St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

of ever thinking that any particular
law is not wise and just can be pun.
ished as severely as an American who
attempts robbery.
Pancake parties is French fancy
in amusement. The cakes are pre-
pared by the assembled company on
the sands or on the grass under the
trees with the necessary materials,
and after a feast of the cakes the
guests strive to toss pancakes as high
as possible.
Regulations have been established
in the coffee districts in Guatemala by
which farmers are required to build
furnaces on their lands, and whenever
signal is given to indicate the danger
of frost, to light in them fires of tar,
pitch or other substance likely to
make a great smoke and keep away
the frost.
Two gentlemen recently elected to
the Oxford and Cambridge Club in
London had been waiting nine years
for their names to be reached on the
list of proposals, and at another Lon
don club a gentleman just elected had
been proposed so many years ago that
he had forgotten all about it, and was
surprised when he received notice of
his election.
"A silver crown piece, known as
''the petition crown" of the reign of
Charles H., fetched $1,775 at recent
sale in England. At the latest pre-
vious sale similar coin had brought
only SLIPS. A sovereign of Edward
Wis time brought IS. 25, fifty shilling
piece of the Cromwell era $3.50, an
Oxford crown $3.50. A penny of Ethel
bald brought $3.50, and other old pen
mics 800 and $50 each.
-Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor
of London, seems to be a most remark
able man. His eccentricities are al
most startling. Not long ago he in
spected the boys of the British naval
training ship Warspite. During his
address he told the boys that his wife
would take great pleasure in giving
each one Of them a shilling, which he
hoped ''they would keep throughout
their future life as a souvenir of the oc-
casiOn.
"A foreign medical writer says:
eFMothers in Paris, who are devotees
of fashion, not content to see their
children free from illness and wearing
the rosy hue of health, have called in
the aid of dyes and powders to impart
what they consider to be a still more
becoming complexion. Mere infants
hardly able to walk are to be seen
thus. unattractively decorated, and
their future, whether as regards COM
fort or appearance, is evidently of little
account in the eyes of their senseiess
parents.
Rear Admiral Homage, the officer
commanding the British Pacific sta
ton, is earning the epithet of 'Sir
Joseph Porter" He has forbidden
any officer or man to walk on the poop
of the flagship while he is there, and
insists ON the crew uncovering their
heads as long as he is on deck. He
also requires his officers to wear white
kid gloves at divisions on Sundays,
and to have their frock coats and tu-
mics buttoned on all occasions.
Tho London paupers have been
cca,ntcd, and this is the result: Pau;
IS, exclusive of lunatics in asylums
ID Migrants, taken on the last day of
The weeks named hereunder (enumer-
ated inhabitants in 1881, 3,815, 0O0),
third week Of May, 18S8-indoor, 55,-
769; outdoor, 3S,5s6; total, 1856.
Third week of May, 18s7-indoor, 55,-
OS6; outdoor, 1926; total, 92,291.
Third week of May, 1SS6-indoor, 3d.
255; outdoor. 1929; total, 9O,553.
Third week of May, 1SS5-indoor, ST.
304; outdoor, S4,25O; total, s6,554 Tex
GLIDING patients in the fever and
smallpox hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylum distriet).
The Italian Government has decid-
ed. in view of the celebration in this
country of the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the discovery of America in
1892, to collect and publish all the
documents and charts that can be OBJ
tanned relating to Christopher Column
.'.s,.as and his discoveries. Twelve thou
land lire (about two thousand four
aundred dollars1 annually have been
appropriated for the next five years to
,a,,ay the cost of the great undertaking,
(which is to be carried out by Senator
Sorrenti, assisted by a learned commits
SON.