The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-12-17
FOREIGN FACTS AND EVENTS.

THERE are $4,000 mayors in France.
PATTI red is one of the most popular
colors abroad.
The province of Kuei-Chou is the
Chinese Switzerland.
AGE for age, girls are tallest in Swe-
den, and heaviest as we'll.
THE young men of Berlin have been
seized with football fever.
TIE leaning tower of Pisa is one hun
dred and eighty-three feet high, and is,
il the cornice be included, thirteen feet
eight inches out of the perpendicular.
The walls at the base are thirteen feet
thick.
The Panama Canal works are wrecked;
even traces of the excavations are van
ishing and the constructive machinery
is worthless. This enterprise, in which
S4O0,000,000 has been sunk, will figure
as the monumental failure of the age.
A RECENT survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at 1,155,
of which 249 have length of moro than
four and three-quarters miles. The
French Alps contain IA glaciers, those
of Italy rs, Switzerland All and Austria
462.
THE productions of the Ferrara weav-
ers are noted for the Importance be-
slowed upon the decorative element.
Grace, Eghtn ess and imagination super
sede pretensions of style, and they are
now much sought after by modern col
lectors.
The Fishing Society of Denmark hav-
ing offered a reward for every seal
killed, the determination of these ami
mails in Danish waters is only a ques
ton of time. 1t appears that the fish
ing industry is least successful in the
waters where seal abound.
A LONDON gentleman recounts some.
what surprising experience in endeavor-
ing to engage a coachman. Three APP
plicants were found suitable but re-
fused the place because the family did
not use livery. Two suits of clothes a
year were to be furnished; but it was
livery ornothing.
A MAN refused when appealed to sin
the Queens name'' to helpa British po-
liceman, and was brought into court for
the purpose of testing definitely the po-
]iceman's right to assistance under the
circumstances. The recreant citizen,
though, showed that he was deaf and
had the rheumatism, and so the point
made is not yet determined.
THIS is the latest from Paris: Seal.
skin is the proper material for tho over
coats of Italian greyhounds, toy terriers,
and all the short-haired charming pets
of swelldom. Poodles and fluffy powder
puff dogs are considered more elegant in
cloth coats. But whatever the mater
ial, it is absolutely essential that the
mistress monogram shall be elaborate
ly embroidered in one corner.
CHINESE tea cultivation begins to
weaken. In consequence of the dis
tressed condition of tea cultivators in
the Fullhien province the authorities
are advising them to abandon the culti-
walton of tea altogether and replace it
with rice and potatoes. Many landown-
ers, in districts where water is abundant,
are following this advice, and it is said
that opium also is to be grown.
A NEW and valuable practical applica-
ton of carbolic acid has been made in
Central America, where it has been
used with gratifying success against
the leaf-cutting ants. The acid is
mixed with water, and poured down the
ant-burrows, whereupon the ants desers
their abode; and by persistent resort TO
this method of attack, they may be ex-
PEELED from the neighborhood of cult.
waited plants.