The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

An extensive system ofrailroads is shortly to be commenced in China.
 Dried potatoes are prepared in Ger many in immense quantities. They lose sixty-five per cent. of their weight in drying, and when used are said to be as good as fresh ones.
 Young MT. Burdett-C -Coutts, nee Bartlett, has an imitator in Paris. Count de Lugival, aged twenty-six, has just married widow aged seventy-two. The ancient dame brings the boy an in- demnity of 6,000,000 francs.
 In the land of the Hindoos, who are a very amiable and gentle people, there is in many houses a room called the krodhagara, or chamber of bad humor, which serves the purpose of the corner for naughty children.
 In China metals are strewn about the Empire in profuslon-enormous coal measures, prodigious deposits of iron. vast veins of copper, great tracts of ga- lena, chrome, plumbago, cinnabar, cupreous nickel (white copper), zinc, pyrites, manganese, etc, are found in every section.
 A Melbourne (Australia) journal says that the present Lord St. Leonards, a well-known black sheep, who was at St Kilda, fashionable watering-place near Melbourne, recently received a very sound thrashing from colonial bushman for having at a public bar spoken irreverently and indecently of the Queen.
 At the recent elections gentleman came into one of the polling booths quite out of breath and said:-''Well, am I elected?" Returning Oficer-''Arey you one of the candidates?' 'No." ''Then why do you ask?'' II am told that the elections have taken everybody by sur prise, and so I thought to myself, one can never know. .'-Le Figaro.
 One of Prince Bismarck's first acts as head of the Foreign Office was to raise the status of Germany's representatives abroad, to which he attaches such inn portance that the diplomatic salaries far exceed all save that of the Governor of AlSace-Lorraine. The Embassy at Paris has lately been renovated with splendor.
 The mail of Mime. Patti, in Paris, is remarkable not only on account of its enormous size, but also on account of the queer things in it. About dozen letters week contain requests for her to become the godmother of babies just born, and also of babies who are expect ed. Among the piles of begging letters the most original so far is one from a dude who sends his photograph as an ir- reSistible plea for 300 francs.
 Of eighty-four female convicts shipped from Odessa few days ago to Seghalien, thirty-siX were transported for killing or attempting to kill their husbands, twenty-two of the thirty-siX being yet in their teens. One bride of seventeen sweet summers murdered her husband six months after marriage; an- other of sixteen killed hers within a week, while third of eighteen made herself widow on her bridal night with the assistance of sledge hammer
 An old Scotchman, when taking his bairns to be baptized, usually spoke of them as laddies or lassies, as the case might be. At last his wife said he must not say it was laddie or lassie, but an infant. So the next time that Sandy had occasion to go to the clergyman the latter said: ''Weel, Sandy, is it a lad die?'' ''It's nae a laddie,'' was the answer. ''Then it's a lassie." Its nae a lassie.m5 said Sandy. ..Weel mon what IS 1t, then?T' said the astonished preacher. ''I dinna remember vera weel," said the parent, "but I think the wife said it was an illefant" :" The clergy man finally found out that it was not an elephant, but an infant, he was ex- pected to baptiZe.