The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-12-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The fashion of dress never varies In
Japan, therefore the wear and worry
endured by American women in their
efforts to keep up with the styles are
never visible upon the features of jap
anese females. A Japanese woman Of
forty-fve looks as young as an Ameri-
lean or European of thirty-fve.
AT the meeting of the Woman's
Liberal Federation in England, Dr.
Hunters divorce bill was favorably
voted upon. Tt not only allows to
woman relief from the marriage tie
from the same cause as permits it to
men, but so extends the laws that four
years desertion dlssolves the marriage.
Some worlkingmcn were making
some altera tions to the parish church
OF Long Clawson, near Melton Now
bray, England, when they discovered
large quantity of honey. 1t is thought
church has been inhabited by bees for
more than twenty-five years, as during
the whole of that time they have been
seen in the vicinity, and not infre-
quently have been observed fitting
about inside the building during divine
services.
The great ship Benbow, recently
completed by the British admiralty, is
believed to be the most formidable war
vessel in the English navy. She is
armed with two 111-ton guns, forty
three feet eight'inches long, and throw
ing an 1,8OO-pound shell. The dis
placement of the Benbow is 10, 900 tons,
her speed seven teen knots. The Italia,
not long ago complet ed in Italy, has
displacement of 14,OOO tons and a speed
OF nineteen knots, though the weight
of guns is somewhat inferior to that of
the Benbow. These two are believed
to be the strongest war vessels in the
world.
"A society called "The Association
of Married Women for the Control of
Husbands" has been formed in Berlin.
The aim of the society is to enable
members to prevent their husbands
from getting into mischief. Itemploys
detectives, who, upon complaint of a
member against her husband, are sent
out to watch the suspected man at
night. and eventually induce him to
attend a meeting of the association.
At this meeting the husband is in
formed of the proof against him and
he is threatened with exposure in case
he does not promise to reform. All but
one of the men arraigned by the society
last year found it expedient to accept a
Ieprimand and reform without utter
ing protest, but the culprit who re-
fused to submit to it's discipline be-
trayed it's secrets to the newspapers
"A Paris letter to the London Tele-
graph states that an infant phenome-
non has been discovered at Plaisance, a
suburb of Paris, in the person of a
little girl called Jeanne Eugene Mo-
reau, aged only five, but endowed with
most extraordinary memory. She is
a walking encyclopaedia on all matters
appertaining to the history Of France
and especially of the great revolution;
is an adept also in natural history, and
at the same time answers without hes
ltation or error practical questions
about cooking, gardening and house
hold management. The parents of the
child are very poor, and she has been
adopted by a Madame Galaxy, who has
had the child's remarkable faculties
cultivated, until she has become capa.
BILE OF passing a competitive examina-
tion that would be far too difficult for
older persons of more expensive educa.
ton.
During the last epidemic of chol-
era in England it puzzled the sanitary
inspectors of a northern town why the
inhabitants of one cottage in a certain
row were not affected by the disease
which was raging among their neigh
bors. Finally it became noticed that a
net of onions was suspended in the for.
tunate house, and on examination these
were found to be all diseased. 1t is
also related that during former out
break Of infectious fever in Somors
Town and st. Giles the French priests,
who constantly use garlic in all their
| dishes, visited the worst cases in the
dirtiest novels with impunity, while
the English clergy who were similarly
engaged, but who did not eat onions in
like fashion, caught the infection in
many instances, and fell victims to the
disease. Raw onions contain an acrid
volatile oil, sulphur, phosphorus, aka.
ne, earthly salts, starch and free, un.
crystalized sugar. The fresh juice i,
colorless, but by exposure to the air be
| comes red. n.