Show foreign facts london baa has cabs and drivers minister astor has given 2000 francs to the blind asylum in rome in tho queena bench lately it was held that marriage with a niece of a deceased wife is illegal the grave of william Il hogarth at chiswick which has fallen somewhat into decay id is about to be restored an adelaide south Australia paper lately advertised for I 1 1000 cats cato to d destroy e rabbits which are such a peat post there three baronets baranets Baro nets and a peer lor lord d S leonarda leonardo grandson of the eminent chancelor have recently helped to swell the list of bankrupts in england lord ohagan the first roman catholic lord chancelor and first chancelor ever made a knight of st patrick scarcely ROCS goes near ireland now the russian government applied to the german the other day for a loan and they declined all aid until the russian policy towards the jews ia is modified last year is said to be tha first year that marseilles has escaped the tho cholera while it was prevailing ailin 1 in alexandria the immunity isad ia said to arise wholly from the sanitary measures adopted durin during tho year 1882 tha the number of arrests made in in paris was of which number were arrests of criminals who had been arrested be fore and of persons unknown to the police A parliamentary return just issued shows that the local taxation of ireland in 1882 produced a sum of za 3 which was an increase of or aj 4 per cent on the amount 1 levied I 1 in n the previous year to suppress the unnatural unna practice of binding the feet the church missionary society of england have decided to exclude all chinese girls from christian instruction unless the parents consent to unbind their feet Ac according cordin to the paris temps a woman named marie girard now living in the vil village lae of en was born on march 18 1761 and is consequently in her year she has been a widow for about ninety six years recently published judicial statis ti cashow that of the inquests in quests held in england and wales in 1880 resulted in in a verdict of died from excessive drinking this is 29 more than in the previous year but is below tho the average for tho the five preceding years the little republic of san marino italy th the a oldest in th the a world with its army of 40 men and ita its public debt of 1080 does credit to the system of self sell government th the roads are nu nus berous and well kept the land is well cultivated and the villages are clean and orderly dr danforth recently r held an inquest at st pancras london upon two children found suffocated in bed with their parents the coroner es timatea that about children are suffocated yearly in england under similar circumstances he lie added that in germany parents bete not allowed to have their children in bed with them A parliamentary paper just issued shows that the expenses incurred by railroad gas and water companies in the united kingdom in promoting and opposing bills before parliament from 1872 to 1882 inclusive was A largo large proportion of this is due to the cost of bringing up witnesses to westminster and keeping them there |