Show foreign pacts russia russia will build a system of railroads in ill siberia russia spends a year for jail lai I 1 repairs and the sum is insufficient palatial restaurants are too numerous in ill london and as a consequence some onie are coming to grief in wales a judge travels from town to town tp to hear cases when he lie comes to a town where re there is no case to hear bear he puts un on a pair of white gloves which have never been worn before and never will bo be worn again the tile campagna rome regeneration works have begun five hundred laborers their tents in the ravine of the alino w ho arc are employed in drainage at night tile their r huge disinfectant bon bonfires fles present a hi highly aly picturesque effect A statement of exports of iron rails from great britain shows that thit while in the year 1883 there were shi shipped pied 1 tons tons of iron rails only in ill the past year that small tonnage further fell to tons and there are indications that it is further fall falling and that the iron rail manufacture is practically extinct A series of experiments have been bou conducted ducted at espezzia Sp ezzia italy to ascertain the effects of torpedoes torpe doca on a keel vessel of the type of the ironclad italia hersheel Her Iler steel plates were displaced and bent and the water entered her tier compartments but she maintained her bep position the result is regarded aa as that the effect of t torpedoes orp d 0 is is overrated and that 0 they J e are insufficient for the tile defense ol of ports russia threatens to beat america as an oil producer ro ducer As yet it lias has but in wells vc M in the caucasian re region g ion a against abnit american wells but the lie average product of a russian well is is sixteen times as greatus great ai an american amerlean well the oil beds of tile cau casus are said to be absolutely anex haus tible and slid are disposed in horizontal lasers in 1872 their i production n I 1 t of or oil A was ions ion sand and in |