The Arizona sentinel., 1888-01-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Further experiments are expected next spring at Aldershot with the tri- cycle as a military arm. Lord Wolse- ley attaches great importance to the tricycle.
 China has at the present time L 800 temples to the honor of Confucius, at which 62, 600 pigs, rabbits. sheep and deer, and 27,00O pieces of silk are of fered annually.
 In the center of the dining-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 n ,t 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
 hronged than ever before with veloci- redes. There is now hardly town in Germany without its velocipede club
 The Government of New Zealand is driven 10 extremes in order to do battle against the rabbits. Nearly two thousand stoats and weasels have been exported from England and lib- erated 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 anil mals 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 rnamental 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 its, England, in which is the tomb of Byron, is being rebuilt, but it is said that not 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 MT. R chard Belt, which marked the poets grave, as well as fhe tablet to his mem- ory and the mural monument in men- ory of his daughter, Lady Lovelace, will, after the restoration, occupy the same positions relative to the grave as now.
 In the large plains called "Llan- dees," in southwest France, the people use stills as matter of course. These plains are generally flooded. though not 10 sufficient depth to enable peo- pie to get about in boats. The stilts 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 stilts can sit down on it and rest. It is a common occur rerc3 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 stilts all day long, putting them on when they go out in the morning. and taking them off only when they return home at night. - Boston Budget.