The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-05-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

hiblted IN Paris.
1T is said there are 800. 600 people
in France who live in apartments that
have no windows.
1t is said in England that the Rus
sian wheat crop this year has been
better than for ten wears.
The figures of the Berlin Bureau
of Statistics show that there are ten
thousand locomotive engines in Ger
many. seven thousand in France, aud
twenty-eight hundred in Austria.
IN T. Ledger.
Mosquitoes in China have very
poisonous sing. in a Tientsin hospital
there were at one time last summer a
man with an abscess in his face, and
another with blood poisoning from the
bite of the insects.
Although great quantities of pea-
nuts are yearly shipped to Antwerp.
but few are eaten by the Dutch. The
nut is submitted to treatment by
which the oil is extracted. and the oil
is used for various purposes. The
supply is imported from Africa.
The Queen Regent of Spain has
signed decree authorizing the con-
strgction of six war vessels of z. 900
tons each. with a speed of sixteen to
twenty miles an honr; four torpedo
boats. similar TO the Ariete. and
twenty other torpedo boats of sixty
tons each.
"A line of railway connecting the
Gulf of Bothnia with the Arctic Ocean
is now in process of construction. Its
terminus on the gulf is the Swedish
port of Lulea, about seventy-five miles
south of the Arctic Circle. This limo
will be the the northernmost railroad
in the world. M Y Ledger.
There is hard wood, which
grows in South Africa, that will last
seven times as long as liguum vite.
It is the wood of the Umzumbit or
Umtiza tree. which is found in the
coast forests. and aitains height of
thiriy-five feet and diameter of
eighteen 10 twenty-four inches.
An old Roman fireplace, with the
ashes and chimney well preserved, was
unearthed at the market place.
Mayence, recently. The pipes were
earthenware. and fitted exactly into
one another, A monumental stone
bearing the Inscription. Leg VIII.
G. E NJ found close by, was nearly
% inches long by nearly II inches
broad.
Senior Isidoro Errazuriz, the Chi
lian immigration agent in Europe. has
been ordered to offer free passages tc
Chilli to twenty Irish families who are
exper.s in the art of dressing flax. Il
is said the plant grows wild there in
I Il. & II
ity. and that if few people who un-
ferstand preparing the staple for mar
ket are once established there the in
dustry will soon be of great impor-
tance.
Toxic, Japan. looks more like an
American than any Oriental town.
There are number of street ear lines
and the streets are lighted with gas.
Telegraph lines stretch in all direc.
tions; high schools and common
schools are being established. and the
university viii compare favorably with
many in this country. Many flour.
ishing factories are already .estab.
Eshed.
Since the establishment of the
Republic about two hundred statues
have been raised in. France. The
Minister of Public Works, not content
with these monuments, has proposed
that in celebration of the centenary OF
monument or column of the revolution
should be erected in every commune in
France. This would entail forty thou
sand monuments at one stroke.
lowing TO serious Inconvenience
having been entailed on several British
subjects, on account of their ignorance
of the laws of America regarding tht
import alton of aliens" the Englisl
Home S .cretary has issued a circular
to the police authorities calling atten
ton 10 recent legislation in the United
States prohibiting the importation o
foreigners 'under contract" and or
dering that all publicity possible b
given to the provisions of the American
law.
Some of the animals Of Japan ar,
quite different from the same specie
which are seen in America. The cats
for instance, have the shortest kinds o
tails or else none at all. Being de
prived of this usual plaything, the,
are very solemn pussies. An Ameri
can once took one of these tailless cat
10 San Francisco as a curiosity. and
utterly refused companionship wit
the long-tailed feline specimens there
but. finding cat whose tail had bee
cut off by accident. the two becam
friendly at once Japanese dogs ar
almost destitute of noses, having th
nostrils set directly in the head. TIL
smaller the nose, the more valuabl
the breed. Boston Budget
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