Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Opium eating is increasing in England. Rome may have a world's fair in 1910. China's first sawmill has just been built. H Melodramas are returning to fashion in London. Chrysanthemum salad is a popular delicacy in Japan. 1 Melbourne, Australia, has just had its first fall of snow. Great Britain may have a permanent census department. Congo natives are making seat covers of the skins of Belgians. German authorities are trying to check an epidemic of typhus at Metz. Revolutionary organizations for almost every object now exist in Paris. The maintenance of the siege of Fort Cbambrol cost Paris 820,000 francs. Uganda is to be made a base of supplies for the British in central Africa. What was once the palace of Queen Hortense in Paris is being demolished. Germany expects to have a share in Delagoa Bay if England obtains control. Delagoa Bay officials, being,.underpaid, resort to bribery on every a - B* - not-xl Near Hastings, lilies, aa eccentric old man who daib’<'ima4'*:to the sun at noon. r.'cim >•>« if* L A writer in an English magazine declares that the average Englishman is a workingman earning $0 a week. Irish newspapers are criticising the English press for their attacks on French

justice. The Irish say that it is a case of the pot aud the kettle. Ex-Premier Meliue demands the immediate reconvening of the French Parliament. The King of Corea has presented a fan to every soldier and policeman in his kingdom. There are now twenty-three stations in all parts of the world for registering earthquakes. ’ Buddhiat priests are endeavoring to have their religion adopted as the state religion of Japan. ’■* ’ Viennese youngsters are fishing in the main thoroughfares of their city, the Danube having flooded. A naval review is to be held in Japanese waters next year in which’ 100 of the Mikado's ships will take part. The inhabitants of Wlnton. England, believe that with the close of the century the world will como to an end. Japan wiH not restore captured ships to China, but will aril her new ally ?40,000 Manser rifles and 24,000,000 .rounds of ammunition at adow price. So many Chinese officials are resigning that the Empress Dowager has ordered the punishment of those who apply for leave without pressing necessity.