Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-11-25
Dopkinsuille Hcntufkian.
TEUsDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1880
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I'm Siam the coins are mado OF por.
celain; in Japan they arc chiefly oil
iron.
"A ship-yard has been established at
Bolobo, on tho Upper Congo five hun
dred miles from the mouth Of the river.
An English firm has purchased the
right to slaughter and pack 500, 600 hogs
year in Servla.
The national debt OF Germany.
which is much smaller than that OF any
other great country in the world, is, in
round figures, sio2, 900. 900.
Tho Austro- Hungarian convict who
is condemned to die stands on tho ground
with rope around his neck, and at a
given signal ho is pulled of his legs to
remain struggling in tho air until he Is
strangled.
-Wembley Park, about twenty min
utes' ride from the center OF London.
has been selected as tho sito for the
new tower which is to be built in imita-
tion Of the great work OF tho French
architect Eiirel.
The peace strength OF the German
army will, on and after October l, be as
follows: Infantry. 53S battalions; cav
airy, 465 squadrons; field artillery, 43i
batteries; foot artillery, 81 battalions;
pioneers, 20 battalions; anl the train,
2l battalions.
The nayal exhibition TO be hold in
London next year will display the prog
ress and evolution OF the navy from the
earliest times. The yrarantee fund is
already mounting toward e65,00O, and
the Queen and the Prince OF Wales take
part as patron and president
-Gambling resorts in France arc the
subject OF much plain talk in both the
English and French press just now.
The suppression OF seaside gambling.
which has become formidable curse.
is much talked OF, and 1t is plain that
the day Of Monte Carlo is not far dis
tant
An order has been promulgated by
the Russian Ministry OF the Interior
that every lahorer must carry with
him, besides his passport hire list"
in which the conditions under which he
takes employment are recorded. Both
the passport and tho "hlre list" must
be kept by the employer as long as the
laborer is in his hire, even in cases
when the two parties have an oral
agreement between themselves. But
still, in order to facilitate the employ
ment Of laborers, the courts shall
recognize verbal contract was valid il
it is satisfactorily proved and attested
| by witnesses
III the calculations OF Professor
Mendelejeff are to be trusted, Russia
possesses the richest coal deposits in the
world. The superficial area of the coal
| fields in the Donetz basin alone amounts
to about $4,000 square kilometers. II
the capacity of these deposits is put q,
lone pound being about thirty-six
pounds avoirdupois). the total supply OF
coal is stated to be equal to the worlds
present consumption for fifty years.
Moreover. this only refers to the supor-
iicial beds and not to the deeper depos-
It's, which have not been exploited, but
which promise still greater riches
--Brussels, not content with having
more beautiful public buildings than
any other European city save Paris, has
now determined to rival Paris itself.
King Leopold has just laid the founda-
tions of an arch OF triumph one-third
larger than the celebrated one in Paris,
and it is announced that this gigantic.
work will be completed by the close OF
the century. Brussels already has the
most monumental courthouse in all
Europe-a magnificent pile. which cost
vast sums of money and which contains
some superb halls. The Paris triumphal
arch cost So, 900, 900; that OF Brussels is
to cost 80, 000,0Oo 1t will be richly
ornate with sculptures, somo OF which
will be OF gigantic proportions.