The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-09-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Big, mouse-colored Danish dogs are
favored as pets in Paris now.

Big, mouse-colored Danish dogs are
favored as pets in Paris now.
Agents of the expelled French
princes openly avow that a movement
is on foot for the restoration OF the
chrome.
The late mad King of Bavaria made
his valet wear a black mask for q year
as a punishment for some imaginary
offense.
king Ludwig, of Bavaria, used to
drink white wine and champagne
favored with fresh violets. He often
spent fifty dollars day for the flowers.
There is prodigy in the way of a
little girl pianist, in London, who is but
ten years of age, and played in concert
Memberships "Capricio," with great
success.
1t has been discovered that the rivers
of Sankauron and Kassai are fully navi-
gable, so that the eastern region ofthe
Congo State can be reached without a
long detour to the North. u
In new French method of diagno-
sis the condition of the eye is accurately
estimated by means of variations in
sounds sent through q sensitive form of
telephone placed against the eyeball.
After long interval of suicides of
the kind, woman fortnight ago Sc
lected the platform of Notre Dame, at
Paris, to throw herself from. The
dreaIfully mutilated body could not be
recognized. 1t was that of person of
thirty, well dressed.
The second best place in British Of
fc,aljsm is that of the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, who receives 800, 900, while
the Chief Secretary for Ireland has a
salary of $4,000. ME
Lake kopais, near Thebes, in
Greece, which is responsible for much
of the malarial fever in that region, is
to be drained by means of canal,
which, after five years work, was re-
Gently completed. The lake covers an
area of two hundred square miles, and
it is hoped that it will be drained with
in the next few months. The rivers
feeding it, which rise in the Parnassus,
are henceforth to be utilized for pur-
poses of irrigation.
"A new gold mine has been discov-
cred in Sllesia. About two hundred
years ago gold was mined near Freien-5
waldau. at the foot of Goldkoppe; the
old shafts are still visible. Of late
Mr. Saltery, who had lived in California
and been interested in gold digging, dis
covered quantities of auriferous quartz,
sufficiently large to cause him to put up
a steam crushing machine, which is Civ
ing satisfactory results. -
-Apropos of the expulsion of the
French princes lover of statistics has
drawn up list of the monarchs who
came to an untimely or ignominious
end. According to this authority the
world has had 1850 kings or emperors,
who have reigned over "A people. Of
these 800 were overthrown, GA were
forced to abdicate, % committed sui
eide, % became mad or imbecile, 100
were killed in battle, 123 were captured
by the enemy, % were tortured to
death, Isl were assass.nated and 109
were executed. Uneasy lies the head,
indeed.
The special commission appointed
by the Gar to revise the laws affecting
the privileges of the Russian imperial
family, has completed its labors by re-
ducing the imperial income, save that
of Gar, one-third. The heir apparent
will hereafter come of age at sixteen,
but other members of the imperial fam
lily at twenty-one. The heir to the
throne and his oldest son must marry
princesses of the orthodox faith, but
the other sons are not so bound. Many
grand dukes and grand duchesses and
other titular members of the imperial
family have also had their titles re-
duced. "#s