The Arizona sentinel., 1890-02-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Geneva is said to be the cheapest
CITY in Europe for permanent resi-
dence
Experiments are being carried out
on the Thames with lifeboats propelled
by the reaction of water pumped astern
Foxes increase so rapidly in several
districts of Australia that the colonist'
are beginning to consider Reynard as
bad an importation as the rabbits.
"A silver bell has been hung in
tower in the village where the railroad
accident to the Cars train happened,
and it will be tolled every day at the
hour of the accident.
The Australian Legislature has
passed law taxing all married couples
! living with their mother-ln-law nine
hundred dollars, if residing with the
husbands mother-in-law, and one nun
dred and twenty dollars if with the
wife's.
None of the railroads in India run
! bacgage-cars, and no traveller is aIIo"eo
to take a trunk. Whatever ne carries
must be bundled up, and no porter Will
nova a bundle three feet without de-
manding ten cents.
The members of the Royal Savoy
DYNASTY tn 1t had long been buried I'M
der churches at Turin were recently ex-
humed and re-entombed in the ances-
tral sepulchre at st Michael's Abbey in
the high mountains of Savoy.
in length of only rs miles, rail-
way on the French Island of Reunion
has four tunnels aggregating nearly
seven miles, with many deep cuttings
and high embankments, 43 large bridges,
including one of 1,64O feet and one
of 1912 feet; together with 200 bridges
and culverts of less than SO feet.
The annual cost per man in some of
the armies of Europe is 964 in Great
Britain, Esq in Austro-Hungary, SAG in
Germany, e22 and 16 shilllngs in Rus
STA. Switzerland comes at the bottom
of the list, with an annual cost OF only
81 per man.
The great mineral resources of Great
Britain are shown by the fact that the
production in this line in the year 1883
reached the enormous total of 1S2,66O,-
1853 tons, of which 169, 835, 219 tons was of
coal and $685., O32 iron stone, the rest be-
ing ire-clay, oil shale, and other miner
ais. This is an increase of 9,61O,36 tons
over the previous year. In accomplish
ing this work SSS persons lost their lives,
q decrease of 1O7 from 1887.
The collection of Renaissance
bronzes, sculptures, arms, pictures and
porcelains belonging to Mile. Grandjean,
which she offered to the republic, has
been accepted by President Carnot for
the Cluny Museum, in Paris 1t is said
to be worth $500, 900. One Sevres vase
of porcelaine tendric, known as rose
Pcmpadour, is considered to represent
the sum of $780,
1t appears that, while the increase
III deposits in connection with Irish saw
ings banks during the years 1S77-S7 was
only IA per cent. in England and Scot
land los per cent, in Ireland the in
crease was 121 per cent In the Irish
post-off1ce savings banks and trustee
banks, being the banks used by artizans,
agricultural laborers and small farmers,
the deposits in 1888 amounted to 95, 140,-
900, showing an increase of nearly 5oH
per cent.
We have heard of the laws delay,
but we may think that this was all
mistake when we learn of a case in
Poland. A lawsuit has just been ended
between the Sobieskis in Warsaw which
has been carried on for four centuries.
In the year 1890, two years before
Columbus discovered America, the
Sobieskis of Orlowe, and the Sobieskis
of Podlowo went to law over the owner
ship of piece of land, about forty acres
in extent, which lay between their
respective properties. This legal quar-
rel was only finally settled in August,
1889, when the land was divided between
Radgost Sobieski and Jacob Sobieski.