The Arizona sentinel., 1888-07-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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 king Humbert's palace in Rome. the Quirinal, contains 2,000 rooms, only 125 of which are occupied by the King and his household.
 The North China Herald says that agents of the Panama canal made ar engagements to kidnap 3O,OOO An namese coolies to work at Panama, but the enterprise failed.
 Just before selling the furniture of an old lady at Ryde, England, the execution examined an ancient bureau and discovered a secret drawer, in which were upward of 1000 sovereigns, closely packed.
 The average time taken to put two persons in telephonie communication in Glasgow is thirty-fve seconds, in Birmingham forty, in Liverpool thirty two and in Dundee twenty. This was ascertained from the results of ten calls iii each town.
 A popular superstition in Naples is that of offering charm to a horses head or neck for the purpose of warding off the evil eye. This usually consists of piece of horn; but occasionally a Madonna may De observed, and occa- Bionally small bag of sand fulfilling the same purpose.
 The Mexican woman who is obliged to earn her own living has hard time of it. Seamstresses can not earn more than fifty cents per day, cigarette-ma6ers from thirty-two to thirty-eigbt cents, and match-makers thirty to forty cents, and these are the only einployments that are open to women in the City of Mexico:
 Prince Bismarck recently re- marked to friend that in the course of his long and eventful life he had never met but one thing that really mystifed him. ''I can not" he said, account for the fact that group of wax-figures never by any chance look at an object they are supposed to be interested in, or at each other. !"
 Queen Victoria has of late fallen into the habit Of taking little ''cat- maps" in Der chair, even when visitors are present. At such times the royal lady goes through the same routine followed by the most humble of her subjects. Her head falls little for ward, swaying slightly from side to side; then she sits bolt upright, opens her eyes wide, and assumes an appear ance of great intelligence and alert ness,
 Ellen Manning, a fashionable and wealthy woman Of Stapeley, England, was recently arraigned on charge of having stolen sixty pounds of straw from her neighbor, MT. Hornby, the famous cricketer. She pleaded not guilty, but boy employed by her testified that the fodder running short she had directed him to go at night to the yards of various neighbors and steal something for the cattle to eat, and that when he told her he had done so she laughed. The case was ad- journed to give chance for settle ment.
 -Ex-Empress Victoria of Germany and the Queen of Italy are said to be the two cleverest and most highly edu- cated women in Europe. The ex-Em- press is brilliant conversationalist, but is not as witty as Queen Marghe- rita. The former, however, is pos sessed of knowledge of scientific sub- 1ects most remarkable for woman. She is able to converse learnedly with | such men as Virchow and Won Helm holz, and her comprehension of her husbands case awakened wonder among his physicians.
 The increasing severity of the pass port regulations will make 1t necessary for all Americans going to Germany to bring passports from America, and l that the personal descriptions, etc., therein shall be exact enough to satisfy l a Russian policeman in search of Nihil- | ists. Passports must be stamped by a | German Ambassador at Paris, but the | passport regulations do not apply to | travellers by the common route from Paris via Belgium to Berlin, but only | along direct routes on the Alsace-Lor- | raine frontier.