The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-07-17
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Gothenburg system ~ ag4-iLg With t.se
liquor traffic show tnat tie city d
Christiania with IGaGJ0 inAa bitants
has now onlv27 cafe-rc5t T. urantS. shops
etc. retailing liquor: Stockholm. with
27o, 900 inhabitants. has 143 such places
GOthenburg. with 1906 0J0 has 10.
Seven masked men entered the
house Of Z. Martinez, near Chapultepec
Mexico. beat and bound him and his
wife, and carried off his eighteen-year
old daughter. The whole affair had
been planned by the.young lady's lover
whose suit was opposed by the parents
The couple were soon married. and be
You'd the reach of parental interference
On the ninth day of the first month
every Egyptian was obliged TO eat a
fried fish before the door Of his house
except the priets who burned instead
of eating the fish. The revenues arts
ing from the fisheries Of Lake Moeri.
We're given to the queen of Egypt fol
pin money, and are stated to have
amounted to something like 500, 600 an
nually.
AT Beyrout the Turkish police have
arrested an Italian subject for uttering
insulting remarks against the MussuI
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
l., In
a gentleman.
At one Of the famous LamOureuX
concerts in Paris the other day the
audience did something that is said tC
have had not parallel since the war
with Germany, in insisting for full
twenty minutes upon repetition OF
the plcis lied from Die Meistersinger,
sung by Van Dycl1. 1t has been the in
variable rule of these concerts never tC
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
most inaccessible cliffs, covered with
luxuriant vegetation. In the day il
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 323, 0SS tons of meat, poultry
and general provisions were delivered
last year from the public markets
alone. This total was some 5000 tons
more than in any previous year. There
was an increase over 10 per cent. in the
supplies of American meat; $50, 442 ami
mails passed through one cattle market
Of the metropolis, and al, 1870 through
another, all going to supply the city
with food. These figures, of course,
only indicate part of the supplies.
The most disastrous European pan
les were those of 1898, on account Of
the great French war; of 1897, because
of the Irish rebellion, when the three
per cents went down to fOrtyfOur; OF
1925. 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 general war in Eu-
rope: of 1866, through OversDeculatiOn
in limited liability companies, and that
of 1870 at the beginning Of the Franco
PruSSian war.