The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


-ThsIargeat grape vine In the world
3 that growing at Oyss Portugal, which
has been bearing since 1902 Its maxi
mum yield was an 1884, in which year
IS produced a sufficient quantity Of
grapes 20 make 165 gallons OF vine
in one day recently 456 petitions
were fled IN the dominion parliament.
the bare list Occupying seven pages -
the journal Five pages axe taken up
by petitions for the passage of a pro
hihitoFy liquor law and labor orgGnE
szti0ns moBOPOlizs the rest
According 20 statistical reports
there are 1000 goats now on the island
Of Corsica. The average yield Of milk
per goat "a said 20 be two htrea q day
The Inhabitants Of the island have been
urged by competent Judges TO intro
dues the goat Industry on q sin
larger scale
The rain wrought on works OF the
has arts by the explosion at Rome ta
90 great that no one thinks of comput-
ing It For the necessary restOratiOns
In St. Peters sixty thousand dollars
will be needed, and one hundred thou
sand dollars 20 repair St Pauts- with
sums like these for other churches
The interior OF the vatican will need
one hundred thousand dollars
There has been a diminutiop OF 52,-
/ 600 in the population OF Liverpool prop
d
! OF TeEteth snd West Derby the town
! shows an increase Of 81. eco In the num-
| Der OF iuhabitanta- A decrease vvaE
] anticipated. but the recent census was
| q surprise, and especial pains were
/ taken TO establish les accuracy. with
the above result
"A st. Petersburg lady Of fashion
has invented an improvement In her
/ turnout which, the local papers say, ia
likely to become popular with ali the
/ ladies of her rank. She has a mirror
fastened TO the girdle Of her driver
| when she takes q drive. This enables
her not only to see whether her head
gear aud dress arc in perfect order. but
even to notice the carriages ana the
people who arc coming up behind her
vehicle
The longest bridge in the world Is
the Lion bridge near 6angung, IN
China 1t extends 90 miles over an
area OF the Yellow sea and is supported
by 500 huge stone arches The road
way Is 20 feet above the water and Is
inclosed in an iron network. A marble
lion 81 feet long rests on the crown 81
| every pillar The bridge was built at
the command Of the z Emperor Eisng
Long, who abdicated in 1895 on account
OF old age,
The Venezuelan methods Tor col,
| lectiug duties are peculiar. II q cook
stove has q brass knob on its door the
whole thing is weighed s. 50 much
brass and duty charged accordingly
A barrel of -four costing five dollar
| pays impostH not only on the -four, but
the slaves, hoops and heads, costing
when set down, with freights Rut
duties added, fifteen dollars And yet
5 owing TO cheap labor, bread is about
j as low and quite as good in Caracas al
, IN New York
A man just back from a winter IL
1 Germany says; '-Ths-saiy way of stop
e ping the dangerous practice of carryini
S canes and umbrellas horizontally ha
9. long been known TO the people OF BeE
lin. There a man no sooner tuelrs hi
j walking stick under his arm that IA
{ feels a quick blow on IL from behind
D. 1t either drops to the pavement or as
sumss che only proper and safe pos
b ton IN which a stick can be carried
J | There Is no use in his getting angr
s1 with the person who struck the blOy
or IN his trying 70 do him mp, for publ
opinion Is with -the regulator of tn
I barbarOuG and indefensibls practice c
D which ] spsslc.--S. Y. sun.
[ "A Diviaion,-.'Henry," she viii
D 2sred, ''ist us take for our motto. 'VOr