The Arizona sentinel., 1888-06-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A London dealer in orchids en-
ploys sixteen collectors in South
America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific
Islands
President Carnot of France saws
that the fact that Heaven has denied
him a son is the chief sorrow of his
life.
The Comte de Paris sent punch
bowl of agate, ornamented with
precious stones. to the Prince of Wales
as his silver wedding present
The first complete fossil skeleton
of whale found unner ten feet of
mari in the south of Sweder. was pre-
sented to the University of Upsala
Japan has nearly forty million in
habitants and almost one hundred
centenarians. Of those who have
reached one hundred years of age,
seventy-three are women and twenty
four are mon.
I'm Yucatan every male between
the ages of twenty-one and fifty is
subject to military duty, and when in
service gets the munificent pay of six
cents per day, and finds himself in
food. There is no commissary depart
ment in the army, which must tend to
shorten campaigns.
Bismarck is one of the largest
paper manufacturers in Germany.
The daily production of his mills at
Varzn average something over fifteen
tons. He is also distiller on large
scale. and as timber merchant he is
only surpassed by the Prince of SAKE
rg-Gotha, who owns the great
Thuringian forest and the Prince Won
Furstenb berg who disposes of all the
timber cut in the Black Forest by
hereditary right.
"A new helmet for firemen has
been invented in Bremen. 1t consists
principally of a copper mask, which is
very light The wearcr's nose. mouth
and eyes receive through an India rub
Der tube constant stream of pure
air. which leaves the helmet by an
opening opposite the eyes and pre-
helmet has been practically tested and
is to be used by the B Rim firemen. it
is said.
The city of Liverpool is to be sup
piled with water from reservoir in
Wales. which is to be four and one
half miles long by ha.f-miIe to a
mile broad and eighty feet deep.
There will be three lines of pipe, each |
sixty-eight miles long, with filtering-
beds and secondary reservoirs. The
aqneduct alone will cost S15 0OO 000
AT Worcester Sessions, England.
Magistrate Willis Bund passed sem
tence on boy named Joseph Slater,
who was convicted of stealing three |
eggs value threepence. of fourteen
days hard labor and five years con-
finement in reformatory. The boy |
bore a good character, and the jury
who tried the case were scandalized, |
but the magistrate refused to change
the sentence.
Owing to the stringent law against
selling antiques in Greece. many OBJ
jects are broken when found by peas
ants or thrown into the sea. A similar
move in Egypt under Said Pasha pro-
duced similar results. A new decree
makes it unlawful to deal in antique
ties, and will make the Arabs who find
tombs and scattered antiques yet more
secretive. and lead them to destroy
objects rather than allow their exist
enee to be known.
-Man-eating tigers have become so
along certain road in Ma
lacca that panic has seized foot
travellers, and they will not go along
1t unless they can do so IN company
with string of carts. The number
Of people killed by tigers in Sungei
Ujong during the last half dozen years
must be enormous. for as many as
three men a day have been taken
off along the twenty-four miles of
he prin cipal road. One brute has for
months taken his two or three men a
week regularly. and another has done
,he same at another place for three
months. while at five or six other spots
IN the road men are frequently taken
If