Arizona silver belt., 1889-10-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Kaid Mclean, Scotchmhn, is Commander-in-C Chief of the army oi, the Sultan of Morocco.
 Statistics just published show that there are 2, 272 soldiers six feet or over, in height in the British army.
 In 1888 the Italians residing in France numbered almost half million, having increased seventy-fye thousand from the previous year.
 The oldest living peer is Lord Teynham, who has just completed his ninety-frs year. He entered the army only few months after the battle Of Waterloo, and retired more than sixty years ago.
 The Lord Mayor of London's dress suit for ordinary evenings is of black velvet with point lace frill, tights, silk stockings, diamond buckles in the shoes and diamond hilted sword.
 -Leprosy is increasing in Russia. During the last ten years forty-nine patients were treated in the St Peters burg hospital, half of whom were natives of the city The Baltic prev inees suffer most from the disease.
 Under the present police rule in Russia an officer can enter any house at any hour on the excuse that ''hc suspects suspicious person may have entered there to talk sedition.h He can arrest the whole family, keep them in rison a year. and then turn them loose without the slightest apology.
 English women are getting into the habit of smoking tea cigarettes. Only the choicest brands of tea are used, and the smokers think they find their nerves greatly soothed for time. The inevitable reaction takes place after ward. however. and they are apt to be somewhat excited
 The Emperor of China is seldom disturbed in his sleep. Pekin paper announces that 'strict surveillance is kept by the gendarmerie around the palace to prevent the imperial. repose being broken by firing Of crackers, street cries or wrangiing voices, the blowing of horns or noisy marriage or funeral processions.
 The British matron has at last succumbed to the attractions of her own music halls. Those most agreea- ble places of entertainment, where the singing of old ballads and new fancies Is so delightfully."- done, have always been regarded as highly improper, with sufficient reason, perhaps. But now women have begun to go in the boxes only. But they are still there, wives, daughters, and sisters of re- speciahility uneueslionable.
 --The Queen Regent of Spain is fond of game of whist. and frequently in- vites members of hee cabinet to pass an hour or two in a social rubber The Queen plays cavendish, five points for the game. the play being for stakes of quarter dollar point She al- lows the gentlemen to smoke cigar cites on such occasions, and endea9ors to soften the royal Spanish etiquette IS far as possible.
 -Oue Of recent party of conyicts bound for Siberia was Baroness and her husband. formerly her footman, sentenced each 10 twenty years servi- tude. The Baroness was married when young to an old man. and she fell in love with his foOtman. She poisoned her husband and was arrested. but the footman escaped. She subsequently, escaped from the hospital where she was confined, sought out her footman lover. and married him. They settled in Kovno. and were only recently dis covered there. living in abject pow erty
 -Ex-King Milan, says a Belgrade correspondent, is a well-edueated man. He talks French smoothly, German slowly but almost without mistakes. He is also rather good in English. but does not know Russian. Young King Alexander l. is mentally very deyel- oped. He speaks French, German, a little English. and has learned good deal Of Russian from his mother. who always calls him Sasha Ca Russian abbreviation for Alexander). At pres ent the young King is taught privately at Belgrade, according to the pro- framme of inc German gymnasium