Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The people of Persia ate 4,615 tons o9 horse meat last year.
 Japan has 99, 600 physicians, 1, ,42s ot whom are graduates of the university of Tokio.
 The rock of Gibraltar is an exact representation of lion lying in rest Ing position.
 The suez canal is only yeighty-eight miles long, but it reduced the distance from England to India, by sea, nearly 4,O00 miles.
 German soldiers are finding amuse- ment nowadays in training hawks to at tack carrier pigeons and bring back the birds as well as the war dispatches they carry.
 Edward III. and still upon the English statute books, prohibits the serving ot a dinner of more than two courses to anyone. except on holidays.
 The Bhatgur reservoir, d great artificial lake in India, said to hold about 4,04I ,00n cubic feet of water, acts as a feeder to the Mira canal. 1t is formed by a masonry dam 103 feet high and 3,02o feet long.
 It was once customary, in Scotland, to place on mans tombstone engraved symbols of the tools of his trade. There was an exception made in one ease, where barber had committed suicide with q razor.
 In Holland the peasant girl who is ss1If1 sgf fof h a young man for the occasion As good dancers command high price, two maidens sometimes club together to employ the same swain.
 Cuba produces 2,O0e, ,o0e punches of bananas every year and 25,o00,0e0 CO., eoanuts. The coeoanut-oil factories on the island consume yearly about IA, 000' GOO nuts, and those remaining are shipped to the United States.
 The Maelstrom is whirlpool off the coast of Norway, caused by the meeting of tidal currents and danger ous to navigation during some tides, Charybdis is a whirlpool off the Sicilian coast and Scyda is a rock near by.
 A relic of medieval taxation still survives in Galway in the shape of du- ties on salable articles passing through the gates of the town. The ''ingate tolls" extend to about one hundred ar ticles: the ''outgate tolls affect some forty articles
 The Dutch, who once held the su- premacy of the seas, when Holland was the first commercial nation of the world, excelled likewise in science, and her mariners over three hundred years ago explored the tropics and faced the dangers of either pole.
 It would seem that France had had enough of war and glory during the past ono hundred aud two years. Be tween l792 and 1915 two million two hundred and fifty thousand of her sons lost their lives in war. and during the present century six million have gone in the same way.
 --The champion fasters of the world are the members of q religious body called the Jains, of India. They have i,reouent lasts that last from thirty to forty days Once each year there is grand fast which cudures seventy-five days. Daring this time they are al- lowed to drink warm water.
 The British board of trade has just prepared statistics of the accidents at highway grade crossings on the rail roads of the United Kingdom for the past five years The total number of persons killed is 369 Of this number 327 are reported from England and Wales. Only Al of fhe fatalities were st public carriage roads, the remainder being tt private, or occupation" roads, or public footpaths.