The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-13
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOx-hunting not being national
sport in Austria, the animals are habit
ually shot. Over 20, 900 of them perish
by the gun every year.
The Empire of Japan has $1,000, 600
inhabitants who are slowly but surely
adopting western customs in dress as
will as in civilization and methods of
research.
The British War Office has decided
that when it becomes necessary to hand.
cuff soldier in uniform he must T 1t be
marched through the streets, but COW
cred conveyance shall be provided.
Mime. Tacon, the goyerness of the
King OF Spain, has received the title of
COUNTIES, of Peralta for her devotion to
ier pupil during his recent illness. She
is seventy years old and has been in the
royal family of Spain for thirty-tive
years.
All the best sites along the hill
country of Judea, between Jerusalem
westward and the sea, have been bought
by Russia. and covered with splendid
!reek temples. The great pilgrimages
)t the day are from Russia TO Palestine.
Every year about thirty to forty thou
'and Russian pilgrims visit the Holy
Land.
Small shop-keepers in London often
complain of being ruined by the mon
'ter establishments which sell every
shared by their minor neighbors.
The same complaint is raised in Paris,
,ut the French Government now pro-
poses to lay additional license duties on
zig shops, so as to restrict their opera
lions and allow small traders fair
chance.
The admirers of Prince Bismarck in
Germany are developing plans to found
Bismarck museum in Berlin on the
lext birthday anniversary of the Chan
:elor. Collections have been made
already and requests sent out for all
.elics pertaining to the Prince or his
amily. 1t will, in all probability, be
arranged somewhat after the style of
The well-known Hohenzollern Museum,
which is one of the palaces of Frederick
The Great The Chancellor is flattered
by the idea.
The latest recipient at the court of
Constantinople of the Turkish medal
cor art and of the Mejidieh Order is
he mason who lately put up Russian
tove in the Sultan's palace. The Sui
an had fallen in love with the stove at
ihe Russian Consulate at Constantine
ole, and had similar structure of
prick and tiles ordered from Odessa.
The Russian labOrer who was sent with
& to put it up was simple moujik, but
;he Sultan was SO delighted with the
mans skill that, besides money pres
,nt of $3.50, he conferred this 'tdistinc-
ton"
in Zurich, Switzerland, the other
lay one of the law courts closed novel
,ase. A beggar who opened the garden
gate in front of a house where he in
ended to ask for relief was attacked by
;he watch dog and bitten in the left
arm. Soon afterward he commenced suit
against the owner of the place, calling
Tor heavy damages, on the ground that
the wound he had received rendered him
permanently unable to earn his living
The defense was that he could beg just
IS well as ever, and that the injury In
question, far from being disadvantage,
>nly increased his chances in his profess
sion. But the court held that the pro-
prietor of a house is responsible for the
security of the people who come to visit
him, even when the object of the visit
Is to make an appeal to his generosity.
SO the beggar won his suit.