The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-08
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Army Temperance socieHy OF
the British army in India has grown
from $4,000 members in 1890 to over
q, 900 members to-day. Out of 1,10e
regimental courts-martial for 1898. only
thirty-nine sat to try members of the
Temperance association, and of 2,6so
courts-martiai of all classes for that
/ year, only seventy-three concerned tenn
| perance men.
When the act was passed relieving
| the queen of the necessity of signing
death warrants by curious oversight
no mention was made of the Isle Of
| Man, and the execution of criminal
| who committed murder in that part of
| her majesty's dominion is the only one
which the queen has sanctioned with
her own hand since the beginning of
| her reign.
0-Berghem was lazy and his wife was
| Industrious. His studio was a room
| over the kitchen, and from time to time
during the day she pounded the ceiling
with a long pole she kept for the pur-
pose, and Berghem patted the floor
with his foot to satisfy her that he was
! awake and attending to business. IL
he did not answer she dropped every
thing and went upstairs to look after
him.
The vice-chairman of the Scarbor-
ough board of guardians, in opposing
an increase in the number of nurses in
their infrmary, informed his colleagues
that people in workhouse infirmary
didn't require so much nursing as is
given in hospital; they came-and he
was sorry TO say ito die and to rest,
not to be nursed." But his colleagues
thought that even dying paupers should
receive proper care, and voted TO hire
another nurse.
"A Hungarian chemist, DR.. Johann
Antal, recently reported to the Hunga-
rian Society of Physicians that he has
discovered new chemical compound,
the nitrate of cobalt, which, he SAYS, is
most efficacious antidote to poisoning
by cyanide of potassium or prussic
acid. He tried the sntidote first on
animals, and afterwsrd on forty living
persons who had been accidentally
poisoned with prussic acid. In not
single case did the antidote prove a
failure.
The Incompetence Of the interpre-
ter in the Caeserio trial attracted gen
eral notice. 1t was due 20 the rule in
France no foreigner can serve the state.
except as q street sweeper in Paris, and
even there the number of foreigners
must not exceed one-tenth of all the
sweepers- AS result an Englishman
can not teach English in public |
school. nor can an Italian interpret be
fore a tribunal Amusement was
caused by the fact that Caeserio under /
stood the French OF the Judge better !
than he did the Italian Of the interpre- |
ter
A writer IN the Central Afric. |
Gazette. from Tete. says that at the !
rate az which elephants OF all sizes are |
at present being killed OF in south aud /
central Africa there Is little doubt that 1
in q few years they will BE practically I
extermiRsted in those regions From 4
Tete and Zumbo alone the traders an 4
nualiy send three thousand hunters 20 4
the countries north Of the Rsmbesi. I
who shoot indiscriminately, regardless
OF an elephants age or the size OF Its
tusks. The writer recommends al the
powers having territories in Africa % I
form a union and prohibit the eKports-
ton Of tusks under ten pounds Il
weight