The Arizona sentinel., 1888-09-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

II aris, 1t is said, is consuming more
 horse-fiesh for food than ever before.
 A pet panther of Duchess is the
 gossip of Paris. The Duchess is said to feed the pet herself, and to affec- tionately stroke the fierce creature through the bars of the cage.
 The mother of the present Ger man Empress is confined in mad house. She wanted to become the wife
 of Louis Napoleon, when he was Pres- ident, and would have done so but for the opposition of Queen Victoria.
 The King of Corea is not the weakling that his enemies represent him. In fact, he is strong, kindly, progressive man, who has hard road to go, and whose gentleness is some times mistaken for lack of strength. Americans who know him admire him.
 Queen Victoria has won quite a reputation among English agricultur- alists as what may be called royal farmer of the gentler sex. At the show of the Isle of Wight Agricult- ural Society recently she took three prizes for farm horses, one for Jersey cattle, and four for Down sheep.
 Queen Regent Christina of Spain is exceedingly superstitious and is great believer in what is called fate; she has, moreover, great faith in 'affinities, !" and the influence of one person over another for good or evil. She is con- vinced that it is possible for person to magnetize another by a look, by touch or by desire.
 The destruction of forests has pro- ceeded so rapidly in Prussia of late years that the government has passed law protecting timber. It was found that the climate in many districts was changing, and rivers and lakes were becoming shallow in consequence of the wholesale cutting away of woods.
 It is not generally known that there is a prayer meeting in connec- ton with the British House of Con- mons. In the room of Colonel Legge, the deputy assistant sergeant-at-arms, within the precincts of the House, a prayer-meeting is held weekly during the time the House is in session. No similar service is held in connection with the House of Lords.
 The King of the Belgians hates tobacco, never wears gloves and goes as much as possible. He is fond of bathing, but does not swim. Geography and languages are his favorite studies, and he has travelled in almost every Asiatic country. He is a handsome man, slightly built, but with blue eyes and a big brown beard touched with gray.
 Queen Natalie's private fortune is variously estimated at from 1,500,000 to 5000, 900 rubles, not reckoning her estates in Bessarabia. She is a careful financial manager. The marital troubles of King Milan and Queen Natalie have often been represented as due in great to Milan's endeavors to en- croach upon his wife private fortune. It seems, however, that she has man. aged to retain it all in her own hands.
 The Sultan of Turkey eats well and with much circumspection. His daily food is cooked by one man and his aids. It is prepared in silver vessels, and each vessel is sealed by a slip of paper and stamp after the meal is cooked. These seals are broken in the presence of the Sultan by the nigh chamberlain, who takes a spoon 'ul of each dish before the Sultan tastes ] 1t. The annual expenditure of the Sultan's household is over $41, 100000. |