The Arizona sentinel., 1888-07-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Australian market gardeners are being ruined by Chinese cheap la Dor.
 A repeating cannon has been tried at Brosschart, in Belgium, which can throw twenty-seEen shots a minute.
 Somebody now proposes to kill off the Australian rabbits by Introducing poisonous gases into their burrows.
 Indian corn is extensively raised in English parks and gardens as an ornament. The climate does not allow the seed to ripen.
 king Charles of Roumania is one of the most expert trout fishermen in Europe, and seldom fails to pass few weeks each summer in the region of wcll-stoclled brooks.
 There is d legend current among the peasants of Bavaria that the long life of Kaiser Wilhelm was due to a mysterious philter of which his Im- perial Majesty alone possessed the se- cret
 Cardinal Gibbons is said to be the favorite of English, German and Rus sian cardinals for the highest office in the church when the Pope Leo dies. An American Pope would be decided innovation.
 Of the 800 persons who visited Shakespeare's birthplace during the last year 5000 were Americans, thirty nine nationalities being represented in all. The amount derived from visitors fees is about $500 a year.
 In the old Church of San Maguel, in Santa Fe, is a bell that was cast in Spain in the year 1856. It was brought to Mexico by Cortez, and after the fall of Montezuma Indian slaves carried it to Santa Fe Three of the altar pieces in the ancient church are more than seven hundred years.
 A factory inspector found woman in the East End of London who was working sixteen hours day making waistcOat buttonholes at the rate five for 2d A fur cape-maker told him: 'I work from eight to eight, and earn five shillings week, sometimes less. ] have nothing to do for six months in the year."
 Meat, it is said, is actually dearer in BuenOs Ayres than in London. In- deed, the people of the former city complain that while the best of Argen- tine mutton is sold to London con- sumers at nine cents pound, they can not get the best at all, but have to pay ten cents to twelve cents per pound for inferior mutton.
 The general jollity at a wedding in Aiaccio, Corsica, was disturbed the other day by the appearance of two gendarmes who stopped dance and insisted upon arresting one of the dancers, a young woman. She tried to escape and then drew pistol, but one Of the officers shot her, and then itw was found out that she was Camille Nocolai, noted bandit, and no woman at all.
 Princess de Metternich is one of the ugliest women imaginable. She said of herself when in Paris: ''I am the best-dressed monkey in the city," and she really had the courage to found the Club of Ugly Women" club in which there were only five members. A correspondent describing her, says: 1.-The shoulders, uncovered to the last degree, were ornamented with scars of every size and shape, the mouth was like that of an African, but the grace and elegance could not be de- nied." The interest in modern science is rapidly increasing in China, and a scientific book depot" instituted three years ago for spreading useful literature throughout the empire, is growing in favor. About 10000 | volumes have been sold, reaching the | most distant parts of China, Corea and | Japan. About POO works have already | been translated into Chinese under | foreign management, to which about | 250 native works have been added.