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Show f FOREIGN FRAGMENTS. The great cathedral in the City of Mexico is the largest in America and cost nearly $2,000,000. It is estimated that the German empire em-pire will lose 120,000 of its population by emigration during the current year In Chili, after making cider and wine from their apples, they extract from the refuse a white and finely-flavored spirit, and by another process they procure pro-cure a sweet treacle, or, as they term it, honey. At the dictation of the men put in power by the unionists in Australasia all immigration into the colony is prohibited, pro-hibited, so that the thousands of people peo-ple now unemployed there may have an opportunity to find work. The Indian tiger shooters are beginning begin-ning to discard such precautions as ele-phantsEnd ele-phantsEnd platforms in trees, and hunt on foot. Prince Vokhatsingji, who is credited with killing two hundred tigers and panthers, not only goes on foot, but all alone. |