The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-09-05
FOREIGN NOTES AND GOSSIP.

LORD QUEENsBURY is about TO purchase an ex-
ttnsiye tact of land in Texas.
PREPARATIONS are being made in Vienna to eel
CITRATE the two hundredth anniversary OF the ex-
Iulsion of the Turks from Austria.
AN ENGLISH newspaper reminds us that United
States Treasury bonds to the amount of EAOOOOeO
are held by three persons-the Duke OF Suther.
land, Sir Thomas B.sssy and the Baroness Burdett-
Ccutts.
YOUNG and beautiful girl, the daughter OF
Amin Deuuoh, a well known banker, committed
suicide recently in EudaPestn. she was to have
been married few days later. When the news of
this unfortunate Incident carried to the girls
mother the latter tried throw herself out of the
bedroom window
The methods of Italian agriculture are peculiar.
Several crop rotation systems are in vogue. Ia
many districts the plows and other instruments
employed are rude and antiquated being evident
ly iineal descendants of the old Roman implements
described by Virgil, some regions even the har-
row is unEnOwn. In Italy, on the whole. the laud
is scantily manuIed Probably modern and light
American farming tools would find a market in
the Italian peninsula, fl properly introduced.
ONE of the most attractive fairs of the year has
been the Swiss National Exhibition, which was
held at Zurich In July. and closed just month
ago. The Swiss are world-famed for certain
branches of industry, Zurich is the second silk
manufacturing city il the world, the Swiss EN-
broideries are sold all over the univerSe-and the
machines for embroidering and the looms for
weaving silk were all in operation. The silk In
dustrY constituted the first section OF the show
There were forty three sections IN all. Switzer-
land has nearly $1,000 people engaged In silk man
ufacturing The cotton exhibit was also inviting,
so were the displays of laces and watches. No ex-
hibiuon was ever held anywhere in the midst of
more beautiful natural surroundings The various
buildings, padogss, etc filed q park in which
were great forest trees as well as flowers and
shrubbery Zurich itself is delightful city.
TIE newspapers OF Paris are much more like
those that were published in the United States
forty years ago than like American journals of the
present day. Aside from their common chara cter-
istics a. family Story papers, they are political
pamphlets. They are not newspapers in any
proper sense of the word. They do not print the
records Of the hour TO the exclusion of everything
else. An enterprising New Yorker recently began
the publication in Paris. in English, of a live
newspaper. and he has had end of trouble
with the authorities. II he were less enterprising
he would get along all right The official regula-
tons for newspaper publishing in Paris start
ling. No newsboy. for example. can be employed
except by the special Official permission of the
Prefecture of Police, after some weeks have been
spent in investigation concerning the boys
character. The publishers can not display pos
ter In their own window without getting 1t
stamped. All of their news dispatches are subject
10 inspection by officers OF The Government before
they reach the offiCe.