The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP

For some years past GREECE has been
gradually monopolizing the earth
quakes of Europe. Several beautiful
towns and villages have lately been
turned in few moments into heaps of
ruins. Amphissa, Leucadia, Corinth,
/ Egion, Philiatra, and lastly the flower
! of the Lavant Zante, have all been
badly shaken up.
! Among the Chinese there is curl
mise in food by abstaining from mus
/ cular exertion Thus when wages fall
/ below certain point poor Cinnamon
! prefer not to work. because they con-
slider that they would have to take more
! food to repair the waste than the work
done would produce.
The Bon Marche in Paris is said to
employ 100 men who do nothing but
watch shoplifters. This one establish
ment alone arrests from IL. 900 to Is, 900
people annually who have been caught
stealing. Proba bly, if $4,000 or 10000
more who don't get caught are added,
an idea can be formed of the way KEEP
tomania f1ourishes in France.
During the last week of January
1902 paupers received government
relief in England and Wales. OF these
1913. 446 were Indoor" and 5l5.5S ''out-
door relief cases. The percentage of
paupers to population that week was
24.3 per 900. The returns show gen.
eral Improvement over all years since
1855: with the important exception of
last year.
There is strong antipathy in the
Australian colonies against the i'm
portation of foreign immigrants of the
pauper or other objectionab class.
Gen" Booths rescued Submerged
tenth of England's population, which
he proposed to ship thither, was barred,
and now the agitation has turned
against the threatened immigration of
Russian Jews.
"A ten-ton cutter constructed of
aluminium said to be the first sea-go-
ing vessel made of this metal, is being
built at Loire for the Comte de Cha
bannes La Pallice. 1t will be half the
weight of a vessel of similar class CON
structed with a steel frame. Her hull
will weigh only $500 kilos, whereas if
built of the ordinary material it would
weigh 1900 lilos.
France is soon to adopt an interest
ing innovation in the postal-card svs-
TEN. The cards viii be issued in the
form of check books. with stubs. The
sender of the postal card can make
memoranda of it's contents on the stub,
and can have this stamped at the post
office before the card is detached. so
that a verified record of the CORE
spondence can be kept.
The average length of life of the
Glove tree in Zanzibar appears to be
from sixty to seventy years. Such ter
rible devastation resulted from the
great hurricane of 1872. when nearly
all the Glove planta tons on the island
were destroyed, that the average age
of the trees now growing may be pat
down as below twenty years. The
trees in the sultan's plantation, the
largest in the island, are from sixteen
to seventeen years old.
As result of the Panama troubles.
the famous Drachenburg, the most
beautiful castle along the banks of the
Rhine, which has been admired by
thousands of Americans, has been sold.
Baron Starter, who became immensely
wealthy in work on the Suez canal.
spent s., 900 600 on the castle. He lost !
his fortune. however, in the Panama |
king, and was unab BILE to retain
possession of the pile. The new owner
is Herr Unruh, who owns great estates |
IN the neighborhood.