The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-04-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Morocco women who talk scan
dal are punished by having cayenne
pepper rubbed into their lips.
Within ten years 100000 acres
OF British lands have been transformed
into pasturagc-
"A Seotchman has started to trun-
die wheelbarrow from Glasgow to
RENE. AMI expects to complete the
job 10 year
The Standard oil men Of Russia
are the two Noble brothers. who are
said to be worth $500. 900, 900. Their
income is greater than the Cars.
The Duke OF Cambridge, COM
mander-in chief Of the British army.
gets s33. 900 a year. while all Count
Won MoItke, Of the German army. re-
ceiyes is 81. 600
Louis Frechette, the Canadian
poet, has been commissioned BY the
managers of the Theater Francois.
Paris. to translate King Lear" for
rendition during the 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
are $50 registered book-makers- II is
computed that f150 900 is annually
bet on 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 blushingly appeared he was
greeted with roars of laughter, and
cries Of HIS the lunatie."
A regular industry in Paris is said
10 be the lasting and inspection OF
dishes at private houses by profess
sianal cooks He comes when ordered
to the house where great dinner is
under way, looks, smells, tastes OF,
orders little salt in this soup, bit Of
sugar in that sauce, flavor Of onion
in the other salad. and goes of to the
next customer.
The manner i'm which the spruce
and pine forests of Norway are being
exterminated 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 telling has the effect of
changing the climate in the forest To-
ealities-
The Russian military authorities
are training falcons TO fight the car
Iier pigeons now extensively adopted
by all the European armies for car
ryiug messages in time of war At
some recent experiments pigeons sent
I'D at a distance Of several miles from
the falcons were speedily overtaken
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 Jura, Switzer-
land, under a system by which each
in turn made cheese of the milk OF
the whole community given to him
every day, is now made in a 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
reptitiously to some extent and efforts
are especially made to procure inmates
for the harems of tue wealthy. In
1886 10 female slaves, intended for
the harems, were rescued and provided
with home at the asylum. Most of
these women were negresses, but some
of them were pretty Circassian and
Abyssinian girls. All these women
are retained at the asylum until tley
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
sentenced to prison.