The Colfax chronicle., 1890-04-19
TlDINcs FROM AFAR.

tt0HS3S F0OW Affair."
TH1RrY German sculptors are working
on thirty new monuments to Emperor
William I.
! An Italian colony is to be established
on the Red Sea. 1t will be called Err
treo and will be managed by Governor
and three councillors.
A LOTTERY scheme, comprising zoe, 900
tickets at $50 each, has just been ratified
In Germany by the German Emperor.
It is called the ''Castle Freedom Lot
terry"
Two RUSSIAN climbers Of Mount
Ararat found in perfect preservation .
minimum thermometer, which was left
there last year. 1t registered fifty de-
grees below zero
LAST year Germany granted only
8,92i pensions, against Englsndis 0,7T0
and the United States 20, 42o. The
number granted in Germany has fallen
of s27 in i've years.
THE late DR.. Reichenbach, keeper Of
the Botanical Gardens at Hamburg, left
his library and collection OF plants to
the Vienna Court Museum. The library
contains about 10000 works in Is, 200
volumes, and the herbarlum about 70O,-
(. 900 sheets.
BERLIN has established perambulating
post-of1ces which are great success.
The mail carts drive about In eleven
different directions, deliver local letters
At their destination, and sort the letters
collected while they are being taken to
the post-of1ce.
THEcity of Rome seems to be an almost
inexhaustible depository or interesting
relics Archeologists and students gem
orally will be interested in the latest
find, which is claimed to be nothing
less than the pavement of the ancient
temple Of Jupiter.
DURING the recent floods in Japan g..
40 persons were killed and 155 were
wounded; 10000 were deprived of the
necessaries Of life; $4,000 houses were
swept away or rendered uninhabitable;
$50, 900 acres of agricultural land with
their crops were laid waste; 5000
bridges werc carried away, and hun
dreds of miles of roads were destroyed.
A BRIDGE across the English channel
is not among the improbabilities Of the
near future The project is pronounced
feasible by competent engineers, and
late number of the Scientific American
contain the plans and estimates for
such structure, which were discussed
at a meeting of the Iron and Steel In
stitute at Paris during the present
year.
MoNTEvDEo, the capital Of Uruguay,
has been taking census. and finds fts
population to be 170, 600. This indicates
great and rapid growth, but Monte
video, though it has better hartcr
and is not SO far up stream as its more
successful rival. Buenos Ayres, can not
hope to overtake or keep within sightof
that Argentine capital ON the opposite
bank of the great firth, or sea estuary,
or river, known as La Plata, Buenos
Ayres has to-day population Of 400. 600.
having doubled in about eight years.
FROM the latest source of information
the personnel of the Brazilian navy con-
sists of 1 admiral. vice-admirals, 10
rcar-admirals, 20 first-class captains,
80 frigate captains. SO lieutenant cap
tains, 10 first lieutenants. 10 second
lieutenants, 8, 15S seamen, S46 marines,
500 apprentice marines, $50 engineers
and so members of the medical stan.
Cadets enter the Imperial Naval School
1T Rio Janeiro between the ages of twelve
and fifteen The preparatory course is
divided into three yearly periods and
the final course comprises four years