Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


In Rome few tourists still hire
balconies on the Corso, whence to
throw flowers at other tourists, while
they themselves are the targets of a
mob of rufianly boys armed with de-
cayed vegetables. This is all that is
left of the Roman Carnival
Berlin is to have shortly a crema-
tory erected at the city's cost in the
Frledrichsruh cemetery, where bodies
of the poor and unknown and of the
subjects of anatomical investigation at
clinics and hospitals will be reduced to
ashes. The bodies from the anatomists'
tables alone number about one thou
sand annually.
A rule has just been introduced at
all the theaters of Italy by which per-
formers are forbidden, under pain of
fine. to receive flowers during a repre-
sentation or to notice in any way the
presence of the audience This will
now put an end in Italy to boquet
throwing in the middle of secene or
at the end of song.
In 143O A. ID. after nineteen years of
ceaseless labor and an expenditure of
about $500, 900, the Chinese government
finished the wonderful porcelain tower
at Nankin, which stood nearly four and
quarter centuries. until 1856, the most
marvellous building ever erected by hui
man hands. 1t was of octagonal form,
200 feet in height, with mine stories, each
having cornice and a gallery without.
The BAIL missionaries often saw
the little unclad native African girls
carrying an ear of corn-on their backs
This is just where the women -earry-
their bal ies, but It HAD Hot occurred to
the missionaries that the ear of corn
served as doll until they noticed that
one little girl had the tassel of corn
braided and strung with beads. The
missionary's wife asked her if that was
her baby, and she said YES"
The London, paStJoffics received lay
parcel post from Egypt four lively
young alligators. Their temporary
home was wooden box, out of
which proceeded mysterious sounds
that raised in the minds of the post
Office people visions of internal ma
chimes and dynamite. When the par
eel was opened the alligators were
frisky and hungry. At present they
they are detained in the dead-letter
Office until their fate is decided.
1t is only recently that people have
been permitted to, ascend the rock and
signal station at Gibraltar. Since last
November the British military, with
.theirE: families, and persons connected
with the British navy, have been per
mitted to visit this fine lookout. The
privilege, however, has not been ex-
tended to the citizens of Gibraltar nor
to strangers visiting the fortress, cir
cumstance which is generally resented,
particularly by the subjects of the
queen.
On November 3, in the churches of
France, it was once permitted to the
people, and even in certain places ex-
pected, that they should bring their
dogs to church with them. Even now,
on that day, though the people do not
go to church accompanied by their New
fOundlands, their pugs, or their bull
terriers, they talk as if they were go
ing to do So. and pleasantly ask ope.an,
other, in the afternoon: t'Did you take
your dog to mass this morning?"
The postal service of Canada suf-
fered a considerable loss during the last
fiscal year, according to the report of
the Canadian postmaster-general just
issued. The gross receipts for the fiscal
year, ended June 80 last, We're 50, 1874
sS7, and the gross expenditures s4,O2O,-
700, deficit of s645,s52. During the
year the mails carried 81, 975, 900 letters,
90,300,0 900 postal cards and $500, 900
newspapers and such PACKAGES There
were 1901 post offices in the dominion
at the date of the report.