The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

s-Russia is 20 have railroad tunnel
.hieg miles long, at a cost 6t SS.J00.0O0.
The Emperor of China' 5 new throne
, at Shanghai is to have it's foun !ation
snd pedestal made of gold bricks.
Three years is about the averages
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 grouDI that he had eaten the pre-
:editig OWNER. s#t
--The SIX hundred French army cats,
whose duty it is to catch mice in tho
clothing store-houses, are to have theft
rations reduced, since they have become
too fat and lazy.
King Tkeebaw's state chariot has
of the pattern used in Europe one hum
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 Hydrophob'a and the Re-
form of the Dog Laws having for ITS
ina II object the enforcement of better
control over dogs. One of its methods
will be to accomplish the destruction OF
dogs of low degree.
Mr.. Gladstone's library numbers
sbout $1,000 volumes. "Ah. you are
looking at my books" he said to visi-
tor the other day. '.if there is one
thing / am vainer than another about 1t
is my plan for stacking books. / can
get more books into given space than
any man | know"
There are now thirteen women liv-
ing who are Chez alters of the Legion or
Honor, all of whom except Rosa Bon
hour, the painter, and Nine. Dieu'afoy.
the antiquarian, received the decoration
for actual service on the field of battle.
OF tie machines imported into Aus
tro-Hungarv in the three-guarters of
tn 5 year. fifty-five cent came from Eng
land, thirty seven Fer 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.
-Ren;am II Moore, who d ed in Ber-
lin recently, left by will n 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. Il leave my money to the brute
And lie did, enrich;ng the Berlin Society
for the Protection of Animals by nearly
100000.
"A large factory Of Bresiau required
q chimney fifty-four feet in height. In
stead of constructing the chimney with
bricks, rs 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 nilammab!e, IS
very elastic. and is by the nature of the
material quite secure from Lightning.
which 80 often plays such sad havoc
with the more ordinary sort of factory
Oh mney.
The ''typo-te!egra?h,'' which is a
new invention, is now beng tried in
Paris by the NJ mister of Posts and Tele-
graphs; it has tcen submitted by NJ.
Etiennc dc Fedor, and it is intended 10
be devoted chiefly 20 press messages.
The art Gle of a paper or Journal which
is to he forwarded by telegraph TO an
other journal is first set up in ord nary
type in y column and then stereotyped.
The block is aftcrward sent to the tele-
praph Office and serves as original of the
message. NJ. Fedor claims that the
rapidity of the transmission may reach
one thousand two hundred letters PER
minute, or about fourteen thousand
words per hour.