Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
"A society has been organized in
China with the commcndable object of
,emancipating women's feet from cruel
bondage, with the striking name of
the League of the Christian Shoe, or
Society of the Heavenly Foot.
Mr.. Fusataro Tokano thinks the
contentment of the lower classes of
japanese a great misfortune. Their
artistic simplicity which foreigners ad-
n1ire he considers a great obstacle to
progress, and he thinks it the impera-
tive duty of Japanese friends of hui
manity to agitate until Japanese labor
becomes as discounted as American.
On Lundy island in Bristol channel
the old light standing $40 feet above
the sea level is to be discontinued and
two lighthouses, one at either end of
the island, but neither above 200 feet
high, will take it's place, as it has been
found that the old light was frequent
" hidden in the mist when the lower
part of the island was perfectly clear.
The crater of Popocatepetl contains
thousands of tons of the purest sulphur
ever mined. The natives who gather
the sulphur secure small packages of
it, which they fasten to their backs.
Then they slide down the snow on the
mountain after the manner of the
woodcutters of France. For this VEN
turesope work they get about twenty
cents a day.
In the Roman Campagna the main
scheme of drainage which is to re-
u
and to free Rome from the malarial
eXhalations arising from the swamps
has been carried out, and only works
of secondary Importance remain to be
done. So far $1,000, OoO have been
spent on the work. The question of
bringing the land under cultivation is
already under consideration.
Col. w L, Prideaux, who was for
some time a resident officer in Kash-
mir, says that Chitral is of far more
Importance than Gilgit as a point
d'appui for an enemy in view of opera
tions along the Kunar valley to Jel-
lalabad, or the Dir route to Peshawur;
and that for the maintenance of the
position of the British, on the weSter-
ly outlets of the Hindu Kush, as we'll
as for the purpose of thanking the
Pathan tribes of Swat, Buner and
Yaghistan, military road from Now
Shera to Chitral is absolutely indis-
pensable.
The most remarkable instance of
rapid growth is said to be recorded by
the French academy in 1929. 1t was
boy of six years of age, five feet six
inches in height. At the age of five
his voice changed, at six his beard had
grown and he appeared man of thir-
ty. He possessed great physical
strength and could easily lift to his
shoulders and carry bags of grain
weighing two hundred pounds. His
decline was as rapid as his growth
At eight his hair and beard were gray;
at ten he tottered in his walk, his
teeth fell out and his hands became
palsied; at twelve he died with every
outward sign of extreme old age.
Penal minority was fixed at fifteen
for debts and petty offences and at
sixteen for crime at the Paris peni-
tertiary congress, which is contrary
to the recent tendency to raise the
age Of responsibility for minor of
tenders. Resolutions were adopted ex-
tending the control of the state over
children up to the age of their civil
majority, and assigning the care of
them on their release to aid societies,
and asserting the right of the state to
deprive unworthy parents of their
guardianship. The congress also de-
clared that the disabilities which fol-
low on mans conviction in his own
country should be recognized in other
countries, and affirmed its belief that
the cellular system of Imprisonment
should be adhered to.