Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-02-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
An extensive system ofrailroads is
shortly 10 be commenced in China.

An extensive system ofrailroads is
shortly 10 be commenced in China.
Dried potatoes are prepared in Ger
many in immense quantities. They lose
sixty-fve per cent. of their weight in
drying, and when used are said to be as
good as fresh ones.
Young Mr.. Burdett- Coutts, nee
Bartlett, has an imitator in Paris.
Count de Lugival, aged twenty-six, has
Just married a widow aged seventy-two.
The ancient dame brings the boy an in
demnity of 100000 francs
in the land of the Hindoos, who are
very amiablc and gentle people, there
is in many houses room called the
krodhagara, or chamber of bad humor,
which serves the purpose of the corner
for naughty children.
I'm China metals are strewn about
the Empire in profuslon-enormou coal
measures, prodigious deposits of iron.
vast veins of copper, great tracts of ga
lena, chrome, plumbago, cinnabar,
cupreous nickel (white copper, zinc,
pyrites, manganese, ETC., are found in
every section.
"A Melbourne (Australia) journal
says that the present Lord st. Leonards,
a well-known black sheep, who was at
St. Kilda, fashionable watering-place
near Melbourne, recently received a
very sound thrashing from colonial
bushman for having at a public bar
spoken irreverently and indecently of the
Queen.
AT the recent elections a gentleman
came into one of the polling booths quite
out of breath and said:-''Well, am
electedP' Returning Officer Are you
one of the candidatesP' "No." "Then
why do you askP' ~ am told that the
elections have taken everybody by sur
prise, and SO thought to myself, one
can never know" lie Figaro.
One of Prince Bismarck's first acts
as head of the Foreign Office was to raise
the status of Germanys representatives
abroad, to which he attaches such i'm
portance that the diplomatic salaries
far exceed all save that of the Governor
of Alsace-Lorraine. The Embassy at
Paris has lately been renovated with
splendor.
The mail of Nine. Patti, in Paris, is
remarkable not only on account of its
enormous size, but also on account of
the queer things in it. About dozen
letters a week contain requests for her
to become the godmother of babies just
born, and also of babies who are expect
ed. Among the piles of begging letters
the most original so far is one from a
dude who sends his photograph as an If
resistible plea for 500 francs.
OF eighty-four female convicts
shipped from Odessa few days ago to
Seghalien, thirty-six we're transported
for killing or attempting to kill their
husbands, twenty-five of the thirty-six
being yet in their teens. One bride OF
seventeen sweet summers murdered her
husband six months after marriage; an
other of sixteen killed hers within a
week, while a third of eighteen made
herself widow on her bridal night
with the assistance of q sledge hammer.
An old Scotchman, when taking his
BARNS to be baptized, usually spoke OF
them as laddies or lassies, as the case
might be. At last his wife said he must
not say it was laddie or lassie, but an
infant So the next time that Sandy
had occasion to 60 to the clergyman tho
latter said "Weel, Sandy, is it a lad
diep" OTIS nae q laddie," was the
answer. Then it's lassie." ''It'i
nae lassie, said Sandy. "Weel, mon
what is it, thenpn said the astonishet
preacher. 81 dinna remember yer,
weel, said the parent, "but think thu
wife said it was an illefant," The clergy
man finally found out that it was not al
elephant, but an infant, he was ex
pected to baptize.