The Arizona sentinel., 1888-01-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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have no windows.
1t is said in England that the Rus
sian wheat crop this year has been
Better than for ten wears.
An Albany syndicate that has
been formed to encourage the extirpa-
ton of the English sparrow offers 81
per 100 for so, 600 of the birds.
The figures of the Berlin Bureau
of Statistics show that there are ten
thousand locomotive engines in Ger
many, seven thousand in France, and
twenty-eight hundred in Austria.
N y Ledger.
Mosquitoes in China have a very
poisonous sting. In Il Tientsin hospital
there were at one time last summer a
man with an abscess in his face, and
another with blood-poisoning from the
bite of the insects.
Although great quantities of pea
nuts are yearly shipped to Antwerp,
but few are eaten by the Dutch. The
nut is submitted to q treatment by
which the oil is extracted, and the oil
is used for various purposes. The
supply is imported from Africa.
The Queen Regent of Spain has
signed a, decree authorizing the con-
sirCction of six war vessels of 1000
tons each, with a speed of sixteen to
twenty miles an hoar; four torpedo
boats similar 10 the Ariete, and
twenty other torpedo boats of sixty
tons each.
"A line of railway connecting the
Gulf of Bothnia with the Arctic Ocean
is now in process of construction. Its
terminus on the gulf is the Swedish
port of Lulea, about seventy-five miles
south of the Arctic Circle. This line
will be the the northernmost railroad
in the world. N Y Ledger.
There is hard wood, which
grows in South Africa, that will last
seven times as long as lignum vitae.
Il is the wood of the Umzumbit or
Umtiza tree, which is found in the
coast forests, and attains q height of
thirty-fve feet and diameter of
eighteen TO twenty-four inches.
An old Roman fireplace, with the
ashes and chimney well preserved, was
unearthed at the market place,
Mayence, recently. The pipes were
carthenware, and fitted exactly into
one another, A monumental stone
bearing the inscription. Leg VIII,
G. E. NJ" found close by, was nearly
% inches long by nearly u inches
broad.
Recent statistics show that crime
is decreasing in India, especially in
3 'ngal and the northwest provinces
and in Oudh. Although there were
over $50 900 persons confined in the
754 prisons of India last year. the
daily average has declined steadily in
each of the past five years, falling from
$1,000 in 1881, TO "a 0)0 in 1885.
Senior Isidoro Errazuriz, the Chi
liam immigration agent in Europe, has
been ordered to offer free passages to
Chilli to twenty Irish families who are
experts in the art of dressing flax. 1t
is said the plant grows wild there in
abundance. that it is of excellent quail
ity, and flat if few people who un-
derstand preparing the staple for mar
ket are once established there the in
dustry will soon be of great impor-
tance.
Toxic, Japan, looks more like an
American than any Oriental town.
There are a number of street car lines
and the streets are lighted with gas.
Telegraph lines stretch in all direc-
lions; high schools and common
schools are being established, and the
university will compare favorably with
many in this country. Many flour
ishing factories are already estab-
lished.
Since the establishment of the
Republic about two hundred statues
have been raised in France. The
Minister of Public Works, not content
with these monuments, has proposed
that in celebration of the centenary of
the revolution q commemorative
monument or column of the revolution
should be erected in every commune in
France. This would entail forty thou
sand monuments at one stroke.
Owing TO serious Inconvenience
having been entailed on several British
subjects, on account of their ignorance
of the laws of America regarding the
importation of aliens" the English
Home Secretary has issued circular
TO the police authorities calling atten-
ton TO recent legislation in the United
States prohibiting the importation of
foreigners "under contract" and or
dering that all publicity possible be
given to the provisions of the American
law.
Some of the animals of Japan are
quite different from the same species
which are seen in America. The cats,
for instance, have the shortest kinds of
tails or else none at all. Being de-
prived of this usual plaything, they
are very solemn pushes An Ameri-
can once took one of these tailless cats
10 San Francisco as curiosity, and it
utterly refused companionship with
the long-tailed feline specimens there;
but, finding a cat whose tail had been
cut off by accident, the two became
friendly at once. japanese dogs are
almost destitute of noses, having the
nostrils set directly in the head. The
smaller the nose, the more valuable
the breed. Boston Budget.