The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-07-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

plant ever killed in India has been
found to measure ten feet six inches
high.
An old bachelor died recently in
Rome leaving the Pope 100000 lire.
To his sister he left a monthly allow
ance of five lire.
AT a bazaar in Vienna an English
millionaire paid S., 900 for kiss from
one of the beautiful stall holders-the
Marchioness Pallaviccini.
Sir Conrad Reeves, the Chief JUS
tice of Barbados, is of slave descent on
his mothers side, and is the first mu-
latto who has received the honor OF
Knighthood.
The Sepoys of India kicked up a
great rebellion about hogs grease, but
their tastes have changed in the last
FIVE years and they now eat American
ham and bacon with as much gusto as
a European.
"A prominent Turkish official in
Constantinople laments the spread OF
Christianity among the women OF
Turkey, on the ground that it Will
soon lead the Turkish ladies to dress
as immodestly as Christian ladies'.
Cremation is apparently growing
in favor with the aristocratic classes
in England. One of the great landed
owners of London, and the descendant
of an illustrious line of dukes (name
not given) is reported to have made a
donation of $1,000 to the Cremation
Society of England, and his body is to
be burned after death.
The total population of Bulgaria
and Rumelia, strangers included, was
ascertained on January LIST, 1888. to be
S,154,575. Of these 1886, 250 were
Bulgarians, 100000 Turks, and only
sc, 900 Greeks. The Turkish race in
Bulgaria exhibits singular predomi-
nance of females, who number 6O7, 900,
and 5000 of the Greeks are females.
Among the Bulgarians and other races
the males are in excess.
The Empress of Russia, like her
sister, the Princess OF Wales, never
wears high-crowned or large-brimmed
hats, which. indeed, would be unsuited
to the delicate type of her beauty
Every thing must be small and neat
and compact, whether hat or bonnet.
Her favorite colors are pale blue and
mauve.
In the town library of Nuremberg
is preserved an interesting globe, made
by John Schooner, professor of mathe-
mathics in the gymnasium there A. d.
1920. 1t is very remarkable that the
passage through the Isthmus of Pan
anna. so much sought after in later
times. is on this old globe carefully
delineated.
--Hair-dyeing is becoming general
among the laboring people of En-
gland-not from motives of vanity,
but under the spur of necessity.
Working women, and even men, it APP
pears, are given to decorating them
selves in this way as a matter of ne
cessity, and in order to earn their liv-
ing. Gray hair looks aged, and sug-
gests inefiiciency; or perhaps it does
not, for some other reason, satisfy the
fancy of critical customers; conse-
quently it is not in favor with en-
ployers. Hair-dyeing has therefore
become an established custom among
persons seeking employment.
From the last report of Krupp's
establishment at Essen it appears that
in 1888 there were only nine worlmen,
and in 1913. seventy-forr. In July,
1883, the establishment employed TO-
$50 men. of whom 1886 were at
Essen. Including the families of the
workmen they supported a population
of 1860 souls, of whom "a, 1913 lived
in houses provided by the firm. There
are at Essen 1896 furnaces Of various
constructions, 286 boilers, ninety two
steam hammers Of from 100 to $4,000
kilos, $40 steam engines, with total
of $1,000 horsepower, 1,724 different
machines, and SOL cranes. OF coal
and coke, 2,735 tons are daily used,
and eleven high furnaces of the latest
constructions produce 600 tons of iron
per day.