The Opelousas courier., 1889-07-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Some Persian women smoke cigar
cites made of tea.
in England ~check-reins are now
entirely out of use, being forbidden by
law.
-lhe electric light is making great
progress in Berlin, the number OF
lamps now ii use there being about
zo'oWl, against $50 at the end of 1886.
The four pages of honor attached
TO the English court get $3.50 apiece,
thelr only duty being to attend the
oraWlng-room receptions during the
winter season.
"A new and curious sect has recent
~ grown up in Africa, the bena-riam-
oa' or "sons OF hemp" a society Of
hemp-smokers. who, calling them
selves friends" are bound together
Oy ties of mutual hospitality.
1t Is reported that several of the
Oldest and most respectable London
clubs are in want of both money and
members. The new clubs are SO nu-
merous and possess so many fresh at
fractions that the old ones find it diff
cult to compete.
1.-The way of the amateur dramatic
performer is not always paved with
roses by the London press. The Queen
very calmly says that a recent per-
lormance twas of the kind usually de-
scrlbed as wonderfully good for anna
Tours and describes the one pro-
1esslonal actress present as "a dove
among crows"
Between fifteen and sixteen thou
Sane children are lost in London every
year, almost all of whom are found
and restored to their parents by the
aid of the Metropolis an police. Be-
tween one hundred and twenty and
one hundred and fifty adults are miss
ing yearly in London, and about fifty
dead bodies are not claimed or identi-
fed after being found.
The court of Leo XIII. is said to
comprise l, 100 persons. There are 20
Wallets, 100 house prelates, ITO privy
chamberlains, 6 chamberlains, 800 ex-
trahonorary chamberlains, 1870 super
numerary champerlains, 80 officers of
the noble guard and 60 guardsmen, IA
officers of the Swiss guard and palace
guard, Z honorary chaplains, 20 pri-
vate secretaries, 10 stewards and mas
tiers OF the horse, 60 door-keepers.
The value of Nova Scotia's fish
harvest last year was $7,917, 900, a de-
crease of 1852, 900, as compared with
the previous year owing to the failure
Of the shore fisheries. The mackerel
catch was fifty per cent. below that of
the year previous, but there was an in
crease of 1901 900 quintals in the cod
The catch aggregated 1,127,-
900 quintals.
The progress of the age is no.
where strikingly exhibited than
in these two occurrences: The Mahar-
ala of Judhpore has ordered two of
ministers to discuss with an as
sembly of notables the advisability of
a%bolishing polygamy. Again, on
April 20 a public meeting was held in
Madrid, presided over by the con- T
sentative leader, Canovas del Castillo,
for the purpose of establishing a Span
Ish society for the abolition of negro
The promoter of the move
nent is Don Luis Sorela, a friend and
disciple of Cardinal Lavigerie.
In Venezuela all manner of make
shifts have been resorted to for sup
a 'a circulating medium In
duanta, for example, the people have
absolutely no money, and when they
wish to purchase a few necessaries
hey steal %cocanuts by "the dark of
he moon" and hand them over to the
in exchange for the supplies
require. This free and easy GUS
became so universal and alarming
hat in order to protect the few whos
'aise the fruit the Alcaldi of the dis
riot of Guanta was obliged to issue a
Iecree which probably has not a par
Lllel in financial circles. He has
ately prohibited the use of cocoanuts
S money and threatened with condign
punishment all traders who may re-
Give them as such.