The Opelousas courier., 1889-07-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP

NV only the dearest in Europe. but the
worst ed, SO far as the rank .n1 e sre
are concerned. "io
"A curious feature of the theatars
ID Melbourne, remarks a newsnanen
"rl.er' Is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard rooms. "l
Female physicians ara allowed
ptac'lee IN Iurkestan, but there is 50
liV'ie demand for their services hat
'nes pay patients to employ them.
II Emperor of Germany lately
sent to the Emperor of Morocco ffteaa
me horses in acknowledgment of nres.
ents recently sent from Morocco IN
Berlin. W
according to a statistical docu-
ment lately published in Paris, there
are In Europe three hundred thousand
ollnd people, thirty thousand of whom
are in France.
Queen Victoria is said to have &C.
CURED a marvellous fuency in Hindoo-
stance, in which language she con-
verses freely with her turbaned Indian
servants.
Women walters are increasing i,
the farls restaurants, much to the dis
gust OF the garcons, who have so lono
been the real monarchs of the trav and
napkin.
"A Hindoo journal says that one of
the most difficult feats under the SIM
to identify Europeans, because thew
gre so much alike with their lond
gIaring colors.
A wealthy, though eccentric, no.
t~el-keeper of Buda-Pesth, Hungary,
was so pleased at receiving a divorce
that he celebrated the event by found
ing a charitable institution.
Last year fifteen Cinnamon were
married in Queensland-one to a ma
tive OF the colony, one to a Victorian
native, two to Scotch women, three to
Irish women and eight to English
women. a.
-Bismarck's famous dog, the Reichs-
hund or Realm dog, which died re-
Gently at the age of thirteen, was an
unusually large slate-colored Danish
boar hound, called Tyras. Bismarck
got his first Danish hound when he
was se}enteen, and has had one ever
since.
The Queen of Madagascar is de-
scrlbed as a small, slender, light
brown woman, with a sweet smile and
no end of Paris gowns. She is twenty
three years cd, has been four years a
Queen, and is really worshiped by her
people.
The commercial crisis which was
expected to follow the abolition of
slavery in Brazil, has not yet appeared.
Exchange has steadily risen. until the
Brazilian paper millreis-three years
ago at a discount of forty per CENTS
actually selling to-day a little above
par.
1t is dangerous to be gossiping in
Vienna when great persohages, dead
or alive, are concerned. A printers
boy in that town expressed his opinion
very mildly concerning the dead Prince
Rudolph's character, relating one or
two anecdotes in support of his opin-
ion, and was promptly sentenced to six
months ut hard labor.
in Alsace Lorraine four young
girls were lately formally forbidden to
teach French by the direction of the
district, and were tire ftened with ex-
pulsion if they transgEfssed the conf
m ind. Two others wese officially
warned on suspicion, the hiaching Of
French being regarded by til author
tiles as an unlawful profession.
There are banks at Buenos AyreG,
with capital greater than any in the
United States, and occupying buildings
finer than any banking house in New
York. The Provincial Bank has a
capital of $SS3, 600, 900 and $67, 900, 900
of deposits. The National Bank has a
canital of $40. 600. 900.