The morning call., 1891-07-30
NOTES FROM ABROAD.

Switzerland yearly receives about S25 OO0,-
GOO from foreign tourists.
The nickel industry is destined to be
eminent!y successful in France.
In France four stretches of strategical rail-
way have been opened recently.
The French have lately adopted the
Spanish bull-fsht as one OF the national
pastimeS.
The large influx of Russian refugees has
given rise to terrible distress in Palestine,
and especially in Jerusalem.
The official literary statistics of Turkey
show that during the year 1890 only $40
books were published in Constan tinople.
The Austrian census shows that in Galicia
per cent of the population can neither
read nor write, and only 8 per cent can read.
The yellow fever epidemic seems to have
carried away countless victims, both natives
and foreigners, in several Brazilian prov
inces.
The latest fashion in Partisan society is to
give entertainments for young mothers"
10 which only young married couples are
invited.
Three men found in street in Potsdam
purse containing 81. They bought for tile
dollar lottery ticket. and as luck would
have it, won $4,000.
By the premature explosion of a shrapnel
shell during artillery practice at FeliXd0rf,
Austria, several artillerymen were killed
and number injured
An ingenious enthusiast in Europe claims
to have invented a clock which is driven by
the suns rays, and is supposed to be the
nearest approach to perpetual motion.
NJ. Jansen, President of the commission
instituted by the Acrostatic Congress of 1889,
has asked the French War Minister to define
the status OF aeronauts in time of war.
The project of holding an international
musical and theatrical exposition in Vienna
is making rapid progress toward realization.
The originator Of the plan is the Princess
Metternich.
DR.. Lannelongues treatment of chloride
OF Zlns for tuberculosis has received good
deal of praise from DIR. EADbe and Dr.
Poyet; the latter, specialist. regarding it
as great discovery.
At a sale of autographs In London a while
ago full set OF the signatures of those
whose names appear under the Declaration
OF Independence was sold for S4420. There
are only twenty-five complete sets.
The transoceanic emigration from Ger
many from January 1st until May 3lst has
been the largest during the past five years
namely, 81, 567, as compared with AZ .677 in
$780, 1885, in 1889. As, 200 in 1883 and 4S, 537
i'll 1887.
A bill for the suppression of inebristy Is
| being prepared in the Bundesrath. Emperor
William takes the liveliest interest in the
| scheme to check drunkenness, and has or
| dered that the progress of the measure be
| ASpoAsVN w MN uuituE Hlo tllp.
| In one of the large caves of the province
of Salerno, Italy, great archaeological treas
| ures were found. The searcbers came across
| large quantities of arms of prehis; orr,
| age-ax heads, hammers, daggers and knives
OF flint, agate and other hard stones.
There has just been unearthed in Upper
| Egypt the mummy of dancing girl of the
time of the fifteenth dynasty of the ancient
| Pharaohs about 1900 b. c., who probably
| once was the admiration of the "masherS'
of Ihebes, the city of hundred gates.
There was case of brutal youthful de-
pravity lately in Cosenza, Italy. A young
man by the name of Domenico dc Giovanni
| decoyed Gennaro Alleviate, a sixteen-year-
| old boy, away from home, attacked him with
| knife, horribly mutilating him and then
beheadiDg him.
| A peculiar ending of duel is reported in
I Muencheberg. Everything was ready fol
| the ight-between a physician and Young
| lawyer-wben suddenly the latter threw the
| revolver away, saying: II will not shcot!'
| This made his opponent SO angry that lie
| boxed the lawyers ears.
| A letter from Sarajevo gives an account of
| n wedding celebrated by Spanish Jews in
that city. Bride and bridegroom and guests
| were all dressed in Oriental costumes. The
marriage ceremony, which was tho same as
| that of the Jews in other countries, was fol-
lowed by the fish dance.
The beautiful gold casker containing the
address OF welcome presented by the city
corporation of London to the German En-
peror is richly 0rnamented with enamels and
precious stones. Its design enbodies fea-
lures Illustrative of the cordial relations be-
tween the two countries.
Between the year 1884 and 1883, according
to official statistics, $40 soldiers of the Prus-
sian army have committed suicide in the
Twelfth Saxon and the Thirteenth Prus-
sian regiments. The largest number Of sui
cides occurred in the province of Posen the
next was in that Of the Berlin company.