Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1900 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Within the ten weeks ending on Feb. 21 there were 1,57(5 deaths in London caused by influenza. Java has taken to rhe bicycle, and keeps a factory that has been established at Samarang busy, t. The Paris exposition authorities will furnish 12,554 electric lights for the grounds and buildings. The Corporation of Scarborough, England, has decided to name a new thoroughfare •‘Ladysmith avenue.” In Great Britain it is illegal for a pawnbroker to accept a Victoria Cross as a pledge under any circumstances. Inoculation for the plague is coming more into favor in Bombay, as 7,179 persons were treated recently in one week. A bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister was read recently for the first time jn the House of Keys, Isle of Man. A German authority has gathered data showing that one-third of humanity speaks the Chinese language, and that' the Hindoo tongue is spoken by more than 100.000,000, the Russian by 89,000,000, while the German is spoken by 57,000.000 and the Spanish by 48,000,000. Hamburg. Germany, is to establish a university. The nucleus will be the observatory. tlie scientific laboratories and the historic collections already in the city. Temperance is making headway in Munich. The German Medical Total Abstinence Union announces that hereafter as the students’ kneipe only a moderate use Of beer will be allowed. A bill to provide for the taking of a census of the British islands in 11)01 has been introduced into the House of Commons. Home members of tEe House are in favor of waiting till a census of the whole empire can be taken. -