Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-04-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Nine London theaters are manaped
by women.
There was an increased area of no
less than rs 9SS acres under cultivation
in Ireland last year.
"A new plaza de toros' is to be
built in the City of Mexico which will
equal any of the most celebrated
plazas de toros in Spain. The build
ing will be covered with glass. that
the bull-fights may not be interrupted
by rainy weather.
From their earliest youth the
Burmese men tattoo their legs from
the thighs down to the knees with do
signs both floral and animal. and
puncture the upper part of their bodies
with numerous round holes, into
which they rub vermillion powder.
This operation is such that opium is
often administered to deaden the ago.
nizing pain that it causes.
All the government departments
of France, incluling that of agricult-
ure, have had to submit to a reduction
of the sums pronosed for their use
during the year 1888. The agriculture
al department. will have 9 soS $40
frances less than the sum originally
asked for. The most general regret
is occasioned by the reduction of the
vote for agricultural education by So,
620 francs.
Partly with view to the devel OPP
ment Of agriculture in Mexico. a pro-
jet for making Vera Cruz a free port
of entry is being discussed with great
interest. The idea is that European
merchants would, open branch es'ab-
lishments in the country and that
agriculture would be promoted in order
to stimulate trade. Europe favors tho
project as the best means of helping
them,to meet American competition.
In 1880 there were only about five
hundred miles of railway in Mexico.
while by the close of the present year
the total will exceed three thousand
six hundred miles, with capital in
vested of about $12O 900. 600. OF this
two thousand seven hundred miles is
owned and operated by Americans.
The revenues of the country have been
also advanced from $17. 800 600 in 1879
to 1873. 900, 900 in 1885, Evidently the
advent of the American has not been
such bad thing for Mexico after all
81. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Parsee community in India is
fast undergoing radical change, ac-
cording to native writer in the Times
of India. AS the younger generation
grow up under European influences
they become more and more Angli-
cised, think that government berth
Is the only employment worth having
and dcspise the commercial calling Of
their forefathers. The Parsee young
ladies are partly answerable for this
opinion. as they value husband in
proportion to his success at the uni
versity and his '.genteel employment"
"A new game called ringoal has
come into favor in E ,gland this sum-
mer, and forms an addition to tennis
at garden parties and fashionable out
door gatherings. The game requires
two goals in the shape of nets, grass
hoops. and sticks. The hoop is thrown
to and fro between the players. the
thrower scoring one point each time
that he succeeds in sending the hoop
past his opponent into the goal. This
the other player tries to prevent by
catching the hoop on one or both of
his sticks. and if he is successful he
throws it back at his opponent, in
order. if possible, to get it into his
goal.
"A British major has been on his
travels in Japan, and is as delighted
with the tea-house maids rs he is dis
gusted with japanese art He is
''wholly repealed by its ugly. niggling
details" A famous Sleeping Cat"
by Jingoro, is TO him "a very vulgar
graymalkin caterwauling on the
titles" and the decorative art is due
to men who are Ignorant of the prin-
ciples of perspective and the merest
rpdiment of anatomy" Concerning
the statues in temples he bursts out:
IL am sick of these Buddhas, with
their satyr-like grins and sensuous
complacency. their obese stomachs,
and their flabby, foul features. Pub
Tic Opinion.