Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The population Of Paris is said TO
be decreasing quite rapidly.
American Investments in Mexico
aggregate nearly or quite 81. 00O 600
The past seasons wool-clip in
New South Wales is tho largest ever
known in that country.
The London firemen are to be uni
formed in asbestos cloth. like their
Paris brethren. They will be veritabla
salamanders.
The Emir Of Afghanistan has fall
on in love with bag pipes. and has Or
dered two hundred of them for Cabul
The Shah Of Persia has also ordered q
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 worlds
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 1SO, :
600 candles and can be seen at sea
fifty miles dista 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 trfiing sum.
If they marry they forfeit all claims.
but if they remain spinsters until
fort hey 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 ap-
Drehension that Russia contemplates
no stile demonstration on the frontier,
although there is evidently good
deal of bad feeling at St Petersburg
The London Telegraph believes
chat 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 las
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 ''dust" be-
yond the widest dreams of avarice;
that since the exhibition of 1851 Lon
don has never seen q 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 ZeituWg will commemorate the
125th anniversary of its foundation.
A copy of the first issue is preserved
at the National museum in Buda-
Pesth. 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
since Stanley showed the Importance
of the great river. One ocean steamer
has already ascended 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 at Banana
and Bona
"A story comes from Honolulu that
after Q Ieen Kapiolane and her daugh
ter got home from their recent trip to
Europe they caused to be put into
shop windows pictures of themselves
taken in London in the superb court
costumes that they had bought in
Paris. A native mob passed resolu-
tions denOuncing this breach of Sand
wch Island CHS foms as to clothing,
visited all the shops where the pictures
were displayed, destroyed the por-
traits. and then went to the palace
and demanded that the costumes
themselves be delivered to them The
royal ladies had to yield, and saw the
triumphs of Worth torn in pieces by
the mob A promise was then axacted
that the Green and Princess hereafter
would wear only the native costume,
and the mob broke up.