The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-03-22
FOREIGN NOTES.

Several new versions of last years popular street
songs have appeared. One commences
We don't wan. 70 fight, but by lingo when We DO, =,
radical version is:
We did want to fight but by lingo at Zulu
We lost lost guns and wc lost our money
The song for the avcnging army ISL
We're eager for the eight. hut by lingo whom We do,
We'll kill for every white slain hundred black Zulu.
AT the North Riding Assizes. in the county Tip
was recently indicted for murder committed thirty
nve gears ago. III the said county. The Crown asked
for q postponement Of the case. For the murder
which was of bsrbarous character, three men were
tried. One was found guilty and hanged and
the others acquitted. The prisoner was included in
the Indictment but absconded, and in June 1878 re-
turned 1t stated that all the witnesses are alive
but scattered over the kingdom. The trial
postponed until next asstxes
Great ceremonies are necessary to get train OF n
Germany. When all il ready q bell rings. Then
another bell rings Then the engine whistles. or
rather toot toot toot. gently. Then the conductor
tells the station master that all is ready Then the
station master looks placidly around and says SoY'
Then the conductor shouts "Fertigr' interroga-
lively. Then the station master replies ''Fertiel'
positively. Then the conductor blows horn, the
engine whistles. the bell rings the other bell rings.
the station master says "Sor-the passengers swear
in various tongucs-and the train starts. That is,
unless there is bested fat man. which case they
do IL all over again.
Mr.. Horace White. English Consul at Tangicrs,
says tin the conte'nporsneous account given by
Barbary In 1923 and 1900 he states that as
Mogsdor, at his recommendation. many per-
sous had recourse TO remedy which had
proved most efficacious in Egypt-nameiy,
amounting the body with olive OIL and he knew Of no
instance of Its failing when nprTperiy applied and
the plague among the Egyptian troops Mt Bcyrout
In 1886 the inhabitants OF certain village attributed
their escape from disease to the fact that their
clothes and persons were generally well saturated
with oil.
The rumor that German prince IL to be selected
by some European Powers ~ their candidate for the
throne of Bulgaria produced much indignation in
the Russian press. Tho sc. Petersburg Go-ene de-
clares that such y selection would be most injurious
to the bulgarian people. as IL would separate them
from Russia even moro than was the before tho
Russo-Turkish war. would "extcnd German intrigue
from Berlin and Vienna to the valleys OF the Jantra
and the Martha and would develop that hostility
between the Scrvians and tho Bulgarians which has
hitherto weakened and injured those nationaities.
The Slavonic nations destined TO play an nde-
pendent part in European history and that the Rus
slams should not permit any German hcgemony over
the slavonic nations. Is IL not enough, the
article proceeds, that they have made them.
selves masters of nearly the whole of the Danube,
that their apostles OF culture sit the
thrones Of Roumania and Bohemia, that they have
flched from US the Bosnians and Horzegov inians
whom we have freed with our blood? Arc they also
to be allowed to place the throne of bulgaria
OF their candidates, Prince Reuss the Prince of
Battenberg? and the Bulgarisns to escape from
the Turkish yoke only " fall under that Of the Ger