The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I'm 1889 Russian peasants killed or
captured 1913 boars. SIS wolves. SOB foxes,
IA. S34 hares, II, 900 squirrels, $50 mar
tens, otc.
Franco receives yearly revenue OF
over $50, 100000 from Its monopoly OF
the sale OF tobacco. About two Iccnds
,por inhabitant aro consumed yearly
there.
Tho people OF Truckeo complain
chat they have had no summer this year.
Owing To tho surrounding snow banks
they might Us we'll DO living in u refrig-
crater.
Tho telephone has played an i'm
poriant part in tho maneuvers OF tho
Swedish Il ct There is IL telephone
post on board each vessel. and when w.
ing at anchor they can telephone 10 ono
another 10y means Of insulated con-
ducto:s, which arc run DOM tho anchor
chains AMI submerged.
Tho 70 tai savings banl5s OF japan,
which for several years received bat
little attention from tho people. havo
become Il great success. They were -
tallishcl III 1873. but at the end OF the
year lad only Sl5,*e0 on deposit In
1882, however. it, amounted TO ST, O1S, 600,
and in 1889 to $40. 45o 0OG.
"A town in England, Skiddaw, Cum
tcrland. stands unique rs a township OF
one house and one solitary malo adult
1nbabiiant This man is deprived OF
his yOto b cause Of tho fact THAT thcro
arc no ovcrscers TO make ont - voters
list. and no church or public building on
which 10 publish one, II made.
The Patco do Ia Albcrca in which
the fire nt the Alhambra originated. vas
superb court, set in the center with an
immense basin, in which Tie Sultanas
OF years ago were wont 30 batho and
froic in tho pcrfumod water that Flied
1T. Tho court was about lao bv 20. and
almost complete, ysurroundcd by grocn,
glossy hrdg. OF myrtlos. which has led
10 its being some times known AZ Tho
Court Of tho Myrtlcs.
Tho oldest lawsuit ever known is
now in progress OF trial in tho hgho It
Russian court in St Petersburg Or'ri-
naliy il was brought five hundred years
ago against the city Of kamcneg- Po-
doisk by The heirs OF :, iroblrman, to re.
cover several thousand acres o. his cs-
tato which had been c0nnscatcJ by the
municipality. The Testimony in tho
case i wcighty; there are forty-Gvo
tons of IL in manuscripts
1T would seem that romantic lovors
arc >lill To lo found on the hanks Of the
UooglIly. says the Times OF India. In 4
village c,lled Tangal another case OF
"Villi!eins and His Dinali" was enacted
few day ago. young Calcutta grad
uatc, on being disinhcriLcd by his father
Tor marrying y lady Of tho reformed
class against his fathers wishes. agreed
with his dearly beloved" TO putan end
TO their existence by opium poison.
Thoy b.dc ndicu - each other and
swallowed opium. Tho lady died tho
ncXt morning; Tho young graduate
revived" it IS 81 d. under the influence
of a stomach pump aud other medical
nd and is living now after paying n
penalty OF 10 rupees for his crash" act
Mir w. SowcrhY writes from tho
Botanic Gardens, Regents Park. Lon
don, that fresh water mcdusa has again
appeared in the Victoria tank there
IL FIRST became known through appear
Ing III that tank in 1850. and since then
1t has remained mystery. for, though
appearing in tho one spot in thousands
for a fow summer months yearly it has
not been found or known in any ether
part Of Che world. Last autumn the
original tank was broken up tn % ground
cleared, and IL new tank and house built,
both nearly double the size Of the old
ones and ~ tho madusa did not appear
In Tho old tank during 1882 it WIS
thought that it, end had conc; bat. Oh
July 80. numbers OF full grown irdivid-
uais were seen in tho now tank, swim
ming about as ii quito at home.