is not
even approximately known. His civil list
AS king oil Prussia, officially termed Crown
Dotation, is nei'hermentioned in the bulge,
/
mcnt, because the same, amounting ia
81 $4,000, besides $4,000 premium on
gold, is, by an ordinance of 1870, inscribed
AS mortgage on the state domains and
forests and hence is struck OIL in lump as
interest due on the domanial receipts. I'm.
der the head of "Dotations' there appears
in the budget only the amount of SlOSO,
600, making, with the above mentioned
figures, total of $29s0,0O0. As emperor
he has no donation, hut receives a sum of
several million marks from the revenue
known by the name OF Disposition fund, -
with which he is nee 10 do rs he pleases.
These moneys are chiefly spent by him for
charitable purposes, and from them he re.
Gently gave ~ goo for the relief OF the
victims of the foundations in the Rhine
districts. The income derived from The
eihperors private fortune, as we'll as from
the family possessions OF the members of
his home, IS not subject of public cognz
| ance, nut IL mas been estimated at 81, 900 O..
CJ', making in all 81 100000 available tor the
support OF the emperor and his relatives
ana the small army of dependents.
Instructions in the Austrian provinces
are even ota more significant nature than
the so-called Indian wars in this country,
According to the returns, which are now
complete, OF the losses of the 7G, 900 Aus.
trian loops employed In the insurrection in
Herzegovina and kaivoscie during the five
months, ending May 81, 1882, there were
seventy-one men killed, 255 wounded and
eight missing. OF the wounded l02 either
died or had to be dismissed as unfit for
service, and l02 more men died from sick.
ness. Assuming that seventy.iiye of those
who were wounded died, then the total
mortality-including the victims of dis.
/ easp--waQ pfS ltpInr IA.
the average rate of mortality is 20 per | 900
per annum. The campaign referred TO
lasted only five months and at the rate of
twenty deaths per 1000 during twelve
months, the mortality would have been fig}
Tor the actual time engaged in the war. But
as 1t was only 2iS IL follows that the death
rate was less than deaths in each 200
during the five months, or at the rate of s
per 200 for one year. This would rather
indicate that war has no terrorsn and
That In this instance IL was much more
healthiul occupation than to remain at
home standing guard. There must have
been "a great cry and little wool, or as the
Herman sayingis, "Niel geschrei und wenig
wolfe, about this Herzegovina instruction
about which the telegraph brought daily
intelligence. 1t sinks into utter insirnif.
canoe when compared with the Nez Perez
or me periodical outbreak Of the Apaches
in this country.
The cost of living in France has been
computed by NJ. Armangaud, who took the
expenditures OF sixteen working.class fami-
lies In the town of Mulhouse, Alsace. Simi.
lar expenses might be little over or a lit.
We under this estimate in other districts in
france, but, upon the whole, the results
may De accepted as fair average, The
sixteen families tabulated by NJ Arman.
gaud were chosen from different classes OF
workmen, and their expenditure varied
from 80 TO 5000 per annum. House NO.
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