Griggs courier., 1894-05-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Tho chief duty of Russian frontier
guards consists in preventing SNUG.
Cling and the introduction of Nihilistic
literature into Russian territory.
-London's debt was increased last
year by s6,O00,O 900 and now amounts to
$50. .055, 900. The revenue of the city
for the last fiscal year was $23, 1855, 900.
English noblemen are the only ones
in Europe who ever wear coronets on
their heads, and the sole occasion
when they do SO is at the coronation of
the sovereign.
The amount to be distributed in
dividends for the half-year to the share
holders of the leading English railway
companies is s2, 600, 600 less than at this
time last year.
"A Samuel Lewis is sais: to have won
over $4,000 at trente ct quarante ut
Monte Carlo in four days recently. An
other player, q Hungarian, won $50, 600
there in one day.
When q prisoner resists the Paris
police they take off one of his shoes
and compel him to walk like my son
john" He is SO hampered usually by
this treatment that there is no further
trouble.
1T seems strange, both from in
iividual and social conditions, that
there should be more suicides in Ger
many than in other European coun-
tries, yet SO it appears, the annual av-
aV tN<.Sv~ q o. n
persons. In France it is 1.s7, in Austria
1853, in England 20 and in Italy 49,
Outlook.
"A new sect in Russia is known as
the Underground People lately or.
ganized in Saratoff. When a person
falls ill, the elders come in and baptize
him anew. Then they carry him down
into an underground labyrinth where
he is left to wrestle with death alone.
After week the elders come to inspect
the sick man, and, if dead, he is duly
buried.
The three hundred and fiftieth an
niversary of the death of Pizarro was
recently celebrated with great pomp
and circumstance in Lima, the city
which venerates him under the title of
founder. The mummy of the con-
queror of peaceful aborigines. which
lies in the cathedral at Lima, was dis
inferred and submitted to thorough
anthropometrical examination. The
result of the examination hardly came
up to their expectations, however, for
on his skull were found the typical
deformations, even the ''fossa of Lom-
broso," which are regarded by the
criminal anthropologists as infallib
signs of moral degeneration.- Y.
Medical Record.
1T seems that the Sunday night en-.
tertainments. recently SO popular in
London, are beginning to pail upon
those for whom they were intended.
Out OF five clubs which used to give
orchestral or other concerts on Sunday
nights in the west end only one re-
mains. The Sunday discussions upon
theatrical matters are also, it is al
legged, not nearly SO we'll supported as
the Thursday night smoking concerts.
The chief difficulty in the organizing
and developing of Sunday concerts and
entertainments lies in the fact that the
SdSC AlcJOI1Cy VI AOuUOucFS live III Cue
suburbs and prefer their family circle
and their home to a journey to town on
Sunday evening.
1t gives an impressive idea what
subterranean London is fast becoming
to learn that on emerging from the
river the new city and Waterloo line
will, in its passage up Queen Victoria
street, run for a part of the way un-
derneath the low level main sewer,
which in its turn runs along beneath
the District Underground railway. So
that at this point in the city we shall
have first busy main thoroughfare.
below that steam railway. then a
huge metropolitan sewer, then an
electric railway, reaching its terminus
at a depth of about 63 feet below tho
streets, and here it. will communicate
with another line-the Central London
which will lie ut a depth of so feet
London Daily News.