Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Belgium has live iutomobile clubs, with e combined membership of 740. The scarcity of coal in Germany is «e----rioasly interfering with the iron and steel industries. Steamboats are to be put on the I>ead Sen for traltlc between the villages on the bauka. The first boat la already running. A syndicate in Paris has made application to the minister of public works for permission to run steam carriages on the streets. The Berlin pnpera publish a Washington dispatch with reference to the convening of a kecoud Pauainerican congress and comment on the proposal in rather unfavorable terms. In the British House of Lord lviunaird asked the Government to support the United States in attempting to secure uou-exhibition displays on Sunday at the Paris exposition. The League of German Agriculturists has just held its general annual meeting in Berliu. The league numbers 1200,000 members, an luercapc of 17,000 over the membership of the preceding year. The marriage rate of Queensland, Australia, baa been steadily declining from 14.5 per 1.000 lu 1803 to 0.3 per 1,000 in 1808. The Russian Government haa consented to i»ostpouc for one year the operation of new regulations, depriving Japanese subjects of fishing privileges in the waters of Baghalien, Siberia. A botanical garden has been establish ed at CoqulUiatviltc, Congo Free Btate, by the Belgiain Government, to be called the Kew Gardens, experiments with rubber and other topical plants will ba made.