People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — NOTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES. [ARTICLE]

NOTED IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

Rose-leaf jam is a common dish in Roumania, where roses are grown by the million. Manitoba is encouraging the emigration to its own borders of farmers from Iceland. The roofs of Egyptian temples are composed of huge blocks of stone laid from column to column. The smallest republic in the world is Franceville, one of the islands of the New Hebrides. The inhabitants consist of forty Europeans and five hundred black workmen employed by | a French company.