The Arizona sentinel., 1888-08-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| gland. left more than l,25U, ,U00 for
 various charities.
 The French are acknowledged to
 have the finest guns and proiectiles in
 Europe. Their Ferniny shell has been
 shot through an armor plate twenty
 inches thick, and came out with its
 steel point uninjured.
 A new French device for applying
 perfume is pencil, which is rubbed
 on the article to be scented. All the
 fashionable odors, such as violet
 heliotrope, etc., are now sold in this
 form in Paris.
 The dog corps in the French army
 is being carefully trained at Belfort
 Large dogs are chosen. Every day
 they are shown soldiers in German uniforms and taught to fly at them on
 sight.
 There are now published in the City of Mexico eight or ten papers de- voted exclusively to the bull ring. On the other hand, there are but four or five papers which serve as organs of the working people.
 The English Government can get horses suitable for cavalry service in Canada for 956, and has to pay f74 for the same animals raised in England. An attempt is being made to turn the minds of English farmers toward horse-raising.
 Lord Dufferin's new viceregal lodge at Simla is to be lighted through out by electricity; nearly 1000 glow lamps will be employed. 1.-The circum- stance is noteworthy, inasmuch as this is the first Indian palace so lighted.
 The statistics of the working of the new divorce law in France afford curious reading. The total number of petitions filed from 1884 to 1886 ex- ceeds twenty thousand. Among those who in 1886 asked for divorce pure and simple, twenty-four had been married fifty years.
 English etiquette has decided that unmarried ladies should never use crest or any thing-note paper, serv- ants buttons, brushes or any other article. It is usually found that the people best entitled to crests and coats-of-arms make the least use and display of them.
 Railway companies in Australia, after experimenting with various kinds of 'quick fencing for railways, es- pecially with a view to keeping out snowdrifts," have settled upon hedges of the Rose of Providence" It is said that fence six and one-half feet high and three and one-fourth feet thick will check snow-drifts. The blossoms are salable, and so the fence is profitable.
 A Royal commission appointed by the King of the Belgians to inquire in- to the condition of labor in Belgium recommends that in the technical schools practical lectures be given on the application of art and science to industry; that manual dexterity should be cultivated in the elementary schools; that the local authorities should intro duce manual exercises into the primary and found more technical schools and schools of design and mod cling, and that the government should | aid in increasing the facilities by which | workmen would get technical instruc- ton in subjects suited to their occupa- ton.
 The result of issuing jubilee | coinage has been to lay up in cabinets, drawers and what not, something like | half million of gold. Who has ever seen f5 piece rendered in payment? Yet the mint issued quarter of mill- | ion pounds worth of 95 pieces. The | coinage of @ pieces amounted to the value of nearly 9200,0OO. Who has seen one paid over a counter? Sover- eigns and half-sovereigns will also be hoarded because they were coined in the jubilee year, so that when we say that half millions worth of gold has been put uselessly by during the last twelve months we are probably well within the truth.-SheffeLd (Emg.) Telegraph.