The morning call., 1891-08-06
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

The receipts OF the Paris Salon for 1891
were 3l5,000 francs, against 238,0 in 1890
and $4,000 in 1889.
One dollar minute is the charge for using
the new telephone line between London and
Paris. Distance about $50 miles.
The Italian Government is making de-
termiHed efforts TO root out the evil of hri-
gandage in the Island OF Sardinia.
The population of Belgium amounted on
the last d " Of December 10 6, 147.0n. Brus-
seis has about 10000 inhabitants.
Germany has added 226j, 900 to her pOpu-
lauon in five years. France 900, 600 in the
same period, and Russia 100000.
Some experiments were recently made in
battalion OF Prussisn infantry in instruct
ing dogs 10 hunt the wounded on the field of
battle.
France has sixty-two Dukes, only thirty
| of whom date from the old monarchy. The
oldest Duke is the Due de Mortemart who
was born in 1874.
The strike Of shipwrights on the Clyde is
assuming serious proportions. The platerS
are willing to resume work on the masters
terms, but the rlyeteTS and caikerS refuse.
The Munich court photographer, Rsut-
mar, famous for his llkeueSses OF actresses,
has been drowned in one of the Bavarian
lakes, together with two fishermen WHO were
with him.
The Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, one of
the most famous and most Important TN
mines in the world, has been opened to a
depth of 2472 feet, The main shaft is now
being sunk deeper.
At an execution iu Posen of a man named
PoienZ for the murder OF his wife the SYM
pathy OF the people was SO strongly with the
condemned man that the eXecuti0ner was
mobbed and beaten.
The Qnadrupie Delivery Machine Com
pany, just being H0ated in En- gland, offers
for penny your weight, box of sweets
and an insurance policy. The latter, which
IS for &2j, lasts twenty-one days.
There are more women In British India
d24 COG, 600 than there are men. women and
children in Great Britain, France and Ger
many put together, with the population Of
several minor European States east in as
well.
The sentiment is gaining in Sweden in
favor Of decisive measures toward Norway,
as the agitation there is believed to be
prompted BY a hatred of The union and a
preference for Denmark, which means
Russia.
Travellers in Ceyon are astonished to dis
cover that the men there are far more grac.-
full than the women. They are better look
ing also, and dress more styliShiy, while
the women work in the fields and become
coarse and h0meiY.
The Munich Poeller Physical and Optical
Institute have constructed for the Chicago
Exhibition an enormous microscope. manipu-
lated by the aid of electricity. 1t has a
magnifying power of 1I,0O0 linear perspec-
tive and has cost Gl7J0.
England supplies the plant for the vast
new harbOr WORKS now in progress at Heko-
hama. The qiIick-hrIng guns now supplied
TO the Japanese Navy are also of British
make, and II is in England that the japanese
order their railway plant.
BY means of powerful jet of compressed
air German military engineer drives dry
cement down into the sand mud al tie
bottom OF stream, SO that the water i'm
a so alU 40 h....r
like solid rock, suitable for foundations.
The most valuable Oriental mats in the
world are owned by the Shah, the Sultan,
aud the Mahara jah of Bareda. The former
two possess some valued at over s., $4,000
each, and the latter owns one ornamentrd
with pearls and diamonds said to be worth
S350.000.
Two Italians and one German have been
arrested at Como, L0mb hardy, for sketchng
and securing plans OF the forts of that city.
IL is supposed that the men arrested were
employed by foreign governments TO obtain
the plans of a number Of important Italian
tortitications.
The reception of Prince Henry Of Prussia
in England has presented q marked contrast
To that Of his brother, the Kaiser. Henry,
also, is grandson Of the Queen, but there
has been no demonstration ON his account,
and he has been accorded only the usual
official cyilitieS.
Though the Government thought it ad-
yisabe to act adversely upon Nh. PdrnelP5
suggestion that John Daily, the convicted
dynamiter, should either be treated as
political prisoner or release il is known
that Home Secretary Matthews is in favor
OF releasing tie prisoner in 1892.
Vienna advices state that owing 10 the
presence of suspicious persons near the
fortress OF Cracoe and at other places in
Galicia strict orders have been given that
any person, other than military, coming
nearer than 100 feet to a fortress without
special permission shall be at once arrested
and examined by the military authorities.
Reports reach Vienna of the spread of
typhus fever aud other diseases in VuihynIa,
province Of Russia, owing to the want of
iood and the terrible condition of the starv-
Ing people, who are TOO weak in many cases
to attend 10 the offices of cleanliness so nee
eSsary at this time of year. In some places
so many have died that the living are un-
able TO bury them, and the Provincial Gov
eminent has had to detail prisoners from
the jalls TO perform the duties of nierment
1t may not be generally known that the
late Count von Moitke was something more
tnan the most successful General of his
time. Besides being an excellent mathema-
ticiaD. be was a good classic scholar, an ac-
complShed linguist, cOnyersant with twelve
modern languages, an able litterateur, an
admirable painter and craftsman. and a
musician of skill. possessing excellent criti-
cal powers. He could play half dozen in
struments fairly, but specially delighted in
The t0nns 0f tina win lanPailO