Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

An the new table china In London d huted
| with very extravagant decorations
| The gold mined in Australia and neigh
boring islands in 1883 was valued at 3, sos,
| $50.
Hammered gold rings with diamond o.
ruby are the latest style in mems finger ring
in London.
A marble statue Of the Princess Of Wales
by French sculptor, is to be executed fol
erection at Copenhagen
The number of persons who, from the ett
of May till the LIST Of October, visited the
Paris exhibition reached the total of &c, 600.
600
The latest Partisan novelty in gloves has a
small purse inserted in the palm, wherein
women can carry them railway tickets and
small coins.
Mr.. John Tenniel is 70 years old, and has
been making pictures for Punch for forty
years He lives with his sister, and is tall,
military looking man
A small picture was lately sold at the
Hotel Drouot, in Paris, for 100 francs, which,
on being verified as his work by NJ Meis.
francs
The Emperor William has ordered every
branch Of the German cavalry to be armed
with the lance as its chief weapon, though
neither the sword nor the carbine is to be
discarded.
Among the pupils at the Ecole Polytech-
nique in Paris an Arabian from Algiers has
just been made a lieutenant Of artillery. He
Is the first of his race to receive such an ap-
pointment.
The Bayreuth theatre will be closed the
whole of next summer and reopened in 1891,
In order to give 'Tannhauser" with the great
est possible eclat that an outlay Of sec, 600
will effect
Cigars are no longer to be called "cigarren"
in Germany. Rauchrolle has been substitute
ed, and Pastor Zeller, of Waiblingen; has
earned a prize Of hundred marks for sug-
costing the name.
A grave in the cemetery at Offranville, in
France, bears the amusing epitaph: Here
lies Nademoiselle Ursule Leveque, who died
in her 65th year, surrounded by flannel and
the affection of her family"
It falls to the lot of few coachmen to die
worth between $4,000 and $4,000, as has
happened in the case of the late Mr. Henry
Charles Westover. who occupied that position
in the Prince of Wales household.
The smokeless powder intended for use in
the Austrian army is now declared to be per-
feet. Besides its initial advantage Of being
smokeless, it is said to give velocity some 20
per cent. greater than that of the ordinary
powder.
Among Belgian manufacturers move
ment has been set on foot for holding an ex-
hibition representing the arts and industries
of Belgium in London next year The Bel
gian government is giving the undertaking
its support.
The Ceylon papers announce the death Of
an elephant named Sella, which has served
the public works department for sixty-five
years, and had worked in various parts of the
island under different circumstances for an
unknown period.
1t has often been reported that the British
army is largely composed of understood boys
instead OF stalwart men, but the returns do
not bear out these statements OF 202, 761
men only IL $50 are under 10 years of age,
while 81 per cent. are over feet inches in
height.
A London journal is very respondent on
the prospects of professional men in England
The rate Of emolument for the professional
classes, it says, is steadily going down. 1t is
nearly as difficult now for a member of the
proIessioi1s.: classes to make $500 year as it
was for his father to make Si,2cA.
Time by the ForeIock.
Fully thirty years ago, at certain custom
house on the American border, one of the
local appraisers was one day found dead in a
warehouse. The man who made the discoy-
cry covered the body with tarpaulin, and
then started to break the news to the widow.
He found her seated On the verauda and salut-
ed her, and asked if Dan was home She re-
piled in the negative, and he sat down and
talked about the weather and other matters
for quarter of an hour before saying Mrs
Philbrick, you and the collectors wife are
friends, are you not!" ooh, yes, the best of
friends" And through her you could inhu-
ence the collectors" Il don't know about
that" But if there should be a vacancy
among the appraisers would you be willing
to speak good word for meF' why, yes,
I'm sure l would" ''If, for instance, Dan
should resign, could count on your kind ef-
fortsf' 'Oh, certainly"
He returned to the warehouse, re-discov-
cred the body, gave the alarm, and had it
sent horne. Three hours later be called to
offer his services as one of the dead watch,
and as he took the sorrowing widow by tbs
hand, he said: Poor Danl Cut down in the
prime of life, and that without warning.
Let me assure you of my heartfelt sympa-
thy, and please don't forget to pull that wire
for me when the collectors wife comes over
to extend her sympathies. ALL how true it
IS that life hangs by brittle thread" And
Il is matter Of record that he received the
experimentation Francisco Argonaut.