The Arizona sentinel., 1886-02-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP

A Bucharest artist has spent ten years in decorating his rooms with post age stamps.
 Since the siege of Paris in 1870, the consumption of horseaesh has gradually increased there.
 M. Renkin, former Belgian Consul ! General at Vienna, was burned to death short time ago, having gone to sleep with lighted cigar in his mouth.
 Some gardeners near Paris were lately fined 100 francs for cheating in tomatoes. The fruit not having ac- quired its usual deep hue they covered itwith red paint "a:
 In many parts of Europe huge earthenware stoves are used, that need but little fuel; they absorb the heat in- stead of sending most of it up the chim- ney and then steadily radiate it for a long time. a
 A society called the Dai Nippon Keizai Kai (Japanese Economical League) has been organized in Japan. Its object is to investigate the economi- cal system of modern nations with a view to the establishment of such sys- tenn in Japan.
 Prom his studies of the Krakatoa catastrophe Verbeck is led to maintain that part of our globe remains still in a molten state, and he disputes the theory which has been advanced that the heat of the volcaniefurnaces is entirely due to local chemical action.
 London would seem to be fast be- coming the paradise of domestic serv- ants. A lady living in Regents Park, advertising for @ cook and housemaid, announces that they twill be allowed the use of piano and late dinner" They will also be allowed out two nights a week and every other Sunday.
 Colonel Warren has been excavat- ing at Nicosia, in Cypru, and has come upon what appears to be the re- mains of glass manufactory. Hitherto it has always been denied that glass has ever been made in the island, but many of the olden vessels are very curiously shaped, and none like them have been seen elsewhere.
 -Itis scarcely fair to hold a father responsible for the conduct of his grow ing up son, and even a wife can not al- ways answer for her husband. The Turkish authorities at Janiva appear to forget this. They have just inflicted sentences of hard labor upon a father whose son had enlisted in the Greek army, and upon wife whose husband has taken a like step.
 Efforts have recently been made in Europe to invent small steam craft ca pablo of being propelled at almost ex- press railway train speed. A small ves- sel for service in the Adriatic is now be- ing constructed by Prague engineer, the speed of which win, it is alleged, equal that of fast railway train. This result is expected from an improved screw and a novel method of construc- ton. Great interest is manifested in the experiment.
 t The new Tay bridge, to take the place of the one where the great horror occurred, when completed will be rather more than two miles long, its cost be- tween 9600, ,000 and f700,0 and some 21, ,000 tons of new ironwork will be used in addition to the side-girders of the old bridge. The eighty-fiVe openings which form the total length will in crease in span from fifty-six feet near the shore to 245 feet at the center of the bridge, which willsbe some seventy-six feet above the water. Another curious piece of information is that if the 3,50O,- 900 rivets which will be used in the work were laid lengthwise they would cross the broad river more than 100 times.