The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-01-14
Foreign Items Of Interest.

M. STANLEY wants her husband to write, his
piography and stand tor the House OF 'oin-
| mons
Mr. spurqeon has so FAR recovered his health
that he IS able 90 revise bis sermons LOT NooA''
| publication.
The Congress Of Nicaragua has ordered thal
ten young men,t 70 be selected rom ,I ~ Fnrope
emf provinces of the republic. De sent 20 l'iOP1
/ 10 be educated ~ tho expense OF me o'a'o'
Iosenh Jarnes Cheoseman. Liberals new Presl-
dent. is a Baptist minister. whom the oo..nl.a
BAPTIST Missionary Convention %. Int 49,
! States appointed superintendent % 10
! IN 1871.
Alawisto be PASSED in Costa Rics making the
sale to foreigners OF Indian Antiquities c.i-
lecfed i'm no republic crime punish aDie WI
severe penalties. similar law is 10 DC p"''o0
IN Ecuador.
Senior Mofa. moral reformer who Is msyo of
OF Mosquera a town IN tne onir0 sstrreeted for
dieorJer1v conduct i'm his isiliwlck SHAH nave
their heads shaver before they are SCI ~ i4o'''
again
Owing 10 the rainless season there IS WAFER al
famine i'm the Broken Hill district, near ayu i-
ney. IN Australia. where inc slleI Aiiiio' 'rfbe
attracted q considerable population. .e. H0
mines have Yielded ID the past year 40''o''0'
ounces
The conductors Of all the street cars. omnl-
lrsls ana other We hicles for public accOmmoIa-
fion IN Warsaw. in that part of the city ne-
49,. $500 praqs and Inc suburb of Brudno.
are women. and fulfill Their lute more "o.-
ratelr and % the better SATISFACTION oi "i0 t"N
lie than men,
The wedding dress in which lrincess " AIRY %.
Teck * TO bee married 90 Prince Albert flcloI oi
Wales is 10 be entirely of British material ana
British make. II j. 20 be made ol SIX lAlI4cS
and presented 90 the Princess by me .aules,
comialftee of tho National SILK Association OF
Great Britain.
The hichcr education OF women Is making
Great progress in sweden. The number on
women students n the universities lieio ~ Nv"
large and Is constantly ihcIoasiths' r-1aJe I'M,
eighteen women students III the psai" = ~ ~
varsity thirteen in 'und and eight women are
studying medicine IN the CarolinsAe'
An excellent idea has been recently put into
practice bv a drug firm IN blrniuRhaH Lik
ecli i~ the firm O. lll cl is pasted. on which are
printed directions as TO mo ahildoto WHICH
ehOult be emllOl ed ln case the poison is TAKEN
Dos human beings acrllental}. inns is perhaps
am even better plan than that said TO have been
ad0uted in newly opened Western drug store
II giving dOs with each prescription Aleu'
France is the only country which approaches
Great rritain in tho strength Oh ITS navy but
even France has only sixteen battleshlps lh
commission. as against tWenty-nine owned hy
the former country. and twenty-five cruisers
o~mored and u0urIu0red as compared with
fifty. four: while her other ships are twenty
eight as against the slxty-hNe OF fnglahd.
Germany has SIX battleshlps IN COMMISSION
italy i've, Spain one ana tilud louls
Some interesting and rather surprising Stats
tics ON the use Of the telephone IN European
countries have been collected IN LONDON me
greatest commercial city OF the word olls
hftoen persons IN 1000 use me teis-
phone The telephone is used most IN
countries where the service 49, owned or
c0ntrO led by the State. In Germany 0WltHer-
laud NORWAY and sweden from 100 10 iOl per-
IONS i'm every 1ODO01 of the population are sub
scrihers. I'm Great Britain opt hity-oght per
sons in 10000 use the telephone III I,eIIln oeEeh
and i'm Paris fOrty-two out OF every l'Jlv lnhaDl-
tants us8 tho telephone.
Ia twelve months parisians have eaten more
than 81 900 horses 22H donkeys ana lO mules.
s'suneriOr horse steak costs twenty cents q
hound. a horse dinner was recently held in
London, at which the editor OF the ST. James
Gazette was probably present. as tnat gentle
/ man is strongly advocating tho adoption or
hipp0phagy. Al the dinner ln question the
piece de resistance was a fine an mai. aged
/ eighteen years and thirteen hands high. There
was some difficulty i'm finding butcher TO klll
/ the beast i'm q proper manner. and ft.ll greater
| difficulty in finding COOK. bul Nheh ihrse
/ obstacles had been surm0nnted and the dlnner
eaten the verdict was UNANIMOUSLY IN laNOr OF
! hOrse-meat III preference TO Deel
Before he left Egypt LORD Duferin spoke
plainly 10 Iewtik about The political future. and
| since then the khedlyo never swcrFed from the
ia b of ms duty and lnterest. Iie RECOMMENDED
/ his English lessons, read tho English neWsia-
/ Ders every day and even took TO racing, cricket,
/ and other English sports ana pastlne.. but
/ for some unaccountahle reason he would never
send his sons to England, and the new khediNe.
/ Abbas the Second. ana ms Nounger lroiher'
/ Mehemct Ali were educated entirely IN Austria.
! If ] ewiik had died three years ago his disap-
! rearance would have opened MP an endless vista
! Of harem intrigue. lsmall might have made a
! last desperate effort 90 recover the throne. an /
| Nular would doubtless have tried 20 realize
/ his lifelong dream OF becoming Regent Of
| Egypt with minor and puppet hhedlNe. As
| DO Us. the one ls virtually prisoner and the
| other dlscrcdlteL
&C. "a a. r,Ir
ferring TO recent long fasts in this country. SAYS
that in India fasts OF thirty TO forty
days are common among the jams. from
/ among whom. once I'D each year, some IN
dividual comes forward and undertakes to
fast thirty-tive. forty. and even sixty days.
! They do this with nothing but warm water
to drink. and viii die rather than take food
during the prescribed period. Onto recent
is two jams. Of Bombay, tasted one for
sixty-one, the other for torty-e ght Gays at
the end OF which time having been cOngrat-
ulated by twenty-five thousand Jams who went
for the purpose, they recommended taking food
in the manner prescribed in their own books
and shastras. On ScUlember 22d. in cOmmemO-
ration of this event, all the chief bazaars in
Bombay We're closed. and about five thousand
iains male and female. tasted AZ day. while a
large sum was spent IN lilo release OF COWS and
other animals from the slaughtor-house at Ban
dora.
The very las. survivor of the leaders of the
ola liadlcai party IN nIufSh passed away ih
Air. hugh Rose. VINO qlec the other day in hl,
/ eighty-siXth year. He was closely associated
with the late uncan NcLaren IN the formation
OF the Edinburgh Radical party. and t0oh an
active part against Nir. MacaUlay i'm the famous
election oi u.s.. The great triumph of tho
Edinburgh Radicals came I'm 1865. when Mr..
Mclaron defeated tho lato Adam Black. nom
inec OF tho Wing party. ami the present Lord
Moncriol. ueu Lord Advocate. was very
near being beaten by the other Radical
candidate. the late Mr.. af.erWard
Sir William. miller Nauicryon. After The
/ Radicals had smashed the Wings. locally known
81. the larhamen, House parity llr hose took
| comparatively lito interest H. public AFFAIRS.
but in 1856 followed his b oioug friend Bright
| and ecame Liberal UMOn'st. Mr. lose vas
al tho head OF a large mercantile firm m Edln-
/ lurgh. and for more than forty years mas one
| az the leading commercial magnatos OF that
/ city.
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