The Arizona sentinel., 1889-06-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-On the South Australian railway engineers who run their trains for two years without accident receive pres. ent of fifty dollars.
 The efforts made to introduce Flu. ropean vegetables and fruits in the Congo States have been rewarded with very great success.
 Kangaroo leather has become so important an article of commerce that the Australians have set about protect ing the animals by forbidding the slaughter of it from the 1st of January to the 1st of May.
 Such thing as bringing libel suit against newspaper has not been known in Italy for fifty years. The belief is that 8 newspaper seeks to tell the truth. If it is mistaken, frank statement to that effect satisfies the Italian.
 The Paris Figaro describes King Alphonso XIII. as the happiest and best-loved of all the rulers of the earth. He is said to be a very beauti- full child, with a laughing face and fair hair falling down over his shoulders.
 -''We are all socialists at heart, '" the Prince of Wales is reported to have said to statesman of the old school the other day. The court dress re- form is said to emanate from the Prince, who, when at Vienna, twas much struck with the dignity and'pro- priety of the dresses of the ladies'"
 To the Queen of Italy belongs the credit of re-establishing the manufact- ure of Burano lace. The Queen found an old woman who knew the stitch and had her teach number of younger women. The result is that Burano lace has again become 8 source of large revenue to the people of Burano.
 -''Chefs du claque" are a Parisian institution. The most famous of them is M. Fournier, a cultured, clever man in middle life. He is a millionaire, keeps his carriage, has fine country house, and wields wide influence in various directions. He is commander in-chief of the hired applauders at the opera, at the Opera Comique, the Chatelet. the Folies Dramatique. the Nouveautes, the Ambigu, the Cluny and the Dejazet.
 A famous portrait of Voltaire. which has been missing for half 8 century, has been discovered by the French Ambassador at Rome. It was painted by Largiliere in 171S, when the witty skeptic was only twenty-four years old. The picture was sent to the Marquise de .Yillette as a present in Voltaire's old age, and she be- queathed it to her nephew, Baron Varicourt, from whom the Ambassador acquired it.
 It is said that an artist has per. suaded the German Emperor to make a reaction against the black dress coat This has moved the remembrance that the somber black dress uniform is due to the French revolution, which abol-  ished the picturesque and variegated clothing which used to be worn by men as well as women in the ages be- fore that flood, on account of the out ward emphasis which it gave to social inequality and distinction of rank. Paris remained Paris, the undisputed capital of dress, although it had be- come republican. The most conserv- ative and select circles all over Eu- rope soon followed the example of the hated French democrats Nobles and dandies in all the courts put away their scarlet, blue and other brilliant ly-hued silks, and clothed themselves in republican black and white, to the regret of artists, and, as the late Will jam Dyce used to say, to their loss.