The Arizona sentinel., 1888-04-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Morocco women who talk scan- dal are punished by having cayenne pepper rubbed into their lips.
 Within ten years 2,2JOOOO acres of British lands have been transformed into pasturage.
 A Scotchman has started to trun- dle a wheelbarrow from Glasgow to Rome. and expects to complete the job in year.
 The Standard oil men of Russia are the two Noble brothers, who are said 10 be worth $400. 000 000 Their income is greater than the Czars.
 The Duke of Cambridgt, com mander-in chief of the British army, gets S33. 900 a year. while all Count von Moltke, of the G .rma1 army, re- ceiyes is S7, 000-
 Louis Frechette, the Canadian poet has been commissioned by the managers of the Theater Francais, Paris, to translate King Lear" for rendition during th9 Exposition of 1889.
 The Australians are the greatest betters in the world. Twenty million pounds changes hands annually over horse races. In Victoria alone there arc 250 registered book makers. It is computed that 9150. 0OO is annually bet OF football matches.
 In Liverpool, England. play en- titled, "Who's the Lunaticr' was re- gently enacted. Before it was finished half the people in the audience were shouting: ''The author. the author. " When he blushin9ly appeared he was greeted with roars of laughter, and cries of Ills the lunatic."
 A regular industry in Paris is said 10 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, a flavor of onion in the other salad, anl goes off to the next customer.
 The manner in which the spruce and pine forests of Norway are being Cx erminated 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 felling has the effect of changing the climate in the forest To- calities.
 The Russian military authorities are training falcons to fight the car ricr 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 ovcrtaken and killed by the birds of prey, some of them even bringing the captured birds to their master.
 -Gruyere cheese, which had been made by the farmers of J ura. Switzer- land, under system by which each in turn made cheese of the milk of the whole community given to him every day, is now made in factory, to which all the farmers take their milk. and the product of which is 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 farmers 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 170 female slaves. intended for the harems, were rescued and provided with a home at the asylum. Most of these women were negresses, but some of them were pretty Circassian anl girls. All these women are retained at the asylum until they receive some education. and are fitted to support themselves by work provid- ed for them. During the year thirty | slave dealers were found guilty and | to prison.