Griggs courier., 1893-09-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

lin Berlin no animal may be killed,
under a heavy penalty. except at the
municipal slaughter-house. Every ami
NAL is not only subjected to close
scientific investigation. but specimens
Of its blood and tissues are examined
under powerful microscopes, forty-five
lady microscopists, with eyes trained to
the work, being constantly employed.
"A prominent legal journal of Lon.
don makes the startling proposition
that the wig be abolished as part of the
English judicial system. Its abomina.
tion in every sense, practical and orna.
mental, is admitted" says this journal.
''1t is relic of bygone age, and spoils
the looks of most men.with any preten.
sions to beauty, while ugly men it
makes grotesqe. Itprobably conduces
to somnolence."
-Signor Balsamello, the inventor OF
submarine vessel, the Balla Nautica,
which has successfully passed severe
trials at the hands of Italian govern
ment experts, offers to raise the British
warship Victoria at cost of less than
forty thousands pounds. His boat has
been'successfully maneuvred at greater
depths than that in which the Victoria
lies and he claims to be able to raise
much greater weights than the sunken
ship.
Hamburg has prohibited the entry
OF Russian emigrants into the territory
of the city, and the police are instruct
ed not to allow any Russian emigrants
who may arrive at the Hamburg from
tier by roads, rail or water to enter
Hamburg territory, even though they
may be provided with tickets for their
journey and means to carry them on
their way. Travellers from Russia with
cabin tickets are not affected by the
order.
Two little girls, Gertrude and Ethel
Hedger, who are wards in chancery
and heiresses to 100000 each, were re-
Gently arraigned as vagrants in a Lon
don police court. Their fortunes are
SO securely locked up in chancercy that
by no process of law can any of the
money be obtained until the children
are of age. They are at present prac-
tically destitute, and are una BILE to pro-
cure decent surroundings, clothing or
education.
The Oldest industry in England,
which dates back to prehistoric times,
is still being carried on at Brandon in
Suffolk. Many people of that village
earn their living by making fints with
which to strike fire and for gunlocks.
Tinder-boxes with flint and steel are
largely used in Spain and Italy, and
by travellers in sparsely-settled and
uncivilized lands, and gun-fints go to
Africa, where t1int-lock muskets are
still in use.
According to the estimates of 1884
the German navy numbers, inclusive
of midshipmen and cadets, 1881 officers
and 18, ,249 men, or total of 10, 4SO The
floating material consists of nineteen
ironclads, eighteen armored vessels,
two cruiser frigates, nine cruiser cor
vettes, eight cruisers, three gunboats,
nine dispatch vessels, eleven training
ships and twelve other vessels. making
total, exclusive of torpedo boats, of
ninety-one vessels of all sorts.
"A new law regulating the status of
foreigners in France has just been.
promulgated in the journal Official.
UnNer the old law, if either of the
parents of a child was born in France,
the child became French, and, there
fore, in the case of foreigner marry
ing French wife, his children were
French. Under the new law the child
of French mother, the father being Ga
foreigner, may, between his twenty
first and twenty-third year, decline to
accept French nationality. In the
event of his not denouncing French
nationality in legal form during that
year, he becomes French subject.