The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

Last year thrty-thre0 duels woro foughtin
France.
The British navy haR tirty-aiS iron-cIads of
different grades.
Tho Sultan OF Turkey is in nblcet dread of
u revolution or 81 assassination.
NJ IoIn II becoming unpopular IN Paris.
Ills writings are too real oven for the Paris
iHna.
'l{londe mIliners With lisp nrN most all
ycrti5pd lor III Iondon. and command the
highest wages.
Seven hundred and ten bodies wore taken
"a the IaiiA Morgan IN 115A. M compared
With wv III isfS.
Petiilons arc being signed in belgium for
the revival Of gaming tables at spa, which Is
anxious tn recover ill., pr3sperIty-
It's said that the British losses In the Ar
CHAN campaign do not equal the number OF
Afghnns whom the EngIisll have hanged.
The Lord Mayor Of London gives u bond Of
$50 900 fol the safety or The official diamonds
and one of 100000 for the aaioty of tn" plate.
There ate two American ladies' in Europe
who have attained tho title OF princess tile
Princess bynar, formerly Mes Mary Par
SONS, and the Princess OF Noar, formerly
Mary Esther Lee. of New York, who WIS
married in 1861 to Prince Frederick, brother
Of tho tpueen Of Denmark. She Is addressed
rs your highness.
The Princess mazulu. of XuluIand who ia
about twenty four years old She Is grace-
full but not beautiful, has n fine flow Of Ian
guage, and u quick sense OF humor. sings
we'll. and loves 70 dance. She ~ accompanied
by Il suite Of two Zulu women and tour male
attendants.
For the first time In English history n
nOltee agent has boon attached to he person
nel Of the sovereign. and rooms have linen
fitted up for him and his family ut Windsor
Castle The palaces. Withinand without, have
4 ti.sI EytY
being chiefly for ornament. Tho new agent
will always travel with the Queen.
| An entcrnrisiug English fouryear old In
4 WilloUghton got hold " a bottle about halffu
\ OF gin Il fortnight ago, and drank about half
| the contents. His mother. finding the chltd
smell $ srongly of gin, accused him Of having
\ been at dads bottle. lie nodded assent,
tut said nothing. He was put to bed, slept,
| but awoke in commissions, and, though doe
tor was Mt once called in, he never rallied
The British Museum has acquired about
one thousand more tablets and fragments OF
inscribed terra-cotta documents from Baby
| Ion. Among them Is a tablet OF Samsu-lrba,
a Bubyl0nian monarch hitherto unknown,
| who probably lived about the time OF Bardes,
and WAS one of the intermediate rulers be-
tween Cambyses and Darius, b. G. 519. An
| other fragment has representation OF one oi
the gates Of Babylon.
Sultan Abdul Azziz is described as highly
Intelligent mailman with yoracious appe-
\ tite. eating eleven times day. and taking his
| choice from All iuvariable menu u nlnety-four
Dishes lie has a mania for cock-tighting,
backgammon aud sItctng off with a sword
the heads OF turkeys kept in yard tor bis
entertainment. He Il under petticOat GOV
eminent, the SultanA Y Aide being virtually
the ruler OF Turkey.
Dromore Castle, the lately completed resi-
denea III tie Earl u Limerick, has been under
construction since 1865, and Is a perfect re-
production OF a stronghold of the fourteenth
century. Inc interior corresponds in the
minutest detail with the outward design, and
the furniture Is consistent with the
style of the fourteenth century, so far rs
exgencies Of the present age will admit. Ii
is two miles from Shannon, In County Lin.