Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-03-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Sir Edward Guinness has donated
$1,000. 600 for the erection ~ dwellings
for the laboring poor Of London.
"A yellow book issued at pekln gives
the population OF China proper ia 1857
as sos. 24l,D6a. which was gain Of l.
iGi, So over the year before.
Photographs are to be put in the
post-oiiices OF Mexico. 20 be used by per-
sons unable 10 write. in order to send
messages TO friends through the malls
Paris is surrounded by ramparts
twenty-seven miles long Within these
the river Seine, which divides the cry.
curves and doubles until thore ar,, seven
miles Of II. II is crossed by twenty
seven bridges.
queensland, the youngest OF the
Australian Colonies, Is three times "a
large as France and nearly six times As
large as the United Kingdom: yet it
contains population Of less than 4O0..
OO0.
The English statistics give nota-
BILE decrease in their convict population
Outing the last twenty years. The to-
tai number 0i convicts under sentence
" penal soryitude was q, 405 in July;
tsesty years ago 1t was 1860.
According to an official statement.
the population Of Chill, partly esti-
mated. is s.IiS,siS This includes 81
O07 foreigners and about SO. 600 Indians.
Santiago has lsa. BE- inhabitants; VAL
paraiso tol. a52.
King George OF Greece Is an In
yeterate walker and Is familiar figure
on the streets of Athens. The itheui-
ans salute him politely as they meet or
/ pass him, but make no other dom6ustra-
tion and he simply raises his low felt
hat
The shah has ordered globe which
IS probably unique in It's way. The
i various countries ~ the globe are rep
+ resented by precious stones France hy
/ sapphires, Russia by diamonds aud En-
f gland by rubies, while emeHsAds viii
/ figure a. the various. oceans and seas.
Ancient Rome received from with
out we'll nigh seven times the volume
of water now poured into modern Rome.
4 This city Is the best supplied with
water in the world. Next 10 Rome.
Vienna Is said To be- the mast favored
capital, IL not in the abundance. IL least
in the purity Of its drinking-Water.
/ The Crown Prince OF Brazil was the
last royal parsonage to receive the
/ golden rose from the Pope The Pope
sends this auriferous blossom to those
whom he delights 20 honor whom the
world sometimes does not delight TO
honor. Queen Isabella of Spain, also
an exile, has the golden rose likewise.
During recent discussion of the
German patent laws in the Rcichstag it
was revealed that last year Gcrmany
granted only 3,g1i patents. against En-
glands o. 40 and the United states co.
i20 While in most civilized countries
the number Of patents annually granted
Is increasing. or, at least, not decreas-
ing, the number in Germany has fallen
of 927 in the last five years.
The redecoration Of the famous cor
ridor in Windsor Castle has been com
pleted at cost of many thousands of
pounds. The work has been constantly
in progress all the year except when tho
Queen has loen AT the castle One set
Of rose china, in a single one of the CABS
inets in this corridor, Is valued at $50
200 tSl51. o001. At the upper end Of the
corridor is a bust ~ Gordon. close to
which is his pocket Bible inclosed in
crystals.
The lash has never been abolished
as means Of discipline in penal insti-
tutions Of Gcrmany. Generally they
use thong twenty inches long fast
ened 10 a handle yard long. The lash
is thickest at the end. The thickness
varies according TO the provinces. hut
the smallest lashes are Two inches
thick. Only in saxony are the dimen-
sions fixed by law, the handle there be.
ing thirty inches long and the lash
thirty-six inches. The maximum num-
her Of blows is left 10 the Judgment OF
the prison directors, but IL must not
exceed twenty-five in Mecklenburg and
oldenburg, thirty in saxony and sixty
in Prussia.