Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-26
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
European Features Not Generally EZB avn
to American Tourists.

European Features Not Generally Known
to American Tourists.
THE average income per head among
the London Jews is said to be e106,
as against e35 for the whole Of the
United Kingdom.
FRANCE contains 2O,O12, 599 single /
people, I4,958, 335 married men and
women, 2, 948, 51I wid0Ters 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 n
definite occupation and satisfactory
evidence Of ability to follow 1t.
PARENTS who neglect to provide
proper food and nourishment for their
children are liable to imprisonment,
and the Local Governments Board of
London has issued a 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 300 900 a day, and, if
! necessary, can turn out 800, 000 From
! 1900 to 3, 600 men and women are reg
uIarIy 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 1856 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 e200, 900. In the corridor at
the castle there is q buhl cabinet which
contains three unique rose Dubarri
vases which were valued not long ago
at e2O0, 600, while near at hand IS an
other cabinet containing three vases,
respectively of Seyres, Worcester, and
Crown Derby, which are valued at
e3, 900.
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, a 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 COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Maharaiah'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 q Berlin hospital. The pa
tient is a boy of about twelve years OF
age, who was suffering from a 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 its great rarity.
In Whipsnade, near DunstabIe, in
BedfOrdshire, no death has occurred
during the last two years. The parish
was similarly favored in the year 1865
and 1880. The population before the
last census was above 200; at present
it is a little below. During the last
twenty-four years only three deaths
have been registered between the ages
Of year and % years-One being &
case brought down from London. The
average of the ages of all the par
ishiOners over year DID, who have
{ died during the last thirty years, is 81
, years.