The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-12-02
FOREIGN NEWS AND GOSSIP.

sheep than in 1889.
The new British coinage bears the
Queens head without her crown.
Cooked snails in packages are sold to
the railway travellers all over France.
The crusade against the sale Of in
decent prints in Paris is making pro-
gress.
Artificial scars are painted on the
faces of Heidelberg students who never
fought.
There is room for just five more dead
in the Poets Corner of Westminster
Abbey.
Of all the ruins in England, Kenil-
worth is said to be kept in the best
state of repair.
An American is said to have offered
to buy the famous Warwick Castle for
"spot cash"
Some titled English women are te
start II movement for the salvation Of
barmaids' souls.
France is to have q new subsidiary
coinage, which is to be of some metal
beside copper.
Regardless Of the weather, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gladstone are regularly at church
every morning.
Jokes from American newspapers are
compiled and sold by bureau to Lon
don weeklies.
A dog market is held every Sunday
in Paris, where it is possible to buy
anything from black -and-tan to .
huge mastiff
The Sultan of Morocco owns the
most expensive cycle, tho VIII ole of tho
framework of which is nickel plated,
and which cost him $2, 200.
The House of Lords has been thor
oughly cleaned for the first time m
forty-tive years in fact since it was
built.
The King Of the Belgians is said TO
have granted concession to an inhu-
ential English company to grow to-
bacco in the Congo and to trade m
that article.
A French company has been formed
to work the beds of Ignite recently
discovered on the Straits of Magellan.
There are two seams, only the upper
one being workable.
The German Minister of Education
has sent to the Geographical Society
OF Berlin copies of two letters written
by Columbus, which were found re-
Gently in an old convent in Guatemala.
A new dish appeared lately on the
menus Of Swiss table d'hotes which
puzzles every one who reads its nams
-Ariostu. Those who risked q trial
were surprised to find an old friend
Irish stew
Notwithstanding that every year from
5000 to 5000 ships go up and down
the river Seine, carrying $500, 900 tons
of goods, the English consul at Rouen
says there is no map of this important
French stream in existence.
In competition of horses at Rouen,
France, for the worlds championship
leaping sweep stakes, an English horse,
Las Mania, cleared the bar at height
of "a inches. The highest leap of q
French horse, New Moon, was 72
inches.
The site of the Chateau of Vaucou.
leurs, in the chapel of which Joan Of
Arc prayed before going against the
English, has been purchased by the
Bishop of Verdun. He will erect ON
the site of the chatean basilica in
honor of the Maid of Orleans.
1t may be the safety bicycle, and ii
may only be the process of emancips-
ton that is surely working out, but it
is fact that not only is the idea of q
woman riding horse like man be-
coming tolerable in England, but tho
practice is being followed in some few
notable cases.
The War Office has been notified
that arrangements have been made with
the most important railway companies
in Great Britain and Ireland by which
they will employ soldiers who have
been honest, sober, intelligent and
conscientious during their service witt
the colors.
Emperor William OF Germany is
friendly with the Jews He has ap-
pointed Colonel Rosseur, who is one of
the few Jews in the German Army, an
aid d-de-camp on his own staff as an int;-
nation of his disapproval of the perse-
cutions to which that race is subjected
in the Kaiser's own realm as we'll ms
elsewhere in Europe.