The Columbus journal., 1882-07-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Tho port of Venice is being deer-
ened, so as to admit the entry of the
Italian monster ironcladS.
France and Italy have hitherto pro-
tiuced 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 by the bud
get of 1882 at 100000 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 twice day for
several weeks. In Warsaw she was to
have played fifteen times in seven days.
Returns of the recent census in
France give the following populations
for the cities named: Lyons, S32. .S94: :
Bordeaux, 22l,52O; Nantes, 12l, ,965;
Rouen, 1O4, ,720; Havre, 1O3, ,O63; Douai,
73,9O0; Alger, AHA; Grenobie, 5O,967.
The St. Petersburg police have is
sued an order fOrbidding the appearance
of any actors or dancers on the stage of
the theaters of the capital whose dresses
have not previously been rendered in
combustibe by means of chlorate of
lime. The same rule has been in force
in Berlin for five years.
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 u
tiercer insurrection of the population is
likely to break out.
Olive Logan, in a London letter to
the Cincinnati Enquirer, says: "I
really think change has come over
the heart of the Princess Louise. BY
the expression of her face should say
she loves and appreciates her husband
as she never did before; while he, on the
other hand, has had his ideas immense
ly 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"
Two distinguished men have Just
died in Paris from Il singular cause.
Col. Adam, Director of the Institute Car
tographique, thought he had chair be-
hind him, and in sitting down fell with
all his weight on the floor. He died
within 4 short time from the effects OF
the accident. AbOnt ten days before
NJ. Prison, Governor of the Banque Ma
tionale, went to dinner party at the
Spanish Legation, and sat beside the
hostess. She rose from the table, and
then, continuing a conversation, re-
sumed her seat. NJ. 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.
"A writer in the London Lanret
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
wound 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 twen-
ty-nine collected cases of heart injury,
only two were fatal within forty-eight
hours, and i'm the others death resulted
in from four to twenty-eight days. Re-
covery may take place when the wound
is extensive, for bullet has been found
embedded in the substance of the heart
after lapse of six years from the date
of the injury, the patient having died
from a disease of another organ.