Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-04-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Education in Russia is at low ebh.
Only twelve per cent. of the population
can read and write.
I'm Paris there is a skating rink
formed of real ice on a circular basin of
water artifcially cooled by pipes con-
tanning ammonia gas.
The Emperor of China visits the
Empress dowager at the Nanbai palace
every i've days to inquire after Her Ma
1estys health. The visits are always
made early in the morning, attended by
vast retinue of personal followers.
There were assembled at the Royal
Palace in Copenhagen the other day one
Emperor, one Empress dowager, three
Kings, one Queen, four heirs-apparent
and thirty-five imperial and royal
Princes and Processes.
Last year the Trans Caspian rail-
way, built by the Russian Government
carried to Russia $4,000, 900 pounds of
raw cotton grown in Russia's Asiatic
possessions. The production of cotton
in Central Asia is rapidly on the in
crease.
The Duke of Hamilton's tomb, on
the grounds of the Hamilton palace,
cost $500, 900, and is believed to be the
most splendid structure of the kind in
England. The coffin of the Duke is in
closed in an Egyptian sarcophagus of
fine black marble that was brought from
Egypt
The Eighth Hussars of che British
army have a -gazelle for ''child of the
regiment" 1t accompanies the regi-
ment everywhere and is an especially
conspicuous figure on the Sunday church
parade, when it accompanies the band,
leading the line with a steady tread,
apparently initiated from that Of the
drum major.
Burial reform in England contem-
plates the prohibition of leaden and
other solidly constructed collins, the eff
feet of which Is thought to retard COM
plete decomposition, and so prolong the
period during which the dead are not
only estheticaIly Objectionable, but are
an indisputable source of danger to the
living. It is proposed to use wicker
work or papier mache receptacles.
"A gentleman at Poona, India, re-
Gently received letter that had been
posted at station twenty miles away
two years and four months before, &C
companied by the explanation from the
postal authorities that the delay was
owing to the fact that it had been
posted by the wrong train" Instead Of
being grateful for the explanation he is
mean enough to insinuate that the train
the letter got on must have had an I'M
commonly long run.
The steady reduction of the death
rate of London in recent years, notwith-
standing the increase in population and
overcrowding, has been most remarka-
BILE. It fell below 90 per 1000 for the
first time in 1885, when it was 1913, and
in the following two years it was 1919
and 1913. In 1883 it further declined to
1875 which was mentioned by the reg
istrar-general as far the lowest death
rate yet recorded in London;" but the
report for 1889 will be much more ia
vorable still-the rate having fallen to
IT'S.
"A case of money lending at 72O per
cent. came out in the Lord Mayors
Court in London a short time since. The
defendant in the case, named Bryant,
said he was cashier at a salary of So
per week. He had been a clerk in the
London and Westminster Bank, but in
consequence of difficulties with money
lenders he had been discharged. His
fellow-clerks then subscribed and put
his wife and two daughters into bust
ness. On this particular debt he bor-
rowed 912 and gave bill for Els. He
had paid interest at the rate of 100 per
cent on the original loan, and was now
summoned for the amount of the loan.
The judge made an order for shillings
per month.