The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-02-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A Bucharest artist has spent ten
years in decorating his rooms with post
age stamps.
Since the siege of Paris in 1870, the
consumption of horsetlesh has gradually
increased there.
M. Renkin. former Belgian Consul
General at Vienna, was burned to death
short time ago, having gone to sleep
with lighted cigar in his mouth.
Some gardeners near Paris were
lately fined 100 francs for cheating in
tomatoes. The fruit not having ac-
CURED its usual deep hue they covered
itwith red paint.
In many parts of Europe huge
earthenware stoves are used, that need
but little fuel; they absorb the heat in
stead of sending most of it up the CHM
ney and then steadily radiate it for a
long time,
"A society called the Dali Nippon
Keizai Kai Japanese Economical
League) has been organized in Japan.
Its object is to investigate the economi-
cal system of modern nations with a
view to the establishment of such sys
TEN in Japan.
From his studies of the Krakatoa
catastrophe Verbeck is led to maintain
that part of our globe remains still lin q
molten state, and he disputes the theory
which has been advanced that the heat
of the volcanic furnaces is entirely due to
local chemical action.
London would seem to be fast be-
coming the paradise of domestic serv-
ants. A lady living in Regents Park,
advertising for cook and housemaid,
announces that they will be allowed
the use of piano and late dinner" They
will also be allowed out two nights a
week and every other Sunday.
Colonel Warren has been excaTat-
ing ut Nicosia, in Cypru, and has
come upon what appears to be the re-
mains OF a glass mandatory. Hitherto
it has always been denied that glass has
ever been made in the island, but many
OF the olden vessels are very curiously
shaped, and none like them have been
seen elsewhere.
1t is scarcely fair to hold a father
responsible for the conduct of his grow
ing up son, and even wife can not al
ways answer for her husband. The
Turkish authorities at Janiva appear to
forget this. They have just inflicted
sentences of hard labor upon father
whose son had enlisted in the Greek
army, and upon wife whose husband
has taken a like step.
Efforts have recently been made in
Europe to invent small steam craft ca
pable of being propelled at almost ex-
press railway train speed. A small YES
sci for service in the Adratic is now be-
ing constructed by ii Prague engineer,
the speed of which WILL it is alleged,
equal that Of fast railway train. This
result is expected from an improved
screw and novel method of construc-
ton Great interest is manifested in
the experiment
The new Tay bridge, to take the
place of the one where the great horror
occurred, when completed will be rather
more than two miles long, its cost be-
tween G600,000 and 10000 and some
$1,000 tons of new ironwork will be
used in addition to the side-girders of the
old bridge. The eighty-five openings
which form the total length will in
crease in span from tifty-six feet near
the shore to 245 feet at the center of the
bridge, which will be some seventy
feet above the water. Another curious
piece of information is that if the $780,
900 riyets which will be used in the work
We're laid lengthwise they would cross
the broad river more than 100 times