The Arizona sentinel., 1888-10-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

King Solomon has been officially declared bankrupt in England. He was Salvation Army King.
 Birds nests of the edible sort bring their weight in silver for the tables of rich Chinese mandarins.
 Ten millions sterling will be spent by the Japanese Government in the next ten years in the purchase of fif- teen ironclads and thirty torpedo boats.
 At a recent sale in Paris $7, 500 was paid for velvet-pile Persian carpet. A less fine one went for $4,000, and tapestry of the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries realized extraordinary prices.
 The old celebration of Waterloo has faded out altogether in England. The churches no longer ring their bells on June IS, and the military celebration of the day is abandoned. The great fight has faded into history.
 Masses of deep-sea coral, many tons in weight, which were torn from their ocean bed by the volcanic explo- sion in Sunda Straits two years ago, may now be seen two or three miles inland, whither they were borne by the tidal wave.
 The third-class passenger is be- coming more and more conspicuous in England. According to report of the Great Northern railway for one-half of the year, first-class passengers were 34 per cent. of the traffic; second class, 52 per cent, and third class, 91 per cent.
 In England the proper ratio of doctor to population is said to be one to 1,200, but by this rule there are 1,943 too many doctors in London, and while 600 die every year, 1,SOO new ones are turned out. Competition is so great that in some parts of the city doctors see a patient, prescribe and supply medicine for sixpence visit.
 The putting on a short time ago of the fast express between Edinburgh and London has revived memories of the old inhabitants as to English rail- roading forty years ago, and one of these alleges that he can remember when the train for Edinburgh was started by bugle playing 'I'd be Butterfly" The passenger cars were as much like stage coaches as possible; the baggage was carried piled on top, and the gual1is sat like drivers on top also.
 A great many English newspapers and large number of their corre- spondents are earnestly condemning Egyptian tobacco and the doctored cigarettes piade in Cairo and London therefrom. It is contended that large number of cases of mouth dis eases have resulted from the use of these cigarettes, and the discussion, which is becoming hot and interesting, will very likely result in serious in- jury to the Eastern tobacco trade.
 Prof Hauser, of Germany, recent ly made a remarkable archaeological discovery in remarkable way. He noticed that a corn-feld near Alten- burg varied in color, and declared that the variation in color was due to the existence of buried amphitheater, the corn ripening more slowly over buried walls. An excavation proved that this audacious theory was correct, and large theater was discovered from which a paved road leads to the camp of Carnuntum, previously dis covered by the Professor.
 Princess Eugene of Sweden sacri- feed her family jewels to build hos pital upon an island off the coast, where poor cripples might be nursed | and healed. Her brother, the King, thought her crazy to sell all the crown jewels that had fallen to her share. | But they were to her the unused mo- tor, that properly applied and con- nected with benevolent work, might | yet set in motion a thousand blessed | wheels of help and healing.