The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-01-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


T-Queen Victoria's maids Of honor
IRE eight in number and receive 81 800
) year each.
There is more crime in Rome and
vicinity than in any other region of the
world having the same population.
bombay husbands cut off their
wives noses for punishment. In sim
gle week five such cases were lately re-
ported
"A London newspaper. devoted to
hotel interests. laments the fact that
the hotel business of England is grad
ually slipping into the hands of for
eigners, owing to English inactivity.
Poor Carlotta, ex-Empress of Mex
SEQ, spends only few thousands year
In her mad house, and the accumulated
interest of her immense fortune has be-
come enormous. Her heirs will be her
brothers.
Many visitors who are surprised at
seeing members sitting in Parliament
with Their hats on forget that this is
really the revival Of q once general Gus
tom. Instead OF being q survival from
the days of open-air parl,aments it is
rather "reminiscences of the long pc
Tiod during which men almost inva-
riably kept their hats on, even in church
and at the dinner table.
The most artistic of Italian furni-
ture, made from precious woods inlaid
with 60 d, mosaics and ivory, is turned
out in Bergamo by firm that has been
engaged in the business during q CEN
fury. Old and new specimens of its
workmansh p are much sought after by
foreign connoisseurs for the adornment
pf palaces and country villas.
The new Partisan rial machine is
cigar-shaped and pointed at each ex-
tremity-not simply underneath. as is
usually the case. There are seats for
tive ronauts in the car. The balloon
has directing apparatus and rudder.
The force is obtained BY a series of
electric accumulators of ten horse
power. The balloon Is operative for
tour hours.
I'm q recent sermon in birmingham
Cardinal Manning said that men were
laboring to efface from the law of the
land the very name of God. Politics
was goddess. Philosophy was goddess.
Science was goddess 1t was the same
with education. There was no true
education without religion. What had
made England great? Not warfare,
mot conquest, not politics nor legIsla-
tiou. 1t was the one faith and the love
Of Cod and Of the neighbor.
A singular method of preserving
histon al RECORDS has been disco cred
in Ireland. On Case Hill, near Bel
fast, there was short time ago an an
Gent castle. In order to protect its
ruins FROM the ravages of time and
passing vandais, some local antiquar-
JAMS determine to surround it with q
wall, and employed . contractor to
execute the work. The wall was En-
ished IN due course, but when the
antiquar:ans came to admire the castle
& Was gone. The contractor had used
tie ruins for building materials. and
not stone of the ca tie remained.
The terrible operation lately sub
@itted 10 by Lord William has directed
attention to maladies of the tongue
One of the most extraordinary cases
Wns that o. Thomas Forder, at Win
chester, in 1924, who was apparently
u every respect healthy until with
shout twenty hours of his death, when |
10 complained of soreness on his
tongue. which gradually swel'ed until
Ae WAS suffocated. A post norton
failed to sdiscoy er any cause, and the
verdict Vas: '.Died by the visitation of |
God, in consequence Of . sudden dis
- and enlargement o. the tongue"