St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-11-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-nchylka in Siberia has . remarka-
bic temperance society. Its members
meet IN church on the 1st of Septem-
Der and swear before the altar that
they will drink no wine or liquor
"from tomorrow morning" They
then go out and drink hard all day till
no man or woman is left sober. For
the rest of the year they are total alb
stainers.
Russia proposes to celebrate Jen-
ner's discovery of vaccination. the one
hundredth anniversary OF which oc-
ours next year. by offering prizes for
works on vaccination. by publishing
histories of the practice of vaccination
in Russia, and In western Europe. and
by q commemorative meeting and ex-
hibition of objects connected with vac
cinatiOn.
Warsaw has population Of S7l,-
300. according to the latest census, and
is increasing at the rate OF 20, ,0ON
year. The garrison consists OF $1,000
men. There are only $1,000 orthodox
Russians, but 30s. 900 Catholics and
rapidly. No less than 80, 726 hereditary
mobiles and Q. 25T life mobiles live in the
city, TO every Il or Is inhabitants.
-Baedeker's publishers have had to
pay $3.50 to a hotel-keeper Of Jaffa for
libel. In the guide book for Palestine
the Twelve Tribes" hotel WAS
described as second-class and the
proprietor Is an Arab, whereas he Is
British subject. born of a Maltese IA
ther and mother from Mount
Lebanon, has been . dragoman in
Egypt. and has appeared as David
Staying Goliath in living pictures. His
name is Islander Awad. but for hotel
purposes he calls himself Howard. A
British jury thought his business had
been injured, and awarded damages.
BY making use of the Duna, Beresi.
ma, and Dnieper river. Russia is plan
ming TO connect the Baltic with the
Black sea by a waterway beginning at
Riga and ending at Cherson. The on
ly canal, properly speaking, will be
between the Duna and the Beresina.
A waterway 1000 miles long. with .
breadth at the top in the narrowest
places Of o2O feet and at the bottom OF
laO feet. and depth everywhere Of 20
feet, with harbors and locks. can be
constructed for SlOo, 100000. At Pinsk.
in the Pripijat bogs, a reservoir will
be built, enabling the system to be
connected with the navigable portions
of the rivers Nicmen and Vistula
Prince Albert of Monaco. in his
deep-sea soundings from his yacht the
Princess Alice uses a cable of three
strands, each Of three fine steel wires,
inch in diameter and very flexible.
For his deep-sea fishing he uses q kind
of lobster pot made of boards and net
ting, sunk by four sacks of stone,
weighing half hundred weight each,
attached to the four corners. 1t is
suspended by thirty fathoms of rope
to a swivel that connects it with .
steel wire cable of four thousand
fathoms, divided up into lengths OF
two hundred and fifty fathoms that
can he easily detached. When the net
reaches bottom the cable is discon-
nected at the nearest break and the
free end made fast to a floating buoy.
by this apparatus many animals are
caught that could not be obtained by
travis or dredges-
| -Earnham Palace. the residence Oi
the bishops of Winchester. is IN enor.
nous red brick building, with towers
and battlemen;s, that has belonged to
the bishops since the time OF Henry Of
Winchester. King Stephens brother.
The late Bishop Thorold, who refur
nished the palace. found that 1t tool,
over mile Of carpet to cover its rooms
and corridors. The top Of the old
keep. from which one of the most
beautiful views in England is to be
had. was turned into an old-fashioned
garden by Bishop Sumner. Roses
and honeysuckle," said the bishop
pinks and carnations, hollyhocks and
snnflowers, sweet peas and nastur
tiums, and prince of Wales feathers
red and white. and tiger lilies. ocean.
of mignonette. thickets of swect-briar
snapdrsgon. and London pride, sweet
william and lavender. shall have un
disputed sway and dominion here, in q
garden such as would have pleased
Lady Corisande, and in which Swift,
il he could walk over from Moor park
hard by, might for an hour be coaxcd
out Of his savage disdain."
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