The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-09-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


dredth anniversary.
Whenever the dry weather be-
comes oppressive in China the EN-
peror goes up to the temple known as
the Ta-koa Tien and offers prayers for
rain.
Ostrich farms now exist in at least
three of the Australian colonies, and
the feathers are pronounced as good in
quantity and quality as those of the
African birds.
"A chiropodist will henceforth be
attached to every German regiment.
This may seem rather odd, but keep
ing soldiers feet in order is one of the
most important elements of successful
war,
"A Poverty Society" has been
started in Russia, the object of which
is to populaEize poverty among the
poor, and to teach them that their lot
is not one to be repined at, since the
finest pleasures of life can be enjoyed
independently of money.
An effort is being made to extend
the railway in Chill, South America,
from Virginia to Lagunas. If this is
done, it will open up the largest and
richest deposit of nitrate of soda in
the whole world, and should in time
lead to a reduction in the cost of this
article.
"A court train worn recently by the
young German Empress was six yards
long, and of the finest white Lyons
silk, magniicently embroidered in
gold and silver. The price of the ma
terial was about 81, 800. and the en-
broidery was done by twelve young
girls, who were working at it for two
months.
Although the Paris exhibition
buildings are closely grouped, the to-
tai ground surface exceeds $1,000 OOO
square feet. The Eiffel tower, which
is nearly 1000 feet high, cost 81, 900,
600. The observatory of the tower
will be utilized for scientific observa-
tions and experiments.
The Hague Museum has recently
acquired the tongue of Jan de Witt,
and the great toe of his brother, Cor
nelius de Witt, two statesmen who
were torn to pieces by an enraged peo-
pie in 1872. M. Cockhuyt, of Leyden,
who has presented them to the mu-
scum, vouches for the genuiness, as
''they have both been in our family
since 1872"
The statement is made that the
polite circles of Australia are filled
with terrible dread. At a juvenile
performance of the Messiah it was
noticed that the rising generation is
acquiring a nasal twang. Since then
much discussion has taken place or
the subject, and the school teachers are
enioined to adopt rigorous measures
against the Objectionable twang,
which, it is supposed by the experts,
is due to the Incidence that so strongly
characterizes life at the antipodes.
When a French Deputy is censured
and expelled by the Legislature, he is
forbidden even to enter the palace
where the sessions are held during the
fifteen sessions following his expulsion
and is fined a half of his pay as {
member. Furthermore, he is com
peeled to advertise his shame in the
department which he represents, at hi:
own expense, by posting in public
places three hundred printed account:
of the whole business.
Chill is maintaining her reputa
ton as the most enterprising nation il
South America. Her latest progress
i've move was to contract for 10, 600, 00(
ties and large quantity of timber
from the region about Puget sound
This material is to be used in con
structing a transcontinental railroad
through Chill and the Argentine Re
public, and for building several new
lines in the mining region and one VI
the coast into Peru To make sure
that the work will be well done the
government is said to have engaged {;
number of American civil engineer
and practical contractors. When the
new lines are completed they will con
meet the silver mines of the Andes anC
the business centers of Peru with thu
principal paths of South American
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