Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-04
Foreign Gleanings.

y parade OF 400 army veterans thee
IF whom enlisted before the com
mencement of the queens reign. has
Just been held in Edinburgh recently
before General Chapman and in the
presence of a large military gathering.
The British South Africa Company has
secured TO the British empire $4,000
iuuare miles. which would otherwise now
- held by the Beers. Germans and Por-
ucuese. 1t has opened out this vast ter
~itory. hailt seven towns and completed
iifr miles of read and 5000 miles OF RAN
SAY.
It is a singular fact that as the white
population of Australia increases the
blacks die out In New South Wa es
and Victoria it is becoming a rarity to
see woman native, except on the
reservations given them by the govern
neat
Australia has no orphan asylums.
Every child who is not supported by
parents becomes q ward of the state
and is paid a pension for support, and
placed in a private family.where board
and clothes are provided until the 18th
birthday
The judicial statistics of Scotland
FOR last year, just published, show a
year. More than 100000 persons were
arrested for drunkenness and dstur
sarce. nearly one-fifth of them in Glas-
COW alone.
Some surprising things We're found in
he booty captured from the dervishes by
the British at Dongola, Among them
were few coats of mail and helmets.
which evidently date from the days of
hn crusaders A sword which was found
y adj n "a a. in old French H.
~ sword bore the motto, Honi sol qui
naly pcnse." There were also number
IF doube-harelled sporting guns. and one
rifle Of immense cahber. firing a ono
pound ball and requiring two men TO hold
In Europe and the new world the
most inveterate gamblers are the Span
iarlis and their descendants. Among
African tribes the Haussas run the
Chinese very close, and there are some
kanaka tribes in the south seas who
push the hazard of gambling beyond
The grave, and stake their very bones
On last throw of the cowrie shells.
which they use as dice.
An English firm doing business at Yo-
kohama recently sued II Japanese mer-
chant in the native courts aud secured Il
decision under which he would have to
accept and pay for certain goods thai had
been imported by his order. The Japan
ese did not appeal but neither did he pay.
The trade guild to which he belonged
quietly informed the Englshmen that
they would be boycotted if they insisted
on enforcing their judgment. and as the
resident partner of the British firm
deemed it ineNpclient to face a general
boycott in Japan the firm submitted to
compromise involving a serious loss.
Some interesting facts have been
published respecting the tcetotal coll
iiery village of Roe Green. in Lanca-
shire, England. Twenty-Five years ago
the houses of the village belonged al
most exclusively to the Bridgewatcr
trustees, who employed most of the
men. Today, our of 40 houses, eighty
one are inhabited by their owners
The Rechabite tent has n member
ship of 270, the Band of Hope 2S5
One of the most useful additions that
have recently been made to the equip
ment of some of the Newcastle, Eng
land policeman is the pocket telephone
1T is handy and light, consisting of
combined mouthpiece and earpiece.
with about q foot or more of wire at
tachcd. an afiixing pin and a small
key. This apparatus is to be used by
the officers in connection with the fire
alarms placed at various parts Of the
city.