The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The highest peak in New Guinea
10 to be named after William E. Glad
stone.
Under the laws of China the adult
who loses his temper in discussion
10 sent to jail for five days TO cool of.
The Russian military authorities
state that they can in twenty-four
hours put 100. 600 soldiers in the field
prepared for war.
The Prince of Wales, despite his
rank and income, doesn't disdain to
turn an honest penny by breeding
short-horneG cattle, which are sold at
private sale.
Russia has fixed doctors charges.
Physicians making $3.50 per year will
get forty-ive cents per visit; others
twenty-five cents. In country towns
ten cents is the usual charge.
Taking all LondOn's food to-
gether-the fish, the meat, the poultry.
the vegetables. the fruit, the groceries,
and the bread-there is an annual
consumption of close on a million and
half tons a year.
AT the top of the Eiffel tower. for
fee, specially prepared note paper.
dated from the summit of the tower. is
provided. and the writer can have the
letter posted on the spot
President Carnot of France is
strongly in favor of capital punish
ment He is greater believer in it
than was NJ Grevy, and the guillotine
is much more active in Paris than it
was some years ago.
in Greece it is not yet recognized
that women have the privilege Of
working. An enormous petition has
been addressed to the House asking
for secondly education for women and
for the foundation of lyceums for girls.
From report of the Belgian Con-
sul-General in the Congo State, it APP
pears that the efforts made to intro
duce European vegetables and fruits
in that district have been awarded
with great success.
There is woman in a West-of-
England town who makes good liv-
ing by killing cats. She advertises
that if people who are about to go
away for the summer will send their
cats to her she will kill them with
chloroform.
- Presidential chambers for ladies
have been built in London, consisting
of two, three or four rooms, which
rent from ten shillings to twenty-five
shillings, unfinished. Only those
women who earn their own livelihood
are permitted to become occupants.
The City Of Berlin is far ahead OF
London in telephone progress, there
being 10000 subscribers. The entire
net of wires in the German capital has
reached length of 1884 kilometers.
and the average number of calls
amount to 1876. 691 daily.
That swallows are disappearing
from France is shown by a report laid
before the Geological Society, which
also reveals the cause of this decrease,
and indicates the remedy. The authors
of the death of millions of these pref
ty birds are the ladies, who wear the
feathers, wings and even the bodies Of
swallows in their hats and bonnets.
The number of building societies
in England and Wales is, according to
recent report. about 944, having a
membership of over $4,000 and a
share capital of $94. 81 600. The re-
ceipts for one year were over $780,
100000, and the societies held securi-
ties valued at $3.50 100000. In Scot
land the societies are reported to have
membership of over 1900. with a
share list valued at over 81, O45, 900.
while they held securities to the value
of 1864, los. In Ireland such socie.
ties have made less progress, and q
membership of only 6.533 is reported.