The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
IL third of the deaths in the French

-c tnlrd OF the deaths In the French
ss8sJ ere due to typhoid fever.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is intro
ducing the telegraph in his dominions.
The Argentine Republic was rein
forced last year by the arrival of more
than three hundred thousand emf
grants from Europe. A large portion
Of them were Italians.
The Prince of Wales was recently
fined five shillings in police court for
letting his dog, superb Siberian hound,
go abroad without muzzle.
In some of the cities of Australia
pavements are constructed of gum-tree
blocks. The wood is hard and very
durable, lasting many times as long as
the cedar blocks used in this country.
England boasts a well-trained femi
nine fire brigade. They wear red silk
caps, dark blue short skirts, not de-
scending below the knees, soft leather
boots and neat bodices, decorated with
red collar and cuffs and brass buttons.
For two years past there has been
an insurance company against burgla-
ries furnishing in London. According
to the regular rates, you can insure the
contents of your residence, or the dam
age to it through burglary or any spe-
cial article you desire.
The Queens ladies-in-waiting are
beginning to murmur about dress
grievance. They only receive three
hundred pounds, and are expected to
appear in a new costume at every din
ner. The maids are compelled to trim
up their old gowns in all possible ways,
for the Queen has an eagle eye for old
fresses and hates them.
"A native movement to break up GER
tain HindoO customs has been started in
Bombay BY it no sons are permitted to
marry under sixteen, and no daughters
lnder ten. No man is to marry after
fifty or marry second wife during the
lifetime of the first; he is also not to
drink spirits save under medical advice.
Marriage expenses are also to be greatly
reduced.
The name of the Netherlands is at
present given only to the kingdom of
Holland. But in the sixteenth century
that name denoted cluster of provinces
extending from the Zuyder Zee and the
Dollart to the northern frontiers of
France, and forming that tract of fertile
and alluvial land which is at present oc-
,upied by the Kingdoms of Holland and
Belgium.
Notwithstanding the popular belief
as to the density of the population of
London, recent statistics show that of
Ill the large European cities the me-
sropolis of England has fewer inhabi-
5ants to the house than any other place.
Vienna occupies the first place in the
list in this respect, and has an average
Of five times as many inhabitants to
each house as London.
The ST. James's Gazette says that
every winter increases the number of
visitors who flock to st. MOritz, in the
Alps. for health: and enjoyment. There,
at 5000 feet above the sea, surrounded
by wilderness of snow and ice, suffer-
srs from nerve exhaustion unite with
consumptive patients in skating, dane
ing, flirting, acting and shooting head
foremost down the famous toboggan
runs. Any thing more unlike Medit-
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cut to imagine.
"A new place of entertainment re-
Gently opened in Paris is called the
Moulin Rouge. Over the entrance is
real windmill, while round this is cor
ridor with immense Gothic windows,
which gives the place a semi-cathedral
!ook. In tn center of all is garden,
which at night glimmers with Chinese
lanterns. The name adopted by the
proprietors of the place is historical,
for there was an old "Moulin Rouge
in the Champs Elysees, which, under
the empire, was a restaurant which
eclipsed those of Laurent and Ledoyen
then in their infancy-and was the
summer rendezvous of a host of politi-
cal, literary, artistic and fashionable
celebrities