The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Two English daily papers have
been forbidden sale or circulation in
Turkey because they exposed the Sui
tan's drunkenness and knavery.
Lord Walsingham pays a shilling
for evrey pheasant shot on his Merton
estate, and the sum realized is devoted
to reducing the rents of his cottagers.
Some of the brick houses erected
in England two hundred years ago are
so cemented together that the walls
have to be blown down with gunpow-
der when the site is wanted for some
thing modern.
Until quite recently no blacksmith
in the north of England would drive a
nail on Friday, the anniversary of the
crucifxion, and no edged tool was used
in Yorkshire, nor was it any thing but
unlucky to wash clothes on that day.
Capital punishment has been abol-
ished in Italy. This was done in Swift
zerland some seven years ago, but the
result was not regarded as satisfactory,
and capital punishment was again re-
enacted. 1t is curious that it should
now be abandoned in Italy, where the
murder rate is the highest in Europe.
Birmingham, England, has been
borough for fifty years, though it has
44O, 900 inhabitants. Now she wants
to be city, and as only the Queen can
transform a town into a city, Birming-
ham, through its town council, is 60
ing to implore Her Majesty to bestow
this favor.
British reform has brought to light
a forgotten parsonage known as ''Chaff
Wax" His real title should be Chafe
Wax, and his duty was the preparation
of wax for fitting the writs issued from
the Court of Chancery and for the Off
cial seals. He has long drawn salary
for doing nothing, but he has at last
been found out and will be abolished.
An incident is related in London
paper of Welsh preacher who started
on the cars 10 fulfill an engagement.
When the conductor came for his ticket
he had forgotten to bring it, and had
also forgotten his money. What was
worse, he had forgotten where he was
going. 1t was found impossible to
suggest to him any station that seemed
to be the right one, and he had to tele-
graph home to have his friends look
into his diary and send him word where
he was going. Word came and he was
started on all right.
The Dominion of Canada will
adopt the chief features of our banking
system. In 1890 radical changes will
be made in the federal banking system
of Canada. The principal change will
be the adoption of an amendment
authorizing the government to prac
tically control the issue of legal tender
and correspondingly restricting the
issue of notes by the various char
tered banks. The change will be
borrowed from the American banking
system.
In Germany apothecaries are not
allowed to sell miscellaneous articles,
on the ground that such sales are like
ly to divert the clerks attention from
the delicate duty of compromising med
icines. There are drug stores where
miscellaneous articles are for sale, but
no prescriptions can be prepared in
them, under severe penalties. Poison
Gus articles are kept in room reserved
exclusively for them.
"A copy of the Bartholdi Liberty
Statue, the funds for which were raised
by subscription in the United States,
is to be set up on the point of the lie
des Cygnes Swans Island), in the
Seine, opposite MeudOn and Sevres,
about five miles from Paris. They
have begun to lay the foundations for
the pedestal, and expect to have the
monument completed before the ex-
piration of a year. The work is a re-
duction of that on Bedloe's Island, the
height of the figure being twelve
meters (about forty feet) while that of
the gigantic original is Isl feet.