St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-09-19

FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
I'm Genoa the wives and daughter,
ef the fishermen get from the fsctol
patterns and thread, hand spun fax o.
silk, and return the same weight IL
lace. receiving therefor such . price a,
pays them wages Of 1--WE TO ten cents ,
day.
Foreign papers say that IN Ameri
Gag named Hofting won two hundred
and thirty thousand francs 1t Monte
Carlo lately. The fortunate man. it j.
said, was intoxicated at the time. Ths
success, however, brought him to hi.
senses. rs he departed for Paris on tho
same day. to the great regret of the
eroupiers.
Queen Victoria now rules, subject
to the wholesome limitations of the
British constitution, over . population
scattered in the four quarters of the
globe and the islands of the sea, ag
gregate S67, ,000, 600. A greater number
than this has never acknowledged te
sovereignty of one person in ancient OF
modern times.
While tearing down the walls Of an
old house in the village of Deutsch
Rcdingcn, near the Luxembourg boun'
dary, the workmen found the corpses
of q German officer and private in full
uniform. The bodies were wonderful.
ly well preserved. It is supposed that
the men were murdered during the
Franco-Prussian war.
The government Of Spain has
granted to two merchants in Angola,
Africa, the exclusive privilege, for ten
years. of exporting from the province
Of Angola a new industrial product in
vented by them and extracted from
common tubcrcule, which has not yet
been scientifically classified for any in
dustrial purpose. The product is to be
applied to the tanning of hides.
If an Egyptians eyes ache or hurt.
he looks ont for blonde woman named
Fatima, begs from her . bit of bread
ard information where he will find six
more Fatimas, that he may ask some
favor of. Fortunately for him they do
not all have to be blondes, and wise
Egyptian father, seeing the value Of
the name, is apt to give it TO one of his
daughters, SO there are plenty of
Catimas.
The dissection Of Greece by . canal
the CULTS of Athens and
Corintb is nearly accomplished The
cutting is straight and level one, V6
wide and So deep. 1t has no locks. A
railroad bridge spans it at the Corinth
end. but at such hcight-l64 feet-as
to afford no hinderance to vessels pass
ing through. 1t is estimated that at
least .o0U of these, averaging / 1.50O tons
each, will annually use this new and
shorter passage.
A society which may be classed Is
0 commune of beggars" has been
formed at Mitau. Russia. All the men,
bers are mendicants. They pledge
to hand over to the
board of the society all that they get
in money or in kind mp to the nor
NAL amount of donations which q beg
gar gets in q day. Whatever they get
above that amount they may keep for
The society, in return, is
pledged to provide them with food, gar
ments and lodgings according to their
actual needs.
The London cab proprietors have
also combined, and their union at its
first meeting adopted this resolution:
THAT the system under which the Lon
don cab trade is worked will not admit
Of the adoption of q fixed price and
given dates; that the value Of horse
and cab to the driver must always be
governed by their quality, and that the
variation of demand for cabs, according
70 conditions of weather, the London
season. race meetings and such like,
must be considered in determining the
price,"
1t is . serious matter for ordinary
when the car of Russia starts
On a journey. The other day, when he
went from st. Petersburg to Moscow, a
of business men proceeding in
he opposite direction was put on a side
rack in order that the imperial train
night pass, and tor two hours every
body was kept the closest prisoner.
All the doors and windows in each car
we're closed and locked. and special
'entries were posted to see thst no one
attempted to open them. During the
for the cars trip there
vas an almost total cessation of postal
md telegraphic communication be-
ween Moscow and St Petersburg for