The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-08-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| -Adolp L. Reichenheim, wealthy
citizen of Berlin, has willed to that city
100000 marks (nearly $250,000) for
charitable purposes.
! Nj. Pasteur says it is easier to cure
temperate men who have been bitten by
a mad dog than It is to cure those who
! are addicted to the flowing bowl.
To visitors at the Edinburgh Ex-
position Mr.. Lloyd's exhibit of five
m les of "news'' paper in an unbroken
web is one of the most striking exam
pies of modern paper making.
! Experiments in Austrian garrisOns
prove that where the floors of barracks
are painted with tar the collection Of
| dust in cracks is prevented, and there is
a consequent diiniltution in Initiative
diseases of the eye. There is also Il
great diminution of parasites.
At the entrance of q restaurant in
Pesth, Hungary, where young ladies'
are employed, is posted a notice read
ing: "Gentlemen are requested to alb
stain from kissing the mattresses on the
stairs, as this is fruitful source Of
breakage and impedes the services"
The King of the Belg;ans is about
the only European sovereign who was
born to a throne and reached it. The
kings of Prussia, Portugal and Sweden
We're born younger sons, the King of
Denmark distant cousin and the Queen
of England but fifth in succession to the
reigning sovereign. g.
Tho ,,rorriotot. of
wrote TO the Liverpool Post that he sue
ceeded in saving lion cub that had
been deserted by its mother by putting
it with female dog to suckle. Now
the young lion takes freely of any
cooked food, especially vegetables, but
refuses raw meat. 1t follows the keep
er's wife life q dog.
according to English statistics the
death-rate among doctors is large and
on the increase. 1t is about twenty-five
per thousand among doctors, twenty
among lawyers and sixteen among
c!ergymen. In proportion to then
numbers there are more deaths of doc
tors from contagious fcyers and diph-
liberia than the average OF the mass of
the people.
The latest accounts state that the
new island which has sprung up in the
Friendly group, in the South Pacific, is
about nine square miles in area, and
rises from two to three hundred feet
above the level of the sea. The volcano
eruption which produced the island
threw up column of water and steam
fully a mile in height,
"A curious experiment has lately
been made in Italy. A couple of swaI-
lows, the proprietors of a nest of little
ones, were convey from Pavia to Milan,
where they were set at liberty at cer-
tain moment previously agreed upon.
Thirteen minutes later the parent birds
reached their nests together, having
performed the distance at the rate: of
one and a half miles per minute.
Some very attractive specimens of
paper slippers, sandals and other cover
ings for the feet--a substitute for
leather, etc.-have been brought to no.
tice in London, where their manufacture
has been recently undertaken. For this
purpose paper, paper pulp or papier
hache IS employed IN making the up
per. which is nodded to the DIES red form
and size; the sole is made of paper,
pastcboard, leather board or other
adapted paper material, union of this
sole to the upper being effected by
means of cement, glue or other adj
hesive material. The plan is to have
the upper creased, embossed or perfo.
rated at the instep and sides so as to
prevent any breaking or tearing while
IN use. The sole may be made with or
without heel.