Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-20
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
European Features Not Generally Knswz
to American Tourists.

European Features Not Generally Knswn
to American Tourists.
The average income per head among
the London Jews is said to be s1O6,
as against EDS for the whole of the
United Kingdom.
FRANCE contains 20,012,5 9S single
people, 14,958, 1856 married men and
women, 2,94S, 81 widowers, and about
twice as many widows.
BEGGING is prohibited in Berlin.
Every stranger upon arriving in the
CITY must have his name recorded at
a police station, and no one is allowed
to take up hisr esidence without a
definite occupation and satisfactory
evidence of ability to follow it.
PARENTS who neglect to provide
proper food and nourishment for their
children are liable to Imprisonment,
and the Local Government Board of
London has issued circular calling
attention to the duty of Boards of
Guardians to prosecute in such cases.
The Heye factory for glass bottles at
Garresheim, near Dusseldorf, produces
on an average 100000 day, and, if
necessary, can turn out 800, 900. From
1890 to 1900 men and women are reg
ularly employed in the works, and find
accommodation in the adjoining model
town.
A Drink MAP" of Manchester has
been published by the Manchester
Guardian, showing 1855 houses
licensed for the sale of intoxicants, in
Guiding beer houses and off licenses
granted to grocers and confectioners.
1t is thus calculated that there is one
licensed house in Manchester for every
twenty-five families.
The value of the china at Bucking-
ham Palace and in the private apart
ments at Windsor must considerably
exceed e20O,000. In the corridor at
the castle there is buhl cabinet which
contains three unique rose Dubarri
vases which were valued not long ago
at s2O0, 900, while near at hand is an
other cabinet containing three vases,
respectively of Sevres, Worcester, and
Crown Derby, which are valued at
$4,000.
A JEwELED sword, gold mounted and
set with upward of 600 diamonds,
rubies and emeralds, was recently sold
at the London Auction Rooms, in Co.
vent Garden, for ninety-one guineas.
The sword, capital specimen OF
native Indian workmanship, was an in
teresting relic, having been presented
by Runjeet Singh, the Lion" OF
Lahore, to the late General Van Cort.
landt, G. B., who was COMMANDMENT.
chief of the Maharajah's forces, and
who rendered valuable services to En-.
gland in the Penjaub war.
A VERY curious case is just now at
tracing the attention of the medical
men of Berlin hospital. The pa.
tent is boy Of about twelve years OF
age, who was suffering from slight
Inflammation of the windpipe. On be-
ing examined it was found that his
heart was not in the left but in the
right side of his chest-a fact of which
his parents had been in entire ignor.
ance. The deformity does not, how
ever, interfere with the boys ordinary
well-being, and it is only remarkable
on account of It's great rarity.
In Whipsnade, near Dunstable, in
Bedfordshire, no death has occurred
during the last two years. The parish
was similarly favored in the year 1868
and 1880. The population before the
last census was above 200; at present
it is little below. During the last
twenty-four years only three deaths
have been registered between the ages
of l year and 90 years-one being a
case brought down from London. The
average of the ages of all the par
ishioners over l year old, who have
died during the last thirty years, is Sc
years.