Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Hydraulic power at a pressure Of
$50 pounds to the square inch is now
conveyed about beneath the streets oil
London as steam is conveyed in this
country.
The annual cost per man in some OF
the armies of Europe Isl e64 in Great
Britain. e52 in Austro- Hungary, $40 in
Germany, e2216 in Russia. Switzer-
land comes at the bottom of the list
with an annual cost of only 81 per man.
AT the Newcastle-on-Tyne police
court recently two men were arraigned
for shipping to Antwerp two cars loaded
with horses in a shocking condition.
The best of these horses were to be
made into beef and the second-class
into sausage"
The Shah of Persia, in addition to
the masses of Jewels in the royal treas
ury, has private fortune stored in vault
Or elsewhere which is known to consist
of at least s., 900, 600. To this he is per-
petually adding fresh accumulations.
The Sultan may not be much of a
fnancier, but his ideas of meeting a
monetary crisis are practical and sound.
An audit of his finance department dis
closed a big deficit, and to meet it His
Majesty ordered reduction in the sal
aries of his state officials. Another
monarch would have raised the public
taxes.
A remarkable verdict was rendered
in the Court Of Queens Bench in London
a short time since. A man sued for dam
ages for personal injuries, and the jury
awarded him 81, 800, although he only
claimed $500. He stepped upon some
cotton seed in front of mercantile
establishments, which caused him to fall
and injure his spine and eyesight.
-Autotype machines have just been
served out for the first time to some OF
the copying clerks at the Vatican, but
they are only to be used for rough proof
work to be done in a hurry The Pope
is not in favor of the innovation, for he
fears that it will break up the admirable
school of penmanship which has so long
fourished at the Vatican.
The London correspondent Of an En-
glish paper alleges that the Prince OF
Wales has instituted the custom OF
weighing both the coming and the part
ING guest at Sandringham palace. At
the first opportunity after his arrival
the guest is weighed, and his weight
recorded in a book keptfor the purpose,
and he is weighed again on the morning
of his departure, and another record
made, accompanied by the autograph OF
the guest. One of the latest signatures
in the book is that of Salisbr !, and his
weight is put at eighteen stone plump.
The little King of SPANS first de-
mand, when he began to get well, was
that he should be taken ''to see the lame
beggar," a cripple for whom he has
formed great attachment, and who IS
allowed to come to the side of the car
riage and hold long conversations with
the young monarch when he is out for
an airing The King is very self-willed
as he grows older, and will only yield
to his mother when she tells him she is
going to her room to cry. That always
wins him over.
The Duchess Dues on a recent
visit 10 England became 50 impressed
with the physical development of En-
glish women that she returned to her
native land fired with the ambition to
introduce some sort of physical train
ing and systematic exercise among
French women, who are more deficient
in this regard than the women of any
other nation. In accordance with her
new purpose, she has founded lawn ten
mis- clubs, supplying the nets and bats
at her own expense and paying an En-
glish professor to give the necessary in
struction Her own daughters take
part in the exercises, and she has also
rowing clubs and races for the daugh-
tiers of her tenantry.