The Arizona sentinel., 1888-08-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

attempts a robbery.
 Pancake parties is French fancy in amusement. The cakes are pre- pared by the assembled company on the sands or on the grass under the trees with the necessary materials, and after feast of the cakes the puests strive to toss pancakes as high as possible.
 Regulations have been established fin the coffee districts in Guatemala by which farmers are required to build furnaces on their lands, and whenever signal is given to indicate the danger of frost, to light in them fires of tar, pitch or other substance likely to make a great smoke and keep away the frost.
 Two gentlemen recently elected to the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London had been waiting nine years for their names to be reached on the list of proposals, and at another Lon don club a gentleman just elected had been proposed so many years ago that he had forgotten all about it, and was surprised when he received notice of bis election.
 A silver crown piece, known as ''the petition crown of the reign of Charles H., fetched $1,775 at a recent sale in England. At the latest pre- vious sale similar coin had brought only 1,125. A sovereign of Edward VI's time brought $5. 25, fifty shilling piece of the Cromwell era $760, an Oxford crown $5S5. A penny of Ethel bald brought $230, and other old pen nies $90 and $S0 each.
 -Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, seems to be most remark able man. His eccentricities are all most startling. Not long ago he in spected the boys of the British naval training ship Warspite. During his address he told the boys that his wife would take great pleasure in giving each one of them shilling, which he hoped ''they would keep throughout their future life as souvenir of the oc- casion."
 A foreign medical writer says: "Mothers in Paris, who are devotees of fashion, not content to see their children free from illness and wearing the rosy hue of health, have called in the aid of dyes and powders to impart what they consider to be still more becoming complexion. Mere infants hardly able to walk are to be seen thus unattractively decorated, and their future, whether as regards con- fort or appearance, is evidently of little account in the eyes of their senseless parents.
 Rear Admiral Homage, the officer commanding the British Pacific sta tion, is earning the epithet of ''Sir Joseph Porter" He has forbidden any officer or man to walk on the poop of the flagship while he is there, and insists on the crew uncovering their heads as long as he. is on deck. He also requires his officers to wear white kid gloves at divisions on Sundays, and to have their frock coats and tu- nics buttoned on all occasions.
 The London paupers have been counted, and this is the result: Pau pers, exclusive of lunatics in asylums and vagrants, taken on the last day of the weeks named hereunder (enumer- ated inhabitants in 1881, 3,S15,000), third week of May, 18S8-indoor, 55,- 769; outdoor, 3S,5S6; total, 94,355. Third week of May, 1SS7-indoor, 55,- OS6; outdoor, 37,205; total, 92,291. Third week of May, 1SS6-indoor, 53,- 255; outdoor, 37,29S; total, 90,553. Third week of May, 1SS5-indoor, 52,- 9O4; outdoor, S4,25O; total, S6, ,554 (ex- cluding patients in the fever and smallpox hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum district).
 The Italian Government has decid- ed, in view of the celebration in this country of the four hundredth anniver- sary of the discovery of America in 1892, to collect and publish all the documents and charts that can be ob- tained relating to Christopher Colum- bus and his discoveries. Twelve thou sand lire (about two thousand four hundred dollars) annually have been appropriated for the next five years to pay the cost of the great undertaking, which is to be carried out by Senator Correnti, assisted by learned commits sion.