Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1898 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

The number of foreign students at German universities is this summer 2,350. Mexico claims the largest locomotive in the world. It weighs, with the tender, 285,000 pounds. The average weight of a brain is greater in China than in any European country, excepting Scotland. The Riescngehirge, or Giant mountains of Germany, are to be covered with a network of electric railways. A special professorship for Bavarian history has been established at the University of Munich. The Incumbent is Dr. Siegmund Rieslcr. A line soldier in England costs $275 a year, nnd even then, says a writer in Blackwood, he is often a more boy or an invalid and weakly man. There are 2,300 church bell ringers in the diocese of Oxford. This is the largest numtier in any diecese. Exeter comes second and Devon third. Russian papers complain that the Siberian railway, instead of civilizing the regions through which it passes, is teaching the natives the art of rubbing trains. In an article in the Rpvue des Deux Mondes M. Fouille ylerlares that, while the modern Greeks are not descended wholly frpm Slavs, as some have maintained, they certainly are not lineal descendants of the great peoples who made Vreece famous.