The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-11-04
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The mole plague in the southern
counties Of Scotland, which for a time
proved terrible scourge to farmers.
mas now all but disappeared, This is
due to the fact that owls were pre-
served by the gamekeepers and becasne
extraordinarily plentiful.
Every deliberative civil body in En-
gland, even down to the town councils,
is provided with n mace, which IA
brought forth with solemn ceremony
and placed on the table before the de-
hoerations begin. In one or two city
councils candlestick of silver Is added
to the mace, and acts passed in the alb
sence OF these objects are supposed TO
be illegal.
In Tyrol the mother OF u female in
FAINT makes during the first year of its
life beautiful lace handkerchief.
After it Is finished II Is laid away TO be
brought out and placed over her head
as n bridal veil at her marriage. After
the marriage II is again laid away to
be seen no more until her death, when
II Is again produced and laid over her
face in the coffin.
January 80 and 81 and February |
are famous ut Constantinople, Brescia
and along the Danube and the Rhine
ts the "blackbird days" A curious le-
gend says that originally all species of
grackles (blackbirds) were white, and
that they became black because during
one year in the middle ages the three
days mentioned above were SO cold
that all the birds in Europe took refuge
in the chimneys.
AT Dauphine, on January II, 1918.
at place known as the giants field, a
brick tomb 30 feet long, IL feet wide
and feet high was discovered. When
opened it was found to contain hu.
man skeleton entire, 25i[ feet long. 10
feet wide across the shoulders and s
feet thick from the breastbone to the
back. His teeth were each about the
size Of an ox's foot, and his shinbones
each measured feet in length.
On the stairway landings of almost
every Partisan chateau there are small
tables designed to hold candles. When
guests are saying goodnight this table
presents pretty picture. The candies
are of varied colors, the candlesticks of
odd designs and the lights are pleas
antly softened by colored shades. A
green candle in u silver candlestick,
with perfectly formed pond lily for
the shade, is but one of many novelties.
"A sponging-house was house kept
by the sheriff's officers in London, to
which person arrested for debt was
taken, and where he was kept for TWEEN
ty-four hours, so that his friends might
have chance to settle the debt. The
place was called sponging-house be
cause of the extortionate charges for
any sort of accommodation. When inn
prisonment for debt was finally abol-
ished in 1869 the last sponging-houses
disappeared.
On October 90, A. ID. 3l2, Constan
tine the Great is said to have "heard a
great and mighty noise above and TO
the east of him" and upon turning his
ewes in that direction was astonished
beyond measure at what he there be-
held" Clearly outlined upon the blue
sky was cross Of pure white, and in
the halo which surrounded the top was
the Latin phrase, ''In hoe signo" c'By
this sign'), in letters of deep scarlet.
Mackey, the great historian, says that
there was second inscription in
Greek, the letters of which in English
would be "En to nilta."