The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Berlin every carcass sold to be eaten IS microscopically tested.
 Earl Goodwin was the first British statesman. He was the father of Har- old, the last King of England of the Saxon race.
 A series of experiments lately car ried out upon fishing vessels in the North Sea, with a view to lighting them by electricity, proved very satis- factory.
 A Russian inventor has devised means of so impregnating wood with certain chemical that matches made from it can be used several times over
 A youth in Bohemia, being impris- oned for five years for theft, spent them in making 8 straw watch, five centime- tres in diameter. It was an example of patience and ingenuity without paral- fel.
 In the public baths of Bremen, built in 1877, at a cost of S125, ,000- mostly subscribed by private bounty a bath, with all the conveniences of private house, may be had for twenty five cents, and one with all that is really necessary Tor SIX cents.
 A London society for the suppress sion of ofmendicancy has handed over two hundred thousand begging letters to a committee, in consequence of which over sixty thousand professional vaga- bonds and impostors have fallen into the hands of the police.
 Medical studies appear to be too severe for the average woman. In En- gland, according to the census of 1881, the number of women physicians was twenty-five. From 1880 to 1884 eight had been placed in the lunatic asylum, and at the end of last year three were under treatment.
 At the German naval port of Will helmshaven, on the North Sea, num- Der of laborers who were engaged in cleaning the iron hull of a steamer ate the mussels they found clinging thereto. The consequence was that nineteen of the men were taken violently i'll, with unmistakable symptoms of poisoning, and in the course of few hours four of them died.
 The heavy copper consumption of India is due largely to a religious rite of the natives. At certain seasons of the year small cups of sheet copper about an inch in diameter and an inch and a half deep are filled with rice, and are thrown into the river as an offering, with religious ceremonies. The quantity of copper thus annually consumed is heavy, India sheets being an important article of commerce.
 Music from gas is the latest English invention. It is called the pyrophOne. Its compass is three octaves, with key board, and it will be played in the same manner as an organ. It has thirty seven glass tubes, in which number of gas jets burn. These jets, placed in circles, contract and expand like the fingers of a hand When the small burners separate the sound is produced; when they close together the sound ceases. The tone depends upon the number of the burners and the size of the pipes in which they burn, so that by a careful arrangement and selection all the notes of the musical scale may be produced in several octaves. Some of the glass tubes in which the jets burn are nearly eleven feet high.
 The new French Chamber will now cost the country nearly three millions sterling yearly, owing to the number of Deputies having been increased from 557 to 584. The President of the Chamber receives f3,000 year, and the salaries of the Deputies alone amount to f200,- 900, the remainder of the sum being re- quired for subordinate official salaries, printing, warming and lighting, re- pairs, etc. Besides their stipends- the Deputies get various official ''pickings," such as gratuities for serving on com missions of inquiry and free railway passes.