The Irish standard., 1888-08-04
FROM OTHER SHORES.

FHOM y FEH onoHE0s
THE government of Servia imposes an inn
port tax on bustles
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE Glasgow us the
only woluans college in Scotland.
CHINESE nightingales are the fashionable
DRAWN groom bird on the Continent now.
TIE NEST popular drink in London at
present is milk and soda WATERFALL and
half
FIFTY THOUSAND tons of SCOT are taken an
nually from the chimmeys of London. It'll
used fer fertillzing.
In Japan every unmarried woman wears
scarlet skirt. This she discards and stains
her teeth black when she narries.
AN orange tree in the gardens Of YER
sailles is four hundred and fifty years old.
It was planted by Eleanor, of Castile,in JAG.
THERE was completed recently i'll Paris
an artesian well twenty-four hundred feetin
depth which it has taken twenty-five years
to sink.
A NEW diamond has been discovered III
Wadjra Kover, in the presidency Of Madras.
It weighs over sixty-seven carets and Is
valued at sevent y-fve Thousand dollar
A MONUMENTAL statue OF Lord Beacons-
field is to be erected at Maidstone, which
place he represented in Parliament more
than fifty years ago.
JAPANESE engineers propose 20 adopt a
system of earthworll defenses protected by
an iron shield one foot in thickness, and ex~
tending TWENTY-FIVE feet each side CT the
gun.
EUROPEAN nations save already appropri-
ated about six million five hundred thou-
sand Of the eleven million square miles OF
Africa. THAT does not Leave much for al
RIGA
SIX American ladies were presented t.
Queen Victoria al q recent dra1vlng-rcon
reception. They were Mines. Vanderbilt,
Fitzhugh, Whitehouse, Maokin, Miller and
Miss hlller.
A PAE1s journal asserts that an English
ex-hang1nau has been hired by as Amer
lean manager for a lecture tour in the
United States. and is 10 receive $40, geo over
his expenses.
THE great European political figures never
,travel beyond the narrow confines OF tha
eld world. Neither Gladstone, Bismarck,
Castelar, nor President Cannot have ever
beer l.. the United States.
A WELSH gentleman has planted the side
OF mountain on his estate with forest trees
arranged to make ''Jubjlee, 1887" in Leo
ters six hundred feet long and twenty-five
l
trees were used.
AT tic last Queens drawing coom tie
costumes Of the American ladies were much
more sober than thos& Of the English. Yel-
low and pinlS seemed to be the London
fashion, while chiefly white or black were
chosen by the Americans who were PEE.
scented.
LONDON bankers have for long tine
been seeking to obtain an additional fifteen
minutes OF grace to get their checks through
the clearing house after the close Of husi-
ness each day. The clearing house has
finally conceded five minutes, and it Is said
that the bankers welcome even this IS an
almost inestimab!e boon.
TIE Roman Catholic priests ct the Ar
gentine Republic ere said 20 be Oh strike.
TIE Government issued an order lowering
the rates for masses, marriages, huria!s
and other ecclesiastical functions, and tho
priests determined to resist this encroach~
ment upon their income and prerogafives,
so the churches all through the Republic
are closed. and even the ringing Of the bells
Is stopped.
4 REPORT FROM China conveys tho it,
formation that until recently tie pres
ent Emperor had eight nurses, twenty
five farmers, twenty-five palanli n-bear-
ers, ten umbrella~holders, thirty ply
slciaus and surgeons, seven gastrouoni-
ical directors, tWenty-seven inferior cocks,
fifty walters and messengers, fifty dress
ersy anG other attendants to tbs number Of
four hundred. Ssveutv-fve astrotogers,
sixteen tutors and sixty priests cared Scr
his spiritual and mental welfare.