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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The practice of cremation is spreading rap
IDLY In Italy.
There are Ia, 947 policemen in London, and
n4,267 hacks.
Highly paid in the world
A subterranean chamber has been discov-
erred under house on the hillside at Naples.
Reports come constantly from ST. Peters
burg of the ever increasing use of naphtha
dregs as fuel
A Vienna man Of science has published
statistics showing that one smoker contracts
Hiphtheria to three non-Smokers.
Diamonds have blazed in English society
fhis year as never before. They have even
appeared in profusion in morning entertain
lnents.
The Shah's famous emerald is described as
too big for effect, being about the size OF an
ordinary watch and exactly like bit of
green grass.
In Australia there are nearly 247, 900 more
males than females. Including New Zealand
and Tasmania, the excess Of males over fe-
males is 301, 949
At the worknen's congress in Paris the dele
gates from the Cooks Trade union from Al
giers protested that cooks should be treated
as workmen, not as domestics
The English Lords Day Observance society
1has begun a vigorous effort against the cheap
Sunday travel offered 60 the public by the
various railways running out of London.
paper on the sardine read by n. Boucher
before the Paris Academy of Science ex-
l. - = Eol,
(which has not attained its full development.
According TO The Dnjevnik, paper pub
1ished at SaratofP, Russia, there is living there
a man who is 40 years old. His name is Dam
iel Samolloff, and he WAS born at Saratoff in
1749.
The White Hart, of Southwark, one of Eng
lands most famous inns, whose history goes
back five centuries, is being pulled down. 1t
has been associated with Jack Cade and Mr..
.Pickwick.
Great Britain and Ireland's estimated pop
ulation Is 81, 600, 00o and the public revenue
for the fiscal year ending March 81, 1888, was
,S4s9,0 ,270.
. The greatest house in London before long
will perhaps be Lord Portma1ls proposed re-
production of Woolsey's famous palace at
The Rome Opinione, a seni-official organ,
says that there is an understanding between
Italy and England whereby their combined
fleets would be used against France if necas-
sery.
Shoe buckles came into England with the
restoration, and became so large, costly and
popular that at one time their manufacture
gave employment to 4. 900 people in Birming-
ham alone.
1 An ingenious contrivance is about 10 be
Brought out by Capt. Woodward, of the royal
mail steamer Don, by which it is proposed to
do away with oars as a means of propelling
ships hfeboats.
A Bombay newspaper announces two mar
riages, in one case the bride being aged 2
years and In the other Is months, while the
bridegroom was so. This is the system which
:Pundita Ramabai is struggling against
A mania for monographs now pervades
London. They figure everywhere-on win
dow curtains, portieres, carriage rugs, furni-
:ture and drinking glasses, and even on jew
elry. The fashion is stupid and will not last
long.
] The famous Schiller archives, which were
Hong kept at Castle Greifenstein, were pre-
scented recently to the Grand Duchess Sophie,
of Sachsen-W eiuar, by the nephew of Schil-
2er, the Freiherr Ludwig of Gleichen-Russ-
wurm
I Good work beyond doubt must be credited
TO the Medical Missionary Society of China.
in Canton during the past year the society
ATTENDED TO SO, 442 cases and performed 2, $50
surgical operations at an expense of only
81, 6S7.
A hail storm in Vilafranca, Piedmont, was
,pf such enormous stones that more than one
hundred persons were badly hurt, and boy
and girl had their skulls fractured. The
weight of some hailstones was estimated at
fwo pounds.
One Thousand six hundred people have been
burned TO death at Su Chow, China, making
a half dozen stupendous calamities In the
celestial empire in as many months Even
the Chinese do not seem to grow very excited
over such occurrences.
1t is stated that about five hundred veteri-
nary surgeons in Grea5 Britain have signed a
paper condemning overhead check reins as
painful 20 horses and productive of disease.
1t distorts the windpipe, and is liable 60 cause
paralysis of the muscles of the face, apople1y,
coma and Inflammation of the brain, all
these resulting in shortening the life Of the
horse.
The largest cut diamond in the world is
now at the Paris exposition. The Prince of
Wales recently christened it the Imperial"
1t was found in South Africa il 1885, and
was taken at once so Amsterdam, where it
was being cut and polished for year and a
half. The Regent" formerly the largest
known diamond. weighs 1876 cara5S. and is
valued at 1900 900 francs. The "lmperiaP'
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