The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

No gold or silver coins are issued by the Chinese government
 In France they have applied elec- tricity to the playing of organs.
 The attendants in the Queen of England's household are 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
 The United Kingdom fisheries employ 250. 900 persons. The money value Of fish landed ina year is nearly fS.00o, 900.
 Beggary has been reduced to an art as well as a profession in Rome. In a recent case before the police an old man admitted that he had as many as fifty lies in daily use.
 In the great museum Tt 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 eocoanuts, something that the Austrian authorities had never seen.
 The license law of Sweden forhids 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 the 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. She 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 jam to Italy there was review Of forty thousand Italian troops. but they did not make a favorable impression on the spectators from abroad The marching Eas very bad, and the troops appeared to be 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. Henceforth, four velocipedistes militaires are to be aS- tached to each regiment of infantry in 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 veloci- pedistes. The War Office does not in- tend to provide machines for them to ride, but expects them to come pro- vided.
 While President Carnot was visit ing Bethune, during his recent tour through the north Of France, he ob- served that certain society, formed of the leading people of the city, had prominent place at all ceremonials and in the proeessions The society is called "Les Charitable. and its members wear, on public occasions, a l uniform composed as follows: Black knee brooches, court coat, with short mantel and cooked hat Their princi- pal function is to act as pail bearers at 1 funerals and to bury the dead. The 1 society was founded in the eleventh century, and is always recruited 1 among deputios lawyers, notaries and journalists
 -Lieuteuapt Wissmann, the eminent German traveller, says that of late years great change has taken place 1 in the attitude of the Arabs of Africa 1 toward Europeans. The danger of 1 European ascendency has made them very hostile, defiant and relentless. | They no longer hesitate to show that the right belongs to them of carrying | on the slave trade, and that they mean 1 to exercise it. The slave dealers charged Lieutenant Wissmaun to in- form the English on Lake Tanganyika l that any attempt on their part to in terfere with the traffic would bring war upon them. The traveller is con- vinced that warlike measures against i the Arabs must be resorted to if a se- cure foundation is sought for the es- tablishment Of European civilization in Africa.