The Arizona sentinel., 1888-07-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A young Madras Brahmin, mar
 ried, in a communication to the Indian
 Magazine, speaks of his marriage as
 ''the eternal knot of sorrow tied"
 A London solicitor recently ten dered a bill n which the last item was thus stated: ''To dining with you after the case was lost"
 The new Empress of Germany is in no danger of coming to want. If her husband should die she would have an income of $S0,000 per annum and a palace to live in, besides the large sum she may expect to inherit from her mother, Queen Victoria.
 There is an antiquated custom in Vienna by which house-owners, in- stead of paying their porters properly, allow them to levy toll of four cents or every tenant returning after ten o'clock at night. The consequence is that the streets are comparatively de- serted after that hour.
 Lord Butte, who is among the wealthy members of the Catholic peer age of Great Britain, has stated his in tention of building fine cathedral at Rothesay, Scotland, at an expense of over hundred thousand dollars. His wife some time ago erected and main tains an orphanage in the same town.
 Good wheat land in India is abun- dant. It only needs to be reached by railroads to become available for wheat growing. The production of wheat in India is now only about one bushel per capita. The food of the East Indian is chiefly rice and millet, but includes more than 200,000,000 bushels of wheat annually for the 260,- 100000 of population.
 Steamers landing at Cabinda, lit tie port north of the Congo, are often met by young white man who ap- pears to be in the egg and poultry business. He has spring chickens all the year round, and, as they are plump and tei ,er, he gets a good price for them. This young man is one of Bishop raylor's missionaries, and when be appears at the landing with his chicken coops he is carrying out the "self-supporting" feature of the Bish- ops enterprise.
 In spite of her otherwise sober sensible opinions, the late Dr. Anna Kingsford, who recently died in Lon don, believed that she was the re-em- bodied spirit of Lady Jane Grey, and often alluded to the idea. She visited the Tower of London one day express ly ito behold herself as she was. Dr. Kingsford was brilliant woman and learned languages and history with wonderful ease.
 While Emperor Frederick, then the Crown Prince,, was at San Reno, he was much amused at the efforts of journalists to obtain news regarding his condition. On the first day on which his larynx was examined, after had been performed, he turned to Sir Morell Mackenzie and said good-naturedly: ''Sir Morell, will you please close the blinds of the window which faces the Hotel de la Mediterrannee, or am sure that the young lady journalists will see down my throat and send off an account of it before the examination is over."
 A monument to the ill-fated Flora has been erected in the kirk yard at London, Ayrshire, near the vault of the Hastings family, in which she lies buried. The monument also commentaries the Marchioness of Lady Flora's mother, who survived her only six months and whose coffin was placed beside her daughter. Lady Flora was that inno- cent, unfortunate young woman of whom a cruel scandal was set afoat, which was believed by Queen Victoria, occasioned abandonment from the court, and finally caused the death of the over-sensitive victim.