Telegram-herald., 1890-04-11
FRoM FoRslon pARTs.

AL tie fsshionAels English we'd
eings have choral * rvios.
A American bar au5 q winter garden
s1 tes roof u the new premises II ne
Pelican club n soho Is lie latest Lon
don idea
The Mexican Gosernusns ls snoourAg-
ting the euitivatlon % rubber trees A
company has recently planted S0e,o9o IN
Chisp4s.
Il Japan the completion Of the
l,0o0th mlle OF railroad wAs recently y
celebrated By grand rest and drlnk. !"
China has only 80 o}. miles.
A GREAT shoygpf canary birds wzs re-
Gently held IL the Crystal Palace, Lon
don, aud vas very successful. IL was IS
popular as cattle OF dog show.
BY the death Of Count AndrAssy. Lord
Salisbury and Prince Bismarck are
left the only two great Statesmen who
took part IN the Berlin Congress.
PHoKoGkAPRs are % be pat In the
post-or1ees Of Mexico, 70 be used by
persons unable 70 write, in order %
send messages 70 friends through the
mails.
ACCORDING 20 high authority in the
English navy the decision has been
made that masts and spsrs are here
after 20 be banished from all fighting
vessels
THE young Chinese Emperor is break
ing up the gambling establishments OF
Pekin, and is trying 10 reduce the ex-
penses Of the administration Of the Gov
ernment
PRINCESS VICTORIA, the sister Of the
Emperor William. will hereafter live
most Of the time out of Germany, hav-
ing an allowance of $50, 900 a year for
that purpose from her brother.
RUssIAs founding asylums are to be
reformed. 1t is alleged that seventy
seven per cent. OF the inmates die in in
fancy, and eleven per cent more befors
they reach the sge Of twenty-one.
SINCE tho Inauguration Of a new
system OF postal wagons for emptying
the mail boxes in Berlin an ordinary
city letter reaches its destination in an
hour after leaving tho hands OF tho
sender.
THERE is new Eiffel tower on tho
banks of tho eva, Nnear ST. Petersburg.
constructed entirely OF 10000 blocks Of
ice, with restaurants, observation plat
forms and other attractions. 1T is $50
feet high.
IL Northern Africa has lately been
discovered river that has worn bed
through the rock. 500 feet deep, and then
makes perpendicular leap $50 feet,
while all around arc deep, yawning
chasms and and gigantic peaks.
a NEW form of entertaining in Paris
is TO take your guests 10 a museum, hos
pital, or other public institution, sec
tho sights, and talk about them. After
they are fully charged with new in
formation, you take them home and feed
them. This idea has taken with high
and low.
THE st. Petersburg journalists Rus
sian and otherwise, who arc admitted TO
court festivities, have iustsent curious
petition to the Car. They ask TO be al
lowed to wear on their dress coats some
small ornament with the name Of the
paper they represent inscribed on it, by
which they might be recognized as rep
resentatives of the press.
THE French Chamber of Deputies,
which is the most decidedly unruly leg
islative body in the world, has been
obliged to adopt a rule for enforcing tho
speakers call to order A member who
refuses TO recognize the speakers au-
thority is TO be suspended from his
functions and excluded from the cham
Der for thirty-six sessions.
A NEW swindle has appeared in Eu-
rope. Prominent persons received let
ters dated at the military prison in Mad
rid purporting to come from the late
secretary of the Egyptian Mahdi, who
knows where 1000, 900 of francs arc con-
cealed. He asks a small sum 20 satisfy
tho creditors who keep him in prison, in
return for which he will tell where the
treasure is.
Az English court has lately decided
that a wife married in Japan after tho
fashion OF that country is a legal wife
in England, on the ground that Japan
has long been recognized as a civilized
country" A previous decision in a case
where the wife was a Hottentot and was
married after the Hottentot fashion had
upset tho union on tho ground that the
Hottentots were heathens and polyga-
mists. and did not know what marriage,
in the civilized sense, meant.