Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-01-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There arc 6lOOo women farmers in Ireland.
 A new electrical system is to be in. troduced in the underground system of London. Large electrical engines will be built
 The natives of Yucatan are the only people near the equator, accord Ing to traveller. who pay any atten- ton to personal cleanliness.
 There is a Shakespeare hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, and instead of numbers the names of plays are upon the room doors. 'tTake the gentle mans luggage up to Romeo and Juliet" is q common order
 A sign in front of a store in the city of Bari, on the Adriatic sea, in Italy, recommends to the public the following goods and services 10 be had from the proprietor: ''L 'eches, bread sold in slices or loaves, and tuition in mathematics"
 Seven bHa-constrictors from Cuba arrived at Byrlin. A few days later one of them laid four eggs andzdied in the performance. Oa opening it ten more eggs were found of the size of 8 mans lis'. Out of the four eggs four snakes emerged about twenty inches in length"
 There arc cities in Asia the date of whose origin is not actually known, but it is known tha; they are older than Rome or any other city in Europe. Jerusalem and Hebron in Palestine and Damascus in Syria are all many centuries older than Rome,
 The little city of Weilderstadt. ill Swabia, Germany, is the birthplace of the great astronomer Kepler and the reformer Brenz well-known in Wur- temberg history. In 1870 monument to K .pler was erect ed in the city, and now they have restored to its former condition the house where Brenz was born and affixed plate. celebrating the occasion by meeting at which Rev. Von Geroth delivered the speech of the day.
 A lake at Kirknitz in tho Aus hain Alps. has for many years mysti- fed every one by drying up at one sesv- son of the year and filling with water and oyernowing at another During the dry spell the people raise very good crops in is basin. Recent ex- plorations show in one part of the basin an immense cave, which, when the water has reached cert ain height, begins sucking it up till the basin is empty. The cave leads to long series of underground lakes, all con- nected with one another by con- sinuous current. Chicago Times.
 Large quantities of guupowder are at present being sunk at the mouth of the Thames by government steamer This gunpowder has been accumulatlng for some years in tho magazines at Purfleet having been re- turned from stores as deteriorated or unreliable. The government has at- tempted to find market for this con- l 1emned powder, but no manufacturers were willing to undertake the risk of the process of extracting the saltpeter j Industries. :.
 At the recent eclipse of the sun the Chinese authorities, in accordance with the usage of the empire, ordered the Buddhist and Tayist priests to re- cite their incantations to rescue the sun from being devoured It was at he time of the festivities over the En- peror $ birthday, when all officials were required to wear embroidered robes but it is also the law that dur- ing an eclipse officials who participate in the ceremonies must wear ordinary garments until the sun is rescued. An ed;ct had to be got from the Emperor 10 settle it. He ordered the officials o ignore his birthday and attend to the sun, so they all wore ordinary robes.