The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-08-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

his money IN a box IN his lions cage.
The piles of old London bridge. put
down in the year 900, are still sound,
the water and the blue mud of the
Thames having preserved them.
MIR. Wilmont, an English expert,
says that six and half tons of dia-
monds have been dug up in South Afri-
ca, and these cut are valued at 5000,
600, 900.
An inquiry is being conducted into
the manners, customs and folk lore OF
the people of Palestine, which is certain
to be of deep chronological interest.
AS an experiment a company OF
japanese soldiers was fed on bread and
soup, with an addition of beef for sup
per, for one month. At the end of that
time each man had lost in weight from
three to seven pounds.
"A writer in the London Lady de-
clares that seances and mediums are
getting so fashionable in town that one
may expect very soon to get cards of
invitation which will have printed in
one corner, instead of Emusic" or
"dancing," Mediums after supper" or
''Ghosts at nine"
-Four supple, strong-limbed lads of
Monmouth School, England, training
for race, spun their outrigger along
the chopped surface of the Wye the other
day, when over the shell went. Two
swan ashore; the hero of the crew tried
to save the coxswain, who could not
swim. and both the boys, clad in gay
red racing suits, were found in the black
mud at the bottom.
"A good deal of rhetoric was expend-
ed when poor Cetewavo died, upon the
manner of his death. How suitable, the
world was told in varied form of
phrases, was the warriors end to the
warriors life. 1t now turns out that,
instead of dying like q soldier, Cetewayo
was poisoned like a dog, and that by his
own people at Ekowe. Failure seems
to be an objectionable offense in Zulu
land, as well as in countries more high
~ civilized.
Easter Monday, 1884, a young Italian
lady of good family fell from the pier at
Southend into the sea and was in immi-
nent danger of beng drowned, when a
young man named John David Hudson,
who lives in the Deptford Lower road,
and was on, a visit to Southend with his
mother and sisters, plunged into the
water and rescued her. He was told at
the time that he would be rewarded.
May ? last ahe young lady died and left
Hudson $4,000, to which her brother
has added $4,000, aud the IS, 900 is to
be invested for his benefit. - London
Standard.
An eAerprising German firm is
building large business in the
manufact, e of liquid carbonic acid,
which. tn gh so recently only scien-
ttic cur Iy, is now in extensive de-
mand I'd industrial purposes. 1t is
used for erging beer in the cask, in
the man lcture of settler waters, and
for fire c. |inguishers. Its expansion
the Krupps, of Essen. subject their great
castings to the enormous pressure Of
1900 atmospheres. Its gas is also ex-
pected to prove valuable for initiating
balloons to raise sunken ships, heavy
weights having been very quickly raised
from the sea-bottom by its aid.
Many an advanced and original
idea has been first engendered in the
head of one of the lively ladies of the
North, but none more novel than that
by which at present the whole of society
in St. Petersburgh has been staggered.
The young ladies who have rallied
round thu originator of this idea have
all pledged themselves not to marry be-
fore they are twenty-five years old.
Like the primrose DANES, they have
their badge, little golden locket, in
scribed on one side with their names
and on the other with the three letters
"G. A. e." which is interpreted as
galeyre al 1 enemis.