Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-10-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

j aris, II is said. is consuming more
hOrse-Hesh 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 a 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 a 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 a 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, =
aud the influence of one person over
another for good or evil She is con-
vnced that it is possible for person
10 magnetic another by u look, by
touch or by desire.
The destruction of forests has pro-
,eeded so rapidly in Prussia OF late
years that the government has passed
= law protecting timber. 1t was found
hat the climate in many districts was
changing, and rivers and lakes were
becoming shallow in consequence of
;he wholesale cutting away Of woods.
1t is not generally known that
here is prayer meeting in connec-
ion with the British House OF Com
mons. In the room OF Colonel Legge,
:he deputy assistant sergeant-at-arms,
within the precincts of the House, a
orayer-meeting is held weekly during
;he time the House is in session. No
~ similar service is held in connection
with the House OF Lords.
The King of the Belgians hates
Dbacco, never wears gloves and goes
oareheaded as much as possible. He
s fond Of bathing, but does not swim
Geography and languages are his
,avorite studies, and he has travelled II
almost every Asiatic country. He is ;
handsome man, slightly built, bu
muscular, with blue eyes and bis
brown beard touched with gray.
Queen Natalie's private fortune il
yariously estimated at from 1900, O0t
70 100000 rubles, not reckoning he
Estates in Bessarabia. She is careful
financial manager. The marital troubles
II King Milan and Queen Natalie have
,ften been represented as due in "a grea
measure to Milan's endeavors to en-
.roach upon his wife private fortune
Il seems, however, that she has man
aged to retain it all in her own hands
The Sultan of Turkey eats wei
and with much circumspectiOn.. Hi
laily food is cooked by one man ant
MS aids. It is prepared in silve
vessels, and each vessel is sealed by
,lip of paper and a stamp after tn
neal is cooked. These seals are broker
IN the presence of the Sultan by tn
high chamberlain, who takes q spoon
.ul of each dish before the Sultan taste
It. The annual expenditure Of tn
Sultan's household is over $41, 900, ,000