The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-05-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

fOuGt0N 0OS0tGs
The Tichborne claimant is exhibit
inc himself to small audiences in En-
clsnd to earn living.
of the 217 members who in 1921
formed the Paris Geological Society
said to be the Oldest organization of its
kind-only one is now living.
While elephant hunting recently in
the Garrow Hills, in Bengal, Lords Ar
thur and Henry Grosvenor captured
eighty-fve elephants in three drives.
1T has always. been the belief of
Mrs. Burton. wife of the well-known
traveller, tho since England took the
Koh-i-noor diamond. proverbial for the
il-lucF. 1t brings, nothing but disaster
has attended all concerning British In
d.a.
"A fatal duel, arising from most
trivial cause, is reported from Cologne,
where two officers met recently, and,
after the exchange of seventeen shots,
one of them was MORALLY wounded. ex-
piring within an hour. The cause of the
duel was that one of them put on the
Others cap.
A young Engl;shman has had his
left leg specially exempted from the in
surance granted him by several COM
panies, whose losses through the sud-
den weakness of that limb had led them
to be wary in the matter. Hence
clauses in his policy provide that he can
not recover unless proof is made that
his injuries shall not have been caused
BY the faulty member.
The Lancet says that appetite il .
most misleading sensation, only re-
motely related to the actual demands
Of the organism. If we only ate more
deliberately we should find half our
accustomed quantity of food sufficient
to satisfy the most eager cravings of
hunger, and hence save ourselves from
the evils of dyspepsia, or, on the other
hand. a tendency to over increase in
weight.
Timber RATS on the Rhine are a
noticeable characteristic of that his
toric river. A single raft has often
eight or ten small houses on it, and
from 400 to 500 workmen, rowers and
pilots The vast pile is steered by
means of immense oars, and is so con-
sstructed as to twist like a huge snake
IN the narrow channels. The sale of a
raft at the end of the voyage often real
ICES about $4,000.
Porto Rican ladies, although as
dark as mulattos, carry with them to
all public places q face powder made
from grinding peculiar shell. and
when they think no one is looking their
way they give their faces fresh coats of
it. OF course the powder shows. but
good breeding makes the observer tech
nically blind to the ludicrous combina-
ton Of black nature and white pulver-
lied she'll.
The increase of the criminal class
in England has by no means kept pace
with that of the general population.
In the fifteen years from 1869 to 1874
the population of England and Wales
is augmented by nearly 100000 souls.
but the prison population had actually
fallen by more than 1.500. If England
had gone on producing criminals at the
rate at which she was turning them out
in 1869, she would have had prison
population in 1884 of something like
1900, instead of one below 10000.
The public baths of Vienna are
said to be the finest in the world. The
building itself. says the English Me-
chanic, is situated in the heart of the
city. and incloses basin 156 feet in
width by 578 feet in length, and vary
ing in depth to twelve feet. The enor-
NOUS quantity of water contained in
this basin is renewed three times q day.
The whole establ ishment has accom-.
mediation for $500 persons. and is
open from May LIST to October 31st and
from five in the morning until dusk.
There is also bath, restricted to
ladies, open from nine in the morning
until one, and the Vienna ladies an
ssSnecia1lv Oood swimmprQ