Wichita eagle., 1889-08-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The Snowden mountain, the Hottest IN
Wales, has bean sold for e, 80
raised prices fully so Per cent, but only to
strangers
A Cossack giantes, who weighs $50 pounds
and measures nearly six feet in height,
though only II years old, Is on exhibition in
Paris
German authorities are going to place
commemorative tablet at the spot where the
first German soldier was killed in tie war
Of 1870.
Some forty miles from Barcelona there is
an actual mountain OF very pure salt, which
is hewn out in the open air, like stone from
quarry.
In Australia there are nearly 247, 600 more
males than females Including New Zealand
and Tasmania, the excess Of males over fe-
males is S0l, $40.
In 1887 every male inhabitant Of Austria
Hungary smoked, upon the average, sixty
seven cigars and twentyseven cigarettes,
besides about ten pounds Of tobacco.
There Is q revival Of the oft appearing
project to gid ST Pauls dome. 1t would
cost 10000 The ribs may be tried this
time, and the result Of that considered first.
A Yankee has set up school in Paris, and
advertises that he will teach any French
man to speak the only sensible language in
the world in six weeks, and at cost Of
only SIS"
A new marvel in Paris is the champion
female wrestler, Jeanne du Rosay. She per
formed in the amateur circus OF n. Molier,
and lately it took noted wrestler eighteen
minutes TO throw her.
The tonnage Of the mercantile marine OF
Great Britain is 10, $50 900; of France, $685.
600; Of Russia, $50, 900; of Germany, 1885,
600; Of Austria ungria, 290. 900; OF Italy,
sS5,0O0; Of Spain, 5Sl 900.
OF the 4,200 kinds Of flowers which grow
in Europe only 420 or 10 per cent. are odorif-
erous. The commonest flowers are the white
ones, of which there are ,104 kinds Less
than one-fifth of these are fragrant.
Two pupils Of n. Frenzy, the member Of
the Academic des Sciences, in Paris, who
lately discovered O method of making arti-
fetal rubies, have found the secret TO manu-
facture imitation emeraldS
Some engineers in Switzerland are devils
ing an aerial railway by which they propose
to connect two of the peaks Of Mt. Pilatus
with wire rope about 1000 feet long, and TO
send tourists from summit to summit in cars
running on the wires.
A cyclist corps is to be added to the French
army The officers will ride tricycles con-
structed to carry rifle, cartridge box
food, plans and papers, while the soldiers
r., al Ia IL.
or ordinary bicycles.
The statistics of coal, iron and steel produc-
ton Of France in 1888 have just been pub
lished by the minister of public works. They
exhibit marked increase in the output Of
coal, and a smaller increase in the manufact-
ure of iron and steel
In 1867 the export of eggs from Denmark
was 45, 900 score, valued at $1,000; in 1877 it
was 944, 900 score, valued at $3.50, $40; in 1887
it had risen to 5, 90 rs SCORE valued at ST.
3l2, $40. OF this latter enormous quantity
nine-tenths went to England.
Paris is following the example of London,
and is about to build an underground rail-
way line The railway will be seven miles
long, although only four miles OF it will be
completely underground; the rest will 60
through cuttings and by viaducts-
The most valuable cats eye in the world
was brought to London recently from Cey-
Ion, the only region besides Madras where
cats eyes are found. 1t was found by an
Indian workingman while he was grading a
bank of earth, preparatory 10 opening a
street.
Some experiments lately made at the Royal
Polytechnic school, at Munich, show that the
strength of camel hair betting reaches 6,315
pounds per square inch, while that OF ordinary
betting ranges between 2, go and ) ,2Go pounds
per square inch. The camel hair belt is I'M
affected by acids
The fight between tue Rothschilds, the
owners Of the Russian oil wells at Batoum,
and the Russian government over the right
to build pipe line from the oil wells to the
Black sea has driven feet of tank steam
ships to Philadelphia to secure cargoes Of the
American product.
In 1856 the Prince Of Monaco, wishing TO
study the course of the Gulf Stream, threw
into it some copper TASKS from the Hiron-
dele. Three of these TASKS have come ashore
on the south coast Of Iceland, two near the
% mountains, In the Rangarvai district,
and the third at Floj, in the Arnaes district
The enterprising Austrian journalist who
went from Vienna to Paris in a CAB would
have accomplished his feat a day sooner had
not his driver persisted that it would be I'M
lucky to terminate journey on Friday and
stopped just outside the walls OF Paris till
Saturday morning, when the Vienna ''iiaker"
rumbled triumphantly up to the gates Of the
exhibition
The most valuable book In the world Is said
to be Hebrew Bible at tho Vatican In Rome
In 1919 Pope julius, then in great financial
straits, refused to sell it TO a syndicate Of
rich Venetian Jews for its weight In gold
The Bible weighs more than 325 pounds, and
Is never carried by less than three men The
price refused by Pope Julius was therefore
about sI25,0OO.