The Russellville Democrat., 1889-07-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are no fewer than 2s, 729 known thieves over sixteen years of age in England,
 The Car of Russia, according to an English traveller, wears silk strap around his waist in place of sus- penders.
 In China people in easy circum- stances buy their coffiss long before they need tk.sln, and exhibit them as ornamental pieces of furniture.
 In the County of London there are sixty-fve theaters and five hundred music-halls and they provide accom- mediation for 325, GOO persons.
 Seeds of the most valuable varie- tics of cinchona bring thousand dol lars per ounce in Ceylon. There are nearly one hundred thousand in an ounce.
 The old rule that no divorced woman could be presented at the En- glish court has been resended. Any divorced woman with whom no fault rested is admitted by special permis- sion from the Queen, after Her Majesty has satisfied herself that the applicant was free from blame.
 A new clock just placed in the tower of Glasgow University is tre- mendous affair. The main wheels of the striking and quarter trains are twenty inches in diameter, and the weight of the hammer that strikes the hours is 120 pounds. The bob of the pendulum weighs 300 pounds.
 In England, cruelties to children by women engaged in ''baby-farming" that is, taking care of children whose friends want to get rid of them have been exposed which excite the indignation of the medical profession and the wrath of the public; and yet, so cunning are the fiendish perpetra- tors of the cruelties that no lawful way has been found to convict and punish them.
 At recent meeting at the Marl- borough House. the Prince of Wales presiding. it was resolved to erect a memorial to the late Father Damien, who devoted the last years of his life to the care of the lepers of the Sandwich Islands. The memorial will be erected at Molokai It was also decided to construct leper ward in London, where the study of leprosy will be en- couraged.
 A traveler, recently returned from Turkey, says that the dress of the ladies of Constantinople has become so much like that of their ''infidel' sisters that a wife of the Sultan would attract very little attention in an American street. The 'feritje. the large shroud- ing mantle, is shaped almost like a dolman, and its flap at the back has diminished to collar, which is fast ened by knot of ribbons in front, and is sometimes trimmed with lace. The 'yashmak,n or vail, is very thin, and long gloves are worn.
 -Plums are the most important product of Bosnia, and the fruit in dried state is the chief article of ex- port. The poorest peasant has few plum trees by his hovel; wealthy land owners never think of planting any other kind of tree by their country houses, and in conseqence the well-being of the agricultural population depends on plums more than on any thing else In a good season about forty thousand tons of the dried fruit, valued at more than one million dollars, are exported,
 Nicolas of Montenegro governs his subjects in old-fashioned paternal style. He recently caught his Minister of Public Instruction stealing some state archives and he had him laid across a block in the courtyard of the palace and publicly whipped, and after fifty strokes with 8 birch rod, sent him to prison for twelve months Nicolas holds court every week, and offenders are birched in his presence, but he is always ready to remit cer- tain number of the blows for cash.
 Australia is to have transconti- mental railroad A line 800 miles in length starting from Perth in Western Australia, and connecting at Eucla with roads to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, has been contracted for. the government to pay the con tractors the sum of 2S,000 acres per mile. The road will traverse the hith- erto unexplored region of Nuyts Land, on the Australian Eight and bind to- gether cities more than two thousand miles apart
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