Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-03-14
FoREloM GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The almost incredible statement II
made that Honolulu has more tele-
phcees in use in proportion to her pop
uiation than any other city.
"A circulating library for travellers
on the Austrian railways Is being pro-
pared. from which one will be able to
borrow books by leaving deposit, and
receiving it again upon the surrender
of the book.
The French have invented a sub
marine boat which can dive beneath
the keel of an iron-clad, and by means
OF a special apparatus fastens explo-
sive cartridges to the side of the vessel.
and afterward explode the cartridges
by electricity.
AT recent auction sale in London
the great Hindoo Lingam god was
Knocked down to jeweler for thirteen
thousand dollars This curious relic
stood two and a quarter inches. in
height It was preserved for more than
a Thousand years in an ancient temple
at Delhi.
The gold and silver plate which
belongs to the Duke of Cumberland
weighs some ten tons. and the Jewels
are valued at f40O,OO0. The Dukes
hereditary casket includes the famous
pearls of Queen Charlotte (worth
f15O. OOO), which caused nearly twenty
years litigation between the Queen and
the King of Hanover.
Rome is regarded chiefly as city
of antiquity. but remarkable material
progress has been made there in the
last twenty years. During that time
eighty-twO miles of new streets have
been made, over 8. 900 houses have been
built or enlarged, about $27, 600, DOC
have been spent in public improve
ments, and the population has increased
from PA, 900 to $4,000.
The Emperor of China lately pre-
sented his bride with two beautiful
mirrors for her sitting-room. They are
of massive foreign glass. over six feet
long and five feet broad, set in rose
wood, with frame nine feet high, with
carved flowers in relief, and pedestals
to fix them in. also beautifully adorned
with foliage, animals, and birds. Each
mirror and each frame took eight men
to carry it.
The Pope's jubilee gift to the EN-
press of Austria was the only one
which Her Majesty would accept. It
was a large, splendid mosaic. repre-
senting the Virgin and Child sur
rounded by flowers. 1t is copy of a
very fine painting in the Vatican by
David Someler. The mosaic is five
feet in height, and it has taken several
years to complete it. 1t has cost up
ward of FL, 200.
"A memorial of the late Sir Henry
Maine, in white marble, has been
erected in Chrisl's Hospital, in Lon
don. 1t bears detailed record of his
long and useful career, and concludes
thus: This tablet is erected by gov
errors and former scholars, that for
all succeeding generations of blues
it may point the moral-'success and
glory are the children of hard work
and Gods favor"
The principally of Liechtenstein,
which Prince John II. offered as
refuge to the Pope in case the latter |
should abandon Rome, is semi-inde- /
pendent mountainous territory lying |
the Rhine and the canton of !
Grisons. 1t covers about ninety square
miles and has a population of little !
Under 10000. Lechtenstein boasts an |
army of fifty men, which was modified
n the war of 1866, and it is standing
oke among Austrian officers that the
orincipality is still at war with Prus-
ia, as that kingdom forgot to conclude
} separate peace with Liechtenstein
when it signed the peace of Prague
With Austria.
The Maharajah of Baroda is the
of jewels valued at f3, 00O,-
100 sterling. His regalia for state oc-
asions consists of gorgeous collar of
90 diamonds, some of them as big as
arranged in five rows. sur
ounded by top and bottom row of
the same size; the pendant is
famous diamond called the ''Star Of
he Deccan." An aigrette to match is
worm in the turban; then follow strings
+ pearls of perfect roundness. gradual
d from the size of pea to a large
1arble; wOndrous rings, necklaces.
lusters Of sapphires and rubies as big
8 grapes.