Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1t. is estimated that 90, 900 piano
fortes are manufactured every year in
London.
There are more than 40, 900 mud
cabins in Ireland. consisting of but
single room.
The Geographical Institute in Wei
mar estimates that German Africa con-
tains $4,000 square kilometers. All
European Germany contains approx
mately $40, 600 square kilometers
The French Minister of War lately
offered prize for the swiftest bird in a
flight from Perigueux to Paris, 80
miles. There were 2,746 entries, and
the winner did the distance in hours
and "a minutes.
In Tepe-Kermene, an ancient town
in Crimea, piatina coin has been
found bearing the image of Antiochus
of Syria, who died b. C. 1914. The coin
is the only one of the kind known to
exist and for this reason its value is in
estimable.
London to-day is five times as large
as it was at the opening of the present
century From 900. 600 at that time the
population of London grew to 1,500, 600
in $780, and by 1855 it had increased to
$500, 900. Since 1855 it has more than
doubled. Century.
The largest reservoir or artificial
lake in the world is the great tank of
Dhebar, twenty miles southeast of
Udaipur. Rajpootana. which covers an
area of twenty-one square miles; the
masonry dam is one Thousand feet long
by ninety-five feet high, fifty feet wide
at the base and fifteen feet at the top.
The Outstanding of all institutions
in the empire of the Car is being
pushed energetically in matters great
and small. Some fifty railway en-
ployes In Warsaw, whose knowledge of
Russian was considered defective, were
dismissed in a body recently. Prince
Nikita of Montenegro has decreed that
Russian shall be an obligatory study in
every school in his little island
"A year from next March the railroad
now building from Jaffa 10 Jerusalem
will be completed, and tourists will then
he whisked away from the coast to Je-
rusalem in two or three hours, a journey
that is now made by camel or in dill
gences over horrible road. The money
required to build the line is in the
hands of Paris bankers, who have Just
forwarded the second installment of
the funds to the contractors.
The average daily supply of water
delivered to London from the Thames
in August last was S. 243, 2O2 gallons;
from the Lee, So $40, 500 gallons; from
the springs and wells, 2S, 529, $50 gallons;
from ponds at Hampstead and High
gate, 359 $50 gallons. The daily total
was, therefore, 1S5, oil, 100 gallons for a
population aggregating 5,671, 500, repre-
senting daily consumption per head of
81 62-100 gallons for all purposes.
One of the least advanced races that
have come down to modern times was
the aboriginal race ofsTasmania. There
is now Mrs. Fanny Corcoran Smith,
aged tifty-seven, who claims to be the
last survivor of the Tasmania people;
but she is pronounced by an Investigator
of their history to be half-caste. The
last unquestionable Tasmanian, wom-
an, Truganina. died in 1876. at the
close of their existence the Tasmanians
| had reached a degree of development
hardly equal to that of the flint workers
of the stone age.
M. Freycinet the French War Min
lister, has retired a lot of old Generals,
and number ofdashipg young Colonies
will soon take their places. The Oldest
General in France, and probably in the
world, is General MaudDit. who is one
hundred years of age. He has never
asked to be retired, and he still figures
among the officers of the reserve. He
| is very proud of his St Helena medal.
| Three other old fellows also wear that
medal-GeneraI Mellinet, born in 1898,
who commanded division of the I'M
! perial Guard at Magenta; General Rich
ard. born in 1895, and General dan
thouard Vaincourt, born in 1896 They
entered the service in 1913 But Maui
Quits military career goes back to 1907