Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-03-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Emperor of Germany Is pho
t<rapher, like the Princess of Wales.
Sixty thousand people are said to
DO out Of work in the city of Berlin.
Ninety thousand are out of work in the
East End of London alone.
The Duchess Of Northumberland
has just been buried in Westminster
Abbey as a Percy, the only family in
England retaining the prescriptive right
to the honor of interment there.
The Royal Commission appointed to
examine Westminster Abbey in its re-
lation TO future burials. report that
there Is comfortable room for forty
or fifty more; but space can be made
for seyenty-eight more by devoting
every available spot for the purpose.
The present rate of Abbey funerals is
about one a year. The architect of the
Abbey, Mr.. Person, recommends the
addition of various new chapels, for
which some outside houses would have
to be pulled down.
There is a peculiar gambling club
of working women in England, having
thirty-fOur members. Each woman de-
posits n small sum of money as her
entrance fee, and the winners pay the
rent and the woman in charge of the
rooms. The gambling is done by
means of bits of paper containing the
numbers, passed around like refresh
ments on a plate, and each woman
draws a piece in turn. The highest
and lowest numbers win the pile, to-
ward which each woman contributes
her share.-N. Y. Sun.
The Monta di Pieta at Rome, which
has existed ever since the year 1855, is
certainly the most lenient pawnbro-
ker's shop in the world. Any person
who brings pawn may borrow from
Sl2 to so without paying any interest,
but all that is lent above that is paid
for at the rate of two per cent. per
annum. At the end of two years if the
pledge be not redeemed nor interest
paid the pledge is sold and the over
plus of the debt is laid by for the
owner, who has it in his power to de-
mand it within one hundred years.
The Imperial German census of Dc
cember gave these results: Population
of Berlin, 1,547, 4s5; Dresden, e67, 200;
Munich. $40, 900; Cologne, 49,, 900; Ham,
burg, $4,000; Magdeburg, aOa, 200;
Frankfort, 10000; Strasburg, 49,, 1000.
Leipsic, which had 293, 200 inhab-
itants, by charging its limits on
January 1, has $50, 900, and is the third
city in size in Germany. Heligoland
has 2,Os6 inhabitants, IS more than it
had just ten years ago. The popula-
ton of Berlin shows an increase of
49,. 900 in the last ten years, and of ESQ.,
900 in the last five. The average annual
increase for the last five years is about
5000. The census takers found in
Eibing a man forty-nine years old with
% children.
"A characteristic instance of railroad
management is reported from Tifiis
Freight train No. So arrived from Balsoo
and Astafa. The superintendent of the
station examining the train before al
lowing it to start, heard people talking
in a car for combustible materials. He
decided that there must be stowaways
or thieves there. and ordered the car to
be put on side track and closed up
tightly. The inmates begged to be let
out, but the 'natchainik (station super
intendent) was deaf to their prayers
The car was boxed up tightly for thir-
teen hours At last, when it was
opened, nine innocent Armenian passen-
gers, one of them a woman, were found
in it half dead from want of air, for the
cars for cS-:bustle materials are air
tight. The passengers had been put
in the car for want of better accommO-
dation.