The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Ill Is dOOut t"O SSdiS
teen Egyptian mummies In the Ola
museum of Berlin proved to be the
bodies of fellows who short time ago
took their beer in the saloons OF the
capital of the empire of William IL 1t
is now believed that there Is not
museum in the world that has not been
imposed upon by frauds Of this kind
The famous London circus. known
rs Astley's, and familiar to all readers
of Dickens and Thackeray, is In process
of demolition. 1t was there that Adam
Isaac Menken, the clown Grimaldl and
other historic stage and sawdust celeb
rites won their greatest successes, and
the name figures in the pages OF
dozen novels of London life.
in the case of French countess
who left all her property to the pope,
the French court, in the action on the
part of the natural heirs OF the coun-
tess to break the will, decided that the
pope could not hold land in France
not because he was foreign sovereign,
but because he was not a concrete per
son. but an abstraction, standing for
the schools known as Christianity, and
because an abstract idea can not hold
real estate in France.
"A novel measure Of protection
against thieves and other crooked Gus
toners has been instituted by the bank
of France An instantaneous photo
graphic operator is placed in such po-
sition that he can, on receiving sig
nal from the cashier, take a photo
graph of the person then at the win
dow. A valuable record may be thus
preserved of the person to whom a
check is paid or whose identity it may
be necessary to establish.
During the recent heavy fogs in
London, all traffic on the streets was
suspended, and all places of amuse-
ment and social gatherings were de-
serted. 1t was almost impossible to
make ones way along the streets. as
the electric and gas-lights served only
to make traffic more dangerous. Many
highway and other robberies were
committed, the thieves invariably es-
Gaping under cover of the befriending
fog.
be able to spin ordinary wood pulp, or
cellulose, into yarn, from which all
soats of textile tissues can be made in
the ordinary way. equalling in dura-
.bility. appearance, and fastness of
color the best cotton goods If his
scheme is practicable, it will revolu-
tionize the textile industry. 1t is
claimed the method is applicable, not
only to cellulose, but to every sort of
short fbrous material, rags, scraps of
cotton and linen goods, and the like,
and the fibre can be dyed before being
spun into yarn.
Great Britain is now far in advance
of Russia as far as regards extent of
possessions. The recent partition OF
Africa has added 1000, 900 square miles
(nominally at least to the British pos
sessions. At the end OF 1892 the Brit
ish empire, including protectorates,
spread over 12.20S, 500 square miles,
while Russia. the next largest country,
included only s,457, 2S9 square miles.
It NAV be remarked that nearly one
fourth of the immense area of the Brit
ish empire has been added within the
past FIVE years. The Salisbury govern
ment appropriated more land than the
whole area of the United States.
The great turtle found in the artil-
iery barracks at Port Louis in 1910,
when Mauritius was coded to Great
Britain, is, although almost blind. still
alive. 1t weighs, according TO a French
observer, $50 kilogrammes and meas
ures 2. SO meters 81 feet across the
carapace. It's height from the ground
to the top of the carapace, when il
walks, is about SO meters about two
feet. 1t is believed to be 200 years old
at least, nevertheless it carries two men
on its back with ease.
1t is not easy to convey to the for
eign mind generally the enormous i'm
portance which is attached in Italy 10
a distinct promise Of marriage. 1t, in
deed, almost amounts, morally speak
ing, to marriage itself, and the break
ing of it is looked upon socially almost
rs an act of infidelity TO the marriage
bond young girl who refuses 20 keep
her engagement is called a civetta-an
ewlet-proba bly, because owlets are
used as decoy all over the country in
sharing and shooting all small birds.
Be that as il may. the term is bitter
reproach II sticks to her who has
earned il, and often ruins her whole
life.