New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-13
Foreign Items.

writer in the London Field says that a sue
cessful dog doctor in his neighborhood, who had
an extensive custom among ladies of fashion, on
retiring from practice made the following con
1esslon: " When very fat and apoplectic pets were
confided to my care, always tied 'em," said he,
to crab tree at the end Of my garden, and gave
EN- nothing but water for week. When |
fetched 'em from home they used TO refuse to eat
what should have been glad to get; and when
took 'em back they were glad TO get what would
not have touched. I've had some dogs twice and
even three times year, but l always cured em
at last One Of 'em was as good as three pound
year to me. was terrible fond of him, but he
couldn't abide me; and when he saw me coming
to fetch down his fat, he used to Waddle away and
howl fit to raise the dead"
Much anxiety has been felt by the inhabitants
of Homburg as to what their fate will be, now that
that little State is absorbed by Prussia and the
play tables at AK la Chapelie have been closed
for some years. The Homburg burgomaster has,
however, announced that he has received no in
structlons from the Prussan government on the
subject Of play, and that for all he knows to the
contrary, rouge ct noir and roulette will continue
as heretofore at the H0mburg Casino twelve hours
a day, every day in the year, on the same condi-
tions and for the same stakes as usual.
Among the sensational paragraphs about the
Paris Exhibition is one concerning q new model
guillotine invented by cOmpatriot of Count Bis
marck. The guillotine is capable Of cutting off
six heads per minute, and eight properly handled
The machine is worked by steam, and the
HBt-C
tary movement. The gGiotine can be taken to
pieces and put together again in ten minutes: the
engine works the wheels, and the machine can
steam to the place of execution, and can take the
body up to the cemetery afterwards!
According to the Giornale di Napoli, a brigand
chief named Pace, has exclusive ideas about the
profession he carries on. He brooks no rivals,
and not only denounces any other gentlemen Of
the highway u who may practice in his district as
"imposters," but actually arrests and gives them
up to the police. He lately sent four of these
competitors to the nearest post of gendarmes re-
requesting them to be severely punished.
An association has been started in London to aid
poor persons about to be elected from their homes
to make way for railways for metropolitan i'm
proyements. It is stated that the various schemes
now on foot would dspossess no less than one
hundred thousand people, in addition to twenty
thousand who have already been evicted.
The tanners of Bewdley, England, have been
brought before the magistrates for turning ouan.
tity of white liquid from their yard in the Severn.
In few minutes the river was full of dead fish,
and it was estimated that no fewer than one hun
dred Thousand had thus been destroyed. The
| tanners were fined, and promised not to offend
again.
The London Daily News says the Hudson's Bay
company are understood to ask two million pounds
for the sovereignty and the bulk of their freehold
while the Imperial government have long under
taken to guaranty one million pounds. The share
holders may, therefore, look to a bargain being
struck at some intervening day.
On the 18th instant, about the close of the Vic
toria Theater (London) lion performances one Of
the lionesses made an attack on her keeper as he
was about leaving the cage. The animal caught
the keeper by his leg and scratched his flesh, but
| by his timely chastisement the brute ceased any
further violence.
By a singular coincidence, the summer Of 17G6
exactly resembled that Of the present year Lord
Chesterfield, writing to his son on the lst Of Aug
ust, 1866, said There has been no summer so
vet as this within the memory Of man; since
March we have not had one single day without
ran.n
The village Of fVadiams France, a commune Of
eight hundred inhabitants, has been almost totally
destroyed by confagraton, kindlea, it wassup-
posed, by a child playing with lucifer matches in
a barn Out Of thirty-four houses, Of which the
village was composed, seven only remain.
Two slight shocks Of earthquake we're felt at
Co1stantinOple on the evening Of the 3lst Of Aug.
ust. Accounts have been received from several
provinces Of the empire announcing similar occur
| rences.
monument has been erected in honor of the
Danish poet Stensen Blicher, at Viborg, in Jut-
land, his native town.