The Russellville Democrat., 1888-08-16
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 The late George Surge, of En- gland, loft moro than sl,250,000 for various charities.
 The French are acknowle god to have the finest guns and projectiles in Europe. Their Ferminy shell has been shot through an armor plate twenty inches thick, and came out with it's steel point uninjured.
 IA new French device for applying perfume is pencil, which is rubbed on the article to be scented. All the { fashionable odors, such as violet, heliotrope, etc., are now sold in this form in Paris.
 1 The dog corps in tho French army is being carefully trained at Belfort. Large dogs are chosen. Every day they are shown soldiers in German uniforms and taught to fly at them on sight.
 There are now published in the City of Mexico eight or ten papers de-. voted exclusively to the bull ring. On the other hand, there are but four or five papers which serve as organs of the working people.
 ! The English Government can get horses suitable for cavalry service in Canada for f56. and has to pay f74 for the same animals raised in England. An attempt is being made to turn the minds of English farmers toward horse-raising.
 -Lord Dufferin's new viceregal lodge at Simla is to be lighted through out by electricity; nearly 1000 glow lamps will be employed. lThe circum- stance is noteworthy, inasmuch as this is the first Indian palace so lighted.
 The statistics of the working of the new divorce law in France afford curious reading. The total number of petitions filed from 1884 to 1886 ex- ceeds twenty thousand Among those who in 1886 asked for divorce pure and simple, twenty-four had been married fifty years.
 English etiquette has decided that unmarried ladies should never use a crest or any thing note paper, serv- ants buttons, brushes or any other article. It is usually found that the people best entitled to crests and coats-of-arrns make the least use and display of them.
 Hallway companies in Australia, after Experimenting with various kinds of 'squick fencing for railways. es- pecially with view to keeping out snowdrifts,n have settled upon hedges of the Rose of Providence It is said that fence six and one-han feet high and three and one-fourth feet thick will check snow-drifts. The blossoms are salable, and so the fence is profitable.
 A Royal commission appointed by the King of the Belgians to inquire in- to the condition of labor in Belgium recommends that in the technical schools practical lectures be given on the application of art and science to industry; that manual dexterity should be cultivated in the elementary schools; that the local authorities should intro- duce manual exercises into the primary schools, and found more technical schools and schools of design and mod cling, and that the government should aid in increasing the facilities by which workmen would get technical instruc- tion in subjects suited to their occupa- ton.
 The result of issuing a jubilee coinage has been to lay up in cabinets, drawers and what not something like half million of gold. Who has ever seen f5 piece tendered in paymentp Yet the mint issued quarter of mill- ion pounds worth of f5 pieces. The coinage of g pieces amounted to the value of nearly f2oo, 900. Who has seen one paid over counterP Sover- eigns and half-sovereigns will also be boarded because they were coined in the jubilee year, so that when we say that half millions worth of gold has been put uselessly by during the last twelve months we are probably well within the truth.-ShefieId (Eng. Telegraph