Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-06-30
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

i.
 The king of Greece is an excellent
 -x,;snner. and has perfect passion for
 fishing
 Sweden claims to have the best
 tnpwn woman painter in northern Flu
 vore-the Baroness Emma Spare.
 Donald Graham. who died the oth-
 .r day in England, aged eighty-five
 xears, was a schoolmate of Gladstone, and it was his proud boast that he used
 ks sbeat the prime minister at the shorter catechism.
 Two thousand five hundred we'd fsipgs were celebrated in St. Peters, bnrg during the first week after the Russian Easter This week is especial VI chosen for marriage by Russians of the Orthodox Greek faith.
 The death is reported on South African ostrich farm of male ostrich named Saul, which was known to be at least ffty-fve years old. At one time the plumes from 8 single plucl1ing of fhis bird sold for more than one hun dred dollars.
 Rosa Bonheur, upon whose breast Empress Eugene personally fastened the cross of the Legion of Honor in as65, has just been promoted to the erade of officer in that order, the first woman artist upon whom that distinc- lion has been conferred.
 A South African publication states that many trees in the government eompound at Kimberley have been de- stroyed by 8 species of underground ants, which eat into the roots and pene- trate upward into the trunk. where upon the tree slowly withers. Turkey has for some time been planning a great exhibition to be held in SConstantinople in 1896. The sultan has just decided to postpone it until 1897 or 1898 on account of the Millennial ex- shibition which is to be held at Pesth in 1896, and at which Turkey will be an extensive exhibitor.
 During last year 1 B murder charges were tried in Great Britain, of which twenty-one were of child-murder In thirty eases verdicts of wilful murder were returned; in twenty cases the de- fendants were found not guilty: in fourteen the accused were found to be insane, and in the remainder verdiets of manslaughter i'll various degrees were returned The number of charges of wilful murder were more than double the number in the preceding year. and the number of convictions was also nearly double.
 The decree of President Carnot. forbidding members of the French dip lomatic and consular service to marry without the permission of the govern ment, caused stir in diplomatic cir cles. The fact that the decree was issued so soon after the marriage of NJ. Jules Patenotre to an American girl is regarded as significant. although the French premier insists that it only has reference to the marriage of French to ladies of other na- tions which are obieetionab ble to the French government
 Under the new electoral scheme passed in Belgium last year under some notable pressure it will be re- membered, Brussels will have 142.1s2 voters, instead of 20.300, as under the old regime It is calculated that i'll the rural districts the electors will be increased to fourfeId the extent of the increase i'll Brussels Under the old regime about one inhabitant to five of the capital had vote, but only about one in twenty of the rural people had B vote, while in villages containing sey- eral hundred people not one person could vote.