The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-23
FOREIGN NOTES.

Mr.. Bentinck, the future Duke of Portland
Is about to marry Miss Violet Lindsay. a niece
OF the Earl OF Crawford and Baleerres.
Writing from Tirnovo, O correspondent ot
the London Times says: 1.-THE name of Mr.
Gladstone Is heard frequently here as one OF
the probable candidates for the throne OF
Bulgaria" ~
| Master Alfred Stanley Browning Tenpy.
son, grandson OF the poets Tennyson and
noekyer and godson OF Dean Stanley and
robert browning, has just been ehristened In
Henry Wis chapel, Westminster Abbey.
| The death Is announced, in her fifty-pintb
year., OF Lady Anna Gore-Langton. onIy
daughter OF the second Duke OF Buckingham
| and ohandos, heiress presumptive to the earl
dom of Temple and mother of Mr.. William
stephen Gore-Langton, M. P.
Dean Stanieys friends fear that his Ameri-
can trip has demoralized him. He Is heard
to mutter in his sleep: DRY m" "Cheese
| it," Hire hall y Pull down your vest and
other eecentricities peculiar to our native
American dialect.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Pocahontas Is to have monument. Tn to
the present time there has not been so much
as tablet by the tomb at Gravesend where
she lies, as certified by the following entry In
the register: "1616, May 81, Rebecca Wrolfe,
lady borne, was buried In the chancel.''
The Hon. Francis Smith. in his speech in
Producing to the Home Secretary q deputa-
ton OF anti-cremationists, observed that sscre-
nation was said to be pursued in the East,
but he did not care to initiate the habits and
customs OF those who bury their dead In the
holy river of the Ganges.''
Sir John Ashley, who made the wager that
Weston could not walk 1000 mites over Eng
ltsh roads In q certain time. sent an agent To
watch for deception. Bells Life contains q
letter from this agent, who says that Weston
was twice caught riding in q wagon Sir
,iOhn longer MT h, of
fair.
birmingham manufacturer has received
from his agent In Turkey the following order :
one OF my customers Is in want of dog
sklnnlng machine. You have probably seen
or known such thing. Through this ma
chine. holding the dogs, when still alive. in a
few minutes the skin is off them, and the dogs
also killed thus, without giving them much
torture. Please send drawings and lowest
price, etc"
The standard for royal artillery gunners
In the British army has been raised to the
height of feet 10 iches, which has had the
intended effect of nearly stopping the supply
of recruits in that line. The lowest infantry
standard is feet inches, which shuts out
great number of applicants of 5 feet 51s inches
or whereabouts, the average height OF eandi-
dates.
The heavy duties imposed by the italian
customs on foreign tobacco make smuggling
SO profitable trade that the frontier popula-
ton OF Switzerland are leaving their occupa-
tons by hundreds In order to engage In the
business. Last year, In the district OF Como
alone $1,000 kilos of tobacco were contiscated.
The fines collected amounted to $500 900 lire
and, In default OF payment, many persons
have been sentenced to long terms of impris-
onment. Ihe penalty for smuggling single
cigar is 10 lire. lire Ia worth little more
than Is cents in our currency.
DR.. Bertillon has published another statis-
ticai "etude' In France to prove that matri-
mony Is more favorable to longevity than
celibaey. Between the ages OF twenty five
and thirty the annual mortality per thousand
In France Is ten bachelors and six married
men, and the same disproportion Ia observable
later on, diminishing, however. with advanc-
Ing years. Between fofty-five and fifty 1t is
twenty single men to eleven Benediets Wild
overs die with peculiar rapidity. the figures
in the twenty-five to thirty year class being
twenty-five to six married men. After pass
Ing the age of twenty-five, married women
die off less rapidly than spinsters, and the
mortality OF widows is by no means as great
as Is that of widowers.
An English correspondent with the Afghan
forces visited q Dumbki headman, whose
courtyard was dunghill, while dirty, half
naked ruf1fans formed his personal encourage.
rag OF canvas-probably stolen camel |
clOth-served him for the "carpet" of East |
ern travellers, and his water bottle and pipe
were OF the meanest description. On the |
canvas rag, however, was lying a symbol of /
a splendid sword massively mount I
eel In gold. The correspondent showed the /
chief revolver and breeeh-loading rifle |
and explained all the parts to him. The simple |
wild man was greatly interested and sur
prised, and when the correspondent had made /
an end of speaking, replied blandIy, In excel
lent English, Eyes, [ thoroughly understand I
oreech-loaders."