The Delta independent., 1891-01-27
New. From, Abroad,


Gatchina, the Cars home, contains 700
rooms.
Storms have done great damage through.
out Spain.
One.seventh of the landowners in Great
Britain are women.
The Khojnk Tunnel, India, is rapidly ap.
preaching completion.
Most of the Jews driven out of Russia are
expected to cmigrate to Brazil.
Senor Martinez, President of the Spanish
Chamber of Deputies, is dead.
Ireland had its greatest population in 184l.
The fgur.s gwen were S'l75,124.
The best data ob,ainable gives the Repub.
lie of Colombia population of3, 100000.
The German Government does not allow
Russians to work in its shops at Spandau.
In Consequence of the drought, water has
been selling at Foochow, in CAina, at I'd
gallon.
Amelia RivGs, who il now in Paris, Is suf.
feriny from severe bronchitis and not con-
sumption.
partly burned. Many interesting uncient
records were consumed.
A petition is being circulated in Berlin
against the re.aLnlission into Germany o.
the Order of the Jesuits.
The Burmese Queen Nyouk -Zay. widow
of King Mindoon Min. l,ss ju.t died At CAL
cut,a, aged seventy.
The Gar positively refuses to permit the
Duke OF Orleans to take service in the Eus-
sian Army in any capacity.
Over two thousand skaters in Hyde Psrk
and Kensington Gardens were one of the
sights Of London week before last.
= congestion has been granted al English
syndicate for the building of an elevated
railroad in the city of Buenos Ayres.
The body of MIR. Kinglnke, the mastery
historian Of the Crimean War, was cs~msted
in accordance with his expressed wish while
living.
paper with subscription list of one has
the smallest circulation in shs vOrld. Yet it
has no prospect of failure. 1t is printed every
day for the exclusive use of the Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria.
The Hungarian Government fayors q
scheme for IN electric light railway between
Vienna and Buda.Pesth, = distance of $50
miles, to run single cars every ten minutes,
like a street service, in two hours AUD half
Lately high dignity of the Orthodox
church, Monsignor Nikanaf, the Aetropoli.
tan Of Odessa, preached II sermon against the
prosecution of the Jews. He has got notice
for his pains to retire into u monastery.
An effort to secure the release of Mrs May
brick, who is confined in an English prison
for poisoning her husband, is being made
and it is believed will prove successful new
evidence favorable so her having beea found.
The Russian "Burque de- la Noblesse" an
noun ces for sule, by public auction, no fewer
than 800 large and small estates in different
provinces, the owners Of which we're unable
last year to meet their engagements with the
bark.
The famous arclnologist Gustav Reyillok,
who died recently at Cairo, has, says Berne
telegram, bequ.ath-d to the city of Geneva
not only II large sum of money, but also the
Ariams Museum, which is itself valued ut H..
00O, 600 francs.
Sheffield houses engaged in the American
trade are suffering greatly from the operation
of the new American Tariff law. Several
large frns are contemplating reducing
wages. The Rogers Srm say ,.ey believe
business has been csr,ailed one half since the
tariff went into effect.
In Paris the custom of ofgentlemen rem owing
their hats upon meeting female xcqu.isi4nces
Is falling into "innocuous desuetuds." Many
gentlemen now just touch the brim OF the hat
in military fashion when meeting II lady, and
1t ia accepted us being good form. This is a
sensible change IN an old custom.
plan for the reorganization of the Swed.
ish army has just been laid before :he Swed.
ish Parliament. 1t proposes the universal
liability TO service as understood in its widest
sense-every one able to bear arms must serve.
Eighteen thousand men are required by it an.
nually to enlist for ten aud onelialf months.
Another popular manifestation Of French.
men in favor of Russia took plac. recently in
the Brest Theatre, where several FrencI, off.
GERS and the commander and a Lieutenant of
the Russian battle ship 1iinn were watching
the performance from box. At the request
of n French Captain the orchestra began
playing the Russian national hymn at the
end Of the first act. Instantly the audience
rose, and, led by the French officers In the
box, cheered repeatedly with might aud main,
Long live Russial Long live France! Long
live the allianren'