The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1889-10-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

During the last eighty years 5000 O0 peo-
pie have died Of phthisis in France.
The total indebtedness of the various
churches in Amsterdam exceeds $4,000.
The French government will, within a
year, take control Of all 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 or France are said to be more than trou-
blesome with their passport regulations.
1t 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 NJ
Eltfel, 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 a mill
ion 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 teprorizing
Macedonia, which, upon final capture, was
found to include several priests, a Greek
a~rchimandrite, the superior of a monastery,
and three ladies"
Liverpool last year yielded 5000 cases of
drunkenness from a population of little over
half a million. The London police area, with
Its four and t~hree-quarter millions of people,
yields only 1000 cases more than Liverpool.
The primate of England has two chairs con-
siderably over one thousand years old-the
chair of Augustine at Canterbury and the
chair in which ne sits at Lambeth, which be-
longed to the Abbot of Reculver in the Seventh
century.
L'Osservatore Romano gives all the details
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 nave been appointed for
this mission.
The census of Bulgaria and eastern Rou-
melia gives the population of the two princi-
palities as being 3,154,373, of whom 1926, $50
are Bulgarians, co., 900 Turks, $4,000 Greeks,
$4,000 gypsies who have no fixed residence,
and 23,400 Jews.
The Russian minister of the interior is max
ing arrangements whereby all children at
present under age, whose parents have be-
come Russian subjects by naturalization shall
be declared to be Russian subjects and liable
for military service.
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 G these,
it was estimated, would have cost less than
e200~ 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 representative. 1t
had caused q continuous sitting of seventy
six hours, entirely given up to the discussion
of a representation bill. Yet the debate was
not finished.
1t is said that the members of an embassy
from the sultan of Mandara to Berlin be-
came so exhilarated by the wine and beer
served to them in 'Rismarck's palace that
they executed a war dance in the princes
parlor, but with disastrous consequences to
several pieces of furniture.