Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Tho British training ship Warspite
has rescued 80, 400 children from pow
erty and degra iation and trained them
for the sea.
The oldest Empress living is Au-
gusta OF Germany, who is sevehty-one
years old. The youngest is the Queen
Of Servia, who is twenty-e ght
M. De Lesseps is veriable Gar
gantua in the matter of fattery: his ap-
petite for notoriety is Unsuitable, and
the Paris papers are constantly filled
with phs about himself. his wife
and his children.
Five newspape- devoted to mysti-
c;sm and spiritual SIN a published in
III, ..EranQe, fotE in Belgium, eight in spain
and three in Germany. In fact, mysti-
cism is bee6nibe. fash ;onable. AMI the
last new maryel is discussed in every
drawing room and at every dinner ta-
.hie,i II A..
Tile Wurtemberg Minister of the
81 interior has ssued orders that hence
;, forth young TO ks of either sex shall not
~ ''be' allowed to dance together in places
-dDq Ofj public anus ment. He, however,
will relax this order in the case of mar
rage parties, if the originators of the
,sssbtscainment furnish the police with
the, necessary moral guarantees.
''S'h sMHorseflesh is, according to United
StsAtes Consul Ballou. largely eaten in
Alsace. The retailer sells the choice
cuts for about eight cents per pound;
for ordinary, six cents. A large guam
'tty' is used in the manufa cture of sau-
sages. All horses are, before and after
being killed, given strict examir alton,
and if found in any way diseased are
rejected
A resolution was pas ed recently at
80 ~ Is. - 4. u r~-s
de lining to accept the prop sed Court
O. Final Appeal, or any secular court
claiming to reverse spiritual senten
A re o1ution was also pa sed urging
that no re obstruction or regu alton OF
&c lesiasti al courts ould squire spirit
ual valid ty save rom the autho ity OF
the synod, of the Church.
Editors in German-Poland are learn
ing with a vengeans what is meant by
liberty OF the press under Prince Bis
marck. One of them has spent fl e
months Of the past year in prison, and
has six months more in prospect. An
other has been condemned to eleven
and one-third m nths' imprison rent.
A third is now in prison for fl teen
months fourth for three months, and
fifth for four nj nths.
A let turer at Ed nburgh on the
dred islands and iSlets which constitute
tie Shetland group not moret an about
twenty Ell hit are said to be Inhabited.
Washed on their Western sides by the
wild wares of the Atlantic Ocean. and
on their Eastern coasts by the no less
tempestuous pillows of the Northern
Sea, they look like at perhaps they
the skeleton OF long sin buried
peninsula. Trey are an island Den
mark.
The dwarf trees OF China are curl
osities of fores try. Every cid knows
how the Chinese cramp thei women's
feet by bandaging them when they are
infa' is, and thus nder it imposs be
for them to walk 1t is, however. won
der. .ul to see miniature oaks, chestnuts,
pines, AID cedars growing in flower
pots, fifty yea 5 old and yet not foot
high. To do this take young plant,
cut off its tap root, and place it in a
basin in which there i, good soil kept
well watered Il it grows too rapidly
dig down and shor en- in several roots
Every year tie leaves grow smaller, and
the little dwarf tees make interesting
pets.