People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — AFFAIRS ABROAD. [ARTICLE]

AFFAIRS ABROAD.

The new Siberian railway traverses regions where game is so abundant that the project of establishing canneries is being considered. At the last meeting of the commission in charge of the Siberian rail-1 roads, contracts for rollingstock werJ awarded amounting to 310 000 000. I Brazil began railroad building in 1851, and has 5.580 miles. One of its lines, the Pedro Segundo, is 520 miles long, through a very difficult coun-l try. On this line there are fourteen] long tunnels. It cost 360,000,000. ] Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is said to have] a most overweening bump of egotismJ She is especially interested in wWitl the newspapers say about her, an<l there is a press-clippings bureau ir| this country that sends to her address in Honolulu everything that is printed in the press of the United Stites coni eerning herself and her lost cause. I From the stamp duties paid by patl ent medicine makers it has been cstil mated that at least 4,000,000 pills ar] taken by the inhabitants of the unitel kingdom every week. In France th] quantity is about half. Only aboul 1,000,000 pills are taken weekly by th] people of Russia. The largest pill takers in the world are the Austral lians. I An old man of <8 was sent to for three days by the Marylcbom] England, police magistrate recentlj as he was unable to pay a fine <] sixty cents for not seeing that his'ffl year-old grandchild went to school He was a perfectly respectable woril ing man, his wife was bed ridden, tlfl child's parents were dead, and isl could not go after the truant himsell Women in the Glasgow shops, afl cording to a recent report, receiifl from 31 or 31.25 to $3 a week; hail dressers, milliners and tobacconisl may get 33.75. Overseers begin will S 3 a week, and many rise to Itaoflß year. One young woman in sofl charge of a shop received 32 a weefl her hours were 12\' on four the week, 7% on one, and 14,1 j <fl one; her meals were brought to hefl