The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-12-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


The German court Il to have . new
aance this winter, to be called the
''gavotte lanciers." Eight members Of
the royal playhouse company gave .
private performance of the new qua
drille before the emperor recently,
and he at once gave orders for its
adoption by the court in place of the
court quadrille.
"A French physician. who has found
that the majority of deaths upon the
battlefield arise from the bleeding to
death of the wounded while waiting
for the surgeon. proposes that each SOL
der in'the French army shall be taught
whore the arteries of his body are and
how to arrest hemorrhages from them.
In doing this he has found a use for
that most useless of arts, tattooing: a
small figure of some kind being tat
tOOed over each artery. so that the sol
der can at once see where to apply the
lgature. Times.
The French commissariat and the
minister of war have been figuring on
another siege of Paris and the amount
of food that would necessarily have to
be laid in for man and beast. Here
are the figures: Breadstuffs, 24S, 900
tons; meat, $4,000 tons; salt, 14,793
tons; dry vegetable 81, 40 tons; pota-
toes, 295. 26O tons: milk, 6.6O2, 900 Gu bic
meters; coal, 1000, 900 tons: hay, $751;
$40 tons: oats. 5O.O52 tons: straw, S.
S94 tons. The above are given as the
very lowest estimates on a six months
food supply for the 8, 800, 900 human be-
ings and the 9, $50. 900 domestic animals
now within what is known as ''the
outer defense lines" Such supply
would cost s1OO, Zoo, 900.
Steam power is being gradually in
troduced into sugar mills. but the
island of Barbadoes is still well stud
ded with windmills, which pleasingly
diversity the monotonous aspects of the
overcultivated country. Indeed. with
so constant a power as the trade wind,
most of the work of this favored land
can be performed almost free of cost.
If you need water you have only to sink
q well and erect a windmill over it,
which will keep your reservoirs full.
The coral rock is so porous that there
is no such thing as a river in the whole
island. The whole rainfall sinks
through the soil to form underground
streams, which discharge their cOpious
floods below the surface of the sea.
Among the many quaint customs
which are gradually disappearing in
England is the so-called Lion Ser
mon." which. after having been an
nually preached i'm the Church Of st.
Catharine, in the city of London, for
nearly three centuries. has inst been
abolished. 1t owes it's origin to an adj
venture which befelI medieval lord
mayor of London, Sir Richard Guyer.
According to the legend, being at
tackled by lion while he was travel
ing with a caravan in Arabia. he fell
upon his knees and vowed to devote
his life to charity if spared from the
lions jaws. The animal is stated to
have thereupOn turned tail: and in
pursuance of the vow thus made the
Lion Sermon" has been regularly
preached ever since. The fund be-
lueathed by Sir Richard for the pur-
pose will in future be devoted to other
charita BILE uses.
There are at least two well-anthen-
ticated instances on record of human
beings provided with tail-likc elonga-
lions of the spinal column. One OF
these is reported in the Asiatic Trans
actions Calcutta. June. 1862. and the
other in the journa! of the British An
thropolOgical society. In the first in
stance the tailed human was Moi boy
Of COchin-China. the tail being about
foot in length. but without bOny
connection with the terminus of the
spine. The boy was supposed to be
Twelve years old at the time the report
was published. hut the noted Oriental
scholar who made the examination has
since died. and the society has lost all
track of the tailed Chinaman. The sec
ond instance mentioned was reported
in the journal of the British AnthrOpo-
.ogical society for July. 1890. and con-
Germs two tailed Papuans, male and fe
male. who were brought to England in
the spring of the year last mentioned
above.