Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-04-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

lin Morocco women who talk scan-
dal are punished BY having cayenne
pepper rubbed into their lips.
Within ten years 900. coo acres
Of British lands have been tr ansformsd
into pasturaga
"A Scotchman has started to trun-
die q wheelbarrow from Glasgow to
Rome and expects to complete tho
job in year.
The Standard oil men Of Russia
are the two Noble brothers. who are
said to be worth 800. 900. 600 Their
income is greater than the Cars
The Duke of Cambridge. COM
mander-in chief of the British army,
gets SSS. 600 . year. while all Count
Won Moltke. of the German army, re-
ceives is $1,000
Louis Frechette. the Canadian
poet has been commissioned by the
managers of the Theater Francais
Paris to translate king Lear for
rendition during the Exposition Of
1889.
Tho Australians are the greatest
betters in the world Twenty million
pounds changes hands annually over
horse races. In Victoria alone there
are 250 registered book-makers It is
computed that ESQ. 600 is annually
bet on football matches
in Liverpool, England. q play en-
titled. who's the Lunatic!'' was re-
Gently enacted. Before it was finished
half the people in the audience were
shouting: The author. the author"
When he blushingly appeared he was
greeted with roars of laughter. and
G. les of He's the lunatic."
"A regular industry in Paris is said
to be the tasting and inspection Of
dishes at private houses by profess
sional cooks He comes when ordered
to the house where a great dinner is
under way. looks. smells. tastes Of
orders little salt in this soup.a bit Of
sugar in that sauce. flavor Of onion
in the other salad. and goes of to the
next customer.
The manner in which the spruce
and pine forests Of Norway are being
exterminated is becoming SO serious
that the government is called upon to
put a stop. by legislation. to the de-
forestation Of the country. Apart
from the wanton exhaustion of this
commercial wealth. it is maintained
that wholesale telling has the effect of
changing the climate in the forest To-
calities.
The Russian military authorities
are training falcons to fight the car
rier pigeons now extensively adopted
by all the European armies for car
rying messages in time of war: At
some recent experiments pigeons sent
up at distance of several miles from
the falcons were speedily overtaken
and killed by the birds of prey. lsome
of them even bringing the captured
birds to their master.
-Gruyere cheese. which had been
made by the farmers of ura, Switzer-
land, under system by which each
in turn made q cheese Of the milk OF
the Ewhole community given to him
every day. is now made in a factory.
to which all the farmers take their
milk. and the product Of which il
common property. instead OF each
cheese being the individual property
of the man who made it This
makes the cheese more uniform and
of better quality, and increases the
profits.
Since the slave trade was abolish
ed in Egypt an asylum for female
slaves has been maintained in Cairo
The slave trade is still carried on sur
to some extent. and efforts
are especially made to procure inmates
for the harems of the wealthy. In
1886 40 female slaves. intended for
the harems. were rescued and provided
with home at the asylum. Most of
these women were negresses but some
Of them were pretty Circassian and
girls All these women
are retained at the asylum until they
receive some education. and are fitted
10 support themselves by work provide
ed for them During the year thirty
slave dealers were found guilty and
a.