The Greenville times., 1888-11-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP


Isabelle ez-Queeu Of Spain,
dresses in a costume much like that Of
Rnun.
Girls are trained 10 agriculture in
Denmark, the owners Of farms reeeiv-
ing them as pupils.
The Prince Of Wales Is something
OF a gambler. While in Hungary re-
Gently he broke a roulette bank aud
won $4,000.
The young Emperor Of China
amuses himself now and then by
Whisking around his palace grounds in
Pekin on a miniature railroad, and en-
joys a monopoly of the only railroad
now running in his dominions.
1t is said of Queen Victoria that
between $50 a. m. and 1:l5 p. m. she
works as hard as any clerk in England,
in attending to her private eorre-
spondence.
The Empress Of Japan has estab-
lished college for women, which is to
be ruled by a committee of foreign
ladies. Two Of these are Americans,
two English, and the other two French
and German, respectively.
Among the Continental armies the
German soldiers have the longest legs.
judging by the length of step. It is
eighty centimeters. The step OF the
French, Austrian, Belgian. Swiss and
Swedish is seventy-fve centimeters, and
of the Russian seventy-one centimet-
ers. Thirty centimeters make foot.
London street rowdies put up small
boys to throw themselves in the way Of
bicycles, and on being struck by the
machines to set up howl and pretend
to have been badly hurt. Then the
rowdies crowd around in the role OF in
dignant and sympathising citizens, and
the bicyclist is glad to pay the gamin
roundly and get off with a whole skin.
Afterward the rowdies and the gamin
divide the proceeds.
Prince Bismarck keeps a guard OF
four soldiers in small conservatory in
the garden of his official residence at
Berlin. "After Blinds attempt on my
life" he says, "the Emperor insisted
that | should have bodyguard. But
! sometimes forget these good fellows,
and once at Versailles, seeing one Of
them appear suddenly before mo in a
corner of my garden, drew my re-
volver, thinking he meant mischief. ="
"A young girl In London has turned
the Photographic art to profit by going
about and taking incidents in the pub
lie thoroughfares and parks. She has
an eye for situations, and catches tnem
full Of natural spirit and action. She
is out from ten o'clock until three, and
under her camera characteristic scenes
OF city life are being turned into hard
money. Her pictures are used a great
deal in studios, and they are full OF
suggestion.
Book stealing seems to have been
elevated into a regular trade in Paris,
for, according to a return drawn up by
the prefecture Of police, the number Of
persons prosecuted for this otfense
within the last two years has been one
hundred and forty-five, OF whom only
five have been acquitted, while ninety
others have been sentenced to fine or
Imprisonment, and the remaining fifty
are still awaiting their trial. The
amount OF bail lodged and OF fees paid
for hearing has exceeded three thou
sand pounds, these sums being exclu-
sive Of counsel's fees and other legal
expenses.
st. Johns Day, in Italy, is thus
observed at Revello, "The peo-
pie here have a curious superstition
connected with this eve Of st. Johns
Day, which is observed by many; they
repeat their rosaries until midnight,
and then look out, firmly believing that
they will see Herodias and her daugh-
ter pass, riding on fiery plank, the
daughter saying: Mother, why did you
say itp' and the mother: Daughter,
why did you do ftp and then plunge
into the sea; the reason why, after St.
Johns Day, the temperature Of the sea
rises, and bathing begins"