The Arizona sentinel., 1888-07-07
FROM LANDS AFAR.

THE little Republic Of Honduras has 1,545 miles of telegraph.
 ALETTER written by the Empress Eugenie when girl was sold ill Paris the other day for twentv-slx dollars.
 A RUSSIAN expedition is to be organized for the ascent of Mount Ararat to search for remnants of Noah's ark
 IN the grand court of the Kremlin at Mos COW there IS about to be erected a monu- ment in memory of the late Czar which will cost s65O,000
 CHINA has to raise s32, 800, ,0OO to repair the levees on the Yellow river, and the money is secured by stopping all official salaries for two years
 THE National Telephone Company of Scot land has several submarine cables of seven, eight and nine miles In length, which give perfect satisfaction.
 THERE is newspaper museum at Alx-la- Chapelle, France, containing files or speci- mems of more than seventeen thousand newspapers, half the full press of tho world.
 THE depression of the times is severely felt by the English aristocracy. Many fam lilies once opolent are now glad to let their town residences in London to rich foreign CTS.
 AT grand dinners in London the guests have offered them bears ham from Russia, sterlets from the Volga, haunch of rein deer from Lapland and cokies from Japan. The fashion of game and fruits from far countries is the result of modern facilities for transport.
 THE line of telegraph in FoTmosa has been completed from Keelung, in the north, to wan-foo, iu the south end of the island. he cable Across the Iel is in opera Jiou al the Chinese portions of Fornosa are now ln close telograpblC communication wi5h tue outsids "0r4d.
 4 DECREE has been issued by the Austrian Government banishing all grinders of or gans from the streets of Kaiscrstadt. In future the hale and strong organ-grinders will be treated as vagrants, while those who are crippled or otherwise afflicted will be relegated to the alms-houses.
 JAPAN has recently given an evidence of how rapidly her ideas are becoming West ernized by adopting the system of dividing the day into twenty-four hours of equal length. Formerly the day in Japan was di- vided into twelve hours-six from the rising to the setting of the sun and six from sun set to sunrise.
 UNTIL ohe last winter not more than eight consecutive days of snowfall were ever observed in Berlin, but in the last sea- son was one period of sixteen consecutive days on winch snow fell. The previous max imum number of days of snowfall for the winter, fifty, was greatly exceeded, as was also previous quantities of snow.
 THERE is no city in the world in which so much black is worn as Paris, writes corre- spondent It is rule in all large establish ments that the saleswomen should be clad in black Dark colors are made the badge of responsibility, so that the mother of a family hesltates to engage a teacher or gov erness who makes her appearance in any thing that is not drab, black or brown.
 A JERUSALEM correspondent writes that the Holy City is fast becoming again the city of the Jews. In 1880 there were not more than 5000 Jews there; now there are more than 30,000 Recent Russian persecu- tions have led thousands to make their homes there, and although the Turkish Gov ernment forbids all Jews who are not resi- dents of Jerusalem to remain longer than thirty days, yet a judicious application of bribes enables them to stay there as long as they please without molestation. Wealthy Jews have built hospitals and founded homes, and many of the refugees who are poor live from the charity of their brethren