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Show w " FOREICM NOTES. The government of Sew Zealand is considering con-sidering the question of laying a cable to Australia at an estimated cost of 150,000. The underground railroad in G! s:uw is nearly completed. It is 7) miles ion r, and the greatest depth of the track is 100 feet. The contract price was over $5,000,000. As an indication of thrift among the work- inir classes of France, it is stated that there are now 0,000,000 depositors in the French savings banks, with an accumulated fund of not less than $550,000,000, As usual, the royal baby clothes have been put on exhibition in Berlin. There are two sets of them, one garnished with blue, in case it shall be a princess, and the other in black and white, in case it is a prince. The last giraffe in the London Zoological Gardens recently died, and the institution is, since lS;it', without a living specimen of this animal. It has had, in all, thirty specimens, of which seventeen were born on the place. The giraffe market is very poorly supplied, and there is but one specimen now for sa'.c in Kurope. Tho giraffe is practically extinct in South Africa, and cannot be fouud within a thousand miles of Cape Town. There are still sriraffes in East Africa, but there are no means of catching them. There were 114 cotton mills at work in India In-dia in lN'J-90, employing 100,000 persons. Tnerc were -li jute mills, 2 woolen mills, 8 paner mills, a number of breweries and 923 joint stock companies encased in divers enterprises. en-terprises. In 1SS10-91 the annual imports amounted in value to about $270,000,000, of which '"treasure" formed 34 per cent. The exports amounted to a slisrhtly larger amount. The foreign trade is chiefly with the; Vnited Kingdom; in fact, all other countries coun-tries combined enjoy but a smaller per cent of tile export trade to India. China ranks second in trade relations with India. Alt'iut seven years ago Mrs. Ernest Ha te, an Englishwoman widely known for her efforts in behalf of workingwomen, induced her husband, Dr. HartD, to make some investigations inves-tigations as to the causes of famine in northwestern Ireland. She went with him to Donegal and was so moved at the condition condi-tion of tffalrs there that she has since given her whole time to teaching peasant women such household industries as weaving, decorating deco-rating handkerchiefs, lace-making, dyeintr and wood-carving. She has been instrumental instru-mental in securing a model Irish village for exhibition at the Columbian exposition, and may posibly visit Chicago herself. A clever piece of wors was recentiy done ; by the telegraph ba' talion of an English regiment reg-iment in the course of some night experiments. experi-ments. A cable was rapidly laid over the roughest possible ground, aud that, too, without the slightest assistance from search lights, aud the general in command was thus enabled not only to find a lost brigade, but to control the simultaneous advance and attack of three separate brigades 011 an earthwork nt midnight. The telegraph. In fact, rendered a most difficult and doubtful operation comparatively eay and certain. With large scale maps, a balloon and increased in-creased observing staff it is likely to be made a most important aid to the strategist and the tactician. |