The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-04-04
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

queen SlZo ,uOO year and brings IN
rentals of s25, 900.
Giving huge breakfasts to unem-
ployed workingmen is the latest Lon.
don fashion in charity.
Berlin has 40 newspapers and mag
azines. Forty five are official, 77politcal,
148 artistic and scientific, 60 COM
mercial, 20 religious ard 60 literary.
Parisians ate 1900 donkeys, mules,
and horses last year. The Academic de
Medicine has awarded prise to an
essayist who strongly recomends d
more general use of such diet.
The modified constitution of Hol-
land provides that the crown shall pass
to the Princess of the House of Orange
who is nearest related to the last King
when there is no direct issue.
At Halle great preparations are
being made to celebrate the second
centenary of the birth of Handel. The
honse in which he was born is
rich in souvenirs Of the great composer.
In Scotch divorce case which re-
Gently came before the Court of Ses-
sion, the couple had been married for
thirty-fve years, and the wife (whn
| was the petitioner) was the mother of
fifteen children.
The colonel Of a cavalry regiment
has been arrested at Madrid for con-
spring to restore the Republic. On a
similar charge corporal and two
policemen in the province of Navarro
have been convicted.
Sir Harry Smith Parkes, British
Minister to China, died at the age
of City seven. He entered the civil
service OF the Crown in 1852. and in
1865 was mace Minister to Japan. A
year or two ago he Was transferred TO
China.
1t is reported that large number
of Conservative members OF Parliment.
representing the aristocratic interests,
Will decline to stand for reelection, on
account of their disgust at the growth
of democratic ideas in Great Britain.
A rich citizen of Lemberg, noted for
his gallantry, died recently and left by
his will 800 forms to the handsomest
woman in the town. The will says that
the judges of the fair contestants must
ignore the question of morality in rem
dering their decision.
A London firm of pencil. makers
manufactures Its shavings and sawdust
into an article which they call the
.'dust OF Lebanon" 1t is sprinkled
upon the fire to remove the unpleasant
smell of cooking noticeable in room
after meal
A sprinkling of the ladies who at
tended the last court ball at Berlin
wore crinolines On the Princess
Frie9rsco Won Hohenzo'lern rests the
responsibility Of reviving the use Of
what French journal, referring to
| the matter, calls the "horrible cage. +"
Engineering in China has certainly
achieved a notable triumph in the
bridge at Lagang, over an arm of the
China Sea. This structure is FIVE miles
long, built entirely of stone, has 800
arches seventy foot high, the roadway
is seventy feet wide, and the pillars
are seventy-fve feet apart.
Ifthe Woman's Rights PARTY should
ever triumph in Great Britain that
country would become land Of ANA
IONS. The females now outnumber the
males by 1904 900, and the dispropor-
tion is likely to be increased, as the
stress of competition drives young men
to foreign lands to seek their fortunes.
Miss Mildred Coleridge, daughter of
Lord Chief Coleridge, requests Mr..
Yates to. contradict in the London
World the report that she and Mr..
Adams (variously known as Charles
Warren Adams and Frank Mantell
Adams) have been married. The report
is false. When my marriage does take
place, she says, ''it will be publicly
announced in the ordinary manner"