The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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 In England check-reins are now entirely out of use, being forbidden by law
 The electric light is making great progress in Berlin, the number of lamps now in use there being about 25,OOO, against $50 at the end of 1886.
 The four pages of honor attached to the English court get $750 apiece, their only duty being to attend the drawing-room receptions during the winter season.
 A new and curious sect has recent ly grown up in Africa, the bena-riam- ba, or ''sons of hemp" 8 society of hemp-smokers, who, calling them selves friends" are bound together by ties of mutual hospitality.
 It Is reported that several of the oldest and most respectable London clubs are in want of both money and members. The new clubs are so nu- merous and possess so many fresh at fractions that the old ones find it diff cult to compete.
 The way of the amateur dramatic performer is not always paved with roses by the London press. The Queen very calmly says that a recent per formance twas of the kind usually de- scribed as wonderfully good for anna teurs,'" and describes the one pro- fessional actress present as "a dove among crows"
 Between fifteen and sixteen thou sand children are lost in London every year, almost all of whom are found and restored to their parents by the aid of the Metropolitan police. Be tween one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty adults are miss ing yearly in London, and about fifty dead bodies are not claimed or identi- fled after being found.
 The court of Leo XIII is said to comprise 1, 160 persons. There are 20 valets, 12O house prelates, TO privy chamberlains, $ amberlains, 300 ex- trahonorary chamberlains, 13O super numerary champerlains, 30 officers Of the noble guard and 60 guardsmen, 14 officers of the Swiss guard and palace guard, z honorary chaplains, 20 pri- vate secretaries, 10 stewards and mas ters of the horse, 60 door-keepers.
 The value of Nova Scotia's fish harvest last year was $7,S17, 900, a de- crease of $562, ,000, as compared with the previous year owing to the failure of the shore fisheries. The mackerel catch was fifty per cent. below that of the year previous, but there was an in crease of 13O,OOO quintals in the cod family. The catch aggregated 1,127.- 900 quintals.
 The progress of the age is mo- where more strikingly exhibited than in these two occurrences: The Mahar- aja of Judhpore has ordered two of his ministers to discuss with an as- sembly of notables the advisability of abolishing polygamy. Again, on April 20 a public meeting was held in Madrid, presided over by the con- servative leader, Gonovas del Castillo, for the purpose of establishing a Span ish society for the abolition of negro slavery. The promoter of the move ment is Don Luis Sorela, friend and disciple of Cardinal Lavigerie.
 In Venezuela all manner of make shifts have been resorted to for SUD- plying ''a circulating medium" In Guanta, for example, the people have absolutely no money, and when they wish to purchase a few necessaries they steal cocanuts by 'the dark of the moon" and hand them over to the traders in exchange for the supplies they require. This free and easy GUS tom became so universal and alarming that in order to protect the few who raise the fruit the Alcaldi of the dis trict of Guanta was obliged to issue decree which probably has not a par allel in financial circles. He has lately prohibited the use of cocoanuts as money and threatened with condign punishment all traders who may re- ceive them as such.