The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

An attempt to rob the Casino at
Monte Carlo was recently made by en-
ployees. They tried to steal some sl0,-
600 as it was being transported from
the gaming rooms to the cashier Office.
Several croupiers were involved and six
teen arrests were made.
Commenting on the inaugural cele-
brations the Toronto Globe says Cana
dams are puzzled to understand how
the political enthusiasm of Americans
can be maintained at procession heat
SO long after the election. IF we
Canadians rise to the procession point
on election day it says, I'VE are doing
remarkably well in that line
"A curious discovery was made some
years ago among the archives at South
ampton of a box containing the original
naval laws of that port as early as the
fourteenth century. One of them was
that if the majority of the sailors of a
vessel on the point of sailing were of
opinion that the wind was nnfavorable,
and the vessel was wrecked afterward,
the captain was responsible for the
value of the goods lost.
When Manitoba is pronounced In
dian fashion, with an explosive accent
on the last syllable, it is plainly enough
in part an onomatop9ia, or word ex-
pressing its sense by its sound. 1t means
breath of God" ''Manitou' being God
and ''ba" breath. AS properly pro-
nounced. the last syllable is simply
sudden expulsion of breath. such as
must have seemed to the savages, who
first employed the name as accurately
expressive of their meaning.
The oldest tree on earth. at least as
far as anyone knows, is the Boo tree in
the sacred city of Amarapoora, Burmah.
1t was planted, the record says, in the
year 2ss B. c., and is, therefore, about
two thousand years old. Its great age
is proved by historic documents, says
Sir James Emerson. who adds: ITO it
kings hi VIC dedicated their Kingdoms in
testimony of d belief that it is branch
of the identical fig tree under which
Buddha reclined at Uoa, when he was
undergoing his apotheosis, It's leaves
are carried away by pilgrims as relics,
but, as it is too sacred to be touched,
even with knife, they can only be
gathered after they have fallen.
Two Americans, in the employment
of the government of British Columbia,
recently accomplished feat hitherto
deem impossible by crossing the Selkirk
mountains in the depth of winter. The
object of the trip was to ascertain if it
were possible to lay out pack and
cattle trail over the range from Golden
to kalso. The men travelled one hun
dred and fifty miles on snowshoes, fifty
miles over the widest mountain coun-
try. where glaciers abounded. They
found pass at an altitude of six thou
sand FIVE hundred feet that is prac
ticable for cattle and pack trains in
summer. The thermometer was below
zero during most of their trip, which
occupied nearly month.
A policeman and supposed crimi-
nal whom he had arrested were walk
ing beside the Danube at Kelhein, Ba-
varia. recently, when the prisoner sud-
denly jumped into the river. The wa
ter was full of great blocks of ice,
quite across the stream. and
the man jumped safely from block to
block and reached the opposite bank.
The policeman followed, but being less
agile fell between the blocks into the
river. His late prisoner had very
nice question iii casuistry to decide,
and he settled it by plunging into the
river. at imminent risk of his own life,
to save the life of the policeman. He
succeeded in getting the officer To land.
and then the policeman was in guam
dairy. He offered to state the case to |
the authorities and try to get life |
saving medal for his rescuer. But the |
latter thought ne would rather have !
his liberty, and the policeman promptly /
set him free, and gave him-a couple OF /
marks to help him on his way The /
fugitive has not since been recaptured. !
He Decided to Reform.