The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-01


There are lg9sO drink-seslerz IN
Belgium. o. one for every ten families.
The mortality in Edinburgh Last year
was 1874. and the dsath-rnte 1854 per
100.
A project Is on foot 10 connect Por-
tugal with the Azores By means of q
submarine cable.
Is Is expected that the trial Of aE0
socialists at Eberfeid. Germany. xiii
last for three months.
View Years day has practically gone
out OF Esc as holiday In London. Bet
few people pay any attention To il.
IL IL said that after Is or 20 more in
ternents are allowed In Westminster
Abbey the room viii all be occupied.
There are over 1900 Young wcrnen
in Great Britain studying music with
the idea OF some day blossonssng into
stars.
England has 800 oOo more vos,er
than men. This Is the only surplus
England has ever succeeded In accnrrs.
uiating.
General p. ". b. Young. fste reprs-
sentative OF the government at 81.
feterspurg. says there are about .1Oo. :
~ Jews Ia the world, OF WHOM 3.502. :
GO live In Russia.
The number OF depositors in the
Paris savings bank increased last wear
from 547 -s9s TO sci so, end the siepos-
its from 1is-5ss .976f. 70 12a $40 .s1sf -
a32f.
Germany win connect her railway
system With the new direct route 70
Constantinopie. saving Il hours. This
action II TO be taken with a view 20
competing with the French route 10
the Ea<t.
Prince Arisugawa Takehito. 4 COM
mander In the japanese navy, has
been ordered by his government 20
visit Europe 10 obtain the latest
features in naval construction and
armament.
The new measure adopted BY the
French chambers for the regulation OF
factory labor has proved advantageous.
Another law OF recent enactment in
France Is that defining the response
bility OF employers for accidents to
workmep.
The London Ssandasd says that mil
lions Of dollars have been spent on the
heather OF China. and Il doubts If 500
has thus far come of it. The Standard
seems to forget all about the opium
traffic. which has been SO important q
part of British missionary enterprise.
Celebrating his divorce. great
hotel keeper of Buda-Pesth. Hungary.
founded q pension fund for decayed
Hungarian journalists. an exhibition
for schoolboys of Austrian birth who
can pass the best examination in the
Magyar language and literature. and
third, a village hospital.
Certain parts Of Italy are being al
most deserted BIS able-bodied laborers
and artisans. who are fiocking away
in mnititudes. Brazil attracts good
many: others go down into the Ar
geBtine Confederation, and the res.
find their way To this country The
desertion of the farms by the young
men leaves all the labor TO be per-
formed by the women.
Reynolds Newspaper slaps England
on IT, emigration tactics az follows
Get rid of the patpers. never rninsa
" hat happens To them when they ar
rive at their destination: thank God
we shall neser see or hear of them
ngain. This Is the text that poor Law
guardSAns and a large number Of
"kind-hearted phiianthropists, head
ed by dukes. marquises and other ire
mendoas personages have really al
heart.
Last year nearly oae thousand
wolves were destroyed In France. on
which bounties were paid by the gov
ernment. France is an did and thick
~ settled country, and one would nat
uraliy suppose that long ago wolves
and other dangerous animals should
have disappeared. But the truth is
large forest a-e maintained i'm France
and othsf European countries. and so
wild animals have there an opportuni-
~ 20 multiply.