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The new gold fields in Western Aus.
tralia are said 10 be overcrowded.
In connection with the outbreak OF
pleuro at Eagiesham, Scotland. 2e0 cattle
have been slaughtered.
In a parodyon Cleopatra, at the Cirque
oliver, Paris. the fatal asp became boa
constructor Is feet long.
The khedive's proclamation of general
amnesty 10 the Soudanese was hailed
with much rejoicing at Suakim.
The question of paying members of
parliament for their services is now being
widely agitated in Great Britain.
The geysers of Iceland, which have
been among the greatest attractions OF
the island, are gradually losing their
force.
A carpenters plane. which antiquar-
ians assert TO be over 800 years old, has
been found in the old Roman city Of
Silchester.
The Marquis of Butte possesses an an
cient Roman coin on which the Emperor
Nero is represented playing on an instrl-
ment resembling the bagpipes.
The Britishemigration returns for JAM
uary shows total of l1,0l4, as against
10,3S3 in the same month of the previous
year. OF the total, 5,S46 were English,
9l7 Scots, and / ,059 Irish.
The Boorat and fungus population of
1rkutsk least Siberia, ON the borders Of
China still keep up a kind of slavery.
They buy and sell mostly little girls. who
are then kept as slaves by the purchasers.
The hard winter has told heavily ON M.
de Lesseps. His strength, il is said. de-
clines so rapidly that doctor never
leaves his side, and administers caffeine
and other stimulants whenever he thinks
them needed.
The unfriendly reception in Paris of ex-
Empress Eugene, where she was at first
mistaken for ex-Empress Frederick, and
afterward insulted as soon as her identity
was known, was a great physical and
mental shock to her.
1t is authoritahyely stated that tho
electrical underground railway in London
has proved that "a speed of "a miles an
hour is practicable. There are bills before
the house of commons from many other
British cities foT rapid transit ON the same
plan.
Ellen Merry, described as an American
lion tanner, was torn to pieces while go-
ing through her performance in the lions
den, at Ahlebeck's menagerie, in Chem
nitz. Her mangled and lfeless body was
got out after a desperate fight with three
lionesses.
The spot in Rome where Nero COM
mitted suicide is said To have been dis
covered 1t is on the Pincian Hill, and
was identified by the discovery of Stone
with an inscription fixing the location of
the villa where it was known the deed
was done.
The depopulation of Iceland is going on
steadily. The depreciation in the value
of the land has been very marked of late,
while the taxes have considerably in-
creased, and the Icelanders are said to be
emigrating in shoals. The population,
which was $4,000 10 years ago, is now
under 10000.
The Madrid Herdid0 says of the Cuban
annexation talk: The people OF Cuba are
strongly Spanish and equally opposed to
becoming part of the United States.
Probably, with the exception Of trades
men, there is no one in the island who is
at all desirous of annexation, and Spain
would shed her last drop of blood in re-
sisting any attempt 10 deprive her of her
colony, fearing neither a Cuban revolu-
ton nor war with the United States.