The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.


PRINCESS Louise leaves for homo and Eng
fmt1d on the eighteenth Instant.
There are no fewer than 800 young Amer
teams now studying art In Paris.
prince Jerome Napoleon and his sons hav
returned from Paris TO Italy.
Twelve vessels have been lost In q Six days
xale ofT the coast OF Tobasco, Mexico.
Sleeping coaches are hereafter TO run On 81
express trains between Paris and turin ant
ali principal Italian cities.
The BRAZILIAN government offers subsidy
III, the Canadian line Of steamers and arr
willing To rectprocate Tor Q mutual revision o.
III. gambettas paper, the RepnbliQae Fran.
snise. which has long favored tho Comm unis,
amnesty. now proposes that ~ % aAtenuou Ce
aN tho exileg.
0 The London correspondent Of the Liverpool
Post tells circumatantial story, the purport
Oh which Ii that England ie trying to buy
france out of Egypt, with some prospect Of
King Afoneo's marriage IN November is to
take place OF Madrid. The young lady is
learning 20 talk Spanish, so that he can under
sstafld when after the manner OF wives. she
speaks her mind.
Mankind, In Scotland. II dwelle In darkness
hara,Iae the inhabitants refuse to pay for
ItEhtIng the street lamps, although the gas
company will supply gus for nothing.
A pioneer party Of about seventy farmers
from Sweden have sailed from Liverpool for
the province pf Manitoba, and Ii the move
yrlent should prove successful they Will be
Joined by 600 others from the same country IL
Che spring.
The returned Communist ID already III pub
Aic lite. Pnteaux Humbert, just back from
! New Caledonia, has accepted u oandldature
FOR seat In the Paris municipality He has
Issued his address vindicating the Commune,
and the final ballot Ia awaited with some I'M
aasiness.
III. Paul do Uassagnao's latest piece OF inso-
Pays, headed Lost, a Dog" and Offering q
reward to anybody who will find o cur an
awertng TO the name of GuEtave Simon, and
will bring II by the ear to the office 81 bis
Journal
dambetta, since he became prophet, has
become less OF q demagogue and more uf q
diner. Lie hts his oyster beds In his palace
gardens like the famous Luculus, and. like
smother famous EoMrmand OF the classic cut
10 has different dining rooms for different
grades. His cook receives $4,000 year, and
ID miracle of genius and skill.
The Paris Globe says that three OF the
Kings OF Europe are about to have an inter-
view; but as they don't intend TO declare war
against any country. or to brighten any body,
ef s project y am ,oa y
and the King OF Greece are to visit the King |
og Denmark, who invited them to enjoy @
period Of sporting
A German scientist has succeeded In obtain |
ing Q chemical composition. by means of
which mirror image may be fixed and sold |
ID photograph With this composition the
aftzrEpr surface IL painted, and the back part
of the mirror receives also Q coating OF oil.
The mirror thus prepared is held before the |
norson who - 70 be Photographed. The gil
coatinR evapDrates. and the likeness OF the |
Uerson remains in natural colurs on the light l
surface. The image SO fixed ts brought Into
q bath and Ia exposed half an hour In the
sunlight before delivery
A terrible accident has closed the bathing
season at Boulogne. Five persons, two young
rttsa, and three young ladies, belonging to the
REST London families desired to battle toward
gioon on the east beach, Notwithstanding
lsh se One q The young laales Was aavea
III rushed to their help. The names OF the
Hfctims are: Miss Gertrude Wiseman. fifteen;
Miss Rose Blinksop. eighteen; Charles
Clarke. twenty brother q ne Rlfl saved a s
saost active search, only one body has yet
aaaen recovered. |
"a learned German doctor" says q Paris |
PAPER sshas discovered a means Of dyeing the |
eyee III animals In general, and OF man 10
accompanied on his travels Of propagation by |
q dog with a rose-colored eye cat with an |
orsnge-red eve and monkey with chrome |
yellow eye. But the most curious specimens |
II
other blue, and negress with one eye gold
soIored and the other silver-white. The doc
Eear aays the process oil ocular transformation, /
Far from iniuring the sight strengthens ana
lmproves ii.
Yhe probabilities are that. In the event Of a
return OF the Liberal party to power, ME-
Gladstone will be raised to the peerage, and
lead Ia the Upper, while Lord Harrington will |
head III the Lower House. MIR. Gladstone IL
gaw 70, and, 1t may perhaps be safely assert
leair
41E his time. How materially his duties as 9 |
hxtnster would be diminished BY going up to |
atae Lords may be estimated by the fact that |
last session the Lords sat 206. against 1910
&0urs lii the Commons, In fact, q peer ean
msnety-niDe nights out OF 100. he IN bed by u
o'clock 90 far aa legislation Is concerned. Mr. |
Gladstone III the Upper House would be q I
tower of strength to his party where 1t ls
weakest.
France Is becoming hot on her old idea Of
MA alliance with Russia, and Prince Gort-
sehakof y nj this moment playing OF such
project against the policy Of Prince Bis
with Austro- Hungary. The most serious
danger to the present stability Is the uncer-
tainty OF life Of the present actors on the |
scene, who are anxious TO keep peace
his eighty-second year. The Emperor Will
Mann is q year older. The Car Is VIGOROUSLY |
ricketv In mind and body. Che Republicans
kf Italy keep quiet because they believe King
ExutMDeTG TO Qe III II CQuSuIlpllOD anu that
they will have n better chance during q re-
xency. Lord Beaconsfield is seventy. four,
and Is said to be kept alive on champagne
Jelly, and must soon quit power.
The newest service rendered BY monkeys
10 mankind was recently illustrated Id Lon
don. In one Of the school districts too many |
parents reported no children In their fami-
lies. and In order to ascertain the real num-
har of children In the district the school Off
cars resorted to an ingenious measure. Two
monkeys were gayly dressed, put Id q wagon,
and, accompanied by brass band, We're car
rsed through the streets OF the district. At
once crowds of children made their appear
anee. The procession was stopped In park,
and the school officers began their work
distributing candies To the youngsters. they
took their names and addresses. They found
cut that over si1ty parents kept their chill
dren from school. The Ingenious measure
brought to the schools about two hundred