The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-12-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Russia is to have railroad tunnel
three miles long. at a cost Of S3. 800, 900.
The Emperor of China new throne
Mt Shanghai is to have its foundation
and pedestal made of gold br cks
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
piece of land on which he had settled on
the ground that he had eaten tho pre-
ceding owner.
The x hundred French army cats,
whose duty IL is to catch mice in the
cloth ng store-houscs, 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. 1t is
of the pattern used in Europe one hum
dred years ago, and it is literally coat,
cd with sheet gold. inlaid with sheets of
glass. Within there is room for only
one person.
There nas been formed in London
an association. "The Society for the
Prevention of Hydrophob' n and the Re-
form of the Dog Laws having for its
main object the enforcement of n better
control over dogs. One of its methods
will be to accomplish the destruction Of
dogs of low degree.
Mr.. Gladstonc's library numbers
about $1,000 volumes. ''Ah you are
looking Mt my books" he said to n visi-
tor the other day. '.lf there is one
thing 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 Che, l'ers OF the Legion OF
Honor, all of whom except Rosa Bon.
hour, the painter, and Nine. D,eu afoy,
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
tn year, fifty-fvc cont came from Eng.
land, thrty-scven per cent from Ger
many, seven per cent from Swt1e land,
and one per cent from Italy, France,
Belgium and Amer CT. The machine:
imported from England were chiefly
destined for the cotton and linen indus
tries.
-Ren'am Moore, who d ed in Ber.
lin recently, left by will reward o
one dollar for every pol, ,ceman report
ing case of cruelty to animals. IA:
men have no hearts," he wrote in hi
will. ~ leave my money to the brutes. '
And he did, enrich ng the Berlin Soc 'ety
for the Protection OF Animals by nearly
100000.
"A large factory Of Breslau required
chimney tifty-four feet in height. In
stead of constructing the chimney witt
br cks, ns usual, large number of sole
blocks of paper firmly compressed were
made use of. These blocks were PLACED
carefully one on the top of the other ant
Joined together with special cement
The ch mney is non-in tlammable, II
very elastic, and is by the nature of th'
matera quite secure from Lightning
which so often plays such sad havoc
with the more ordinary sort of factor,
ch mney.
The 'typo-telcgra"h," which is I
new invent on, is now being tried il
Paris by the m mister of Posts and Tele
graphs; it has hecn subm. tied by NJ
Etiennc dc Fcdor, and it is intended Il
be devoted chiefly 10 press messages
The art Gle of paper or journal VIII 'cl
is to be forwarded by telegraph to an
other Journal is first set up in ord mar,
type in column and then stcrcotyped
, The block is afterward sent to the tele
graph Office and serves as original of tn
message M. Fcdor claims that tn
rapidity of the transmission may reacl
one thousand two hundred letters pc
minute, o. abb ut fourteen thouSan,
words per hour