The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1880-04-15
FOREIaY ITEMS.

The doctors have made aambetta leave of
smoking, and Bismarck abandon beer.
Mr.. George Labalmondiere, Of the Athe.
nteum Club and South u ton place, London
has just gone into insolyency. with liabilities
Of Gl1g.b .b44 and aesets OF 60 105., subject 10
lien for Tent OF lodgings.
A few weeks ago two French ladies' applied
to the mayor Of their district Ia Paris To be
placed on tho voting list. After conslfera-
ton he declined to comply with tho request.
They have now formed d society OF women g
rights and put forth programme. The
Draigu.
The villa II benlohe, ut Baden, where Queen
Victoria is staying, 10 only distinguished from
theothers about Baden by its eize and its large
garden. Il is built In the Swiss style, and.
being high on tbe hill, commands splendid
view Of the Black Forest ON one side and the
Rhine Plain. bounded by the Vosges, ON the
other, The weather at Baden has been url.
usually fine oil this month, after very cold
winter
The Comteese posocka's dresses cost so
much lately that her husband appealed to
the Paris court OF arbitration In the belief
that her dresemakers had overcharged her.
One dressmaker's bill from July, 1878, to
January, 1880, amounted to $22, los; another
dreesmakers bill for one.quarter OF the year
1879 was Sid, AGO. A fur mantle was charged
at $go00 The court has engaged the services
The little Princess Stephanie, when she
went to the theatre for the first time the
other evening, showed q childish delight
somewhat amusing In an engaged young
lady" She had never seen anything half go
fine before, and jumped about the box and
The anxiety OF the Viennese to obtain photo
graphs Of their future Empress ID 80 intense
that rs much 10 $500 is said to have been
offered for the first copy.
Count Orloff, the Russian Minister 10
France. is a picturesque looking nobleman.
He wears great black band over the left
side Of his head, to conceal the absence ofaan
eye lost In u wild expedition In the Turco-
Russian war of 1858, when twenty Russian
officers and soldiers attempted TO capture the
position OF Arab-Taba. His left arm was
fractured at the same time and never properly
set, and he carries 1t In sling. But he Is
charitable, particularly to sick or infirm work.
Ingmen.
The fetes to be held In Belgium this year
In connection with the first jubilee OF the
national Independence are likely to be very
grand. There will be national exhibition OF
oil Belgian products including the artistic
In building In course OF erection on the
Champ de ManRuvres, and oil the great cities
are going to evinee their patriotism by get
ting up historical pageants and cnvalcades
illustrative Of Belglum's history. The Cham
bers have voted Gl60 900 for the fetes to be
held In Brussels alone.
Deli Mohammed, the murderer of Col. Kou-
maroff, the military attache OF the Russian
Emit bassy Mt ConstantinopIe when questioned
by Mons. Onon, the Russian Charge d A, flares,
regarding his crime, replied that he was very
sorry to have killed the colonel, rs he was
comparatively harmless man; that he had
hoped to kill instead Mons. Onon himself.
whom he considered the instlgator Of the
treaty Of San Stephano. He concluded by
expressing the hope that some one else
might be more fortunate than himself, and
succeed In assassinating the Charge. The
Porte is endeayoring to induce people to re-
gard Deli Mohammed as lunatlc.