Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The white rose is the favorite
flower in France this summer
There are from 30, 900 to 40, 900 Ger.
man colonists in South Australia, and the
number of German-born residents of
South Australia equals the native-born
residents.
Longevity is no uncommon thing in
Russia. In one year the deaths were
reported of S5S persons between 100 and
1O5 years old; $50 petween lis and 100
years old; and between $50 and 1876.
Tho most mOnotonous city in its
buildings is Paris, the houses there be-
ing almost all alike. An attempt is now
being made to vary this by building
houses Of the style of the Renaissance
and Louis XI., and hope is expressed
that the example will be followed gem
orally.
During a recent thunderstorm in
Paris, three flashes of lightning are
said to have reached the top of the con-
ductor Of the Eiffel Tower simultane-
ously, resulting in remarkable dis
play and considerable vibration on the
part of the big iron frame, but no sp-
P"ANhb N"HA"BC ""o NNhO'
"A woman has been arrested in
Liverpool who makes business of rob-
bling the state-rooms of Atlantic steam
ers. Her name is Catherine Wood. and
she has crossed the Atlantic twenty
five times. Every crossing has resulted
in misfortune to some passenger, who
has brought up at the end of the jour-
ney short in money or jewels.
The Glove tree was introduced into
Zanzibar about the year 1880, and it's
cultivation now forms the chief indus
try OF the islands of Zanzibar and
Pemba. The chief supply of cloves is
obtained from these islands. Consul
Pratt, who has lately written a report
on the clove-culture of Zanzibar, says
that a ten-year-old plantation should
produce an average of twenty pounds
of cloves to a tree. Trees OF twenty
years frequently produce upwards OF
one hundred pounds each.
In Southwestern France a great
population is supported upon the once
barren, drifting sands now fixed by
means of plantations of the maritime
pine. This yields resin and a cheap IL
Eliminating oil distilled from it, be-
sides railway ties, pit props, telegraph
poles and fuel. The pit props go to
England mainly, IT'S, 900 being the an
nual shipment to that market The
ties and telegraph poles are mostly used
in France. Considerable of the young
pine is sent to England to be made into
paper
a curious misdemeanor has lately
developed at Manchester, England, that
has been adjudged crime by the
courts. This new wrong-doing is called
''scuttling," and consists in a body oil
young men, and even girls, lying in
wait for obnoxious fellow-workmen OF
for 'scabs," and hustling, beating and
kicking them upon the public streets.
1t has become so common in that city
that the magistrates have inflicted Sc
we're sentences upon several girls ant
young men, for the purpose OF breaking
up the practice.
New American buyers" in Pari!
are invariably astounded at the su
ppomacy of the French woman in
Wholesale business. Monsieur may dis
play the goods and descant on thei
virtues and beauty, but when the sail
is finally to be negotiated he calls il
madame. He would not dare to risl
her certain displeasure by agreeing T.
a price on his own responsibility
Every wholesale millinery house il
Paris and many other branches of tn
dry goods business are completely il
the hands of women. They prov
themselves the shrewdest of bargainer
and build up colossal fortunes, like mel
merchants Of American cities.