Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The cost of cremating a corpse In
Paris has been reduced to three dollars.
English ladies who sympathize with
MIR. Gladstone wear badges Of silver
made in the shape of til stll. .4
The monks of Aliotting, in Bavaria.
have in their keeping the hearts of a
long line of Kings. The hearts are in
silver urns. '1E a+ ~ HJ
Tile Jewish population of Jerusalem
Is constantly increasing, and now num-
bcrs $4,000. This is the largest num-
Der that has lived in the sacred city at
one time since the destruction by Titus
in ~ A. ID. Uai8a ..r..fau aqu
The deaths resulting from collicry
explosions in England for the year 1885
were much more numerous than for
several years previous, being 1926,
against CO in 1884 and l34 in 1888. i
The rat 0 Of crime among offenders
under age has considerably more than
doubled during the past five years in
France, and the statistics register for
the first time numerous cases of suicide
cOnHliltcu Dy cnllurcn.
The London Caterer says, appropos
of beans, that the priests of Egypt held
II a crime even TO look at beans-the
very sight of them unclcan. The Romans
ate beans st funerals. with awe, from
the idea that the souls Of the dead were
in them.
Upon her ascension TO the throne
Queen Victoria appointed a Hebrew
(Sir Moses Montefiore) as sheriff Of
London, and now, at the beginning Of
the iiftieth year of her reign, another
Hebrew (AIdcrman Isaacs) has been ap
pointed TO the same Office
-Forty-ninc tons of Snails are con-
sumed daily in Paris during their sea-
son. They are boiled in five or six wa
icrs, extracted from the shell, dressed
with fresh butter and garlic, then re-
placed in the shell. covered with parsley
and bread-crumbs, and finally simmered
in white wine. MA
The work Of cmanc;pating slaves in
Cuba is beng gradually accomplished.
In May l02 slaves were set free at Union
de Reyes, 10 ut Cuevitas and 1853 at AL
fonso XII. From May 8, 1880. to the
beginning of May, 1886, %, 406 slaves
were given their liberty in the province
of Santa Clara.
"A correspondent of the KolniScht
Zeitung reports that torture has at lasI
been abolished in Guatemala. 1'hos(
who hcnceforth employ it, whether civil
officers or members of the army, ar,
punishable with Imprisonment Of from
b'N months 10 two years, and will
deposition from office. and if death re.
su'ts from torture, the guilty person is
TO be tr cd for murder. Itfr-f
Magnesium, which has more thar
once been employed as a source of light
appears likely to be employed again, {
process having been discovered for pro
ducing pure magnesium by electrolysis
and at price much less than that a
which it was formerly obtainable. A
the works in Bremen, where the manu-
facture of magnesium is carried on
prizes are offered for the construction
of the best magnesium lamps hayin!
elockwork movement. teAtH
The owner of n cherry tree whiel
stood Is the way Of y German railroad
extension (ncar Niederlahnsten) is sai'
to have asked nine hundred dollars fo
the tree, Experts were appointed, and
as he showed that for years it ha,
yielded him crops each of which ha'
been sod for sum equivalent to tn
interest on the amount asked, the
agreed to award him six hundred dol
lars, and the treo had to 90,