The Globe-republican., 1890-01-22
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bY paying two dollars in spot cab
you can get divorce in four hour. 4,
Japan.
SRERoB WILLIAM, Of GERMANY. -.
Gently discharged An attendant who had
been reading French novel.
TIE Edison waltz and the Buffalo Bill
gaiop have supplemented the Boulanesr
march IS popular music in Paris.
The Chinese coast, two thousand nile.
IN extent, is lighted At night by as COM
piete . system Of lighthouses a. the
shores Of any civilized country.
FREDERICK KRUrP, the head Of tho
great metal and gun foundry At Berlin,
has established fund Of 500 600 to On.
able his employees to build their own
houses.
HE labor question is said to be push
ing every other out Of public interest in
London, the demands OF the laboring
classes for the betterment Of their con-
dition having become 50 loud and fro
quent
The Turkish Government refuses to
interfere with the trade in Circassian
women, and has instructed its dele
gates in the African conference at Brus-
sells to oppose any Intervention in tho
traffic.
One Of the pet dogs Of the Princess Of
Wales strayed away the other day from
the Hotel Bristol at Paris. Ittook refuge
in shop. where it was recognized by
the inscription on its collar: Tommy
belongs to the Princess of Wales"
THE Shah of Persia has added to the
bewilderment Of his subjects by appoint
ing . special commission to draft new
civil and criminal codes, and has upset
his sons and courtiers by expressing his
willingness to forego some of his per-
sonal prerogatives-
An Englishman has bought the con-
tents of the royal castle Of Nuremberg,
containing the most complete collection
ofinstruments Of torture extant, costing
Sc, 600 in all. There is . library Of s, 900
volumes, giving the history of crime
and torture for many centuries.
Two OR three years ago the Russian
Government established credit banks
for the purpose of assisting the owners
Of large estates who happened to BE-
pressed for money. The effect has been
that the number Of mortgaged estates is
much greater than ever and many be-
longing to high mobiles are to be sold
this year for Don-payment Of the inter
est on loans.
An unusual contrast was lately wit
messed upon one of the grimy Lon.
don wharves-an auction Of . beautiful
and interesting collection of sculptures
just imported from Italy. 1t comprised
works by the most prominent Italian
artists Of the present, Mainotti, Tempua,
Fausto, Olivieri, Froli, Ferrarini. Dag
mini, Levy, and other Florentine, Roman
and Neapolitan sculptors.
The modern land of Babel is Austria
Hungary. Every body there wants to
speak . different language from every
body else. A new telephone line has
just been opened between Buda Pesth
and Prague, and the employees could not
agree what language to use to each
other. Some wanted to speak German,
some Polish, yet others Magyar or
Czech. At last tho difficulty has been
got over by An ordinance that French
shall be used.
The famous gold mines of the province
of Carabaya, department. Of Puno. Peru.
which were formerly worked extensive
ly by the Spaniards and Portuguese, but
were subsequently, abandoned, partly
on account Of the attacks Of savages and
partly because of revolutions, are now
exciting great interest. Many quartz
and placer mines are being taken up, as,
with the advance of civilization and i'm
provements in the roads, enterprise is
taking rapid strides in that district,
where there Is immense mineral and
vegetable wealth.