Arizona republican., 1891-08-30
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

There are 507 workhouses and v pris- ons in England and Wales.
 There is now direct telegraphic com munication between Paris and French Guiena.
 The "civil" clothes of the German Elm peror are made by well-known firm in l London.
 It is proposed to run an electric tram car up Leith Walk, Edirburg, the gra- dient of which is to Is.
 About half the railroad which is to connecs Jaffa to Jerusalem has been completed. The remainder will be fin ished within a year.
 According to German insurance paper, the young Earl of Dudley holds the largest life insurance ever effected, the amount being q 200,000.
 As a protest against an increase in the price of gas, shopkeepers in Lisbon have resolved to close their places of business at an unusually early hour.
 A young lady vel known in Berlin society has had her left leg amputated, blood poisoning having been caused by wearing red silk stockings.s
 The Jews. who are pouring into Pale. tine just now talk so many different languages that, in order to understand each other, they are forced to recur to their old Hebrew mother-toDgue.
 A hotel in Hamburg has been built entirely of compressed wood, which by the pressure to which it is subjected is rendered as hard as iron as we'll as absolutely proof against the attack oi | fire.
 | One of the mummies of the Egyptian kings is provided with set of upper false teeth. the plate being made o carved wood, closely fitted to the mouth the teeth represented by brass possess of stud.
 American freight cars carry about thirty tons weight, the cars weighin, about nine tons. They are gradually superseding the English cars in that country, which weighs about five tons and carry only seven tons of cargo.
 A large treasure of gold coins of tn, size of 20 mark-pieces have been found at Benthen, in Selisia. Part of them bear the head of King Otto of Bohemia, and the date ot 1908. There are repor. ted to be 1,000,00 coins In all.
 It is relatedsas curious fact that Par is, with population of nearly two anC a half million souls, has less than one hundred negroes within it's limits Statisticians say that ghe whole O France cannot muster negro popula tion exceeding five hundred.
 The Duke of Devonshire has issued { circular to his Irish tenentry in tn, counties of Cork and Waterford, givinj them a reduction of 17la per cent or their half years rents now payable The tenants are paying the rents freely at this reduced rate.
 The German Government will shortly open negotiations with the princess an( nobles who have hitherto enjoyed i'm munity from the payment of taxes, ai under the new imcome-tax law the, will no longer possess this privilege. Tn, chief question to be considered is that 0 compensation.
 The excavations which have been ol at the village of Triel, France, wher James II was supposed to have buried his crown and other treasures, hay, proceeded to such an extent that th municipal authorities have been com pelled to interfere, as the safety of som of the buildings in the neigh borhoot has been seriously endangered.
 The Wormser Zeitung draws attention to literaay curiosity of some valu which has lately been discovered in tn library of Herr Moses Manufacturer. consists of the Pentateuch with com mentarie, Rashi and Nachmanides, an, came out of the celebrated Bromber collection in Venice (l57D. It was tn first printed book which issued from tn "Bromberg Press," and IS one of the old est Hebrew books extant.
 Paris is somewhat perplexed abou the Palais Royal. once one of it's chic : glories. It is now rather white elt l phant. It covers great deal of tn , most valuable ground in the city, but { little'purpose. The trade of the arcad IS steadily declining. In order to give another chance of life there will be bui cafe and beer garden at the lower en 7 of the enclosure. in the hope of bringin back the old-time strollers through til covered galleries.