Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The skeleton OF the largest ele-
plant ever killed in India has been
found to measure ten feet six inches
high.
old bachelor died recently in
Rome leaving the Pope 1000. 600 lire.
10 his sister he left monthly allow
ance of five lire.
At a bazaar in Vienna an English
millionaire paid So. 900 for kiss from
one of the beautiful stall holders-the
Marchioness Pallaviccini.
Sir Conrad Reeves, the Chief JUS
tice of Barbados, is of slave descent on
his mothers side. and is the first mu-
latto who has received the honor of
Knighthood
The Sepoys of India kicked up a
great rebellion about hogs grease. but
their tastes have changed in the last
i've years and they now eat American
ham and bacon with as much gusto as
a European.
"A prominent Turkish official in
Constantinople laments the spread of
Christianity among the women of
Turkey. on the ground that it will
soon lead the Turkish ladies to dress
as immodestly as Christian ladies.
Cremation is apparently growing
in favor with the aristocratic classes
In England. One of the great landed
owners of London, and the descendant
OF an illustrious line of dukes (name
Or &c to h 10
donation of s.. 600 to the Cremation
Society of England, and his body is to
be burned after death.
The total population of Bulgaria
and Rumelia, strangers included, was
ascertained On January 1st, 1888, to be
3. 154, $50. OF these 1886. 250 were
Bulgarians, 9O4, 900 Turks, and only
Sc, 600 Greeks. The Turkish race in
Bulgaria exhibits singular predomi-
and 5S. 900 of the Greeks are females.
Among the Bulgarians and other races
the males are in excess.
The Empress OF Russia, like her
sister, the Princess of Wales. never
wears high-crowned or large-brimmed
hats, which. indeed, would be unsuited
to the delicate type of her beauty.
Every thing must be small and neat
and compact, whether hat or bonnet
Her favorite colors are pale blue and
mauve.
In the town library of Nuremberg
is preserved an interesting globe, made
by John Schooner, professor of mathe-
mathics in the gymnasium there A. ID.
1920. 1t is very remarkable that the
passage through the Isthmus of Pam
anna. so much sought after in later
times. is on. this old globe carefully
delineated.
-Hair-dyeing is becoming general
among the laboring people of En-
gland-not from motives of vanity,
but under the spur of necessity
Working women. and even men, it ap-
pears. are given to decorating them
selves in this way as a matter of ne
cessity, and in order to earn their liv-
ing. Gray hair looks aged, and sug-
gests inefficiency; Or perhaps it does
not, for some other reason, satisfy the
fancy of critical customers; conse-
quently it is not in favor with en-
ployers. Hair-dyeing has therefore
become an established custom among
persons seeking employment
From the last report of Krupp's
establishment at Essen it appears that
in 1888 there were only nine workmen,
and in 1913. seyenty-forr. In July,
1888. the establishment employed 90
$50 men, of whom 13, 1925 were at
Essen. Including the families of the
workmen they supported population
of 1869 souls, of whom "a, 1893 lived
in houses provided by the firm. There
are at Essen 1,195 furnaces of various
constructions, 2S6 boilers, ninety two
steam hammers of from 100 to 80, 600
kilOs, $40 steam engines, with a total
of 27.0O0 horsepower, 1,724 different
machines, and SCI cranes. Of coal
and coke, 2,7S5 tons are daily used
and eleven high furnaces of the latest
constructions produce 600 tons of iron
per day.