The Arizona sentinel., 1885-08-22
Foreign News and Gossip.


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 In the India wheat harvest sjust ended the area was about 27,- 620, ,223 acres and the yield is eotin,~tctl- -af TYR -0a6 -tnns-nr 257. lO3, 100 bushels.
 Velocipedes Of every kind have been expelled from the streets Of Berlin by an ordinance of the police, the legality of which has been upheld by the Prussiau Court of Common Pleas, to which some owners of bicycles appealed.
 An apropos story of the new Lord ROthschild: Some ladies were once discussing in his pre- sence the difference betweep the real and the ideal, and he was appealed to for his opinion. "Tbe real," said the f1nancier, lis IL Spanish coin; the ideal is Spa nish hond."
 "India- -rubber-elads" are to he tried in place of irOnclads in the navy of the future. The first series of Experiments will be un- dergone by the British war vessel Resistance, which is to be coated with India rubber 10 considera- ble thickness, and shot and shell will be fired at her.
 Pope Leo XIII has not master ed English pronunciation fully, and recently bewildered the Duke and Duchess of Norfulk by asking what they really thought of the character and ability of "COrk- hiH." It took them some time to determine that he meant Lord Randolph Churchill.
 There are now about a dozen bridges across the Thames at London, and the corporation has Ijust decided to build another. Two centuries ago LOndoa Bridge was the only one, and the bold pro- position to throw across another as far up as Putney was kicked out of the House of Commons.
 A profund sensation has been excited in Berlin and Vienna by the appearance in d. Well-known German newspaper of what plr- ports to be ''a true. account of the death of Prince Frederick Char les" The journal asserts in plain terms that the Red Prince did not die of sPopexy, but that he was shot bv his wife.
 The weekly salaries paid dur ing pantunliIne season at pros miptpt prnvinciat theatre in En- i gland are as follows: One actress at $10G a week, two actors at SIP I d week; two actors at $50 a week, three actresses at S30 d week, one ballet lady at S60 a week, eigh ballet ladies, at $l5 a week, fifty chorus gipis at Sl 50 d week, four actors at S25, week, twenty su- pprS at SI 50 a week, oS S825 a i WeeS,, for Salaries.
 Thomas Cooper of Londonderry has invented novel application of the screw power 10 ships. In 8 vessel which was launched in that city recently the propeller is nearly amidships, but slightly back toward the stern quarter. It is claimed for it that it will do away with tbe racing of engines, the screw being. In all weathers, under water. It is also said that for maneEvering the screw, as applied, will be of great value to vessels of war of the lighter craft.
 After the Conference at Peshaw- UT it was observed that the Ameer's followers had @, sert> idnental desire for keepsa kes, almost amounting to- a weakness. One high Afghan official was seen hurrying along with a pair of brass eandlesiieks, which he safely slowed away with his own hands. Another, who Was srmed with littfe arsenal from head to foot, had become pOHstssed of an um5rebl's, and this he had thrust down his hack unde rtheath his coat, will h the handle prtsruifnS high above his heaaF. where il pYcFboI fhG G,TUU nf .4tE A fwE.s,,