The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-12
FOREIGN ITEMS.

FOREIGN ITEMS.
The Austrian government has initiated the work
of disarming by issuing leaves of absence to
500 600 men of the standing army.
II is reported that furloughs are to be granted
to all the rank and file Of the fifth corps IN
France.
Admiral Farragut owns property in California
consisting of a number of houses several lots and
twenty acres of cultivated land at VallejOs,
which town will for some time be the western
terminus Of the Central Pacific Railroad.
The Hspsburg family, anxious TO prove their
gratitude 10 the two lawyers who defended the
Emperor Macmillan and refused to take any fees,
have forwarded TO them each service Of silver
plate worth $25, 900.
The Russian papers are sorely displeased with
Prince Napoleon's journey to the East. They
ridicule the fat prince numerically, and ask II he
has taken his chaiSe perc6s along. That useful
piece Of furniture, il will be remembered, was
rather unpleasantly coupled with the princes eX-
PLOTS during his short sojourn in the Crime2, in
1854.
Gen. Froissard, the tutor of the French prince
imperial, says the prince Is making very rapid
progress In all branches of knowledge; but the
general impression is that the boy is very ignor-
ant for his age. At all events, young Conneau,
who has been educated together with him, was,
at the recent examination which he underwent on
entering the st. Bsrbe College, found to know
less than any other boy of his age.
The railway over Mont Gems was opened TO the
public on the 10th of June, and the journey from
susa TO St. Michel was performed with perfect re-
gularity and success For the Presens there are
to be two trains daily each way. The journey
over the mountains which, by the most rapid
mode OF conveyance, has hitherto occupied ten
hours, can now be accomplished in half that
tine.
King william, of Prussia, is trying the Harouu
AL R9schid game again. He has recommended
walking about the streets of Berlin after nightfall
In disguise. He WAS much eatsd at what he had
learned from unsuspecting citizens and working
men, on his first aacOgntt0 walk through the city,
and declared that the people OF Berlin were, alter
all. loyal TO him as he wished them to be. Jean,
his faithful old Udla de ctGnlbie, accompanied his
majesty on this occasion.
Madame Miramon is not exactly pleased with
the reception which she met with at the hands OF
the courts of Austria and France. She ssys that
the pensions granted her by the two courts are
mere pittanee compared with the income she for
merly enjoyed In Mexico, and that the pensions,
moreover, are not settled upon her permanently,
but subject to the pleasure OF the emperor OF
Austria and the empress Of the French. The king
of Belgium, to whom she also applied tCr assist,
ance, did not respond.
On the day before the battle Of SadOwa, ha1 a.
dozen PTussian generals rode 10 the Prussian ont
post, in order to reoonnoiter the Austrian posi-
ton. Moltke was there, and 30 was BismsrolE-
Have you a cigar for me. oounty" soid M0itlEe
to Bismarck. Bismarck drew his cigar-case from
his pocket opened IL, and handed u TO the old
general. There were six cigars In the Ga Sc.
| picked out one of them. The devil may os,tch
| me, Moltke," exclaimed Count Bismarck, lit
you are not going TO beat old Benode&. There
was but one good cigar IN the case, ind you
| picked il out"
There has been a very sensible decrease during
the last ten years in the agricultural products OF
Ireland. IN 1857 the country produced l ,662 1851
| quarters Of wheat, and in 1861 II pr0daced only
725 SAL quarters. OF oats, 1857 gave $685., 3iI,
against 4 45S $50, and barley has fallen from s4s,
1888 in 1851 to 742 1877 last year. PoeItses yielded
| In the frst.nsmed year less than $3.50, sA tons,
and turups 1880, l97 in 1867 they 81 bod respeo-
| lively a. 3 l47 45S and 800 500 tons The only
| agricultural products In which there has been an
| increase during the psFiod named are fax aud
hay.
The articles brought from Abyssinia. as a
| present from the British f0reen TO the queen,
| ere somewhat splendid. The crowns-one FOR
| state wear and the other for common use-are
| uade- of goid and the state crown il 30 heavy
| that IL wOnld tax the endurance Of an ordisary
| man b wear il for any leDgh Of time. IN height
| IL ia about eighteen inches, aud the gold Is inlaid
| with precious stones. The commoner crown II
| lined with dark silk velvet bat the color ia much
faded. There are also two robes, worn On state
| occasions, being made Of gold tinsel. worked h
| floss and lined with brown satin. The other robe
is not OF so costly description, and rumor svors !
was intended IS present for the queen. TIT
seal, which bears the name and title OF Theodore
| is supposed 20 have befn manufactured Ia Lon
| don. IN addition 10 these ere the royal slippers
which are covered with gold scales, q chalic
brought from one Of the charches, and the crow
worn BY high priest.
| Paris correspondent il responsible for tbt
subioined story Y" was in a hairdresser's shOB
few days ago, when q nan entered who o0ere,
for sale large lot Of Chinese tails. mean hu
man hair tails such as edOrn tho heads OF the sub
jeets Of the Celestial Empire. The bargain ga
sAan strn0k at tho. loiE rata of tRo francs and
half per tail, and the vendor was enco8rage1 &
bring as many moro as he could procure. Tn
| hair c0aTea and black and did nat gppm 4
ne fitted 10 add 10 the attractions Of any fe nal
bead 80 inquired TO what use II could bo put
Usep exclaimed the hairdresser; sOyez trGz
guile. ! an not anxious about that There
such demand for hair Just now that we are h
happy 70 buy whatever We can get / tell o.
this story, az Il may furnish useful hint to s0rn
Of your lady readers, on fashion bent, but stii
frugal minds. Tney will be glad TO know that b
asking for Chinese tails hey may procure oliea
hair Tor country toilets, or more especially f.
sea. bathing.n