Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-25
FoRElcN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
"A young woman at Ostend. Bel
gium. is said to take sea bath every
day in the year. remaining in the water
about fifteen minutes
The regulation professional garb
OF the English physicians and surgeons
Is the high hat-black in winter. drab
or white in summer-and always dark
frock or morning coat
Including policemen, post-ofice
officials, market men and women, care
takers, hospital nurses and newspaper
writer's and printers, it is estimated
that fully 100000 of the inhabitants of
London are night workers.
Lii Hi. the present King of Corea.
belongs to a family which has held the
Corean throne since 1892. During that
time twenty-nine Kings have reigned,
and the power of each has been more
despotic than that of the Car of Rus
STA
According to recent statistics,
published in the Honolulu Almanac
and Directory, the population of the
Hawaiian kingdom is made up, in
round numbers. of $4,000 Chinese,
1000 white natives. 1000 Americans.
1900 British. LOGO Germans, $500
Portuguese, 1000 of other foreign ma
tionalities, and $4,000 Hawaiians and
half-castes.
The Gar is said to wear always a
ring in which is embedded a piece of
the true cross that was given to an an
cestor of the Gar by Pope long ago.
The Gar is said to be superstitious
about this ring, and once. when he
had started upon a long journey and
had forgotten it, he had his train held
while messenger went back upon q
locomotive and fetched it.
Her Majesty receives as Queen an
annual salary, termed the Civil List,
of 81, 925, 600; as Duchess of Lancaster
she draws annually $205, 900, and a
pension of 81, OILS Sin lieu of prisage
and butlerage ON wines imported into
the duchy," whatever that may mean.
This sum of 50. 600, 900 odd is almost
all clear profit. Her Majesty does not
even have to be charitable out of her
own pocket, for Parliament grants
every year about 81, 600 for royal chari-
ties and bounties.
Among the hereditary jewels be-
longing to Duke of Cumberland are
Queen Charlotte's pearls, valued at
| $4,000. about which, for twenty
years, Queen Victoria and the Han
overian King quarreled with ma
jesterial dignity. The Queen main
tanned they belonged by right to En-
gland. The King insisted they should
have been sent to Hanover in 1887, on
the death of William ". The other
jewels belonging to the Duke are
valued at $2,OOO,OOO. His gold and
silver plata weighs twelve tons.
Charms against almost any of the
| Ills and accidents of life can be OBJ
tanned in Burmah, of the Buddhist
! priests, for trifling consideration. In
this respect the priests constitute a
sort of ''travelers' accident insurance
company" One of them will furnish
! a charm warranted to protect the wear
er against being shot, for two Or three
dollars. One of these charms, obtained
| by an English officer, consisted of a
| small image Of a god, not much larger
than pea, carved on ivory. In order
! to make the charm efficacious against
| sword wounds, a medicine made by the
| priest, to be paid for extra, had to be
eaten.
The latest story of Bismarck de-
scribes how he called on the Emperor
the other day, and while waiting in
| the ante-room heard voices in the I'm
perial nursery, and went in. He found
the little Crown Prince grinding away
| at barrel organ, while the two young
er Princes were trying to dance.
'Please, Prince Bismarck, come and
| dance with me-" said one of the young
sters. '.No, 1 am too old; really can
not Dance" said the old gentleman,
ssbut if the Crown Prince will dance 1
will grind the organ for you all. -
When the Emperor opened the door
the Chancellor of the German Empire
was found grinding away in a high
state of pleasure and perspiration.
The moral of the anecdote was drawn
by His Majesty, who said that. not
content with making three generations
of Hohenzollerns dance to his pipe,
Bismarck has already begun with the
fourth.