The Opelousas courier., 1889-04-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1t takes $40, 900 a year to dine the
officers of Queen Victoria's guard, on
duty at St. James palace. =
The richest peer in England is the
Duke Of Westminster, who owns vast
estates In Cheshire and in Wales. His
income is said to equal thirty shillings
O minute.
4erman newspaper published In
.s>..s IN says that city is growing
fast in size and population. The Jews
take the lead in building, followed by
the Russians and Germans.
AT Maripa, in Colombia, a little
boy not twelve years of age, a short
time ago, stole some monJJ from a
house and then drowned two children
one FIVE and the other nine years OF
age-who had g 9 him commit the
theft.
Premier Tricounpis, of Greece,
overcame q threatening opposition to
the government by a sitting of seven
teen hours in the Athenian chamber
one day recently. During that time
the prime minister did not once leave
his seat.
The Queen of Madagascar Is de-
f1ribed as a small, slender, light-broWn
woman, with avery sad face, a sweet
smile and no end of Paris gowns. She
is twenty-three years old, has been four
wears n Queen. and is really worshiped
by her people.
The project of Paris has issued an
order f%orbidding the newsboys to cry
any thing in the streets excepting the
titles of papers. The law was first
passed by the Government OF the Re-
public in 1898. Under the 'rceign of
Napoleon /. the law fell into desuetudha,
and with the exception of a brief re-
viyal in 1916 has remained q dead let
ter aver since.
"A remarkable scene was enacted In
the government house at Calcutta q
short time ago, when the Countess OF
| Dufferin, wife of the retiring Viceroy,
received a farewell address from seven
hundred women All men were rigidly
excluded from the building, and a fe-
male correspondent who was present
says the with their magnificent
Jewels and brilIiantly-colored costumes
presented a splendid pageant.
The Swedish authorities have de-
cided to authorize cremation on GER
tain conditions. One of them is that
the Society for Promoting Cremation
must act in agreement with a clergy
man of the Church of Sweden in cases
where clerical representatives of any
other faith refuse their cooperation.
A society has been founded with the
same object In Norway, and it hopes
likewise to obtain the sanction Of the
Government.
Tho imitation of western civiliza-
ton by the Japanese has led themS5
regard Sunday, which in japan has
hitherto been decidedly continental in
its character. as a day of rest. This
began with the closing of the govern
ment establishments on Sunday. The
Toxic citizens followed this example,
and the closing spread from city to
village, and aow od a fine Sunday
business is nearly suspended and the
places of popular resort are crowded.
Liverpool, Eng, needed an addi-
tional water supply. and the govern
ment vent into Wales, several miles
away, and bought a large valley, in
Guiding the village of Llanwyddyn.
This valley is now being filled with a
body of water five miles long and
eighty-four feet deep. 1t is under.
stood thateall the houses, the church,
two chapels, tavern and post-ofice re-
main as they WERE, and are gradually
being submerged under the collecting
water that pours into the valley. A
new village has been built near by,
and all the Llanwyddyans have re.
moved to it