The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Abbotsford is still so popular resort
 that the fees paid by tourists usually ex
 ceed e4OO year.
 English syndicates have invaded the
 Austrian empire, and are buying up
 breweries in Bohemia and printing-of-
 fees in Vienna.
 Over 5000, 900 has been spent in
 Australia within the last fifteen years
 in efforts to exterminate the rabbit and
 late estimates agree that he has also | doubled in numbers during that time.
 The gala coach in which the Prin- cess Sophie, recently married to the Crown Prince of Greece, rode to her
 wedding was built for the Count de Chambord in expectation of riding in it to his coronation. The King of Greece
 bought the coach for 26,OOO francs.
 Every thing in the country of the River Chai, in Central Asia, is described by Gabriel Bouvalot as covered with salt. It is seen in the wells of the houses and on the banks of the river, and the water one drinks is very salt.
 Visitors to the vaults of the Pan thoen in Paris remember the echo which the guide used to produce by shouting and pounding on drum. This has been forbidden by the Minister of the Interior as "a deSecration of the abode of the illustrious dead"
 Smallpox is stated to have greatly diminished in Chilli, owing to the spread of vaccination. In 1880 there were r. 254 deaths from this disease; in 1883, B., 1SS; in 1885, 3,13S; and in 1888, only l. AT. The death rate, however, taken on the whole, is still high, owing to the want of sanitation among the people.
 Rome is also going in for the cleo tric light. It has been resolved to cleo trically illuminate all the streets and public places of the ancient city, and the motive power is to be obtained by the use of the famous Tivoh waterfalls, which are distant about thirty kilo- metres. It is expected that at least g. OOO-horse power will be derived from this source.
 From the Pall Mall Gazette appears this account of a curious custom: 1.-The London road car-drivers have griev- ance which approaches the lud4-rous. If they do not wear high hats they are sus- pended for a week. Last Monday a drivers hat was blown off and cart went over it, so that he was obliged to resort to low felt hat for the remain der of the day. For this heinous crime he was stopped and suspended until yes terday."
 There is a new establishment in London, where an ingenious French woman sells stands of everlasting trop- | ical flowers, which, having been sub mitted to chemical process, are unfad- ing. The flowers are rather gorgeous, of course, as they are all eXotics. They | are made up into screens, wall orna- ments and in stands, some of them sev- eral feet high. Some of these are dec orated with foreign birds.
 The carrier pigeon has been turned to curious use in Russia. It is to con vey negatives of photographs taken in a balloon. The first experiment was made from the cupola of the Cathedral of Isaac, in St. Petersburg, and the sub iect photographed was the Winter Pal ace. The plates were packed in envel- opes impenetrable to the light, and then tied to the feet of the pigeons who safe ly and quickly carried them to the sta tion at Volkovo.
 The new city of Johannesburg, in the South African gold region,is attract ing attention, and there are those who predict for it phenomenal future. They promise a million inhabitants in five years, an output of gold which shall gild the whole world, a commer- cial importance threatening the estab- lished trade centers of the Old World, and political and social position second to no city in Africa, north or south.