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Natural gas has been discovered in the
Argentine Republic.
Evidence has been adduced showing
that Malta society exists in London.
The London Religious Tract Society
last year issued n ,0O0, 200 publications.
The automatic penny in the slot ma
chine craze has died out in Great Britain.
Jean Nicot, who introduced tobacco
into France, is TO have a monument In
that country.
A cargo of over 800 half bred horses
has been sent 10 England from the Ar
gentine Republic.
Spain is about 10 build two 1000 ton
protected cruisers of $4,000 horse power
and 20 knots extreme speed.
The new Chinese minister at Paris, NJ.
Tshing Tshang, Is Tartar by birth and
a Roman Catholic. His wife Is of the
same nationality and religious persuasion.
Foot ball is the great game in old Eng
land. AT q recent international match
between English and Scotch players at
Richmond there were more than 90 re
porter present.
The Monte Carlo gambling den yielded
its owners clear profit last year OF 3d.
0O0, 900 after paying the prince $e50. 900,
and expending 81 ,750, 900 for keeping up
the casino and gardens.
Berlin's Society for the Homeless shell
tered last year 10000 men and 1850
women. Since 1870 the society has as
sisted with lodgings. baths, breakfasts.
and medical care 2.209,00 persons.
The remains of Alexander William
Kinglake, the historian, were cremated
at Woking, England, and then taken in
an urn to Pittminster, near Taunton, and
deposited in the family burying ground.
While W. X. Vanderbilt's Alva was
steaming through storm on her way to
Villefranche, an enormous wave depos-
tied a 20 pound turtle ON the deck Il
was good to eat, and therefore was eaten.
The building of Bungalows at Thebes
for consumptive patients is recommended
by DIR. Koch, who has recently taken
tour up the Nile. The climate there is
considered most beneficial to sufferers
from lung affections.
The authorities at Paris, France, are
said to be putting cremation to effective
use. Since the establishment of the cre-
matorium at the Cemetery Pere-la-Chaise
more than ! 200 unclaimed bodies have
been disposed of in it.
The consumption of beer in Germany
last year averaged 106 quarts to each per-
son, as against 90 quarts the preceding
year. There are in the empire 9,975
hx.ax nd f.,
5,232, ,073, 900 quarts of beer.
The Australian colonies are not boom
ing at the present time. j. III. Knipe, a
Melbourne authority in connection with
real estate matters, computes that there
are quite 1000 houses in Melbourne and
the suburban area standing empty.
When the Mosque of St. Sophia in
Constantinople was built, more than
thousand years ago, the stones and brick
were laid in mortar mixed with solu-
tion of musk, and the building has been
fragrant with the odor ever since.
The doctors of Berlin have agreed that
in the future their coachmen shall wear
white hats, so that q doctors carriage
may always be Immediately distinguish
able, and the public enabled to summon
medical aid from the streets in urgent
cases.
The Hindus are about to adopt a mod
ern notion in forming Hindu tourists
party for visiting Europe, America,
China, Japan, and the States. The
Hindu noblemen and gentlemen" who
are invited to join the party are assured
that they will be able to travel without
violation of caste rules.
The Duke of Marlborough thinks thas
English interests in railroad property in
the United States can only be properly
protected by consolidating the forces, TO
collect together the scattered and dis
jointed interests of English investors and
consolidate these blocks of securities in
the hands of a powerful and well adj
ministered corporation that win make 1t
its sole business to uphold the voting
value Of these stocks in America.