Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Eight feet is the usual width of a street in China. Chimney-pot bats were worn in France nearly SOO years ago. Greece has a population of 2.433.806 L26R316 males and 1,166,990 females. Marigolds and camomiles in North Africa reach a height of four or five feet. Switzerland has 1.693 hotels for tourists, with 88,000 beds and 24,000 employes. In the Bank of England there are silver bars that have lain there untouched for 200 years. Quebec, with a population of 70,000, bar aix daily newspapers, four of which are : n the French language. The Riesengebirge, or Giant mountains of Germany, are to be covered with a network of electric railways. A Chinese paper estimates that the victims of the plague in Foochow this year will not fall far short of 40,000. China has an arsenal at Tsinanfn at which 300 workmen are employed making arms and. ammunition, besides repairing.