The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-01-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The blcycle is taking on import
.nce As vehicle. In Germany, joui-
newman artisans ride them about the
country.
London ladies who make them
selves conspicuous by wearing black
and white striped dresses are termed
''magpies.
Cremation is making great strides
IN France. The Project OF the Seine
means to establish Siemens furnaces in
several of the cemeteries of Paris, and
proposes to cremate all persons whose
bodies are not claimed by their friends.
The cruel practice of dishorning
cattle still continues in Ireland, it be-
ing estimated that $1,000 head are dis
horned annually. In late suit insti-
tuted by the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals against dis
horner, Judgment was rendered against
defendant.
The pictures in the homes of
Pompeii were not articles of furniture,
but were worked into the walls: and in
to the walls pictures will again be
worked when the world has woven its
new inventions and appliances thor
oughly into its civilization, and has di-
gested them as thoroughly as the Ro-
mans assimilated the more linn ted
knowledge OF the Greeks and of the an
Gent civilizations preceding them
Philadelphia Record.
"A correspondent at Lucerne. Swift
zerland, says there is little TO do there
aside from ''tne excursions on the lake,
but one could spend week just look
ing across the water. Of music. there
is variety snch as one rarely tinos =
every night half dozen new concerts.
All the strolling singers. and mando-
line players and either players and
cymbal players of all countries seem to
flock to Lucerne in the summer, and it
is The custom to perform at the differ
ent hotels during dinner"
"A Iren h newspaper has discov-
cred that it is the custom of marriage
in .,lthuania for the BRIDES mother to
publicly box her daughter ears. The
object of this proceeding is, that,
should the daughter subsequently de-
sire to get rid o. her husband. she can
plead tEat was forced to marry him by
violence. 1t is pointed out with regret
that the compilers of the new French
divorce law might have studied the Gus
toms of Lithuania with advantage =
Paris Morning AeEs.
On the night of the 10th instant
there were dreadful tempests in Hun
gary, which caused much devastation.
In the village of Zehegeny whole fami-
" persisted. The water having penetrat-
into room, the husband broke hole
in the ceiling and drew the inmates
through il up into the loft. But soon
afterward the entire house fell in, and
the wife, four children and servant
were drowned. The man was saved by
clinglng to rafter, and was drifted
some four miles further down. On the
line of the State Railway no fewer than
seventy houses were destroyed.
The walkers and runners of the
present age are pigmies by the side of
the professional runners of the days be-
fore railroads and telegraphs. Even
fifty years since we find that Ernest
Meusen was famed for his swift locomo-
ton. He once ran from Paris to Mos
cow, distance of 100 miles, in thir-
teen days and eighteen hours. In 1886
he ran from Calcutta to Constantine
pie. 5,615 miles, in i;fty-nine days. He
always outstripped mounted couriers.
invariably he took direct, climbing
mountains. swimming rivers and run
ming through forests. His food was
small quantity of biscuit and raspberry
syrup. He died in 1888, while running
through Upper Egypt.
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