The Indianapolis journal., 1884-01-02
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

has escaped the cholera while it was prevailing
in Alexandria. The immunity is said to arise
wholly from the sanitary measures adopted.
THERE is proposition to introduce Swedish
seeds into England. In the United States, the
best seeds are those which come from colder
climate than that in which they are planted.
THE little republic of San Marno, in Italy
with its army of forty men and its public debt of
$l,OS0, does credit to the system of self-govern-
ment. The roads are numerous and well kept
the land is well cultivated, and the villages are
clean and orderly.
AN analysis of matrimonial advertisements in
Germany show that three times as many women
as men seek partners in that manner that wo-
men are far less particular about age than men,
but far more particular about family position
and that religious faith is of secondary import
| ance with most advertisers of both sexes
DIR. DANFoRTH recently held an inquest at St
Pancras, London, upon two children found suf-
located in bed with their parents. The coroner
estimated that about $50 children are suffocated
yearly i'll England under similar circumstances
He added that in Germany parents were not al
lowed to have their children in bed with them.
THE new Parliament house in which the Aus
trian Imperial Parliament met in Vienna for the
first time last week is of Greek renaissance. It
completes the great block of buildings on the
northwest of the Ring Strasse The town hall
which faces it. is in Gothic renaissance. the ad-
joining university is italian, and the neighboling
| Volts KiTche in pure Gothic. So Vienna enjoys
a variety of architecture.
IT is proposed to hold in London, in May 1884
an international health exhibition. 1t will oc-
cupy the buildings erected for the international
fisheries exhibition, and will illustrate az wildly
| and IN practical manner as possible, food,
| dress, the dwelling. the school and the workshop,
as affecting the conditions of healthfIl life and
! also to bring into public notice the most recent
| appliances for elementary teaching and instruc-
ton III applied science, art and handicrafts.
THE increase of insanity is not confined to this
country. In 1868 the number of lunatics report
ed in France was 81 O00 to-day it is nearly $GO-
600. 1t should be remembered however, that
such statistics presumably become more accurate
and complete every year; and moreover that
many person is pronounced insane who
would have been considered merely eccentric fif-
teen years ago. There are 103 lunatic asyluIns
| in France of which 61 are public and ~ private
AN analysis of the number of marriages in
Switzerland, published by the statistical office of
Berne, shows that the proportion is very low as
compared with other countries, being but IA per
J. 600 inhabitants OF every I 900. men and / 600
women of malriageable age forty-nine men and
thirty eight women are married. The figures
show falling off in marriage, and also an in
crease in divorce. The causes are said to be re-
ligious differences and an increased mixture of
races
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Bruges, Bel
gium. says that he finds prices there almost as
moderate as they were thirty years ago He
deals with the same butcher and baker and the
same postman delivers his letters Bruges has
an English colony ofabout 500 In the sixteenth
century its population about 200 900, now
barely AZ, 900, and decreasing although Belgium
is the most populous place in Europe. A good
house of ten rooms can be had for from $50 to
800, with rates and taxes of about $3.50.
THE Fiji Times, in speaking recently of the
value of the eocoanut as food ratons, states that
a vessel left San Francisco with 400 passengers
for Sydney, and in consequence of running short
of stores, put in at Samsa, where a large duarti-
ty of cocoanuts were obtained. The weather be-
came so severe that the remainder OF the ras-
| sage consumed eighty days so that men, women,
and children We're reduced entirely to q eocoanrt
diet and were obliged to be contented at last
with but one per diem for each adult Not
withstanding this diet says the report. mot a
life was lost and not a single case of sickness oe-
| CURED, all the passengers landing in a healthy
and well-nourished condition.
That amusing old Londoner, place hunter and
gossip, Samuel Pepys, esq, erected handsome
monument to his wife, but did not provide
against his own decease a suitable memorial.
| The present generation, not unmindful of the
pleasure his artless prattle has given it, has sup
! piled the want. Mr.. Arthur Bloomfield has de
| signed an elaborate monument, which is in pro
cess of erection. A riehly-chased silver cup,
| presented by Pepys in 1913 to the Cloth Work
| erS Company, to commemorate his service as
master, is still preserved by the company. His
| monument is at St OlaVes Hart street the
church concerning whose rector, sermons and
| (rarey) pretty faces of women worshipers he has
| left such accurate report.
THE model of the flying machine with which
Mr.. Linfeld, the English inventor, expects to
navigate the air at the rate of sixty miles an hour
resembles an elongated tricycle., with a cigar
! shaped body for the engine fuel and navigator
1t is twenty feet long, fifteen feet WIDE eight and
one-half feet high, and weighs 240 pounds The
| lifting gear consists Of two square frames about
three feet deep, containing parallel sails like an
| open Venetian blind and so placed that the air
| impinges on their lower surfaces The source of
motion is a large wheel, with canvas covered
| spOkes. shaped ike the screw of a steam vessel
| The rudder is kteshaped with the point at the
| extremity. The machine was lately attached to
| an engine on the Great Western railroad and
when speed of thirty five miles an hour was at
tanned, it rose and few through the air the total
forward pull amounting to only twenty-four
! pounds. Treadles are attached to the wheels so
! as to allow a gradual start. For power, the in
ventor is disposed to rely more upon high-press-
ure steam than upon electricity or compressed
| air
Mr.. GLADSTONE has often been represented as
bullying over his colleagues in the British minis
try. But Lord Granville ought to know about it,
for he has known Mr.. Gladstone for half cen
tury, was his colleague thirty years ago, and has
served for nine years in cabinets of which Mr..
! Gladstone was Prime Minister And this is what
Lord Granville told the City Liberal Club OF
London the other day: II have served under
several Prime Ministers, but I never knew one
who showed finer temper, a greater patience OF
more consideration for his colleagues than Mr.
! Gladstone in all deliberations on any important
subject In his official position, with his knowl
edge, with his ability, and with the wonderful
power of work which characterizes him, he ol
course, has an immense influence on the deliber
ations of the cabinet but notwithstanding his
tenaeity of purpose and his eafnestness, it is
| quite extraordinary how he attends to the are1l.