The Arizona sentinel., 1888-01-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
England has about thirty thousand

Fifteen young MoOrs from Morocco
 have gone to Italy to study in the mil.
 itary colleges.
 The Japanese have voluntarily
 contributed over two million one hun.
 dred thousand dollars to provide fol
 the defense of their coast.
 The Hospital Saturday fund in
 London amounts 10 fifty thousand dol
 lars this year. Collections are made
 every Saturday in workshops and fac
 tories.
 MI. Phelps, the American Minister
 to England, says the finest scenery he
 has found in Great Britain is in the
 valley of the Dee.
 A Japanese official is travelling
 through the country studying the in-
 candescent electric lighting system,
 with view to its general adoption in
 his own country.
 The shop-keepers in Trafalgar
 Square made up portion of their losses in con sequence of the stOppage
 of trade because of the riots by letting
 rooms upstairs to spectators who
 wanted to see the fun.
 London Truth, describing a loud young American girl who has been
 shopping considerably in London re- gently, says that there is some fun in her recent remark to very lazy saleswoman. Look here" said the American, "are you above your pla ce or have you got a toothache?"
 A Dr. Barnado in Edin burgh is devoting himself 10 the work of secur- ing homes in Canada for destitute girls and boys of his own country. He has already started town on tract of four thousand seven hundred acres of land in Manitoba. which he calls Vic toria Regina, and will populate it with young emigrants. It is to be run on the system of an industrial farm.
 The English Board of Trade has made a report in which it alleges that the number of paupers in the country are only 247 to the 1000, while in 1870 there were 40 to the 1000. and that the total number has fallen from 900 900 to 697, ,000. while the population has increased by 5.70O,OO0. In Lon don, it is alleged. there are now only q paupers to 1.000 inhabitants.
 There are forty thousand different symbols, each representing word, in the Chinese language, and telegraph operators in the empire find life bur- den. The operator sending even a brief message by telegraph is obliged to make use of a complicated system of numerals which the receiver must wearily translate into Chinese.
 The "Lion of Chaeronea, monu- ment erected to the memory of the in- habitants of Thebes slain in the com bat at that place against the Macedo- nians, is now lying about the field broken into large fragments. The government of Greece. has now en- gagged Doarpfeldt. director of the Arch@ologic institute at Athens, to put the lion together and raise him in the old location.
 There is a growing feeling in En- gland of the necessity of providing an improved commercial education for the young men. On every hand, says an English paper, we hear that for eigners are pushing Englishmen from the places in the commercial world they have been accustomed to occupy | by re ason of their superior qualifica- lions and willingness to work harder i for small pay.
 There are now more than two hundred thousand bird-skins in the Natural H story Museum at South London. The latest addi- ton is the great collection of birds made by the late Marquis of Tweed Hale, the gift of his nephew, Captain Wardlaw Ramsay, who has also given 10 the museum the Tweeddale library, nearly three thousand vol lmes of pathological works, many of which are extremely rare. N r Ledger.
 The French Academy the other lay distributed the annual "prizes of virtue. " The Montyon prize of 2,OOO 'rancs was awarded to Jean Adolphe Delannoy, Calais pilot who has twen- y-one times risked his life in saving crews. Delannoy is load al with medals. and wears the cross of 5he Legion of Honor. The Academy low proclaims him the most heroic md devoted of Frenchmen. The other awards included 1000 francs to Mr. Bonaparte Wyse for his survey md book on the Panama canal.