The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-09-04
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

tOheI0N 0OSStPs
Imperial Rome swarms with
ncrc tramps than any city in Europe.
"A very large majority of the ad-
yertisements for drug clerks in the En-
fiish papers insist that the young men
shall be tall.
"A tree growing in New Zealand
proves fatal to birds in singular way.
4 gummy substance is emitted from
the seed vessels, and birds get SO COW
cred with the fluid that they are unable
to fv.
There are So, 600 blind persons in
France who are without other means
of support than begging. France is al
most wholly without asylums, either
public or private, for the blind.
An almost perfect skeleton of the
mosasaurus has just been found in q
quarry near Mons. 1t has the extra
ordinary length of fifty-five feet nine
inches, and will be preserved at the
Natural History Museum at Brussels.
The deepest coal mine in the world
is the Rose Bridge ColIiery. at Wigan,
Lancashire, VIII CHI is sos yards deep.
or almost half nile. There is plenty
OF coal further down, but the heat in
the solid strata is 50 1-2 degrees F.
-Pan-fa is the Oh nese name for
the shavings of species of elm, frag-
ments Of which, soaked in warm water
one night. produce vegetable much
lage or bandoline as useful for dress
ing. curl ng and crimp.ng the hair of
Chinese beauty as is the ounce seed.
AT guessing match in Glasgow.
the subject being jar of peas. the
winning guess was 1858. within two
Of the actual number. The remarka-
bic feature about the affair was the
great number of gucsses that fixed on
the same tigure-no fewer than 500. for
instance. having chosen the number
7,777.
Complaint is made that in Dublin
81, 2e2 falnil es live in 1924 houses
containing 4S, 116 rooms. One hundred
and seventy-tive Dublin houses which
Is freeholds are valued at rs. 677 are
sublet to poor tenants for fS.S11 a
year. and one house which is valued
At IS is occupied by eight families,
who pay a rent of ESP year.
Baron Adolphe Rothsch;ld has re-
Gently purchased. ut an almost fabu-
lous price, the famous jewe.-box which
was presented in 1910 by the gold
smiths of Nuremberg to the Duke Al
brecht of Bavaria. on his marriage
with the Princess Anna of Bavaria,
the renowned Anna with the golden
hair" 1t is of enameled gold and
richly ornamented, and is altogether
one of the most perfect gems of medi-
eval art in Europe.
Every Afghan believes that he is
"a Israelite- The tradition is that the
Afghans are descended from King
Saul. Their phys'ognomy is Hebrew.
They come from those. regions where
We might expect to find remnants of a
Hebrew race. and many OF their names
are Hebrew. Yakoub, Jacob; Ayoub.
Job; Musa. Moses; Ibrahim, Abraham;
lshak, Isaac. are names found in the
present Amer family.
"A notorious quack, Widow Noel.
one of the boldest of the charlatans
Of Paris. was recently fined and i'm
prisoned for trickery. She was not
content with prescribing nostrums,
but ms sted upon being in the house
with her pat whom she then
robbed at her leisure. Her last c.
tim was a man with heart disease.
For sixty days she remained with him,
receiving her board and $3.50. The
prize pal medicament was an ointment,
which she made by boiling bull
pups for nine days IN mixture of
red earth. for which vile stuff she
charged four dollars per pot. Strange
to say, seven witnesses of good char
scter testified to the efficacy of the
Woman's remedies