The Arizona sentinel., 1886-08-28
EOREIGN GOSSIP.
-Pezon, the French lion-tamer, keeps lie ,,,onav in o hov in his lion's oaOo

-Pezon, the French lion-tamer, keeps his money in box in his lions cage. The piles of old London bridge, put down in the year 900, are still sound, the water and the blue mud of the Thames having preserved them.
 Mir. Wilmont, an English expert, says that six and half tons of dia- monds have been dug up in South Afri- ca. and these cut are valued at $200,- GOO, ,000.
 An inquiry is being conducted into the manners, customs and folk lore of the people of Palestine, which is certain to be of deep ethnological interest.
 As an experiment a company of Japanese soldiers was fed on bread and soup, with an addition of beef for sup per, for one month. At the end of that time each man had lost in weight from three to seven pounds.
 A writer in the London Lady de- clares that seances and mediums are getting so fashionable in town that one may expect very soon to get cards of invitation which will have printed in one corner, instead of music or ''dancing, Mediums after supper" or ''Ghosts at nine"
 Four supple, strong-limbed lads of Monmouth School, England, training for race, spun their outrigger along the chopped surface of the Wye the other day, when over the shell went. Two swan ashore; the hero of the crew tried to save the coxswain, who could not swim. and both the boys, clad in gay red racing suits, were found in the black mud at the bottom.
 A good deal of rhetoric was expend- ed when poor Cetewayo died, upon the manner of his death. How suitable, the world was told in varied form of phrases, was the warriors end to the warriors life. It now turns out that, instead of dying like soldier, Cetewayo was poisoned like adog, and that by his own people at Ekowe. Failure seems to be an unpardonable offense in Zulu land, as we'll as in countries more high ly civilized.
 Easter Monday, 1884, a young Italian lady of good family fell from the pier at Southend into the sea and was in immi- nent danger of beng drowned, when a young man named John David Hudson, who lives in the Deptford Lower road, and was on visit to Southend with his mother and sisters, plunged into the water and rescued her. He was told at the time that he would be rewarded May ? last the young lady dIed and left Hudson f2,000, to which her brother has added f3,0OO, aud the f5, 900 is to be invested for his benefit - London StdndGrd.
 An enterprising German firm is building up large business in the manufacture of liquid carbonic acid, which, though so recently only y scien- tific curiosity, is now in extensive de- mand for industrial purposes. It is used for charging beer in the cask, in the manufacture of seltZer waters, and for fire extinguishers. By its expansion the Krupps, of Essen, subject their great castings to the enormous pressure of 1,200 atmospheres. Its gas is also ex- pected to prove valuable for inflating balloons 10 raise sunken ships, heavy weights having been very quickly raised from the sea-bottom by its aid.
 Many an advanced and original idea has been first engendered in the head of one of the lively ladies of the North, but none more novel than that by which at present the whole of society in St. Petersburgh has been staggered. The young ladies who have rallied round the originator of this idea have all pledged themselves not to marry be- fore they are twenty-five years old. Like the primrose danes, they have their badge, little golden locket, in scribed on one side with their names and on the other with the three letters ''G. A. E." which is interpreted as ora,n.