The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-22
FOREIGN ITEMS,

FOREIGN ITEMS.
There were buried in Turkey, in Europ,
129, All Russian soldiers, and OF the 120, $50 sic
and wounded sent home, As, $50 died. Tota
1924.
The Thames embankment, from Westmip
ster to Waterloo about a mile and a half, |
now lighted with twenty Jablochkoff (electri
ing Cross Bridge, which stands between Wa.
terloo and Westminster bridges
Last year 5314 books We're published II
| England, 1884 being new editions. Fiction
leads, with $40 volumes; theology comes next
with 739 and education third with $780, Near
| ly all the novels are republished, while hard
ly a third OF the other goods go to a seeont
edition.
While the khedive's new ministers are toll
ing day and night, that potentate enjoys ths
oti,m cum dignaate of a sovereign who reigns
but doesn't govern, and after his complete
gubernatorial fiasco Is content to leave all &c
his ministers. In these hard times the Egyp
tan capital has neither opera nor theatre.
The position OF Russian finances, quite
| apart from the late war, remains highly UNI
satisfactory. The revenue is not increasing
while the outlay is constantly growing. On
January l, 1877, the public debt was, exclusive
of the paper currency and railroad indebted
ness S770 795, 600; at the close of the year,
Sl,136,975oOo. Peace is of the utmost impor.'
lance.
Wild animals are rapidly disappearing
from Algeria. The French government
pays up to $40 for every lion or panther that
Is killed, and about 81 cents for every jaekal.
In 1877 rewards were paid on SO lions, 40 lion
esses, cubs; $50 panthers, As young pam
theirs; 1912 hyenas. and IA, 1874 jackals. Lions
and panthers abound most in the wooded
province of Constantine; hyenas are most
numerous in that Of Oran, jackals in that of
Algiers.
Mr.. Alfred Eastlake came into large for.
tune at twenty-one, and for twenty-four
years enjoyed his leisure at Noting Hill,
near London, in studying natural history and
geography. He declared that II he could not
make u full discovery Of the things he was
seeking he would "part with life" and
do it with honor, like Cato and Addison
He filled his pockets, with stones, tied a rope
around his waist, fastening the other end to the
seat OF a rowboat, rOwea out into the Thames
and overturned the boat.
The fashions In dogs In France vary, and it
is rather surprising to see how quickly the
demand for any special breed is met by law
ish supply. A few years ago it was said that
the race OF pugs was dying out; but some
all the markets swa,med with black nosed
little fellows. Yellow, wiry English terriers
are now the rage in Paris; and Italian grey
hounds have become so scarce that fancier
CDulu uOU IGIuISH u WtfI-fUdUCDeu DalT-CreaIQ
or mouse color-for less than 600 francs.
The English papers recently announced
that Gen. Roberts had held durbar; and
thereupon Che Partisan journals printed tel
grams to the effect that Gen. Roberts had
captured and was holding the city of Durbar
Which was like the telegram to Connecticut
friend during the war, sent by a gentleman
in this city, to say that a convive at dinner
that was to be, had the most necessary ingre-
dent for gumbo soap and would bring it
with him. The innocent dispatch, "Stuart
has taken Okra," was promptly interpreted
by an operator as news OF the capture of an
important town by the famous rebel raider.
while Germany Is putting all manner of
jealous restraints On emigration" SAYS the
London correspondent of the New York
Times, writing at the end Of 1878, "the Eng
liSh government Is rather inclined to encour.
age people to leave the country than to stay
in it; and supposing trade looks up in Amer.
lea next year, as everybody thinks it will, the
tide of emigration will once more set in from
England to the United States. What is more
we shall also experience an emigration OF
capital, "a circumstance which will have special
advantages. healthy manufacturing pro-
gress ia America will see capitalists as we'll
as labOrers emlgrating to the United Ststes -
Two little boys In Ceylon have found sap
phire weighing, says the report, two whole
pounds; its value is estimated at $50 600, and
it is. if the report be true, the largest sap
phire yet found. Ceylon was famous place
Tor sapphires in old times, so that those who
know its history are not surprised that this
writer in the Telegraph (London) recalls that
the island has for ages been a vast treasure
store of gems, and that even the energetic
rapacity OF the old Roman Adventures failed
to exhaust its riches. OF all the brilliant
gems extracted from the soil of this richly
endowed island hardly any was more
highly esteemed by the ancients than
the sapphire.
The price of butchers meat In the me.
tropolis, exorbitant as i; is" says the London
Globe has, no doubt, been kept down by
American EXPORTS and we have largely drawn
upon the fertile farms Of the New World for
pork, cheese, and other items of agricultural
produce. We are also indebted to the United
States for some of thebest brands of preserved
meats, as likewise for variety OF Yankee
notions including clocks, watches, the famous
sewing and washing machines, churns, lemon
squeeZers, etc. 1t seems, however that
America proposes to compete with us in other
branches of industry. Among her recent OK.
ports are boots and shoes, peIfumery, iewery
and piece goods. We have no right 10 com.
plain Of these invasions, but it Certainly be-
hooves US to endeavor to meet them by pro-
dueing, Ii possible better manufactured ar
tieles at equally moderate prices"
1t is fortunate for the Chinese that they
have an epidemic Of cholera so seldom, fol
with their habits of filth md Oyercrowdino
they have no chance but to be decimated
When an epidemic do come they find them.
Sc yes quite helpless in the absence any.
thing like sanitary arrangements, AMI take
refuge in gong beating, paper-burnine and
''sing-songs." Many strange remedies are
used by thu N, and among the most curious Of
these is one Preferred to by DR.. David Man.
son In very able report recently published
on an epidemic OF cholera last year at Annoy
OF plnching various parts OF the body Of the
person affected Wi b cash. In Annoy. during
the epidemic, a skilled "pincher" commanded