Mower County transcript., 1890-01-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Sn1SN1IN %S0S0ITS $500
Sir Edward Guinness has donated
3, ,OO0, 900 for the erection Of dwellings
Tor the laboring poor Of London.
"A yellow book issued at Pekin gives
the population of China proper in 1887
as 800, ,241, 900, which was gain Of l.
1854, 1856 over the year before. =
Photographs are to be put in the
post-ofices Of Mexico, to be used by per-
SONS unable to write, in order to send
messages to friends through the mails.
Paris is surrounded by ramparts
twenty-seven. miles long. Within these
the river Seine, which divides the city,
curves and doubles until there are seven
miles of it. It is crossed by twenty
seven bridges. ,.-.
Queensland, the youngest of the
Australian Colonies, is three times as
large as France and nearly six times as
large as the United Kingdom; yet it
contains population Of less than 4oo,-
900.
The English statistics give a nota-
BILE decrease in their convict population
during the last twenty years. The to-
tai number of convicts under sentence
of penal servitude was 6,4aB in July;
twenty years ago it was 11,660.
According to an official statement,
the population of Chill, partly esti-
mated, is 3, 1858. This includes ST.
007 foreigners and about 500 Indians.
Santiago has 1898 inhabitants; VAL
paraiso, 104,952.
king George of Greece is an in
veterate walker and is familiar figure
on the streets of Athens. The Atheni-
ans salute him politely as they meet or
pass him, but make no other demonstra-
ton, and he simply raises his low felt
hat.
The Shah has ordered globe which
is probably unique in its way. The
various countries of the globe are rep
resented by precious stones-France by
sapphires, Russia by diamonds, and En-
gland by rubies, while emeralds will
! figure as the various oceans and seas.
Ancient Rome received from with
out we'll nigh seven times the volume
of water now poured into modern Rome.
This city is the best supplied with
| water in the world. Next to Rome,
Vienna is said to be the most favored
capital, if not in the abundance, at least
in the purity OF its drinkingwater.
| The Crown Prince of Brazil was the
last royal parsonage to receive the
golden rose from the Pope. The Pope
sends this auriferous blossom to those
! whom he delights to honor, whom the
world sometimes does not delight to
honor. Queen Isabella of Spain, also
an exile, has the golden rose likewise.
! During recent discussion of the
German patent laws in the Reichstag it
was revealed that last year Germany
granted only 1921 patents, against En-
glands 9,779 and the United States 2O,-
42O. While in most civilized countries
the number of patents annually granted
is increasing, or, at least, not decreas-
ing, the number in Germany has fallen
off 927 in the last five years.
| The redecoration of the famous cor
ridor in Windsor Castle has been COM
pleted at cost of many thousands of
pounds. The work has been constantly
in progress all the year except when the
Queen has leen at the castle. One set
of rose china, in single one of the cab
inets in this corridor, is valued at ESQ,
900 ($150,0o0). At the upper end of the
corridor is bust of Gordon, close to
which is his pocket Bible inclosed in
crystals.
! The lash has never been abolished
as means of discipline in penal insti-
tutions of Germany. Generally they
use thong twenty inches long, fast
ened to handle yard long. The lash
is thickest at the end. The thickness
varies according to the provinces. But
the smallest lashes are two inches
thick. Only in Saxony are the dimen-
sions fixed by law, the handle there be-
| ing thirty inches long and the lash
thirty-six inches. The maximum num-
Der of blows is left to the Judgment OF
the prison directors, but it must not
exceed twenty-five in Mecklenburg and
Oldenburg, thirty in Saxony and sixty
| in Prussia.