Griggs courier., 1893-07-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

--latest statistics concerning tue
Gothenburg system of dealing with the
liquor traffic show that the city Of
ChristiaLia, with 16O, 600 inhabitants,
has now only % 7cafe-restaurants, shops,
ETC., retailing liquor; Stockholm. with
go. 900 Inhabitants. has 14S such places;
Gothenburg, with 106, 900, has 10.
Seven masked men entered the
house of r. Martinez, near Chapultepec,
Mexico, beat and bound him and his
wife, and carried OF his eighteen-year-
old daughter. The whole affair had
been planned by the. young lady lover,
whose suit was opposed by the parents.
The couple were soon married, and be-
yond the reach of parental interference.
On the ninth day of the first month
every Egyptian was obliged to eat .
fried fish before the door of his house,
except the priets, who burned instead
OF eating the fish. The revenues aris-
ing from the fisheries Of Lake Moeris
were given to the queen of Egypt for
pin money, and are stated to have
amounted to something like $4OO, 900 an
nually.
AT Beyrout the Turkish police have
arrested an Italian subject for uttering
insulting remarks against the Nussul-
man religion. The ambassador and
consul of Italy insist that this arrest is
contrary to the existing international
law. and they demand the release of the
offender. The Turks say that when a
Christian finds himself in Mohamme-
dan town he must behave himself like
gentleman.
AT one of the famous Lamoureux
concerts in Paris the other day the
audience did something that is said to
have had not parallel since the war
with Germany, in insisting for full
twenty minutes upon a repetition of
the pleis lied from ''Die Meistersinger,"
sung by Van Dycls. 1t has been the in
variable rule of these concerts never to
give encores, but NJ. Lamoureux was
this time compelled to break it.
Christmas island is one of the most
interesting in the world. 1t is two
hundred miles from Java and consists
largely of coral, which rests on a vol
canic foundation. The coral forms al
! AAOSt AuaCCcSSlUlc CIlIIS, COVeTeU with
luxuriant vegetation. In the day it
swarms with huge crabs and at night
with rats. Man could not live on the
island, as it does not possess fresh
water, the rain sinking into the rock.
For the feeding of London little
more than S23, oss tons of meat, poultry
and general provisions were delivered
last year from the public markets
alone. This total was some $4,000 tons
more than in any previous year. There
was an increase over 10 per cent. in the
supplies of American meat; 939, ,442 ami
mails passed through one cattle market
of the metropolis, and IN. .130 through
another, all going to supply the city
with food. These figures, of course,
only indicate part of the supplies.
The most disastrous European pam
les We're those of 1893, on account Of
the great French war; of 1897, because
of the Irish rebellion, when the three
per cents went down to forty-four; of
1926, when seven hundred and seventy
banks failed in Great Britain alone, of
1s47, through the railroad mania; of
1857, through the American failures; of
1850, from fear of a general war in Eu-
rope; of 1866, through overspeculation
in limited liability companies. and that
Of 1870. at the beginning of the Franco
PruSSian war,