The Arizona sentinel., 1889-04-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The number of passengers trans
ported annually in the horse-cars In
Berlin is nearly 100000.
The hereditary Grand Falconer of
Great Britain is the Duke of st. Albans'
who receives a salary of $4,S25 year
for holding the title.
-Victoria's will was made in 1876,
engrossed on vellum, and IS now
great, bound volume fastened with a
lock. with several blank pages left for
codicils.
A new sort of coursing is COM
planned of in the English journals, be-
ing a regular hunt, by well-to-do young
men, of cats with bulldogs in the met
ropolitan streets.
The temperature of Siberia was
once much milder than at present.
This change of climate is said to &C
count for the conversion of what were
once secondary birds there into birds
that migrate to South Africa and else
where.
The Emperor of China, a boy of
seventeen, has serious hesitation
in his speech, and he speaks with con-
siderable difficulty. He is quiet in
disposition, but very obstinate when
once he has formed an opinion.
The nitrate industry of Chill is
rapidly developing large wealth. An
English company, organized in 1885,
has returned 1925 for every 500 paid
in. Since that date ten new companies
have been organized, with an aggre-
gate capital of SO, $50, 900.
AT Cayenne when a convict dies
the body is borne to the sea and a great
bell is tolled. And then is the viscous,
glaucous sea surface furrowed rsud-
denly by fins innumerable, swart,
sharp, triangular-the legions of the
sharks rushing to the hideous funeral
They know the bell!-Harper's.
An Emperor William clock" has
been made in Berlin. The case repre-
sents the old Emperor's palace. When
the hour strikes the palace guard
marches past, and William /. with his
first great-grandson, now the little
Grown Prince, appears at the historic
corner window where he so often
showed himself to his people.
"A monument is to be erected on
the spot in the Forest Epineuse, where
/ stood the oak tree in which Gambetta
and NJ. Spuller aighted from their
/ balloon, in their escape from Paris tC
! Tours during the Franco-German war
The tree itself was recently cut dowr
bv the owner, who has no regard fOl
relics.
In a report made by a committee
of the British Association, it is stated
that the physique of the inhabitants O.
Great Britain varies considerably &C
cording to social standing and en-
vironments, the professional classes
being the highest in the scale, The
artisans in the towns the lowest, while
the intermediate position is occupied
by the country laborers, farmers, etc
"A young woman applied to ;
magistrate in town in Austria shor
time ago for employment. The Law
requires that the antecedents of sucl
applicants must be Investigated. vi
looking through the girls papers tn
magistrate found that his fair applican
was Melanie Countess Keglevich, borl
at Presburg in 1874 As her paper
were in good order a certificate wa
granted, and her ladyship was secures
a place to earn her living as factor,
girl.
AT a recent dinner given by tn
Crown Prince of Servia to the officer
of the battalion he commands, one O
the guests asked his Royal Highness t
propose a toast. The boy, who
twelve years old, without hesitation
proposed the health of his dearly-be
loved mother. The officers were pain
fully embarrassed, but after shor
pause they all drank the health c
Their Crown Princes Mother" with
out calling her Queen"