The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-07-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Paris is to have an international ex-
hibltion of railroad inventions and APP
piiances next year.
Italian railroads, it is said, reduce
the fares of all dog-bitten persons who
20 to consult Pasteur, at Paris.
"A London restaurant keeper paid
S75, 600 for the privilege of catering at
the Colonial Exhibition now IN prog
reSs.
A mass of lead in an elevated fur
mace in Paris was completely dissipated
by stroke of lightning, no trace OF the
metal being found afterward.
"A French Anti-Tobacco Society
offers prize of 5000 for an essay on the
effect of smoking on the health of liter
ary men and its probable ultimate re-
suits upon French literature.
"A witty woman of Paris says that it
is more difficult for woman to make
excuses for her beauty among other
women, when she is really beautiful,
than for plain woman to find favor
among the men.
"A peculiar Partisan fashion which
hrs grown rapidly within the past few
years is the custom for women to go
bareheaded out of doors. The cap once
worn by the laboring woman is now
rarely seen.
The housewives of Norway make
their common flat bread largely of the
powdered branches of the young pine,
not so much to save flour as to secure a
Eight loaf. The bark proves to be not
only innutritious, but actually iniuri-
Gus. and is now being denounced by
medical men.
An Irish journalist in London
dressed himself in blue and gold livery,
with pair of green spectacles, and
spent two hours with the clown in the
sawdust at the circus performance given
before the Queen. He wanted to tell
how the Queen acted on such an occa-
sion.
-Mauna Loa, the Hawaiian volcano,
is situated On the southern slope OF the
Mauno LOa mountain, some several
thousand feet below the apex. The crater
proper is nine miles in circumference
and about six hundred feet deep. The
floor of this crater is covered with black
lava. and every few weeks OF months it
receives a new coating.
What is the value of flea? Ac-
cording to Professor Erbini, who owns
those marvellous insects now perform
ing at the Exchange Rooms in London,
the highly trained Russian "pulex irri-
tans' is valued at $125-at least that is
the sum offered by the professor for the
recovery of missing member of his
troupe that plays ''leading business"
On an average each inhabitant OF
London consumes each year thirty-two
times4as much fish us each inhabitant OF
Berlin, and Paris consumes more fish
than the whole of the German Empire.
Efforts arc now being made to popularize
the eating of fish in Germany. To bring
this about, q German paper suggests
that fish be made into sausages.
"A woman has just died at the age
OF one hundred and twenty in ST.
Petersburg almshouse, where she had
spent the last seventy years of her life,
during which period she had never once
been seriously i'll. She could see quite
well up to the last, her eyes presenting
no trace of atrophy so common with
aged persons. Her memory and in.
telligence were also unimpaired at the
time of her death. The same institution
possesses another inmate, soldier 5
wife, who, on being admitted about two
months ago, presented her papers to the
managers which certified that she is
now one hundred and ten years old.