The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Many anecdotes Of the late Earl of
Beeconsfield are told around the firesides
of High Wyeombe by the peasant neighbours.
"How is the old man today?" said la6orer
to the Earls coschman, not knowing that his
lordship was inside the carriage. Pm quite
we'll, thank you," said he, with merry
twinklein bis eye, as he popped his head
through the window. Overtaken in his own
grounds by two intrusive women who did
not know him, and who asked whether this
wa" Dizzie's place" he courteously answered
their inquiry and directed them to place
from which they might get good view OF
the exterior of the house. The women were
considerably nonplussed to learn afterwards
that they had been addressing the Earl
himself.
The khedive of Egypt himself cannot cer-
tsinly be charged with extravaganza. The
surrender of his private estates to the Egyp-
tan bondholders three years ago left him a
Door nam, and the budget still keeps him poor
BY the amount assigned as his civil list. One
hundred thousand pounds seems very small
income for an oriental potentsie, the sol of
the prince who in 1860 alone spent &1, 200, 900
on the entertainment of the visitors who
came to the opening of the Suez canal. His
highness' relations, however, are numerous,
and prove somewhat burdensome append
age. Twenty.four different families in all,
including the e1-khedive, they absorb ego,
900.
The palace of the Boy of Tunis, is marvel
of Moorish architecture. The exterior walls
are white and FURNISHED like a mirror, and
the upper part of the building is q mass OF
embattled towers, green and yellow cupolas
oh cd On a
entry to the Escalies des Lyons, whence the
visitor passes into the vestibule with its
covered walls, arahesqued ceilings, and rain
bow columns. In the centre is an inner
court, IN the midst of which plays fountain
casting an agreeable and cooling spray over
the surrou nasSinpents. Round this
court lie 7 wv -
heirship than Ffihoe Rudolph o. -
Learning was ruthlessly crammed into hA'
brain. which was threatened from sheer
indigestion with softness. When he grew
up he broke loose from conventional
restraint and got bitten with taste for
natural history. This compelled him 10 lead
a wild life in woods and on mountains. He
has written book on the entomology of the
Carpathians with an Introductory
account of how he roughed it in his scientific
excursions.
The tobacco monopoly in France weighs
heaviest upon the poor man. The profits
drawn from fine Havana cigars amount to
only 81 per cent of their value, but those
squeezed out OF ordinary smoking tobacco
amount to 597 per cent, and on ordinary
snuff to 1858 per cent. The cheapest smoking
tobacco costs there over dollar a pound.
Bismarck is now trying to introduce similar
system into Germany, and the contest
awakened by it overshadows in some places
all other issues.
The great salt mines of Cracow, in Poland,
employ 500 to 600 men al time, and are,
Ia fact, underground cities with streets,
roads, aud large population of human
beings and horses. In these mines the
natural salt forms the sides, roofs and floors
of a series Of vast caverns, and when the
men are all at work, and the light CLEANS
from torches and lanterns on the toiling
figures and glitteriDg White crystals, the
scene is very striking.
The absence Of any clergyman, priest, or
rabbi at Lord Besconsheld's desthbed seems
10 have seriously disturbed the Irish papers.
One of them, The Nation, says: "Pritst or
parson, book or prayer, cross or crescent,
symbol or sign Of faith, there was nothing 70
tell whether the dying msn thought of
Moses or Mohammed or Christ. Unless the
published narratives omit some very
important particulars, Lord Beaconsdeld
died as dies horse"
Algiers possesses river Of veritable ink.
Two streams, ono starting from region
where the soil is ferruginous, the other from
q peat swamp, meet and form the river,
whose inky constituency is due 10 the mixing
Of the iron and gallo acid which the two
tributary streams respectively cOntsil.