The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-09-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

training two years at a cost of $3.50.
Each nurse has a salary of SIPS to $3.50.
with board and lodging and a donkey
cart in which to 60 the rounds OF dis
trict of a.0o0 to 5000 inhabitants.
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
most inaccessible cliffs. covered 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 doet not possess fresh
water, the rain sinking into the rock.
japanese gardens are the most fairy
like of places You see in them tiny
trees and Towering plants. ponds.
bridges, summer houses, lanterns-here
dwarf pines six or eight inches high,
but l25 years old: there others one foot
high. but 500 years old. In the garden
of Yeiju-in-within the temple grounds
there are many peony plants, mostly
old, but one is 100 hundred years old
and is eight feet high-quite tree.
"A new naval port has been estab-
lished at Libau, Russia. The place Sc
lected is specially suitable. The sea is
nearly always open: there is at a DIS
lance of barely two miles from the sea
lake which forms port. and which
will be connected with the port proper.
Quite small town has sprung up in
connection with the port. now in the
course of construction. and which ten
thousand men are employed during the
summer months.
The Midland Railway Co. on trains
from London to Glasgow. has intro
duced the American system of dining
cars. but have bettered it by serving
meals for both first and third class pas
sengers. The dinner. fir st class. is
eighty-five cents: third class. sixty
cents. Passengers who prefer may dine
a la carte, ordering a cup of coffee for
five cents, or tea with bread and butter
for ten cents. or a chop with bread and
potatoes for thirty cents
Not until recently have the in
habitants of Russia known the use of
beds, excepting in the ease OF the
luxurious patricians who We're able to
purchase them. The peasants slept on
the large bakeovens to be found in
nearly every house. while the soldiers
were provided with Il sort of cot with
out bedding. The middle classes and
the students. on the other hand. con-
tented themselves with wrapping a
blanket about them and lying down
near rather notwithstanding stoves.
Those oriental balls of crystal that
most persons take for glass greatly in
crease in value with each inch of
diameter While one half an inch in
diameter may be worth not more than
a few dollars, a ball eight inches in
diameter is worth thousands. There
are few of these crystal balls at the
Metropolitan museum, and some deal
ers in oriental goods usually have half
dozen on hand. The Japanese call
them sleepy globes, because OF the
dreamlike aspect of objects as seen
through the crystal.
For practical purposes the Mediter-
ranean may be accepted as being what
it is popularity supposed to be, tide
less sea, but it is not so in reality. In
many places there is a distinct rise
and fall. though this is more frequent
ly due to winds and currents than to
lunar attraction. At Venice there is a
rise of from one to two feet in spring
tides. according to the prevalence of
winds up or down the Adriatic. In
many straights and narrow arms of the
sea there is periodical flux and refluX,
but the only place where the tidal in
fuence. properly so called, is unmis-
takably observed is in the gulf of
Gabes, where the tide runs at the rate
of two or three knots an hour and the
rise and fall varies from three to eight
Feet.
I'm the Caucasus mountains there
are many wild, uncivilized tribes of
people whose rough ways would make
the heart of civilized mother stand
still with fear if her child We're to be
treated as the people of Caucasus treat
their children every day. The first
plaything given a Caucasus baby is a
dagger. This is presented to him as
soon as he can walk. For an hour or
two each day his mother spends her
time teaching him how to use the
weapon, so that he will some day be-
come an expert. He is taught to stab
so that it makes no splash, and is made
to hurl his dagger at mark again and
again, until he can not miss his aim.
And all this is done during the time
that other boys are spinning tops and
studying spelling book. When the
Caucasus boy grows up he knows just
one thing-how to use dagger.
Getting married in England. to
people who are not able to buy a
license. is very embarrassing matter.
A license is expensive, while mar
rage by banns costs only few shiil-
ings. SO most prefer the banns You
have to be cried three times on three
separate Sundays. and if fellow hap
pens to make mistake and go to church
on the Sunday when his banns are cried
he finds the proclamation of his matri-
monial intentions to- he very embar-
RAISING. for of course he is unmerci-
fully grinned at by the rest OF the
audience. Couples having their banns