The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In England tUey nave Oh lHstAV0'
| ton known as the Rural District Nurs-
ing association. The nurses are in
training two years at a cost of $3.50.
Zach nurse has a salary of 1926 to $3.50,
with board and lodging and donkey
cart in which to go the rounds OF a dis
trict of 1000 to 3 1000 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 vol
canic founda ton. 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 125 years old; there others one foot
high. but 500 years old. In the garden
of Yeiiu-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-
]ished at Libau, Russia. The place Sc
lected is specially suita bile. The sea is
nearly always open; there is at a dis
tance 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, first class, is
eighty-fve cents: third class, sixty
cents. Passengers who prefer may dine
Ia carte, ordering cup of coffee for
FIVE cents, or tea with bread and butter
for ten cents. or 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 case of the
luxurious patricians who were able to
purchase them. The peasants slept on
the large bakeovens to be found lin
nearly every house, while the soldiers
were provided with a sort of cot with
out bedding. The middle classes and
Al Al
tented themselves with wrapping
blanket about them and lying down
near rather notwithstanding stoves.
Those oriental balls of crystal that
most persons take for glass greatly III
crease in value with each inch of
diameter. While one half an inch in
diameter may be worth not more than
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
a 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 il is not so IN reality. In
many places there is distinct rise
and fall, though this is more frequent
" due to winds and currents than to
lunar attraction. st Venice there is
rise OF from one to two feet ii 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 fux and refiux-<
but the only place where the tidal in
fuence, properly SO called, is unmis-
takably observed is in the gulf Of
Ga hes. where the tide runs az the rate
Of two or three knots an hour and the
rise and fall varies from three 20 eight
feet.
In 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 II her child were 10 be
treated as the people of Caucasus treat
their children every day The first
plavthing given Caucasus baby Is
dagger. This is presented "a nin 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. 50 that he viii some day be-
come an expert He : taught TO stab
so that IL makes no spissh, and : made
TO hurl his dagger at mark again and
.e-afr, until he can not miss li5s aim.
And all this IS done cnring the time
that other bows are spinning tops and
Studying a spelling book. When the
Caucasus oov grows MP he knows jus.
one ching -how "a use dagger.
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