Sharp County record., 1890-02-20
TIDGNGS FROM AFAR.

THIRTY German SCulptOrS are WORKING
on thirty new monuments to Emperor
William l.
AN Italian colony is to be established
on the Red Sea. 1t will be called Fri
treo and will be managed by Governor
and three councillors.
A LOTTERY scheme, comprising 200, 900
tickets at $50 each, has just been ratified
In Germany by the German Emperor.
1t is called the castle Freedom Lot
terry"
Two RUSSIAN climbers of Mount
Ararat found in perfect preservation a
minimum thermometer, which was left
there last year. 1t registered fifty de-
greeS below zero.
LAST year Germany granted only
1921 pensions, AGAINST England's 9,779
and the United States 0,420. The
number granted in Germany has fallen
off 927 in five years.
THE late DR.. Reichenbach, keeper OF
the Botanical Gardens at Hamburg, left
his library and collection of plants to
the Vienna Court Museum. The library
contains about 10000 works in $4,000
volumes, and the herbarlum about 7OO,-
900 sheets.
BERLIN has established perambulating
post-ofices which are great success.
The mail carts drive about in eleven
different directions, deliver local letters
at their destination, and sort the letters
collected while they are being taken to
the poSt-otllce.
THE city of Rome seems to be an almost
inexhaustible depository or interesting
relics. Arch@ologists and students gen
orally will be interested in the latest
find, which is claimed to be nothing
less than the pavement Of the ancient
temple of Jupiter.
DURING the recent floods in Japan g.
40 persons were killed and 1856 were
wounded; 10000 were deprived of the
necessaries of life; $4,000 houses were
swept away or rendered uninhabitable;
150, 900 acres of agricultural land with
their crops were laid waste; 6,0O0
bridges were carried away, and hun
dreds Of miles of roads were destroyed.
A BRIDGE across the English channel
Is not among the improbabilities of the
near future. The project is pronounced
feasible by competent engineers, and
a late number of the Scientific American
contain, the plans and estimates for
suck a structure, which were discussed
at meeting of the Iron and Steel In
stitute at Paris during the present
year.
MoNTEvIDEo, the capital of Uruguay,
has been taking a census, and finds its
population to be no, 600. This indicates
a great and rapid growth, but Monte
video, though it has a better harbor
and is not so far up stream as its more
successful rival, Buenos Ayres, can not
hope to overtake orkeep within sight of
that Argentine capital on the opposite
bank of the great firth, or sea estuary,
or river, known as La Plata. Buenos
Ayres has to-day population of 100000,
having doubled in about eight years. 2
FROM the latest source of information
the personnel of the Brazilian navy con-
sists of 1 admiral, 2 vice-admirals, 10
rcar-admirals, 20 first-class captains,
30 frigate captains, so lieutenant cap
tains, 10 first lieutonants, ITO second
lieutenants, 8, 1913 seamen, $40 marines,
500 apprentice marines, 230 engineers
and so members of the medical staff
Cadets enter the Imperial Naval School
at Rio Janeiro between the ages of twelve
and fifteen. The preparatory course is
divided into three yearly periods and
the final course comprises four years