The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

France has spent $3.50, 600, 900 on
her army since 1871 and an enormous
sum upoD her navy. This is the sort OF
armed oeace the German victory OF
1890 has forced ali Europe 60 pay for.
The Courier DIES Etats-Unis does not
a,ro1y which IS most astonishing. the
size of the figures or the wonderful de-
velopment OF France. which has enabled
her to pay such a sum and steadily
prosper.
Mud baths were common among
the ancients, the mud on the seashore
and the slime % rivers being esneci2llY
priced for this purpose The Tartars
and Epypt:ens SILL use them in certain
| diseases. They are taken by many peo-
| ple at places on the continent of Europe,
among which may he named Driourg'
Eilsen. Neundcrf, Pvrmo7t, spa, Ma
rie7bad. Franzens braun, Eyer, Kissin-
! gen and TeplitZ.
The relative area of woodland IN
! the various countries OF EuroDc Is as
| follows: Forests occupy 39.T per cent. or
| The total AREA Of Sweden, $50 per cent.
| Of Russia. S25 Of Austria. ga of Hun
gary. 25.2 Of Germany, q ; Of Norway.
| 70 Q Of Servia. 1913 Of Belgium, 1879 &C
! Svyitzerlard. I9T Of France, II of Spain,
| 1872 of Roumaaia. ISL Of Greece, 1873 OF
TteIv. 7 of Holland, So Of Portugal, 4.S
| Of Denmark and 1 of Great Britain and
| Ireland. AS 60 the United States. the
! fTure IS 70 per cent. - the total area
and the actual extent Of the forest land
is equal to fifteen times the area OF
| Pennsylvania R2ltimore Sun.
"A story Mr.. William Hancock is
telling on the lecture platform IA En-
GLAND reflects great credit upon the sa-
caciTy of the buffaloes IN S1Inetra,
| where be has bean travelling. He says
| that these intelligent animals, being in
great fear O; their mortal enemy, the
tiger. take refuge at night in the rivers.
| where they rest IN peece and comfort
! with only their horns and noses stuck
mo above the water. Possibly the
traveller derived his information from
veracious natives like those OF central
Africa who regRled DR.. Jrn<er with
tales of monkeys who built fires and
cooked their food after the manner OF
the lords OF creation.
-Four well-to-do Young English
| men, aged from twenty-five to twenty
eight, recently left England for the
! purpose OF exploring East Africa. They
| intend TO ascend the Jubs river three
| hundred miles to large affiuent which
flows vest Prom Ehere they intend to
no west for about eight hundred miles,
r1aDr,ing o1It the country, taking height
cF mountains. eKamininr the fauna
! collecting insects and shooting Hons
and elephants. When they reach Lake
Rudolph. they vi11 return across the
Gala. country into Somaliland and out
Of Africa at Berbera, opposite Aden
They are we'll equipped, and expect tc
be gone eight or ten months.
-F7e large aes7'in Central Argentin'
railway stock. says the Transport
which recently took place ~ London
has cause1 no little comment IN CITY
circles Il appears that two years age
! Wessrs. Barring Brothers & Co advanced
about s.. OaO. 600 to the Argentine gov
ernment against the security of $500,
coo Central Argentine railway stock
When the Barring liquidation began
the Argentine government paid off 81,
soc. oeO Of this loan which not long haC
been further reduced to 50 800, 900 Th
whole transaction has been cleared OF
bv the sale of the railway stock TO SOM
influential buyers. who intend holding
st for the next two or three years in ey
pectatiou Of market rise in the valu
of the property.