Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-16
TRANSATLANTIC TOPICS.


Or %, 600 criminAls arrested in Paris, 49,
600 had not attained thenge Of 20.
IT is proposed in England to operate dust
and garbage carts by electric propulsion.
LAKE BIwA, In Japan, is the largest sheet
area of 500 square miles.
In France juggling Is taught for the ben
eft OF the health. 1t brings the muscles
of the arms and chest and back into play.
TIE Bank Of England is the most extern
sive banking institution IN the world. It en-
ploys over LOCO clerks, and its buildings
cover more than eight acres.
THE Tokyo Dempo remarks that the fact
of there being go few qualified physicians
and dentists IN Japan amounts to public
grievance. There are only seventy-six
graduated dentists.
NINE. C3RyoT, Of France, has set the ex-
ample among tho ladies of the Presidential
court of wearing lilies Of the valley on all
occasions, and these flowers are now re-
garded as the emblem OF the Carnot regime.
THE Latest expensive whim INDUCED in by
the King of Wurtemburg Is the photo
graphing Of the moon to ascertain whether
it is inhabited. He had the negatives magni-
fed one hundred thousand fold. and has thus
far discovered neoulse covered with little
dots, which he believed to be lunar people.
IT has hitherto been the rule In Japan
that all persons visiting governmental;
Offices must alight from their horses or We
hicles at the outer gste, unless they were Of
certain rank. This relic of feudal times has
now been abolished. Every Japanese is now
atliberty to go where he pleases on foot.
~ e. e.,
is said to be due to two circumstances. An
impulse was given to It by the example Of
the throngs Of heavily-bearded Germans
exhibition, and another by the return of the
shaven, from the Crimean war.
AGRICULTURAL depression IN Europe is not
confined to Great Britain, but is felt even
more seriously in Russia. The high charges
for railway transit, for commission and
shipping, the ''hopeless Indebtedness Of all
classes possessing land" the exhaustion of
fertility by over cropping, are all given their
due share Of blame for the present state Of
things
A NEW electric organ. has been erected at
the back Of the stage Of the Burg Theater
in Vienna, and is connected by cable with
the OrcneSLra, WQeEe Tue Aey-UOdru IS SlIu-
ated. The cable is long enough to admit OF
altering the position Of the key board with
in radius of thirty feet. The signals are
trans mitted from the keyboard to the re-
lay lever By five Canaud cells.
IT is proposed to rig up on the top Of the
Eiffel tower an aerial orchestra, consisting
of EoIan harps, immense gongs and gigantic
trumpets, on which the air, being very
keen at such height, will be made to play
by an ingenious mechanism. The instru-
ments will perform at certain hours Of thu
day, and even in the dead Of night torrents
of aerial harmony will overspread the sleep
ing capital.
In Hamburg, Germany, scientific charity
has been so successfully put into operation
that beggary has become thing of the past,
and this, too, in a city fifty years ago IA
nous for its mendlcants. The city givee
largely to carry on this work, and imposes
a fine Of two pounds upon any one giving al
the door. The heads of many families make
annual subscriptions, and in these houses
there are placed boxes in which the chill
dren and servants drop their free-win offer
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