The Springdale news., 1888-11-23
BEYOND OUR BORDERS.

TIE only railroad Tn China is daily crow d. ed with passengers.
 TIE agriculture and trade of the Bahama Islands arc botb declining.
 THE estimated consumption of wheat in Great Britain is five and a half bushels per head
 AUSTRALIA is building fence of wire net ting 5000 miles long to keep jack rabbits out of Queensland.
 TIE last census of India indicates a popu- latlon of 26S,9S2, ,000 There are G,OO0. GOO more males than females.
 ELECTRIC omnibuses now run in Paris over line two miles long, the velocity being llJtle greater than with horses
 A NOVEL experiment is to be made in Paris in the establishment of a cab company, with plant of 300 hansoms fitted with rub Der tires, drawn by English horses
 ALL amusement resorts in Victoria. B. C., are hereafter to remain closed from ten o'clock on Saturday evenIng until midnight on Sunday, at least if an ordinance to that effect be strictly obeyed.
 TIE chief industry of Brazil is cattle raising. About ,000, 900 head are slaughtered annually. the meat dried, consumed locally and exported. All the hides are exported except about 100000.
 A sARCoPHAGUs has been discovered at Saint Mandrico, near Toulon, which IS be- heved from the inscription and effigy to be that of St Flavien, who was murdered near there by the Visigoths in 5l2.
 GREAT BRITAIN is worrying about the rap idly increasing number of It's lunatics. 1t appears that those supported by the Gov ernment alone have grown to 15,000. It IS attributed to the hurry of modern life.
 A HOSPITAL for animals is one of London's new humane institutions. and the number of horses, dogs, cats and other animals presented for medical and surgical treat mcnt has already uecesstated extension of space
 Our of thirty-five soveregns who have assended the English throne sInce William the Conqueror, every month in the year has been honorcd with coronation from one to four or five times except May; that month not one
 TIE Common Council of Berlin has adopted the motion to vote 100000 marks to found a benevolent institute Ill memory of Emperor Frederick, and also the motion to open q public fund for the erection-of d monument to Frederick in Berlin.
 A SPANISH magistrate has issued proc lamation to the effect that all wines, groceries and provisions upon which andy SIS are proved to be injurious to health will be contiscated forthwith and distributed to the different charitable institutions The inmates of the charitable institutions may well exelam: ..Save us from our friend, the Spanish macistrate!"
 THERE is probably no prospect that Ten nyson wiIl leave behind him any manuscript fir4jE n nh writing of "reminiscences is task for Which. he has frequently expressed the greatest repasnanee; he hates the very suggestion of personal memoirs, and forclbIF Ikens the process of such public exhibition to being ripped up like pig
 A MORNING LEAGUE has been founded by some of the more sensible of the ladies of Paris. They are of the opinion, and very rightly so, that the customs of society, as regards the hour Of social gatherings, are opposed to the laws of health The nem- bcrs of the league suggest that all balls shall commence at nine and end at mid night. Dinner parties are to be discour- aged, and luncheons to be given instead.
 A CURIOUS museum has been opened at Dresden. In It are collected boots, shoes and slippers which Empcrors, Kings, Queens, Princes and other famous persons have worn. Among them are pair of boots worn by Napoleon l. at the battle of Dresden on April 27, 1913, and pair of white satin shoes. embroidered in gold, which the same great Emperor wore on the d8f of his coronation; another pair of strong leather boots, whsh belonged to the famous French Marshal, Murat, afterward King of the two Sicilies; q pair of high hcclcd boots of Marla Theresa boots of the UhI!OsoDher Kant