St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-01-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Morrison, an English traveller Of
the seventeenth century. while at
Dantzic, Prussia, says he ''saw . mill
which, without the help of human
hands, did saw boards. It had great
iron wheel, which did not only drive
the saw but which did also hook in and
turn the logs onto the saw" DR.. John
Dee must have seen a similar mill at
Prague. OF it he says: 81 saw me q
mill at Prague of which verify believe
the devil himself was master"
London is as vet without a perma-
nent orchestra capable of giving the
highest class of music. A movement
has just been started to establish one
on much the same footing as that on
which the Boston Symphony orchestra
is kept together. A Scottish orchestra
was maintained last year at a financial
loss by wealthy amateurs, but the pros
poets are that it will be soon self-sup-
porting. That was exactly Maj. Hig-
ginson's experience with his Boston or
chestra.
In dredging the harbor at Bizerta.
in Tunis, silver sacriticial bowl was
found which is the most valuable piece
of workmanship in the precious metal
vet discovered in Africa. 1t is oval in
shape, shallow, has two handles and
weighs twenty pounds. The inner sur
face is ornamented with a design in in
laid gold representing the contest be-
tween Apollo and Marsyas. The work
is by Greek artist of the first century
after Christ. The bowl is now in the
Bardo museum.
The Blake, the flagship of the
British North Atlantic squadron, is to
return to England early next spring,
after an absence of nearly three years.
Her place will be taken BY the Crescent.
now in Australia. The Blake has not
realized expectation. Her machinery
gave trouble during her trial, and has
not worked as smoothly as it should
while she has been in commission.
The Blake was admiral Sir John Hop
kins' flagship while the British squad
ron was here in 1898.
The international exhibition at
Antwerp the past year was a great sue
cess. After exerting themselves for
the Chicago fair last year eminent
American and European producers
deemed it incxpedient to make any dis
play in Belgium, and such things as
were sent have been arranged too het-
erogeneously to produce the best effect.
There is no grouping of electrical ap-
paratus, for instance, and in other re-
spects the classification by countries is
carried to an unfortunate extreme.
The railway marks invented by
Hungarian Minister Lukais will short
ly be adopted on all Hungarian rail-
ways For the future no traveller on
Hungarian railways will be troubled to
stand waiting at the ticket Office for
his ticket. He will be in position to
make out his ticket for himself. On a
blank card he will write the name of
the station from which he takes his de-
parture and that of the station he
means to 60 to, and he will stick on to
the remaining empty space on the card
as many railway marks" as his jour-
ney will cost. The blank cards will be
obtainable at all tobacco shops.
The monuments to Emperor Will
liam I. and Empress Augusta. recently
consecrated in the mausoleum at Char
lottenburg, are in chapel ABIDING the
one in which Queen Louisa is buried.
The statues, of white Carrara marble,
are recumbent. The old emperor lies
bareheaded in the uniform of the First
regiment of guards. with the imperial
cloak of ermine round his shoulders
and in his hand the sword of state,
with laurel leaves wound round the
hilt. The empress wears a diadem and
a veil of lace most delicately carved.
She holds a crucifix in her hands and
passion-fowers are scattered over the
folds of her dress. At the door of the
hall stands an archangel with a fam
ing sword. The sculptor is Prof Eucke.