The Arizona sentinel., 1889-06-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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 In Germany they are to have new laws to prevent the artificial coloring of preserves.
 There has been a marked decline in the demand in Japan for the Euro pean styles of dress during the past year.
 Up to the present time the Cana dian Government has giveu 10000, 900 acres of lands to railroad companies.
 The saloon of Buckingham Palace, famous for the suburb crystal chande- Hers which it contains, is now lighted by electricity. Fifteen thousand students engaged in the late competitive examinations in China The excitement was so great that a number of contestants went crazy.
 A new role for women in London city is that of serving writs. A pretty young woman there is said to find doors open to her, which to nearly every other sheriff's officer are shut fast.
 The Peabody fund for the labor ing poor of London has nearly doubled itself, the $2,509, 900 block of the origi- nal gift having been augmented by rents and interest to 4,825 910.
 Medical missionaries in China find that great many of the more igno- rant people regard them as poisoners. When any of the natives show desire to consult the strangers some one is sure to dissuade them by asking them the question: Do you want to be poi soned by the Jesus doctors"
 There is something peculiar in the small tract of land in Holland on which are raised the celebrated Dutch bulbs. There is only 14S acres of it, and there is annually shipped to England, France, Germany and the United States over $500, 900 worth of bulbs from this less than a quarter section of land.
 Among other petty insults to which the widowed Empress Freder- ick has been subjected by her eldest son is the order recently published in the Official Gazette depriving her of the use of the Imperial crown on her coat-of-arms, and decreeing that in future she must content herself with the attributes of a mere Queen of Prussia
 No men in France, probably, look upon tho present dire straits of the government with more personal com placence than Marshal MacMah on and M. Jules Grevy; especially the lat ter, who now grimly recalls what he said when he was turned out of the Elysee-that he left to those who turned him out the responsibility for all that might happen thereafter.
 There is so long list of appli- cants for admission to the London Athenaum Club that the last man elected has been waiting for sixteen years, and fifteen years is the average time that a name remains on the lists there, unless it is so distinguished that it is taken up out of its order. Three or four years is said to be a moderate time to wait for chance of admission into many other clubs in London.
 Dense fogs are a perpetual night mare to London railway managers. The cratic character of the fogs is what makes the chief trouble. No one knows whither the fog comes or whence it goes, and it gives no notice of its appearance or departure. The sun may be shining at Hyde Park and Can non street may be wrapped in palpa- ble gloom. On the first appearance of the fog men are stationed near every | railway signal, to place explosive waters on the line, and so convey to the ears of the drivers the warning which | they can not see with their eyes. A foggy winter entails a heavy expendi- ture on the companies.