The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-02-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Dueling in Russia has become so
common that the government has been
compelled to decree a code of punish
ment. If duelist kills an antagonist,
it will cost him six years in prison; for
severe wounding, the penalty will be
three years; duel without injury, six
months; provoking duel, six weeks to
three months.
Often bach was the French Gilmore.
He always tried to please rather than
instruct, and of the sixty-four operas
that he wrote in less than twenty-five
years only one had the good fortune
to last more than three or four years.
His maxim was GA grain of wit is bet
ter than a bushel of learning" and
never tired of repeating it.
i'm Hawaii, last year, 2,2s2 persons
were arrested for drunkenness, 1866 for
"deserting contract SERVICE" S07 for
gambling, 10 for murder, n for viola
ton of carriage ordinances, for per
uniting ferocious beast abroad" for
attempting to leave the kingdom
without permit, "and III for disturb
ing the quiet of the night
"A massage stone" is coming into
use in England that is made of I'M
glazed china and provided with sort
of dorsal lump for holding in the hand,
and has the rubbing slightly undulat-
ed, not to say ridged. The stone is
white, and even when used on recently
washed skin it soon becomes darkened,
showing that it squeezes good deal Of
material from the pores. !
The Vienna police have general
charge of all newspapers, and keep rec
ords of all presses and publications,
maintain a censorship over all theaters
and plays, issue licenses for the publ
cation and sale of all DO. s. magazines
and periodicals. All plays, dialogues,
songs, dances and entertainments by
societies, clubs or individuals must
be submitted to the police and approved
before production.
U-By cholera and other diseases. the
Mohammedan pilgrimage to Mecca this
year cost the lives of more than thirty
thousand people il the space of fort
night. Medieval pilgrimages to Jeru-
salem were probab bly, the cause of not a
few plague epidemics A Mussulman
doctor and employee of the Egyptian
government, in treatise on the pill
grimage, demands, if not its total sup
preston, at least a considera BILE modi-
fcation.
In the English compulsory labor
prisons the prisoners pass nine months
in solitary confinement, and are then
assigned to the public works prisons
for hard labor. By good behavior they
experience a gradual amelioration in
their condition. At first they are not
allowed to write or receive letters, and
may see no visitors. Then, upon adj
vancement, they may write and receive
one letter every six months and see
one visitor; then the privilege is ex-
tended to once in four months, then
snce in three.
The gaekwar of Baroda has pro-
posed a neE law for the purpose of
stopping early marriages. Any five
members of a group of families pos
sessing the right of intermarriage may
call general meeting of the clan,
three-fourths of them being necessary
to form a quorum. Nine-sixteenths Of
those present can say whether early
marriages should be prevented or not
and penalties are prescribed for those
who disobey the rule, Whoever de-
sires to live outside the law or his clan
however, can notify the wahiwatdar to
that effect, and receive license to do as
he pleases. Early marriages are made
to include not only the marriages of
boys to girls, but also of bride of
twenty-nine with a bridegroom of