The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-06
FOREiGN-GoSSIP..

--.''e nor. of Venice is being deep
med ~ [, admit the entry OF the
LII. IA, n ,nster ironclaas.
France and Italy have hitherto pro-
duced sugar only from the beet root.
The sugar cane has lately been intro
duced in both countries, and its rapid
growth threatens the beat-root industry.
The war footing of the German
army has been established bv the bud
get of 1882 at 500, 900 men. In the
event of war, the number could be
doubled at twenty-four hours notice by
telegraph.
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt is said to be
almost worn out by her Russian tour.
She has been playing tvyice day for
several weeks In Warsaw she was to-
have played fifteen times in seven days.
of the recent. census in
France give the following populations
for the cities named Lyons, 332 1874;
Bordeaux, 221, ,520;1 Nantes, 12l, 800; !;
Reuen, 1o4, ,720; Havre, 1o3,063 Douai,
1900; Alger, 4,714; Grenoble, 81, ,967.
The St. Petersburg police have is
sued an order forbidding the appearance
of any actors or dancers on the stage of
haveinot previously. been rendered in
eombustible by means of chlorate of
lime. The same rule has been in force
in Berlin for five years. o.:sl e ea
1t is feared that famine is imminent
in Tunis. A very large portion of the
agricultural land has been, in conse-
quence of the recent troubles, left un-
sown; and it is estimated by those capa-
BILE of Judging that when the scarcity of
food begins to be felt in the interior of
the country another and probably a
fiercer insurreetion of the population is
likely to break out. ..a-9ts
-OliYe Logan, in London letter to
the Cincinnati Enquirer, says: !"
really think a change has come over
the heart of the Princess Louise. By
she expression of her face 1 should say
she loves and appreciates her husband
as she never did before; while he, on the
other hand, has had his ideas immense
" enlarged by his sojourn in America,
and finds that the whole of life is not
centered in the particular degree OF
latitude wherein the maps say Great
Britain lies'' s'' '';7 'i's'i''-' .. &
Two distinguished men have Just
died in Paris from singular cause
Col. Adam, Director of the institute Car
, tographique, thought he had chair be-
hind him, and III Sitting down fell with
all his weight on the hoer He died
| within short time from the effects of
the accident Abont ten days before
M. Prison, Governor of the Banque Ma
tionale, went to a dinner party at the
Spanish Legation, and sat beside the
| hostess. She rose from the table, and
then, continuing a conversation, IRE
sumed her seat. M Prison followed
her example, but footman had mean
while removed his chair, and in his fall
he injured his spine and. survived only a
| few DAYS. 81 = q fE-&E 81
"A writer in the London Lancet
states that the popular impression con-
cerning quick fatality Of wounds of the
heart is not supported by fact. :" We
know of no case, ~ he says, ''of abso-
lutely instantaneous death from a
weund of the heart, in any part or how
ever extensive Wounds in the apex
kill in an hour and upward, and case
is cited, in which a man lived twelve
hours after the heart had been severed
in twain by a sword cut. Out of TWEEN.
| ty-nine collected cases Of heart injury,
only two were fatal within forty-eighl
hours, and in the others death resulted
in from four to twenty-eight days. Re
covery may take place when the wound
is extensive, for a bullet has been found
embedded in the substance of the hear
after lapse of six years from the date
of the injury, the patient having died
! from disease of another organ. l.rt