The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-10-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

King Solomon has been officially
declared bankrupt in England. He
was Salvation Army King.
Birds nests of the edible sort
bring their weight in silver for the
tables of rich Chinese mandarins.
Ten millions sterling will be spent
by the Japanese Government in the
next ten years in the purchase of fit,
teen ironclads and thirty torpedo
boats.
AT recent sale in Paris 81 900 was
paid for velvet-pile Persian carpet.
A less fine one went for $4,000, and
tapestry of the fifteenth and eighteenth
centuries realized extraordinary prices.
LESS than fifty years ago there was
not Photographic camera in the
world; to-day there are $4,000 photo
graphic establishments, to say nothing
of the thousands Of amateur outfits in
the United States.
The old celebration of Waterloo
has faded out altogether in England.
The churches no longer ring their
bells on June IS, and the military
celebration of the day is abandoned.
The great fight has faded into history.
Masses of deep-sea coral, many
tons in weight, which were torn from
their ocean bed by the volcanic explo.
sion in Sunda Straits two years ago,
may now be seen two or three miles
inland, whittier they were borne by
the tidal wave.
The third-class passenger is be-
coming more and more conspicuous in
England. According to a report of the
Great Northern railway for one-half
of the year, frst-class passengers were
81 per cent. of the traffic; second class,
81 per cent, and third class, 81 per
cent.
in England the proper ratio OF
doctor to population is said to be one
to 200, but by this rule there are 1,943
too many doctors in London, and while
600 die every year, 1900 new ones are
turned out. Competition is so great
that in some parts of the city doctors
see patient, prescribe and supply
medicine for sixpence visit.
The putting on short time ago OF
the fast express between Edinburgh
and London has revived memories of
the old inhabitants AS to English rail-
reading forty years ago, and one of
these alleges that he can remember
when the train for Edinburgh was
started by a bugle playing I'D be a
Butterfly The passenger cars were
as much like stage coaches as possible;
the baggage was carried piled on top,
and the guards sat like drivers on top
also.
"A great many English newspapers
and large number of their CORE
spondents are earnestly condemning
Egyptian tobacco and the doctored
cigarettes made in Cairo and London
therefrom. 1t is commended that a
large number of cases of mouth dis
eases have resulted from the use of
these cigarettes, and the discussion,
which is becoming hot and interesting,
will very likely result in serious in
jury to the Eastern tobacco trade
Prof. Hauser, of Germany, recent
ly made a remarkable archaeological
discovery in a remarkable way. He
noticed that a corn-feld near Alien
burg varied in color, and declared that
the variation in color was due to the
existence of buried amphitheater,
the corn ripening more slowly over
buried walls. An excavation proved
that this audacious theory was correct,
and large theater was discovered
from which paved road leads to the
camp of Carnuntum, previously dis
covered by the Professor.
Princess Eugene of Sweden sacri-
feed her family jewels to build hos
pital upon an island off the coast,
where poor cripples might be nursed
and healed. Her brother, the King,
thought her crazy to sell all the crown
! jewels that had fallen to her share.
But they were to her the unused mo-
tor. that properly applied and con-
nected with benevolent work, might
yet set in motion thousand blessed
wheels of help and healing.
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