St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-07-02
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

The first German court Of justice
has held session in Heligoland.
The calendar was blank. The
clerk registered the fact that the
court met and adjourned and all was
over.
Experts studying leprosy in Simia
have found the bacillus They sue
ceeded in giving rabbit leprosy, the
first time the disease has ever
been known outside of the human
body.
Munkacsy's new picture, which he
began two months ago in Paris, will
represent Christ among His disciples.
1t will be completed in about two
years, will be exhibited all over
Europe and the United States, and
will be added eventually to the Berlin
National gallery.
Constantinople has 5Onewspapers;
10 of them are daily, 5 semi-weekly,
II weekly, 3 semi-n onthly, Z month
ly. In nationality 3 are Turkish. Z
Armenian, s Greek, 6 French, 2
French and English, 1 Italian, 2
Hebrew, 2 Bulgarian, 1 Arabian,
Persian, German.
Japan's Emperor has decreed that
every man who provokes a duel or
accepts challenge shall pay heavy
fine and serve from six months to
two years in the galleys. The taunt-
ing Of a man for his refusal to fight
when challenged will be regarded as
SANDER, and will be so treated by
the courts.
The Congo states only newspaper,
the Congo Mirror, made its first APP
pearance a few weeks ago. 1t is
four-page weekly, printed with
lithographing machine The editor,
proprietor, printer, and newsboy are
incorporated in one Englishman.
The Mirror is a fighter, and in its
first issue accused a Congo official of
murder and scoffed at the King Of
Belgium.
Of all European countries Sweden
has proportionately to its popula-
ton the most extensive telephone
system. For the further perfection
of the service the General Telephone
company, in Stockholm, now offers
to put apparatus in subscribers
houses for $2.75 per year each. The
tariff for each call will be 212 cents
extra. The lowness of the price is
the result Of competition between
the government telephone system
and the General Telephone company.
Germany's Fishery association,
with its 1900 members, has grown
into an international affair. Three
weeks ago it made a compact at
Coblenz with the Dutch and Swiss
associations that hereafter the stock
ing Of the Rhine with salmon should
take place at the rivers source ra Their
than as heretofore at the various
places selected by the three national
associations independently of each
other. The Elbe has been so care
fully stocked by the association that
this year 1000 big salmon were
taken at Hamburg. "Ofall European
countries" said the associations
secretary in its annual convention
at Berlin two weeks ago, Germany
is most advanced in fish culture The
United States, however, is ahead, far
ahead, of us all
Capt. Stairs, who was one of
Stanley's favorite officers during his
last journey across Africa. has gone
back to Africa in the service of the
Kataga company to help explore
the great region on the upper Congo
which has recently been coded to
that company by the free state. 1t
was Capt. Stairs who climbed the
remarkable snow-capped mountain,
Rowenzori, which Stanley discover
ed between Lakes Albert Nyanza
and Muta Nzige. He assembled until
he found that the final peak was
separated from him by a deep valley
and he had not time to go further,
because Stanley's caravan was on
the march, and he was compelled to
join it. Capt Stairs has under his
command several white assistants
and a large force of carriers. A
physician is also a member of the
party. A doctor is feature of most
recent African exploring expeditions,
which is something new, as none of
the expeditions in equatorial Africa
employed physicians until Stanley
set the example on his march to re-
lieve Emin, when he had two physi-
clans in his party