Telegram-herald., 1890-04-19
IIolsos FROM ABROAD.

Tsx ladies' in Bermuda have started
srire club. 81 ~hieA he Goysrnor's wife
Is president
ArArEz IN Canton estimates that IS,
600 people die in china every year from
IRE and tood.
A MEDAL has been struck IN oouamem-
Grafton Of the httieth aaniversAry In
England Of penny postage.
THE state railways in Italy, according
% ofncisl estimation, increased sS4,-
100000 IN their value during he Last
two ysarA
EIGHT varisties of leprosy are rscog-
nized IN China. and the disease Is re-
garded as contagious. infectious snd
hereditary. but Ia said 70 disappear in
four generations
IN The village OF SCrthAmtonshire .
fund has been started from which 10 pay
four pence per dozen for the heads Of
spArross, whose damage 70 the crops
hss become unbsArsbls.
COLONEL VICTORIA GuKLPu has or
tered from . German artist an oil paint
Ing OF the PrussiAn regiment TO whose
command she WAS reosntly appointed by
her grandson. the Emperor William III.
THn Russian Government has or
tered the planned great railway limo
across Siberia 10 be begun soon When
the line il completed is is estimated that
tho tour of tho world IN nfty days will
be feasible.
In Is said that the Pope has addressed
lat 60 ~ - D.. 81 l.,
him for the protection and liberty ac-
corded Catholics in that country and
forwarding to him the insignia OF the
Order OF Plus TX.
MONUMENTS have now been completed
over the burial places OF the English,
French and Italian troops killed in the
Crimss during the war OF ls54-5. Rus
sia's memorials over her fallen soldiers
on the same plains are on 4 grander
scale as she continues to hold the fort,
Sebsstopol
A rHEArEn in Algiers shut up during
the reign OF the grip, and the actors
sued for their wages, the manager re-
fusing to pay, as he was not making any
money, and the court held that 1t was
house should be closed, wherefore the
actors had no redress.
PARIS public schools are overcrowded,
and the authorities propose to help to
remedy the difficulty by forbidding tho
attendance at them Of children Of for
eigners. There are 10000 foreign chill
dren in the city, and At least 5000 Of
them are getting a French education
free at the public schools
BECAUSE the Prophet Mahomct has
been represented upon the Paris stage
the Mahomedans of some of the Indian
provinces have been forbidden to at
tend theatrical performances Of any
nature whatever under penalty of heavy
fines for the first two offences and ex-
communication for the third.
The gambling spirits Of Paris are
lodging the gaming laws with a marble
board dotted with shallow holes num-
bered like those on bagatelle board.
The board is laid in the angle of bill
lard table and the balls are rolled over
IL by hand, winning or losing according &
TO tho holes in which they stop. They
call 1t ''bsraque."
A NEW departure in museums Is an
nounced from Florence. where a
Psychological Museum" for the col
lection and display Of ''all documents
serving 70 illustrate human passions, "
has been established by ministerial de-
cree. Prof. Mantegazza is to be director
OF tho new institution, and courses OF
instruction are 70 be given there on
experimental psychology"
THE fear OF microbes, which is rapidly
becoming a dominant factor in modern
7 life, has lately received curious Illus
tration 81 Nordhausen, small town in
F Prussian Saxony. A municipal edict
F has been issued that all BARRIERS, hair
E dressers and ''tonsorial artists" general
" shall. under legal penalties, well and
truly disinfcct their instruments every
time after they have been used.