The Arizona sentinel., 1888-09-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

There are about twice as fhany women as men in Yneatan, notwith- standing which fact the whole social ,ystem of the country seems to be con- ;tructed for the especial benefit of the masculine third of the community.
 The old Hobenzollern curse, that so King was to be succeeded by his eldest son and the heir was to have some malformation or damaged limb, has been broken, and even the most superstitious have begun to doubt the spell.
 Favored subjects of the Shah of Persia are permitted. as a special mark of esteem, to be present when he has tooth pulled, while all persons who would really enjoy the spectacle those suspected of being unfriendly to him-are cruelty excluded.
 A magnificent engineering work of the fifth century, which had been par tially destroyed, has been restored in Ceylon. It is an irrigating reservoir covering an area Of 4,425 acres, or about seven square miles, from which water is taken to smaller distributing tanks more than fifty miles away.
 The great donjon tower of the Castle of Nagoya, Japan, is surmounted by two golden dolphins over 200 years old, each valued at $S0,000, One was sent to the Vienna Exposition of 1873, and was lost at sea. But some months after they fished it up, and again it glitters from its lofty gable, the pride of Nagcya.
 An improved method of oiling the waters has been patented in Germany. A rocket, te which is attached a cylinaer filled with oil, can be fired with accuracy from the ship, and when it explodes the oil is scattered just where it is wanted. By the explosion of five rockets at @ distance of from 1, 200 to t,5O0 feet from ship space of 1, 800 to 2,O00 square feet of water was covered with oil. and the waters were at once smoothed.
 An agitation is going on in India against the slaughter of COWS for food for the soldiers It is pointed out that it takes over 125, ,000 cows every year to feed the soldiers. and that the Hindoos themselves Very rarely touch meat, living upon rice, vegetables and milk, Once even the poorest could have all the milk he wanted for his babies and himself, but now it Is inn possible for the villagers to get milk even for infants whose mothers breasts have failed, and the failure of the breasts is due chiefly, also, to the lack Of cpw's milk. Thousands of children die on this account yearly:
 The bones of our soldiers who fell in Egypt are arriving in this country to be used as manure. A vessel with a cargo of bones reached Aberdeen. The captain said the bones, principal ly of the camel and giraffe, while being shipped at Alexandria were found to include number of perfect skeletons. These he rejected, though the cargo is
 
 of separate human bones. The natives visit the battle-felds and dig up the re= mains of English soldiers. s.-LOndon CtytSttdn World.
 The new clock placed in the tower of the Glasgow University is tremen- dous affair." The main wheels of the striking and quarter trains are twenty inches in diameter, The weight of the hammer that strikes the hours is one hundred and twenty pounds, and it is lifted ten inches. There is an auto- matic apparatus attached to the clock which stops the quarter peais at night and starts them in the morning. The pendulum is of zinc and iron, to coun- teract influences of temperature. The bob of the pendulum it cylindrical, and weighs three hundred !pounds, and the beat is one and one-half seconds,