The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
 No gold or silver coins arc issued by the Chinese government.
 In France they have applied cleo tricity to the playing of organs.
 The attendants in the Queen of England's household arc on duty only six months out of the twelve.
 The Madras museum is said now to possess the skeleton of the largest elephant ever killed in India.
 Tho United Kingdom fisheries employ 250,000 persons. The money value of fish landed in year i5 nearly 1S, S,000,000.
 -Beggary has been reduced to an art as well as profession in Rome. In recent ease before the police an old man admitted that he had as many as fifty lies in daily use.
 In the great museum at London is a small watch, one hundred years old or more, in the shape of an apple. The golden outside is adorned with grains of pearl.
 The Parisians, it is said, are short ly to have the opera and drama laid in to their houses, like gas and water, by the theatrophone, The cables, it is stated, will pass through the Parisian sewers.
 An American was arrested on the Austrian frontier for having in his lug gage unmistakable dynamite bombs On further investigation they proved to be cocoanuts, something that the Austrian authorities had never seen.
 The license law of Sweden forbids any person buying drink without pur- chasing something to eat at the same time. Brandy is the national drink, and it can not be sold in quantity less than two bottles, AS tho poor are unable to purchase drink often in this way, the law is said to have greatly promoted temperate habits.
 The Queen of COrea belongs to one of the greatest families in the country, and her voice is often heard in the councils of the King. Shc has an establishment of her own inside the palace grounds, wears fine silks and beautiful diamonds, and smokes American cigarettes by the thousand
 During the visit of Emperor Will fam to Italy there was a review of forty thousand Italian troops, but they did not make favorable impression on the spectators from abroad. The marching was very bad, and the troops appeared to De in all respects greatly inferior to those of the other great military nations; nor is their discipline good.
 The French Minister of War has decided to place the bicyle on a Strict ly military footing. IIenccforth. four velocipcdistes militaire5 are to be att tached to each regiment of infantry I'M the French active army, and volunteers are asked for from among the reserve and territorial armies. A special rate of pay will be granted to these vcIoci- pcdistcs. The War Office doc. not in- tend to provide machines for them to ride, but expects them to come pro- vdcd
 While President Carnot Was visit ing Bcthune, during his recent tour through the north Of Franca he ob- served that certain society, formed of the leading people of the city, had prominent place at all cercmouiul- and in the proccssions. The society 1 is called 'Lcs Charitabic,N and it- members wear, Oh public occasions, ~ uniform composed as follows Black knee brooches. court coat, with short mantel and cooked hat. Their priuc- pal function is to act as pail bearers at funerals and 10 bury the dcad The society was founded in the eleventh century, and is always recruited among deputies, lawyers, notaric9 and journalists.
 Lieutenant Wi7smann. thu eminent German traveller, says that of late years a great change has taken place in the attitude Of the Arabs of Africa toward Europeans. The danger Of European asccndcncy has made them very hostile, defiant and rcIcntless They no longer hesitate to show that tho right belongs to them of carrying on the slave trade, and that they mean i lo exercise it. The slave dealers charged Lieutenant Wissmann to in- form the English on Lake TanganyiI1a that any attempt on their part to in- terfere with tho traffic would bring war upon them. The traveller is con vinccd that warlikc measures against the Arabs must De rcsorted to if a sc- cure foundation is sought for the cs- tablishmcnt of European civilization in \ frioa