Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — FROM FOREIGH LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGH LANDS.

Brigands are making raids into Macedonia. Switzerland’s universities have 937 woman students'. London has eighty-five registered and qualified medical women. Electricity is suggested as C substitute for the guillotine in France. Prices in fashionable London restaurants are increasing gradually. Last year the mission presses of China sent out 1,470,699 publications. St. Petersburg and Moscow are now directly connected by telephone. Piquette made of American dried apples ia a popular diink in Paris. Last year the income tax yielded Great Britain a revenue of $22,500,000. A boat 2,000 years old has been discovered ia excavating near Brussels. Russian explorers are at work in all of the lesser known parts of Siberia. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is said to be leading a more respectable life. The coroner at Herefordshire, England, holds his inquests in the open air. In Abyssinia smoking is almost unknown, and is punished as a crime. Australia is to have a naval reserve modeled on that of the United States. In South Africa galtanized sheetiron is the almost universal building material. Four hundred Belgian miners have moved to Russia to work in the mines at Donets. Starving peasants in Russia have been driven to eating the strapr thatches of their hats. Tunis has bees a French province for eighteen years, Nil the recent census shows only 20,906 Frenchmen in the colony.