The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-25
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

The Belgian railway authorities are struggling with the locomotive whistle evil. The engines will carry whistles pro- | ducing two tones. one much softer than | the usual one. This will be used in rail way stations or when the train Is passing l platforms crowded with passengers. | A cheerful telephone story is reported from Vienna. A young woman of Mag yar-Czarnya in Hungary was called up on the long distance telephone by her sweet Would you like to hear how I shoot | myself?" Then she heard the sound of a shot. It was found afterward that the
 man had really killed himself.
 A falling off of 8 per cent in the Gen. l tral Asian cotton crop last year is at
 OpssS in preferenee so ee e eo Americsn. G The | amounted to 495300 poods, as against 7.63S 900 poods in 1900. The area sown was 6.5 per cent larger. UnfaYorable weather also contributed to the unsatisfactory re- | suit.
 The Glasgow corporation has decided to carry out the extensive water scheme at | Loch Arklet, so as to secure that 10.oo0,- 900 gallons of water shall be emptied into Loch Katrine. from which Glasgow gets l its water supply. The Water Commis sioners were empowered recently to bor row in the first instance 500.0O0 pounds in connection with the scheme. The Bay of Naples. between the city of
 that name and the famous island of Ca pri has a bed which furnishes about s75o,- 900 worth of coral every year. The fisher
 men use old nets, untwisted rope ends
 dragged across the bottom If the sea. The coral branches become entangled in them. break off and are pulled up. The London County Council has recent ly given the theatres considerable atten- ton. It is now asked to extend it's su- l -t- Nt,- .l.. l. are often crammcd to suffocation. and
 whose means of exit are lamentably de-
 ficient. Some of these have only one exit
 and take at least ten minutes to empty
 when people are going out in the ordi-
 nary way.
 British Isles, the American bitte-n. is re-
 ported from Ireland. The birds breeding
 grounds are in and about Texas. and in
 the autumn it migrates in great numbers
 to the Bermudas It has only been seen
 some twelve times in Ireland. This spec
 imen met, of course with the customary
 reception extended to rare visitors and was instantly shot.
 In several villages of Finland the wo-
 man has authority for a religious sect exists there whose disciples are forced to marry and to take a VOW to submit to the wife in all things. The women choose | one of their number for governing head whose duty it is to see that the men be- have themselves, and to punish them If | they transgress. Similar are the 'Puri-
 ficants" of Liberia. who also recognize | the supremacy of women.
 | Germany is the birthplace of socialism
 and it has attained a higher development | there than anywhere else. In 1877 the SO
 cialists cas. 493,000 votes at the Reichstae | elections, as against the center's 1,341 600 l and against the National Liberals 1.46s,.
 000. Tn 1878 and 1S79 owing to Bismarck
 oppressive measures. the socialist vote
 dropped to 312.o00 But from that tim until the last general election. that O l 1898. the socialist vote rose steadily. Tht
 socialists today are in point of number: | general election they will reach the 2,5O0, 1 900 mark. and possibly exceed it.