The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Russia is to have railroad tunnel three miles long, at a cost of 8, 800, 900.
 The Emperor of China'snew throne at Shanghai is to have its foundation and pedestal nraoc of gold bricks.
 Three years is about the average active street life of horses in London, against sixteen to twenty years in this country.
 A New Zealand chief claimed a piece of land on which he had settled on the ground that he had eaten the pre- ceding owner.
 The six hundred French army cats, whose duty it is to catch mice in the clothing store-houses, are to have their rations reduced, since they have become too fat and lazy.
 King Theebaw's state chariot has lately been exhibited in London. It is of the pattern used in Europe one hun dred years ago, and it is literally coat ed with sheet gold, inlaid with sheets of glass. Within there is room for only one person.
 There has been formed in London an association, ''The Society for the Prevention of Hydrophobia and the Re form of the Dog Laws,'' having for its main object the enforcement of better control over dogs. One of its methods will be to accomplish the destruction of dogs of low degree.
 MT. Gladstone's library numbers about 15,00O volumes. "Ah! you are looking at my books" he said to visi- tor the other day. 'If there is one thing I am vainer than another about it is my plan for stacking books l can get more books into given space than any man know"
 There are now thirteen women liv- ing who are Chevaliers of the Legion of Honor, all of whom except Rosa Bon- heur, the painter, and Mime. Dieulafoy, the antiquarian, received the decoration for actual service on the field of battle.
 Of the machines imported into Aus tro-Hungary in the three-quarters of this year, fifty-five cent came from Eng land, thirty-seven per cent from Ger many, seven per cent from Switzerland, and one per cent from Italy, France, Belgium and America. The machines imported from England were chiefly destined for the cotton and linen indus tries.
 Benjamin Moore, who died in Der lin recently, left by will reward of one dollar for every policeman report ing a case of cruelty to animals. "As men have no hearts," he wrote in his will. "I leave my money to the brutes." And he did, enriching the Berlin Society for the Protection of Animals by nearly S100,000.
 A large factory of Breslau required a chimney fifty-four feet in height. h. stead of constructing the chimney with bricks, as usual, large number of solid blocks of paper firmly compressed were made use of. These blocks were placed carefully one on the top of the other and joined together with a special cement The chimney is non-infammable, is very elastic, and is by the nature of the material quite secure from lightning, which so often plays such sad havoc with the more ordinary sort of factory chimney.
 The '-typo-telegraph," which is a new invention, is now being tried in Paris by the minister of Posts and Tele- graphs; it has been submitted by M. Etienne de Fedor, and it is intended to be devoted chiefly to press messages. The article of paper or journal which is to be forwarded by telegraph to an- other journal is first set up in ordinary type in a column and then stereotyped. The block is afterward sent to the tele- graph office and serves as original of the message. NJ. Fedor claims that the of the transmission may reach one thousand two hundred letters per or about fourteen thousand words per hour.