The Springdale news., 1889-09-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Slnce louf1st5 begun tO NlolI Her.
 Princess Louise's wedding jewelry alone was estimated at 9200, GOO worth.
 A sfx-ton cab, carrying an electric battery strong enough to run it forty mics, recently made a satisfactory trip through London.
 It is absolutely essential that every Maid of Honor employed in the British Royal Family should be a good horsewoman and correct reader of mu-- sic at sight.
 There is lady in Rentoul, Lam cashire village. who runs plumbing shop and is practical hand herself. She is said to be able to wipe joint with any workman. and is an expert in finding out defects in plumbing in houses
 Prince Bismarck has at Narzin 22,- 900 acres, of which 15,0o0 are covered with glorious forests of oak and beech. His home farm comprises 400 acres, and the remainder of the cleared land Is let in farms of about 700 acres each.
 It is estimated that in London the evening papers print no fewer than 250, GOO copies every day, whereas thirty years ago they did not issue 10,- GOO altogether Of the morning jour- nals, there are two that boast of print ing more than 800 000 copies between them for the day s supply.
 In the last year there have been fshed out of the river Seine the car casses of 2,021 dogs 977 eats, 2,257 rats. 507 chickens and ducks, P pup pies, 10 sheep, 66 pigs, , hogs, 27 geese, 609 birds 3 foxes, ? calves, 3 monkeys, 8 goats. 1 snake, squirrels, } poreapines. l parrot 13o doves, ? peacocks. and sea dog Besides all this. great number of human bodies and 3. o66 kilometers of refuse meat were taken from the river.
 When French Deputy iscensured and expelled by the Legislature he is forbidden, it is said, even to enter the palace where the sessions are held during the fifteen sessions following the expulsion. and he is fined half of his pay as member Furthermore, he is competed to advertise his shame in the department which he repre- sents. at hi. own expense, by posting in public places 800 printed accounts of the Whofe affair
 The Swami of Southern India have always been greatly celebrated for their skill as jewellers, but the forms and figures usually made have been of q character that was inadmissabe in western society. \ Parsee gentleman, having obtained the appointment of Indian jeweler 10 the Queen of En- gland. obtained sufficient influence among the Swami to induce them to abandon their old style, and the result was -beaatffally-W wrought cashct for Princess Louise, of workmanship comparatively unknown.
 The Russians have recently i'm proved on the sleepme-eoaches of tho railway and the preambalatiHg school- master Of the rural regions They have provided a seheol-@agon which is furnished with room for the teacher, classroom or study, and a library, all suitably supplied with the necessary material. This wagon will be on the line of the Transcaspian railway all round tbe year, remaining as long as may be deemed necessary al districts not provided with school. Science.
 Tho Chilians have evidently dis covered the secret of longevity. From a recent return 1t appears that nearly 800 persons out Of a total of 2.50O,O0 are upwards of hundred years old One man puts his age down at 150, making him the oldest man in the world After him comes a woman aged 138; two women and one man re- port themselves a5 135; 132, 13O and 127 each have q representative, while there are seven f25 years old, eight 12o, twenty-seyen 115, and no less shan ninety-one aged 1l0. But they are mostly colored persons. The whites in Chih are cut down like flowers at the early age of 90 or so.