The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-26
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Tho Duke OF Edinburg Is going to superin-
tend naval reserves for G10OJ Year, with
perguisites.
After the German Emperor leaves Metz he
will pay one OF his occasional visits to his
wife at Baden.
The returned communists are the lions OF
the hour In Paris They do not pose as
martyrs but simply want work to do.
Tennyson's son, Lionel, changes his name
and takes his uncle's property. Ills 1ather
repudates the name for himself.
M. Augnste Hennessv, who died recently at
Gognae at tho age of 10, WAS Q member OF the
French Senate, but was much better KNOWN
as q producer OF brandy.
A young British officer, fresh from South
Africa, says the wal was very excltlIlR
more so than fox hunting" He adds. i tlntter
myself that put All end to the career OF six
promising young Iulus.'
Prof. Gryglewskl, OF the Cracow Fine Arts
Academy, recently committed suicide at
Dantzic, where he had been drawing hist4-
icaI pictures in the Rathhaus, by throwing
himself from the top OF that building
The London Enquirer says: "The fastest
trains now run are as follows: Great West
erIl. 531L miles the hour; Great Northern, 81,
London and Brighton aud London and North
western, 471aa; Midland. as miles.
King Alfonso and the Archduchess Marie
Christine will be married at Madrid on the
twt IIty-eighth Of November. The bride and
her mother will sail from Trieste to BARGE
Iona on an Austrian war ship, conveyed by
| u Spanish squadron
Ahmed John Kenealy, son OF the claimants
counsel, was recently tried for forgery, in
| sending false kilograms to the newspapers
announcing that he had committed suicide
| He was discharged, but the magistrate ex-
pressed his belief that he had written the dis
patches nevertheless.
Don Carloa said recently to q French re-
j ffIr
that have not renowned, and shall never re-
nounce, my rights to the crown OF spain.
When | was on the field of battle [ protested
through the mouths OF my cannon. cannot
| 60 SO now, but from my conscience | protest
and shall always protest"
/ Secocoeni is the name OF the only South
African chieftain now giving Gen. Wolseley
| any uneasiness. It is difficult to treat with
him except by ball and blade, inasmuch rs
two British ambassadors sent to offer him
| terms were permitted to return to their own
| lines only after five hours reflection on his
part as to the advisablity Of vivisectng them
The project which DaDiloff, the Russian en-
gineer, has begun, to unite the Black aud
Caspian seas by connecting various rivers,
deserves from its magnitude and utility, to
rank with such enterprises as the Suez canal
and the two great Alpine tunnels. Ii Russian
associates her eastward advance In Asia with
heDefcent works OF this kind, she will do
much to compensate for any harsh measures
The first stone OF the Cologne Cathedral
was laid August Is, 1913, aud it Is thought 1t
will be completed III another year. The two
towers have now reached their last stage, and
have only to be fitted with their massive caps
of solid stone-work. For this purpose two
great scaffoIdings have to be erected at a
dizzy height; one OF them, however, already
approaches completion. Wen the caps have
been finished, then still higher story will
have to be added to the scaffolding, tn order
TO fix on the tops OF the caps the gigantic
ferrated crosses, almost thirty feet high,
| which are to crown the towers This opera
tion will, it Is expected, be performed next
spring.
London, and offered round sum for the
privilege OF marrying dying man. She is
EIanie de Panard, descendant Of Beranger's
famous rival In lyric poetry. She was left
Of the less fashionable boulevards. The mon
ey will not be hers until she marriea, and as
no eligible young man appears, she has been
driven to the expedient OF marrying dying
man. To that end her friends have applied
at several Paris hospitals, but the authorities
would not hear OF such deathbed mockery.
The case was then presented to Mr.. Ut
hoff, surgeon at Guys. who was informed that
II the dying man was a Widoaer with chill
dren, they would be provided for. The offer
was refused.
The Leeds Mercury says that q rather
amusing incident was witnessed in the Scar
borough Aquarium recently. The keeper
while engaged in cleaning out the tank oecu-
the leg fortunately he had sea boots ON by
the largest OF tbs octopods, which fastened
four OF bis tentacles round the leg OF the boot,
and with the other four held firmly on to the
rocks forming the back OF the tank. strug-
gle ensued, during which the man found he
could not diseagage himself without killing
the animal, aud finally hit upon the expedient
; Of slipping his leg out, leaving the boot 10
the water and beating retreat. The hungry
octopus stuck to the boot for twenty minutes,
4 when it relnquished its hold.