Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02
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1t appears that the British army II
not only the dearest in Europe. but the
| worst fed. so far as the rank and hle
are concerned.
"A curious feature of the theaters
in Melbourne. remarks a newspaper
! writer. is that they are mostly all
equipped with billiard rooms.
Female physicians are allowed to
practice in Turkestan. but there is SO
little demand for. their services that
they pay patients to employ them.
The Emperor of Germany lately
sent to the Emperor of Morocco fifteen
fine horses in acknowledgment of pres
ents recently sent from Morocco to
Berlin.
According to a statistical docu-
ment lately published in Paris, there
are in Europe three hundred thousand
blind people, thirty thousand of whom
are in France.
Queen Victoria is said to have &C
quired a marvellous fuency in Hindoo-
stance, in which language she con-
verses freely with her turbaned Indian
servants.
Women walters are increasing In
the Paris restaurants. much to the dis
gust of the garcons, who have so long
been the real monarchs of the tray and
napkin.
"A Hindoo journal says that one of
the most difficult feats under the sun is
to identify Europeans, because they
are so much alike with their loud,
glaring cOlors.
"A wealthy, though eccentric, no.
tel-keeper of Buda-Pesth. Hungary,
was so pleased at receiving divorce
that he celebrated the event by found
ing a charitable institution.
Last year fifteen Cinnamon were
married in Queensland-one to ma
tive of the colony, one to Victorian
native, two to Scotch women. three to
Irish women and eight to English
women.
-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 seventeen, and has had one ever
since.
The Queen of Madagascar is de-
scribed as a small, slender, light
brown woman, with 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 discount of forty per CENTS
actually selling to-day a little above
par.
1t is dangerous to be gossiping in
Vienna when great personages, 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
ut hard labor.
In Alsace Lorraine four young
girls were lately formally forbidden to
teach French by the direction of the
district, and were threatened with ex-
pulsion if they transgressed the COM
mand. Two others were officially
warned on suspicion, the teaching OF
French being regarded by the author
tiles as an unlawful profession.
There are banks at Buenos Ayres
with capital greater than any in the
United States, and occupying buildings
finer than any banking house in New
York. The Provincial Bank has
capital of $33. 600, 900 and $67, ZOO, 900
of deposits. The National Bank has
capital of $40, 900, 900.