St. Landry democrat., 1888-02-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The population of Paris is said to
be decreasing quite rapidly.
American investments in Mexico
aggregate nearly or quite $1,000. 000
The past seasons wool-clip in
New South Wales is tho largest ever
known in that country.
The London tiremen are to be uni
formed in asbestos cloth, like their
Paris brethren. They will be veritabIe
salamanders.
The Emir of Afghanistan has fall
en- in love with bag pipes. and has Or
dered two hundred of them for Cabul.
The Shah of Persia has also ordered a
brass band. Thus music soothes the
savage breast.
The great tower of iron, thou
sand feet high, which was to have
been the feature of the next world S
fair at Paris, is to be abandoned. 1t
was found impossible to induce work.
men to build it.
The largest electric light in the
world is in the lighthouse at Sydney.
Australia. 1t has the power of 1870, =
900 candles. and can be seen at sea
fifty miles dis. ant Americas largest
light, $4,000 candle power, is at San
Jose, Cal.
An "Anti-Celibacy Insurance
Company" has been established in
Denmark. in which young women be-
ginning at the age of thirteen can in-
sure themselves for tr.fng sum.
If they marry they forfeit all claims.
but if they remain spinsters until
FORT they are entitled to small an
nuity.
The Russian war scare has led to
great activity in Austrian military
circles. There does not seem. how
ever, to be any real ground for the APP
prehension that Russia contemplates
10 stile demonstration on the frontier,
although there is evidently Il good
deal of bad feeling at St. Peters burg.
The London Telegraph believes
that better times are in store for Brit
ish farmers. 1t believes the improve
ment is coming in the direction of
stock raising, to supply the large de-
mand for beef and mutton which has
been to SO large an extent supplied
from abroad. and that thousands of
acres of fine farming land in the Brit
ish Islands will be utilized for that
purpose.
"A London newspaper speaking
of the breaking up of the Wild West
show in London, says that Buffalo
Bill has gathered in the ''lust'' be-
yond tho widest dreams of avarice;
that since the exhibition of 1851 Lon
don has never seen show that so took
it by storm. and that the show might
have gone on exhibiting in London
for the rest of Mr. Cody's natural
life.
-Austria-Hungary boasts of some
of the Oldest newspapers in the world.
On the 1st of January next the Press
burger Zeit@ng will commemorate the
125th anniversary of its foundation.
Aecopy of the first issue is preserved
at the National museum in Bud a.
Peslh. There is, however. a more
ancient newspaper in Vienna, namely,
the Weiner Zeitung. which is the of
fetal gazette, and was founded in the
year 1900.
The fact that fifteen to twenty-five
steamers a month are now arriving at
the mouth of the Congo illustrates the
growth Of commerce in that region
sine Stanley showed the Importance
Of the great river. One ocean steamer
has already assembled the river to
Bona, fifty miles from the sea, and
the best channels are being marked by
buoys, so that deep-draught vessels
may safely navigate the lower river.
Little hotels for the entertainment of
travellers have been built ut Banana
and Bona.
"A story comes from Ho" olulu tina
after @ leen Kapiolane and her daugh-
Ter got home from their recent trip to
Europe thoy caused to be put into
shop windows pictures of themselves
aiken in Lo.don in the superb court
costumes that they had bought in
Paris. A native mob passed resolu-
ioas denouncing this breach of Sand
Wieh Island CTS oms as to clothing.
7isite,l all the shops where the pictures
we're displayed, destroyed the por-
rats. and then went to the palace
md demanded that the costumes
be delivered to them. The
oval ladies had to yield. and saw the
riumphs of Worth torn in pieces By |
he mob. A promise was then axacted
hat the Q leen and Princess hereafter
would wear only the native costume,
Ind the mob broke up.