The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

During the last eighty years 100000 peo-
pie have died Of phthisis in France.
The total indebtedness of the various
shurches in Amsterdam exceeds $4,000.
The French government win, within a
year, take control of ali the telegraph lines.
The Russian language has now been form
ally imposed on the German and all other in
habitants of the Baltic provinces
The German officials on the eastern from
tier of France are said to be more than trou-
blesome with their passport regulations
It is said the English government contem-
plate selling the Netley hospital, which is de-
clared to be too costly an establishment
The latest order concerning the Russian
railways Is that only men who have served
in the army are to be employed on them.
The municipal council of Dion has deter
mined to name one of it's streets after N.
Eiffel. who was born within the city walls
Forestry is a national object in Switzer-
land In 1888 nearly six million coniferous
trees were planted, besides nearly half mill
lon OF other plants.
Melrose Abbey is falling into decay, and
the restorers are now at work upon it A
number of young trees and other growth
were displacing the masonry.
A band of brigands has been terrorizine
Macedonia, which, upon final capture, was
found to include several priests, Greek
Rrchimandrite, the superior Of a monastery,
and three ''Iadies"
Liverpool last year yielded Is 600 cases Of
drunkenness from population Of little over
half million. The London police area, with
its four and three-quarter millions of people,
yields only 1900 cases more than Liverpool.
The primate OF England has two chairs con-
Eiderably over one thousand years oId-the
chair of Augustine at Canterbury and the
chair In which he sits at Lambeth, which be-
Ionged TO the Abbot of Receiver in the Seventh
century.
BOsservatore Romano gives all the detail;
Of the precautions taken by King Humbert
to guard the Vatican day and night, for fear
the pope should escape. No less than twenty
four special agents have been appointed for
this mission.
The census OF Bulgaria and eastern Rou.
melia gives the population of the two princi-
paIities as being 8, 154 ,378, of whom 1926 ,25C
are Bulgarians, cor, 900 Turks, s., COO Greeks,
$1,000 gypsies who have no fxed residence.
and g, 400 jews.
The Russian minister of the interior is max
ing arrangements whereby all children al
present under age, whose parents have be
come Russian subjects by naturalization, shall
be declared to be Russian subjects and liable
for military ser lee.
The London season just over was the gayest
ever known On an average there were said
to be about seven good" parties going on
each night for three months None Of these,
it was estimated, would have cost less than
600 apiece-many, Of course. costing several
times that.
The longest uninterrupted debate on record
was, on Aug. 1, brought to a close by the
New Zealand house OF Representatives. Il
had caused continuous sitting Of seventy.
six hours, entirely given up to the discussion
of representation bill Yet the debate va,
not finished
It Is said that the members OF an embassy
from the sultan Of Mandara to Berlin be
came 50 exhiIarated by the wine and bee.
served to tnem IN Bismarckss palace thai
they executed war dance in the princess
parlor, but with disastrous consequences Il
several pieces Of furniture.