Telegram-herald., 1890-03-19
COMMITTEES Meetings.
BITS FROM ABROAD.

An English railway company has sc.
apart special fund from which to re-
ward acts of bravery on the part of its
employees.
FIVE years ago there were Ave girls'
schools in Yokohama and Toxic. To-
day there are moro than thirty, and all
we'll patronized.
II one day last summer los Americans
visited Burns birthplace. The pill
grims during the year numbered 10000
TO the cottage and $4,000 to the monu-
ment.
IN the British navy in 1883 the sick
list included 9S7 men out of every 1000
in the service, and that was the best
showing the navy had made since 1856.
The death rate was 5.71 to 1000.
THERE is no taxation upon either real
piece OF real estate is sold the pur-
chaser is required to pay a fee to the
Government of FIVE per cent. on the sell
ing price.
THE Minister OF the Interior at Rome
recently ordered a committee to investi-
gate and compare the police uniforms OF
all nations. preliminary to a choice for
the municipal and rural police through
out Italy.
IT is proposed both in Vienna and in
Paris 70 water tho streets with a disin-
fectant mixture-with water having
powerful antiseptic matters dissolved in
it. They are tired waiting upon the
microscOpists TO discover the influenza
microbe and mean to get rid Of the dis
order as best they may.
TIE French papers are filed with
sensational telegrams concerning the
war OF races IN the United States, rep
resenting the condition of affairs in the
Southern States as most critical. Poor
America" says one papor: fighting
over the question OF color for hun
dred yesrs-and not settled yet"
Az English bride received a great
shock of surprise the other day when
Queen Victoria actually sent her for
wedding present a diamond pendant
containing a lock OF her Majesty's hair
The Queen has rarely given any thing
for many years but India shswls (which
are given TO her by hundreds), 50 that
her wedding presents do not cost her
much.
THE recently-published statistics OF
the Imperial German Post-Ofice Do
partment show that in isss there were
ts.50s post-orices in Germany. with
1905 telegraph Offices and o2.2ss Of
fcisls Of al grades; 2.226. s07. $50 pieces
OF mail wore handled. %. i25. f6T tele-
grams were sent. The money orders Of
al oIices in the country amounted 70
f7.Oss. 96o. fl6 marks.
THERE Is movement on foot in
Russia 20 give married women personal
passports. Hitherto they could oaly be
inscribed on those of their husbands.
They could not leave the country with
out their husbands consent This re-
form. II carried ont, will put an end 70
The intolerahle suTerinrs Of those poor
women 20 whom divorce a impossible
because Of its expense.
TIE Pail Nall Gazette states that
there lately arrived from Alexandria az
Liverpool a consignment Of nearly
twenty tons % cats. Numbering some
$4,000. taken ont 81 an ancient subtsr-
ranean cats cemetery discovered about
one hundred miles from Cairo bT an
Egyptian fsliah. who accidentally fell
into this cas- cemetery. which he found
completely fIlei With cas-, every oae
q which al been separately on hslzaed
srf dressed In clcth. after sac manner
q Egyptian nun mics and al laid ort
IA rows. n ancient times the EFyptisn
cas vas huriad Vi-h Al bonors. bat
those shipped % Liverpool vii be used
ss tertilzinT u'a.eriaL