St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

commission is contemplating sending
ipr exhibition at the exposition copies ot
the noted aboriginal cave inscriptions
II northern Queensland, and also q
Whole tribe of aborigincs.
| -Catarrh and lung troubles make
the residence Of apes in northern Eu
rope only brief pathway to the grave.
Edgar Aka, the noted Paris chimpanzee
has recently died of consumption, and
the successor to ''Sally" in the London
SOCIOLOGICAL garden has q cough which ID
| almost human.
The japanese are unsusceptible tc
SCARLET fever, and smallpox. which was
1T one time rife among them. has been
checked and almost extcrminated by
voluntary vaccination. The mortality
Of Toxic. vast city which covers 100
square miles Of ground, is only 20 pei
1000 Dispatch.
I'm the snowy regions of the Hima-
,aya little smoking tunnels are made in
the frozen snow, at one end of which is
placed some tobacco, along with a piece
of burning charcoal, while TO the other
the mountaineers place their mouths
and. lying fiat on their stomachs, inhalc
the smoke of the glowing weed.
The suggestion is made in Queens
land to encourage the breeding of mar
supials, and not to exterminate them.
"A sheep ranch that will carry :O. .0Oo
;sheep would carry SC. 900 lsangaroos. and
there would be no deaths from cold or
loss Of mothers as in lambing. American
buyers pay so per dozen for kangaroo
T skins delivered in Australia.
Tho japanese believe in more myth
ical creatures than any other people on
/ the globe, civilized or savage. Among
them arc mythical animals without any
remarkable peculiaritlcs Of conforma-
tion. but gifted with supernatural at
tributes: such as q tiger which is said
! to live to be one Thousand years old.
and to turn as white rs a polar bear.
Ten years ago the ice scenery Of
the New Zealand Alps was almost un-
known. even to the colonists. But in
lss: Rev. w. s. Green. with two first
class guides, explored the glacier region
beneath the highest pcak-Aorangi. or
Mount Cook-and arrived. after a long.
difficult and dangerous climb, on the
summit of that mountain. Since then
the Britain of the South" has become
proud Of possessing the playground Of
Australasia.
A London paper states that pneu-
matte inner sole. or sock, for boots and
shoes, has been brought out by q firm
in that city. the design Of the article be-
ing to benefit the large number Of peo-
pie who are troubled with tender feet.
etc. 1t is simple contrivance, made Of
hollow India rubber, inflated with air
or gas under pressure, the external pro-
tective Governing being canvas, linen,
skin. or some other suitable material,
to enable it to Withstand the internal
pressure of the compressed air or gas
The ancient inhabitants of Sweden
were the Fins, now the modern inhabi-
tsnts of Finland, who retired to their
resent territory ON the appearance Of
the Scandinavians or Goths. who have
ever since been masters of Sweden.
The internal state of this kingdom is
little known previous to the eleventh
century. by the union Of Calmar in
1897, Sweden became a province of Dem
mark, and was not wholly rescued from
this subjection till 1921. when Gustavus
Vasa recovered the kingdom from the
Danish yoke. He became king in 1928,
and his descendants ruled till 1909.
-''What is Russian prince?" asks a
correspondent Of Free Russia. There
are two classes Of princes in Russia.
The one class form part of the real
aristocracy Of the country. enjoying the
of immense wealth. and
often discharging high civil or military
in the state. The other class
is made mp Of what are known rs
'thinned-out" princes (zakhudaliye
knyazya), persons without either
landed property or independent income.
tend, in their ignorance of
Russian affairs, to confer upon the lat
ter class the rank of the former. yet
the ''thinned-out" princes are not only
not ''aristocrats," but are to be found
gaining their livelihood, like other COM
mon Russian mortals, as agents, clerks,
tradcsmen and sea captains, etc.