The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-10-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The temples in Dahomey arc a..
most entirely built Of human skullA
Chill pays bounty Of Eve dollars
> head for the scalps of condors, but
the birds are SO sly that il does not pay
to hunt them.
"A rock altar. with steps battered
and weatherworn. has recently been
discovered near Zorah. the home OF
Manoah. the father of Samson.
The pavilion of Henry w.. at St.
German, has been turned into res
taurant and people dine in the very
room in which Louis XIV. was born.
The little town of Battenberg,
from which the husband of Princess
Beatrice and his brothers derive their
title, has been part of the Prussian ter
ritor5 nearly nineteen years.
An invention which will be Of
great service has just been patented by
MIR. Crammond, of Belfast. 1t shields
the wheels of train cars so as to pre-
vent the possibility of injury to any
person from falling between them.
Though simple. it fuItills the purpose.
Including women and children
whose livelihood depends upon the es-
tablishment there is in the Krupp iron
works, at Essen. a working class popu-
lation OF not fewer than IS, 381 persons,
of whom nearly $4,000 live in houses
owned by the works.
The Arabs made . pyramid of the
skulls of Hicks unfortunate command.
which persisted in the Soudan before
Gordon went there. OF this expedition
10. 900 soldiers. including 1900 caval-
~, persisted. and l zoo, 900 rounds of
Remington ammunition. seven Krupp,
SIX Noreenfelt and twenty-nine noun
tain guns were captured.
"A patriarchal couple living in the
south of France have hadItwenty-seven
children. of whom twenty-five are liv-
ing, and three are serving in the army
in Tonquin. The father and mother,
aged respectively sevcnty-three and
sixty-eight, cultivate farm, aided by
six other sons. OF their twenty-sesen
: children. twenty one were BOYS.
Out of 500 members of the House
Of Lords no less than 40 are landlords
! in the fullest sense of the term; that is.
they derive the whole or greater part OF
their revenues from land. Fifteen mill
lion acres OF land. with an annual rent
roll Of fl5.OOO. COO. represents their
property and income. while another
ESQ. 900 in the shape Of pensions, an
nuities, and salaries also falls annually
to the lot of this privileged class.
Last autumn 3 bookseller named
Meyer. of Ronncberg, tied water
proof label under the wing Of swal-
low which had occupied . nest at his
house and had become comparatively
familiar. On it no wrote query in
German to the effect that he would like
to know where tho swallow would pass
the winter. The bird returned to its
former nest bearing an exchange label
similarly fastened saying. in g rman
also: I'm Florence, atCastellaris house,
snd bear many salutations."
Among the fiints Of chalk forma ion
i occasionally found one that emits q
clear musical sound when struck with
another flint A Frenchman has Just
succeeded in making . piano from
these musical stones. The ilints arc
suspended BY wires abore sounding
board, and are played by two other
hints. The stones Of the piano number
twcnty-six. forming two chromatic oc-
taves. snd were collected with much
patient labor. during period of more
than thirty years. There seems to be
no relation between the sizes Of the
stones aud their tones.