Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Abbotsford is stin so popular resort
that the fees paid by tourists usually ex
eeed 500 year.
English syndicates have invaded the
Austrian empire, and are buying up
breweries in Bohemia and printing-of-
fees in Vienna.
Over SIS, ,000, 900 has been spent In
Australia within the last fifteen years
in efforts to exterminate the rabbit. and
late estimates agree that he has also
doubled in numbers during that time
The gala coach. in which the Prin-
cess Sophie, recently married to the
Crown Prince Of Greece, rode TO her
wedding was built for the Count de
Chambord in expectation of riding in it
to his coronation The King of Greece
bought the coach for q. 900 francs
Every thing in the country of the
Kiver Chai, in Central Asia, is described
by Gabriel Bouvalot as covered with
salt. 1t is seen in the wells of the
houses and on the banks of the river,
and the water one drinks is very salt.
Visitors to the vaults of the Pam
thoen in Paris remember the echo
which the guide used to produce by
shouting and pounding on drum This
has been forbidden by the Minister Of
the Interior as ''a desecration of the
abode of the illustrious dead"
Smallpox is stated to have greatly
diminished in Chilli, owing to the spread
of vaccination. In 1880 there were u
254 deaths from this disease; in 1883, 81
1SS; in 1885, 3.13s; and in 1888. only u
ATT. The death rate, however, taken on
the whole, is still high, owing to the
want of sanitation among the people
Rome is also going in for the cleo
trio light 1t has been resolved to e1ec7
trically illuminate all the streets and
public places of the ancient city, and the
motive power is to be obtained by the
use of the famous Tivoh waterfalls,
which are distant about thirty kilo-
metres. It is expected that at least p
OOO-horse power will be derived from
this source.
From the Pail Mall Gazette appears
this account of a curious custom: ''The
London road car-drivers have sgriev-
ance which approaches the 1udicrous. If
they do not wear high hats they are sus-
pended for a week. Last Monday
drivers hat was blown off and cart
| went over it, so that he was obliged to
resort to a low felt hat for the remain
der of the day. For this heinous crioe
he was stopped and suspended until yes
terday."
There is a new establishment in
London, where an ingenious French
woman sells stands of everlasting trop-
| ical flowers, which, having been SUB
mitted to a chemical process are unfad-
| ing. The flowers are rather gorgeous,
of course, as they are all exotics. They
are made up into screens, wall orna-
ments and in stands, some of them sew
eral feet high. Some Of these are dec
Grated with foreign birds.
| The carrier pigeon has been turned
| to curious use in Russia. 1t is to con-
vey negatives of photographs taken in a
| balloon. The first experiment was
made from the cupola of the Cathedral
of Isaac, in ST. Petersburg, and the sub
| iect photographed was the Winter Pal
ace. The plates were packed in envel-
opes impenetrable to the light, and then
tied to the feet of the pigeons who safe
| ly and quickly carried them to the sta
ton at Volkovo.
The new city of Johannesburg, in
| the South African gold region,is attract
| ing attention, and there are those who
| predict for it a phenomenal future
They promise million inhabitants in
| five years, an output of gold which
| shall gild the whole world. a CONNER
cial importance threatening the estab-
! lished trade centers of the Old World-o
and a political and social position second
to no city in Africa. north or south.