The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-08-05
HAPPENINGS ABROAD.


with European ladies Of fashion.
British cotton operatives spend more
than any other workers for intoxica ting
liquors,
A Liverpool sign that catches the eye
Of the stranger is, Egg shell fuel fol
gas stoves"
The Hindoo nose-ring is to be aban.
doned and flower worn instead In the
nose of the Indian women.
A large sale for cook books published
in this country is reported from Madrid
and other Spanish cities.
An Australian matrimonial agency ad'
vertises that a clergyman is kept on the
premises to perform the marriage cere'
mony.
In one OF the great Paris hospitals, out
OF eighty-three patients who suffered
with epilepsy, sixty were found to be
the children Of drunken parents.
A company has been formed at Chris
tiana, Norway, to reproduce an exact
model of the old Viking boat that wa:
discovered some years ago In an ice-floe
Archdeacon Farrar says there is room
only for two more monuments in West
minister Abbey, and this space is re-
served for those to Gladstone and Ten
nyson.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, distinguished Eng
lish engineer, predicts the immediate con
struction of tunnels and bridges for al
all.rail route from London to Constan
tinople.
The British government is reducing its
debt slowly. Its bonds are of three dis
tinct sorts-funded, unfunded and ter
minal annuities--and they yield "a, q
and 8 per cent.
American lynch law has been estab
lished in Tangiers, through the lack Of
judges and gendarmes. Eight Arabs have
been lynched.
Gladstone, Salisbury and Chamberlain
each has son in Parliament, but the
younger men have thus far achieved
reputation chiefly by being sons of theil
respective fathers.
In full return of the vintage in Spain
last year the total yield was $40, 900 00C
gallons, and it is described as good in
ten provinces, fairly good in thirty-four
and bad in five.
The Shakespeare trustees confirmed the
purchase of Anne Hathaway's cottage
at Stratford on Avon in order to prevent
the historic building from going to the
Worlds Fair at Chicago.
The people of Belgium number over
100000 and yet, with such a popula
tion, there were only I2S, ,050 voters (or
electors" as they call them in Belgium,
as in Great Brittany in the entire king.
dom.
Paris gardeners buy toads, which they
use as insect destroyers. There is q
regular weekly sale of these hideous lit
tie animals in the French Capital. A
5.franc piece will buy from seven to a
dozen of them.
1t is reported that q discovery of tin
has been made at Dolcoatl, mine, Corn.
wall, at nearly $500 feet below the sur
face, the deepest point tin has ever been
discovered. The mineral is very rich and
Of large extent.
Emperor William las given $4,000
marks to aid in the publication of an
elaborate literary souvenir Of the 400th
anniversary Of the discovery of America.
The work will be edited by the Berlin
Geographical Society.
The French Minister to China has re-
turned to Pekin from an unsuccessful
mission to Tien Tsin, Ii Hung Chang,
the Viceroy, resisting the minister's de-
mands regarding the missionary and
commercial questions.
An old maids insurance company has
been opened in Denmark. Spinsters can
insure themselves by small sum on
reaching the age of thirteen, and IL still
unmarried at forty are entitled TO reg
ular allowance. If they marry, how
ever they forfeit all claim.
A monument 10 Max Schneckenberger,
author of the words to the "Wacht am
Rhein," will be unveiled at Tuttlingen
on June 10Th. The affair will be the
occasion of q great demonstration, and
hundreds of societies will 60 to the little
town from all parts of Germany.
The French papers have story to the
effect that the Young Crown Prince of
Germany used as his target for pistol
practice an image Of French infantry
man, and that he recently asked his
father If he would not be permitted af-
ter his promotion to lieutenancy to
fire at Russian officer
A Frenchman undertook som etime ago
to write book upon his travels through
the land of Goethe. This is the way he
began: Germany is inhabited by peo.
pie called Muller" Now it turns out,
according to official figures, that the EN-.
pire of William III has 629,9S7 Mullers
within its boarders, that is to say one