The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-07-09
TlplNGs FROM ABROAD.

THE population of Chilli on the list OF
January was 3,165,2S9 This includes
$4,000 Indians.
THE proprietors of the new hotel near
the Pyramids of Gizeh intend to build
an elevator up one of the pyramids.
THE site for the Watkins Tower, the
English rival of the Eiffel Tower, has
been fixed in St. Johns Wood, in the
northwest of London.
GERMANY has decided to adopt the
time standard which came into use here
in 1883. By it official time all over
Germany will be one hour earlier than
Greenwich and seven hours earlier than
Chicago time.
THERE is great demand for metal
furniture in Australia, not only for
household use, but in places OF business,
school-houses, etc. The demand is
caused by the ravages of the white ant,
which eats all kinds of wood.
THE money offerings at the Vatican
during the past four months by Pill
grims from France, Germany, Italy,
Austria and America have amounted,
1t is stated, to about 100000, OF which
the Americans left the largest sum-
100000.
THE train which recently carried tho
Emperor of Japan to Nagoya made 1t
is said, the best record ever reported
over Japanese road. 1t traversed the
distance of 226 miles between Toyyo and
Nagoya in nine and half hours includ-
ing stoppages.
WHEN the King Of Samoa ratified the
treaty with the United States, in tho
presence of $50 representatives OF his
people, he wore white derby hat, a
white cotton shirt and white sheet fold
ed around his loins. He was barelegged
and barefooted.
MUCH indignation is felt in theatrical
circles in Paris, because the rank OF
officer in the Territorial army has been
refused to an actor of the Odeon Com
pany. Actors say that the times no
longer exist when their profession was
excluded from the pale OF the church,
from the army, and from the Legion OF
| Honor.
THE Italian military engineers are
building Notifications on the top OF
Mount Cents and the Alps near Nice, in
order to prepare against FRENCH lnvas'
ion of Italy at those points; tho works
are being pressed forward, as the mill
tary authorities consider them urgent in
view of sudden changes liable to occur
in France at any time.
The boy Meladschek, the favorite Of
the Shah when last in England, is
betrothed. At fete the other day
the most magnificent ever given in
Teheran-in honsr of this boy, the
Shah arose, and in loud voice pro-
claimed Meladschek's betrothal to his
youngest daughter, to the great con
sternation Of the Persian nobility pre-
sent.
TIE Waterloo ballroom, where once
there was sound of revelry by night
and all went merry as marriage bell
just before Napolcon's overthrow, is fo
sale. It is the upper story of a nov
deserted brewery in the Rue de !;
Blanchisserie, Brussels. 1t is q yer,
large room, with rough beams supported
by row of six wooden pillars in the
center, and the upset price is 1890
francs.
SINCE the order went forth that al
dogs in England should be muzzled Il
consequence of many outbreaks o
rabies, the number of cases of the dis
order reported has fallen from eighty
one in tho last quarter of 1889 to thirty
nine in the first quarter of the presen
year and the decrease is still going OF
What is more to the point, nine Of tn
rabid dogs seized since the order wa
issued wero found to be secErel
muzzlcd and thus prevented from Mi
chief.