St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| Further experiments are expected
next spring at Aldershot with the tri-
/ cycle as military arm Lord Wolse-
ley attaches great Importance to the
tricycle..
China has at the present time 1, 500
| temples to the honor of ConfuciNs, at
which $4,000 pigs, rabbits. sheep and
deer, and $1,000 pieces of silk are of
fered nnually.
In the center of the dinin g-room
of the Slevinsky Bazaar, Hotel of Mos
cow, is large fountain filled with
fish, from which, when you order one,
the waiter catches it alive with dip
net before your eyes.
The manufacture of bicycles and
tricycles is the latest development of
German competition with hitherto
specifically English industry. The
splendid roads of the Black Forest and
Switzerland have this year been more
thronged thanever before with veloci-
pedes. There is now hardly town in
Germany without its velocipede club
The Government of New Zealand
is driven TO extremes in order to do
battle against the rabbits. Nearly
two thousand stoats and weasels have
been exported from England and lib.
Grated on the sheep ranges, and still
the demand continues. A cargo of
over six hundred are now on their
way. The price given in England is
four shillings for each weasel and six
shillings for stoats, and when the ami
mails are sold in the colony the shil-
lings become guineas.
The chateau of Chantilly gener-
ously presented by the Due d'Aumale
to the French nation, is to be finally
completed according to the old orig
inal design at the Dukes expense. The
large stables will be raised in height
and decorated, while the ornamental
sculptures left unfinished at the end of
the last century are now to be added.
The Duke is also arranging the gal
leries to contain the library and art
collections so that when the institute
takes possession the old palace will be
ready for opening to the public.
The church of Hucknal Torkard,
N tits, England, in which is the tomb
of Byron, is being rebuilt but it is
said that not a stone of Byron's tomb
will be disturbed, and the block of
marble sent for the purpose by the
King of Greece and embellished with
laurel wreath wrought in brass by Mr.
R chard Belt, which marked the poets
grave, asIwell as the tablet to his MEM
DRY and the mural monument in men,
DRY of his daughter, Lady Lovelace,
will, after the restoration, occupy the
same positions relative to the grave as
now.
In the large plains called sLlan-
does, !" in southwest France, the people
use stills as a matter of course. These
plains are generally flooded. though
not to a sufficient depth. to enable peo-
pie to get about in boats. The stills
are not held in the hands, like those
we are accustomed to see, but are firm
ly strapped to the side of the leg. The
person wearing them carries long
pole to balance himself, and aid him
in walking. This pole has usually a
cross-piece at one end, SO that, by put
ting it at q slant on the ground behind |
him, the person on stills can sit down
on it and rest. It is a common occur |
renee in that country to see men and |
women sitting and knitting in this |
exalted position, while the sheep they |
are tending wander about the plain. |
They wear their stills all day long, |
putting them on when they go out in |
the morning, and taking them off only |
when they re turn home at night. =
Boston Budget.