The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Many anecdotes of the late Earl of
Besconsfeld are told around tho ilresides
of High Wyeombe by the peasant neighbors.
"How is the old man todayS" said laborer
to the Esrls coschmsn, not knowing that his
lordship was inside the carriage "Pm quite
well, thank you" said he, with merry
twinkle in his eye, as he popped his head
through tho window. Ogeftaken in his own
grounds by two intrusive women who did
not know him, and who asked whether this
wss"Dzzies 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 GER
tainly be charged with extravaganza The
surrender of his private estates TO the Egyp,
tian bondholders three years ago LETT him a
poor man, and tho budget still keeps him poor
by the amount assigned rs his civil list. One
hundred thousand pounds seems verv small
income for an oriental po,entate, thu so1 of
the prince who in 1860 alone spent Gl, 200 900
on tho entertainment of the visitors who
came to the opening of the Suea canal. His
highness' relations, however, are numerous.
and prove somewhat burdensome append.
age. Twenty.four different families in all.
including the ex-khedive, they absorb e22O,
900.
Tho palace of the Bey of Tunis, is marvel
Of Moorish architecture. The exterior walls
arc white and FURNISHED like mirror. and
tho upper part of the building is q mass of
omb titled towers, green and yellow cupolas,
and vanished roofs. The central gate gives
entry to the Escalies des Lyons, whence the
visitor passes into the vestibule with its
covered walls, araeesqued ceilings, and rain
bow columns. In the centre is an inner
court, IN tho midst of which plays fountain
casting an agreeable and cooling spray over
tho surrounding apartments. Round this
court lie the bey's private rooms.
No prince WAS ever greater martyr to his
heirship than Prince Rudolph of Austria.
Learning was ru,hlessly crammed into his
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 to lead
wild life in woods and on mountains. He
has written book on the entomology of the
Carpathians with an introductory
account OF how no roughed ii in his scientific
excursions.
| The tobacco monopoly in France weighs
heaviest upon the poor man. The profits
drawn from ino Havana cigars amount 10
only 81 per cent of their value, but those
squeezed out of ordinary smoking tobacco
amount to 691 per cent, ard on ordinary
snuif to sos per cent. The cheapest smoking
tobacco costs there over dolAr pound
Bismarck is now trying TO introduce similar
system into Germany, and tho contes,
awakened by 1t overshadows in somo places
all other issues.
I The great salt mines of Crscow, In Poland
employ 800 to 600 mon at a time, and arc
In fact, underground cities with streets
roads, aud large population of human
beings and horses. In these mines III,
natural salt forms the sides, roofs and floor
OF series OF vast caverns, and when tht
men are all at work, and the light glesm
from torches and lanterns on the toilinf
figures and git.ering white crys.sla, N,
scene is very striking
The absence Of any clergyman, priest. O.
rabbi al Lord Boaconsileld's dea,hbed seem,
to have seriously disturbed the Irish pspers
One Of them, The Nation, says: priest O
psrson, book or prayer, cross or crescen,
symbol or sign Of faith, there was nothing /,
tell whether the dying man thought O
Moses or Mohammed or Christ. Unless IN,
published narratives omit como yer,
important particulars, Lord Boaconsilel,
died Ms dies a horse"
Algiers possesses river of veritable ink
Two streams, ono starting from roe ior
where The coil Is fcrruginous, the other from
peat swamp, meet and form the river
whose inky constituency is due TO tho miYip,
Of tho Iron and gallo acid which the tw,
tributary stream. respectively contain.