The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

During 177o French women wore
shoes with very pointed toes and high,
slender heels In 1889, the year of the
revolution, an abundance of rouge.
many patches and very high heels were
considered essential aids to female
beauty The men wore shoes of similar
elevation, while their attire as "a whole
was marked by many eccentricities-
Taking a census in India always
arouses the popular .superstitions and
dread of unknown evils. After the
last census of the Bills their chiefs, in
sisted on a new imperial obligation
that sin future no Bill woman should
ever be weighed" they fearing that
the plumpest and heaviest women. the
national beauties. were being checked
off for appropriation by the census
takers.
The inha bitants of the Marian
islands, which were discovered as late
as 1851. had no idea of fire or its uses
Their establishment knew no bounds
when they saw it applied to wood, most
of them supposing it to be some kind
of an animal which the sailors had
brought with them and which must be
fed on wood To this day they desig-
nate it by term which signifies
"wood-eater."
"A fossil elephan t'has been found ten
kilometers from Brioude, in France, on
the slope of an old volcano, the Sene re
which rises from the central plain. 1t
is the skeleton of an elephas meridi-
onalis, and is nearly entire. Active
volcanoes, so destructive of life, are
sometimes good preservers of animal
remains, as, for example, at Pompeii,
where the fine ash kept the object from
being washed away.
One would not imagine that butter
flies were a very nourishing article OF
diet, yet millions of them are eaten
every year by the Australian aborigines-
They congregate in vast quantities on
the rocks of the Bugong mountains,
and the natives secure them by kindling
fires of damp wood, which smoke very
much, and thus suffocate the little in
sects. Then they are gathered in bas-
kets, baked, sifted to remove the wings,
and finally pressed into cakes.
The highest average speed attained
by railway trains in England is fifty
one miles an hour. The board Of trade
has officially ascertained the averages
attained on the various principal roads
and tabulates them thus: Midland,
ffty-one miles an hour; Great North
ern, fifty-one; London & Northwest
ern, forty Great Western, forty
five; London, Brighton & South Coast
forty-three; Great Eastern, thirty
eight, and London & Southwestern.
thirty-seven.
The severity of British justice was
well illustrated at Northampton re-
Gently where trial for murder was in
progress. The jury having been per-
mitted to partake of a lunch in their
room, one of their number protitted by
the opportunity to step out of doors and
post letter. The judge, TO whom this
act was reported, promptly gave the
juror a sharp lecture and
fined him two hundred and fifty dollars
He dismissed the jury and new one
was impaneled.
Here is sample of Creolese spoken
In the Danish West Indies: I'm die
Begin die Word ha wees, en- die Woord
ha wees bic Godt, en- Godt ha wees die
Word Die selve ha wees bic Godt in
die Begin. Almael gut ka mack door
die selve; en- sender die MET cen gut ka
mallek van almael, wat ka mack" The
(St John l., /, 2, 81 is made
up of Dutch and Danish words. In the
of Surinam we find neo-
Latin mixed with Teutonic languages.
For instance: INA begin da Word
ben de, da Woord ben de Gado srefi.
Da ben de manga Gado ma begin. Nan
ga begin ALA sanni bed kom, en- Sondro
hem no wansanni ben kom, dissi de-"