Griggs courier., 1893-06-09
FoRelcN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Santa Catina Of the Cathedral
Of Genoa is an imitation emerald disk.
fourteen inches wide and five deep. 1t
was captured at Cesarea by the xu-
saders and given to Genoa in 1901.
The tomb of Noah is supposed 70
liein the small town of Nakhtchevan,
on the plain of Ararat. The burial
place is at the side of the broken walls
of an abandoned fortress in the midst
of vast plain which is literally COW
cred with the remains of bygone glories.
"A statement recently published by
the authorities of Munich gives some
startling information as to the in
creased consumption in that city Of dog
flesh. So great an appetite seems to
have developed for that food that the
authorities have thought it time to in
terfere for the protection of dog own
ers.
One Of the most magnificent gifts
ever given to community by an indi-
vidual is the new British gallery of art,
to be built at Milbank, London sub
urb, by Mr.. H. Tate. This building will
cost more than $1,000, 900. Even in
America. the land of magnificent gent
erosity, few gifts to the public from in
dividuals have equaled this in great
ness.-N. Y. Press.
Mr.. Baden-Powell, of the Scots
guards, has devised a method of signal
ing at night by means of paper fire
balloons, which are made to lift string
of ''beads" of quick burning compost
tion attached to piece of quick match,
80 as to spell out words ON system
similar to the ''dot.an dash" or Morse
plan. The balloon is inflated by hot
mir, and the message" string is at
tached. The portability of the appa-
ratus is an important feature.
Rosa Bonheur disapproves of the
feminine attendance at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts on the ground that the
young men students are too badly
brought up and too vulgar to permit of
young ladies associating with them.
Had we American manners" she says,
land was there but little more respect
for women here, the state might create
mixed schools, but with the character
of the male student of the day it is
wrong to think of tn. Y. Sun.
I'm China there is profession for
ladies, strange, because openly and
handsomely remunerated in the current
coin of the realm. 1t is carried on by
elderly ladies, who go from house to
house of rich people announcing their
coming by beating drum and Offering
their services to amuse the lady of the
house. This offer accepted, they sit
down and tell the latest scandal and
the newest stories and on dts, and are
rewarded at the rate of half-a-crown an
hour, besides a handsome present should
some portion of their gossip have proved
particularly acceptable.
Sir John Gilbert, r. A has at last
solved the mystery of the words mot
for sale," which have been affixed as
labels for now many seasons on his wa
ter-color pictures in the gallery in
which he is president. He has been
saving them to present to London, Liv-
erpool, of which city he is the honorary
president of the local aoquarellists
Manchester, and perhaps Birmingham
and his oil pictures, or such as he has
reserved without prohibitory labels
from the Royal academy and the long
since defunct British institution, like
wise form a part of his gifts.-N. Y.
Tribune.
"A bill for the construction of a
canal from the Gironde to the Medi-
terranean has been under consideration
in the French chamber of deputies. The
proposed canal will be about 1923 miles
long and 143 feet wide, except at points
where vessels can pass each other,
where its width will be over 200 feet.
The depth will be 2715 feet, and there
will be twenty-five double locks. A
concession of ninety-nine years is asked
by a company prepared to carry out the
scheme, and a state guarantee of two
per cent. interest. The military advan-
tage would be to afford safe passage
to French ships in time of war between
the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.