The Russellville Democrat., 1888-01-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

.--E1giand lias about tHriy thousaiii blind people.
 Fifteen young Moors from Morocco have gone to Italy to study in the mil itary colleges
 The Japanese have voluntarily contributed over two million one hun dred thousand dollars to provide for the defense of their coast.
 The Hospital Saturday fund ill London amounts to fifty thousand dol lars this year. Collections are made every Saturday in workshops and fac tories.
 A Japanese official is travelling through the country studying the in candescent electric lighting system. with view 10 it's general adoption in his own country.
 The shop-keepers in Trafalgar Square made up a portion of their losses in consequence of the stoppage of trade because of the riots by letting rooms upstairs to spectators who wanted to see the fun.
 London Truth. describing loud young American girl who has been shopping considerably in London re- gently, says that there is some fun in her recent remark to very lazy saleswoman. Look here. said the American, ''are you above your pla ce or have you got a toothachep"
 "A Dr. Barnado in Elin burgh is devoting himself to the work of secur- ing homes in Canada for destitute girls and boys of his own country. He has already started a town on tract of four thousand seven hundred acres of land in Manitoba which lie calls Vic toria Regina, and will populate it with young cmigrants, It is to be run on the system of an industrial farm.
 The English Board of Trade has made report in which it alleges that the number of paupers in the country are only 2i 7 to the 1000 while in 1870 there were 4o 10 the 1000. and that the total number has fallen from 900. 900 to 697, 1000. while the population has increased by 5.700,000 In Lon don, it is alleged, there are now only 21 paupers to l. 900 inhabitants.
 There are forty thousand different symbols. each representing word, in the Chinese language, and telegraph operators in the empire find life bur den. The operator sending even a brief message by telegraph is obliged to make use of complicated system of numerals which the receiver must wearily translate into Chinese.
 --The Lion of Chaeronca. monu- ment erected to the memory of the in- habitants of Thebes slain in the com bat at that place against the Macedo- nians, is now lying about the field broken into large fragments. The government of Greece. has now en- gagged Doerpfeldt, director of the Archeologic institute at Athens, to put the lion together and raise him in the old location.
 There is growing feeling in En- gland of the necessity of providing an improved commercial education for the young men, On every hand, says an English paper, we hear that for eigners are pushing Englishmen from the places ia the commercial world they have been accustom d 10 occupy by reason of their superior qualilica- tions and willingness to work harder for small pay.
 There are now more than two hundred thousand bird-skins in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. London. The latest addi- tion is the great collection of birds made by the late Marquis of Tweed. dale, the gift of his nephew Captain Wardlaw Ramsay. who has also given to the museum the Tweeddale library, comprising nearly three thousand vol. umes of pathological works. many of which arc extremely rare. N T.. Led9er.
 The French Academy the other day distributed the annual prizes oi virtue" The Montyon prize of }, ,000 francs was awarded to Jean Adolphe DelannoN Calais pilot who has twen- ty-One times risked his life in saving shipwrecked crews. Delannoy is load ed with medals and wears the cross of the Legion of Honor. The Academy now proclaims him the most heroic and devoted of Ere ichmen. The other awards included 1000 francs to MT. Bonaparte Wvse for his survey and book on the Panama canal.