Thomas County cat., 1889-11-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Inspector of Butcheries in
Paris reports that the consumption Of
horse flesh has increased to an extra
ordinary extent.
King Aumbert's palace in Rome.
the Quirinal. contains 1900 rooms,
only 125 Of which are occupied by the
King and his household.
The North China Herald says that
agents of the Panama canal made ar
rangements to kidnap $4,000 An
namese coolies to work at Panama, but
the enterprise failed.
just before selling the furniture OF
an old lady at Ryde. England, the
executor examined an ancient bureau
and discovered secret drawer, in
which were upward of 1000 sovereigns,
closely packed.
The average time taken to put two
persons in telephone communication
in Glasgow is thirty-five seconds. in
Birmingham forty. in Liverpool thirty.
two and in Dundee twenty. This was
ascertained from the results of ten
calls in each town.
"A popular superstition in Naples
Is that of Offering charm to horses
head or neck for the purpose of wardins
of the evil eye. This usually consists
of piece of horn; but occasionally q
Madonna may be observed, and occa-
sionally small bag Of sand fulfilling
the same purpose.
The Mexican woman who is
obliged to earn her own living has a
hard time of it. Seamstresses can not
earn more than fifty cents per day.
cigarette-makers from thirty-two to
thirty-eight cents. and match-makers
thirty to forty cents, and these are the
only employments that are open to
women in the City of Mexico.
Prince Bismarck recently re-
marked to a friend that in the course
of his long and eventful life he had
never met but one thing that really
mystified him. II can not" he said,
account for the fact that a group OF
wax-figures never by any chance look
at an object they are supposed to be
interested in, or at each other"
Queen Victoria has of late fallen
into the habit of taking little ''cat-
maps" in her chair, even when visitors
are present. At such times the royal
lady goes through the same routine
followed by the most humble Of her
subjects. Her head falls a little for
ward, swaying slightly from side to
side; then she sits bolt upright, opens
her eyes wide, and assumes an appear
ance of great intelligence and alert
ness.
Ellen Manning, fashionable and
wealthy woman of Stapeley, England.
was recently arraigned on charge Of
having stolen sixty pounds of straw
from her neighbor, Mr.. Hornby, the
famous cricketer. She pleaded not
guilty, but a boy employed by her
testified that the fodder running short
she had directed him to go at night to
the yards of various neighbors and
steal something for the cattle to eat,
and that when he told her he had done
so she laughed. The case was ad-
journed to give q chance for settle
ment.
-Ex-Empress Victoria of Germany
and the Queen of Italy are said to be
the two cleverest and most highly edu-
Gated women in Europe. The ex-Em-
press is brilliant conversationalist,
but is not as witty as Queen Marghe-
rita. The former, however. is pos
sessed of a knowledge of scientific sub
jects most remarkable for a woman.
She is able to converse learnedly with
such men as Virchow and Won Helm
holz, and her comprehension of her
husbands case awakened wonder
among his physicians.
The increasing severity of the pass
port regulations will make it necessary
for all Americans going to Germany to
bring passports from America, and
that the personal descriptions. ETC..
therein shall be exact enough to satisfy
a Russian policeman in search of Nihil-
lists. Passports must be stamped by q
German Ambassador at Paris, but the
passport regulations do not apply to
travellers by the common route from
Paris via Belgium to Berlin. but only
along direct routes on the Alsace-Lor-
raine frontier.