The Springdale news., 1889-05-31
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

ONE-THIRTEENTH of the whole population ,f Iceland emigrated last year.
 TIE German Emperor now has his Borhn palace lighted by electricity.
 TIE habit of taking ether is said to be ex- tremely prevalent in the north of Ireland
 TIE newest word in London IS ''omni- boat' It describes the river steamers anu Is a success.
 A LONDON paper thinks that telephones are more generally used in Sweden than anywhere else in tho world
 TIE Viceroy of Canton wants to have kerosene banished, as ir has already burned ap e2, 100000 worth of property.
 THERE are so few unmarried women in Queensland, Australia, that their life Is made q burden by proposals of marriage.
 A NUMBER of reindeer have been imported from Norway and turned out on forest in the north of Scotland in the hope that they may become acclimatsed.
 TIE fees for ascending the Eiffel tower are 5f. to the top, 3f. to the second platform and 2f. to the first. The three platforms will hold ten thousand people.
 CHARITABLE people in London have raised e4 4,500 with winch to pay tue first cost and maintain for a year an ambulance system modelled after that of New York.
 TIE disappearance of the English whisker in favor of the mustache leads 10 the query whether the English cheek is not to red and fat be permitted to go clean shaven.
 TIE newest thing in London household economy is female butler a maiden dressed in a livery of blue, green, gold or scarlet, as taste may prefer. The e2cct al legcd is more quiet and equal style"
 TIE collection of postage stamps made by the late Duchess of Gallicra is said to bc valued at $3500o0 It is contained in threo thousand albums, and is tho finest collec- tion in the world
 You've French priests will before long Dc | liable to military service in France if the new military bill goes through, as it is | hought 1t will. It is alleged that thousands | Df young men enter the seminarics every | year in order to avoid the army. TIE Joneses arc at tho head of the En- | glish clergy list with 45o prcscntativcs, | while the Smiths follow with 3l8 After them come the Williamscs with 295 and the | Evanses with 1G4 The Smiths make such | an unexpected showing because of there be- ing almost none in Wales. | TIE bones of nino British officers who | fell at Waterloo, and were buried in thc | ' | sels, were lately transferred to an English | cemetery. The skeletons arc ali finely pre- | served. All were very tall men. The old | tombstones were set up over tho new | graves.
 IN a few of tho famino-strickcn districts of China mothers sell thelr children. A missionary, who visited the market town of | Wang Chia Chuan, met many women on | the streets calling out: ''Who will buy this | boy! 1 can feed him any longer, and l don't wauJ D hear him crying about for want of fOo0''
 A FRENCH missionary gives a serious ac- count of slavery in Ecuador. Though it is not legal institution, yet the law permits an Indian to sell himself as a slave when ho is unable to pay his deb $, and once q slave he is rarely abG to free himself He may Dc bequcathed by will The majority of tho interior Indians have been reduced to this condition.
 "A GRAND washcrwomen's competition was lately held at Bonverct, on tEe shores of Lake Geneva, between France and | Swiss lauudresses. Two Of the champion washerWomen of Paris appeared 10 repre- sent their country, and one, Mlc. Lefevrc, aged nineteen, won the first prize. "A ban quet wound mp a day such as the lake had | never witnessed.
 Or THE f20 0O0,000 Of personal property left by wills in the first quarter of 1859 ill Great Britain the portion left to charity was but &3GS, ,S05 The three largest es- tatcs were Mir. Bylands, Manchester man ufacturor and warehouse man, E2, ,5,4. .@a1 !; Sir William Plcrces, Glasgow shipbuidcr, q 1,0G9, 66o, and Mir. W. J. Cookson's, chenli- cal manufacturer, G5S5,0 ,000.
 A BoRDEAgX correspondent, defending French clarct, says that it is quite truo that large quantities of so-caled wine arc yearly manufactured in Franco from dried currants; but it can not be too widely known that none of this decidedly inferior article ever reaches the foreign market, bel ing consumed solely by the French lower classes on account of it's cheapncss.n