The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Switzerland has built 1000 inns since tourists began to visit her.
 Princess Louise's wedding jewelry alone was estimated at E200, GOO worth.
 A six-ton cab, carrying an electric battery strong enough to run it forty miles, recently made satisfactory trip through London.
 Ut is absolutely essential that every Maid of Honor employed in the British Royal Family should be good horsewoman and correct reader of mu- sic at sight
 Prince Bismarck has at Varzin p, ,- GOO acres, of which 15.000 are covered with glorious forests of oak and beech. His home farm comprises 400 acres, and the remainder of the cleared land is let in farms of about TOO acres each-
 Ut is estimated that in London the evening papers print no fewer than 250,000 copies every day, whereas thirty years ago they did not issue l0,- 900 altogether. or tho morning jour nals, there are two that boast of print ing more than 800. GOO copies between them for the days supply
 "A new use for rabbits has been found by the physicians of the Bir- mingham Lunatic Asylum. A number of wild rabbits have been turned loose on to the fields adjoining the institu- tion, so that the inmates will be amused by seeing the rabbits run about, and to divert the mind of the patients is one of the great objects oi the institution.
 In the last year there have been fished out of the river Seine the car casses of 2.021 dogs, 977 cats, 2,257 rats, 507 chickens and ducks, p pup pies. 10 sheep, 66 pigs, 5 hogs, P geese, 609 birds. 8 foxes, ? calves, 3 monkeys, goats. 1 snake, squirrels, 8 porcupines, l parrot 13o doves, 2 peacocks, and 1 sea dog. Besides all this, great number of human bodies and 3,066 kilometers of refuse meat were taken from the river.
 When Freuch Deputy is censured and expelled by the Legislature he is forbidden, it is said, even to enter the palace where the sessions are held during the fifteen sessions following the expulsion. and he is fined half of his pay as a member. Furthermore, he is compelled to advertise his shame in the department which he repre- seuts, at his own expense. by posting in public places 300 printed accounts of the whole affair.
 The Swami of Southern India have always been greatly celebrated for their skill as jewellers, but the forms and figures usually made have been Of a character that was inadmissable in western society. A Parsee gentleman, having obtained the appointment of Indian jeweler to the Queen of En- gland, obtained sufficient influence among the Swami to induce them to abandon their old style, and the result was beautifully casket for Princess Louise. of workmanship comparatively unknown.
 The Russians have recently im- proved on the sleeplng-coaches of the railway and the preambulating school master of the rural regions. They have provided a school-wagon which is furnished with room for the teacher, a classroom or study, and a library, all suitably supplied with the necessary material. This wagon will be on the line of the Transcaspian railway all round the year, remaining as long as may be deemed necessary at districts not provided with a school. Science.
 The Chilians have evidently dis covered the secret of longevity. From a recent return it appears that nearly 500 persons out of total of 2,500, 1000 are upwards of hundred years old. One man puts his age down at 150, making him the oldest man in the world. After him comes a woman aged 138; two women and one man re- port themselves as 135; 132, 130 and l27 each have a representative, while there are seven 125 years old, eight l20. twenty-seven 115. and no less than ninety-one aged no. But they are mostly colored persons. The whites in Chilli are cut down like flowers at the early age of 90 or so.