Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Snowden mountain, the loftiest In
Wales, has bAsn sold for f5, 80.
1t is asserted that Paris shopkeepers have
raised prices fully 50 per cent. but only to
strangers.
A Cossack giantcss. who weighs go pounds
and measures nearly six feet in height,
though only II years old, is on exhibition in
Paris
German authorities are going to place a
commemorative tablet at the spot where the
first German soldier was killed in the war
of 1870
Some forty miles from Barcelona there is
an actual mountain of very pure salt, which
is hewn out in the open air, like stone from
quarry.
In Australia there are nearly 247 600 more
males than females. Including New Zealand
and Tasmania, the excess Of males over fe-
males is 30, $40
In 1887 every male inhabitant of Austria
Hungary smoked, upon the average, sixty
seven cigars and twenty-seven cigarettes,
besides about ten pounds of tobacco.
There is a revival of the oft appearing
project to gid St. Paul's dome. 1t would
cost 10000. The ribs may be tried this
time and the result of that considered first.
A Yankee has set up school in Paris, and
advertises that he will teach any French
man to speak the only sensible language in
the world in six weeks, and at a cost Of
only S25r
A new marvel In Paris is the champion
female wrestler, Jeanne du Rosay She per
formed in the amateur circus of NJ Molier,
and lately it took noted wrestler eighteen
minutes to throw her.
The tonnage of the mercantile marine Of
Great Britain is $50 600; of France, $685.
600. of Russia, 40, 900; of Germany, 49,
go: of Austria-Hungria, 600; OF Italy,
$1,000; of Spain, 53l 900.
OF the 200 kinds of flowers which grow
in Europe only 420 or 10 per cent. are odorif-
erous. The commonest flowers are the white
ones, of which there are 1914 kinds. Less
than one-fifth of these fragrant
Two pupils of NJ. Frenzy, the member Of
the Academic DIES Sciences, in Paris, who
lately discovered method of making arti-
fetal rubies, have found the secret to manu-
facture imitation emeralds.
Some engineers in Switzerland are devils
ing an aerial railway by which they propose
to connect two of the peaks Of Mt Pilatus
with wire rope about 2,000 feet long, and to
send tourists from summit to summit in cars
running on the wires.
A cyclist corps is to he added to the French
army The officers will ride tricycles con-
structed to carry rifle, a cartridge box,
food, plans and papers, while the soldiers
will be mounted either on tandem machines
or ordinary bicycles.
The statistics of COAL iron and steel produc-
ton Of France in 1855 nave just been pub
ished by the minister of public works They
exhibit a marked increase in the output Of
coal, and a smaller increase in the manufact-
ure of iron and steel
In 1861 the export Of eggs from Denmark
was 200 sore, valued at $1,000; in 1877 it
was 9ii, 600 score, valued at So, $40: in 1857
it had risen to 500. ~ score, valued at ST.
3l2.570 OF this latter enormous quantity
ninetenths went 10 England.
Paris is following tho example OF London,
and is about To build an underground rail-
way line The railway viii De seven miles
long. although only four miles of it will be
completely underground; the rest will go
through cuttings and by viaducts
The most valuable cats eve in the world
was brought to London recently from Cey.
Ion the only region besides Madras where
cats eyes are found. II was found by an
Indian workingman while he was grading
bank of earth. preparatory to opening a
street
Some experiments lately made at the Royal
Polytechnic school, at Munich. show that the
strength of camel hair betting reaches 6.si5
pounds per square inch. while that of ordinary
betting ranges between :, go and !, 800 pounds
per square inch The camel hair belt Is I'M
affected by acids.
The fight between the Rothschilds, the
owners of the Russian oil wells at Batoum.
aud the Russian government over the right
to build pipe line from the oil wells to thu
Black sea has driven feet Of tank steam
ships to Philadelphia to secure eargoes Of the
American product.
In 1886 the Prince of Monaco, wishing to
study the course Of the Gulf Stream, threw
into it some copper TASKS from the Hiron-
dele Three these TASKS have come ashore
On the sout ceast Of Iceland, two near the
90 mountains, in the Rangarvali district.
and the third at Floj, in the Arnaes district
The enterprising Austrian journalist whs
went from Vienna TO Paris in a cab would
have accomplished his feat day sooner had
not his driver persisted that it would be I'M
lucky to terminate journey on FRIDAY and
stopped just outside the walls Of Paris till
Saturday morning, when the Vienna ''fiaker''
runabled trinmpEantly up to the gates of the
exhibition.
The most valuable book in the world is said
TO be Hebrew Bible at the Vatican in Rome
In l5i2 Pope .ulius. then In great financial
straits, refused to sell it TO a syndicate Of
rich Venetian Jews for its weight in gold.
The Bible weighs more than s25 pounds, and
is never carried by less than three men The
price refused by Pope Julius was therefore
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