The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-04-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A giantess named Ann Dunn died
in London few days ago, aged thirty
nine. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly nine feet high and meas
ured round the shoulders over three
feet.
"A tower nearly one hundred feet
in height is to be erected near Bolton
Abbey as memorial Of the late Lord
Frederick Cavendish.
Mrs. Jane Brown has organized, in
Paris, meetings composed wholly Of
French ladies for tho study of Shak-
speare.
The authorities o. Saint Giles, in
Belgium, have supplied the police on
night duty with cloth boots having In
d . rubber soles. With these boots the
police are so perfectly noiseless that they
are at least placed on , footing OF equal
advantage with burglars.
According to the last official report
of the Imperial German Post.office there
were within the imperial postal terri
tory (Which does not include Bavaria
or Wurtemberg) thirty-six cities and
towns in which the telephone was in
full operation.
Some interesting figures as to the
cost of operas and bailets pr duced in
Paris are given. IL Africaine" cost
some $50, 900: s..Le Prophetic, S45, 1895;
s.Robert lie Diable," 5000; .'faust, ;"
$37, 900. The cost Of "Aida" was $46,
500; s.Francoise de Romini," $40, 500;
sLe Tribut de Zamora," $50. 400.
The Mackonochie case in England
has come to an end at last, after sixteen
years litigation. Mr.. Mackonochie
resigns his living in obedience to the
order of the court. The C.srch Tines
bitterly denounces the prosecution, and
maintains that the peace brought about
by the late Archbishop of Canterbury on
his death-bed has proved to be only a
brief truce.
Accident" to the uneasy heads of
Europe may be regarded justly with
suspicion in these days. 1t transpires
that the injury lately sustained by the
Gar was not attributable to malev0lent
chance, but rather to the partially sue
cessfil aim of man with gun. The
man has the i'll luck to be a Nihilist,
and if caught he will have the felicity
of being hanged. which will not, how
ever, deter other hunters of big game
from taking occasional shots at his inn
perial highness and infiicting more acct
dents upon him.
They are exhibiting in London a
Neapolitan lady of twenty-five. Signora
,ranatelli, as near parody of the living
skeleton as is possible to look at. She
is about middle height, with a Ratchet
edged face, ridged with nose large
enough for Goliath. This is her great
feature, and suggests that she has run
into proboscis as the Thibet sheep run
into tail. She might be packed in q
section of water pipe. She is shaped
from shoulder to toe like four-square
timber jo:st. The ex hibitors say it is
necessary to stuff her ankle boots with
cotton wool to keep the bones from slip.
ping or grating at the joints.
The claim of Hebrew gentleman
to be exempted from serving on Cor.
oner's Jury on the ground of his being
| = descendant or Aaron, the high priest,
and forbidden in that character to ap
proach dead body, seems a strange
one to advance, and so many years have
passed s nee Aaron's death that the fact
of being directly descendant from hin
must in the present day be difficult tt
establish. Nevertheless, the 81 James
Gazette cites the case of MIR. Lewis Da
| vid Cohen. who was fined five times fol
re using to center unto corpse" or
| that ground, and who at last appealed
! to the Magistrate at Quarter Sessions
who, after hearing the evidence and re
ce.ving the written TESTING ny of tn,
dered the remission of the fines.