Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

During the last eighty years 5000 600 PEG.
pie have died of phthisis in France.
The total Indebtedness of the various
churches in Amsterdam exceeds $120,0 900.
The French government will, within a
year, take control of all the telegraph lines
The Russian language has now been form
ally imposed on the German and all other in
habitants of the Baltic provinces.
The German officials on the eastern from
tier of France are said to be more than trou-
blesome with their passport regulations.
1t is said the English government contem-
plate selling the Netley hospital, which is de-
clared to be too costly an establishment.
The latest order concerning the Russian
railways is that only men who have served
in the army are to be employed on them.
The municipal council of Dion has deter
mined to name one of its streets after NJ
Eltfel, who was born within the city walls
Forestry is national object in Switzer-
land In 1888 nearly six million coniferous
trees were planted, besides nearly half mill
ion of other plants.
Melrose Abbey is falling into decay, and
the restorers are now at work upon it. A
number Of young trees and other growth
were disIsacing the masonry.
A band of brigands has been terrorizing
Macedonia, which, upon final capture, was
found to include several priests, Greek
archimandrite, the superior of monastery,
and three ladies"
Liverpool last year yielded 10 900 cases of
drunkenness from population OF little over
half million. The London police area, with
its four and three-quarter millions of people
yields only 1000 cases more than Liverpool
The .srmate OF England has two chairs con-
siderably over one thousand years old-the
chair of Augustine at Canterbury and the
chair in which he sits at Lambeth, which be-
longed to the Abbot of Reculver in the Seventh
century.
L Osservatore Romano gives all the details
Of the precautions taken by King Humbert
to guard the Vatican day and night, for fear
the pope should escape No less than twenty
four special agents have been appointed for
this mission.
The census of Bulgaria and eastern Rou-
melia gives the population OF the two princi-
palities as being 3, 15i,373, of whom 2 ,326, go
are Bulgarians, COZ 900 Turks, IS, 600 Greeks,
$4,000 gypsies who have no fixed residence,
and %, 400 Jews
The Russian minister of the interior is MAX
ing arrangements whereby all children at
present under age, whose parents have be-
come Russian subjects by naturalization, shall
be declared to be Russian subjects and liable
for military service.
The London season just over was the gayest
ever known On an average there were said
to be about seven good parties going on
each night for three months. None of these
it was estimated, would have cost less than
goo apiece-many, Of course, costing several
times that.
The longest uninterrupted debate on record
was, on Aug l, brought 20 a close by the
New Zealand house of representatives 1t
had caused a continuous sitting of seventy
six hours, entirely given up to the discussion
of representation bill i ct the debate was
not finished.
1t is said that the members of an embassy
from the sultan of Mandara to Berlin be-
came so exhilarated by the wine and beer
served to them in Bismarck's palace that
they executed a war dance in the princes
parlor, but with disastrous consequences to
several pieces of furniture.