Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1900 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Last year there wore .‘1,840 tiro* in London, and 101 lives wore lost from th.it cause. Rouniunia is lo have three new railway lines constructed at a cost of $10,540,000, exclusive of rolling stock. | In Now South IVales the Government has lixed the minimum wages of railway laborers at seven shillings, or about $1.75 a day. A German newspaper states that in Europe there are seventy-one marriageable princesses and only forty marriageable princes. The Government Of New Zealand provides work for all applicants at the rate of $2 a day. Berlin hus seventy public monuments, a larger numlier in proportion to the size of the city than that of any other European capital. f . The highest Prussian court has decided that the American title of doctor cannot be used in Prussia without a special permit from the Government. A sandal society has been started in Berlin, and on a Sunday not loiJg ago forty men and women wearing sandals marched through the muddy street*.