St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-07-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

by an Italian law. any circus which
does not perform every act promised
in the printed programme, or which
misleads the public by means Of pic
lures. is liable to 4 fine of $500 for each
Offensc.
The Greek republics raised money
for war by inviting" wealthy citizens
TO contribute. They always contributed
literally, as on one occasion the head
of rich man in Athens was cut OF for
= refusal.
During a recent frost one dis.
tressed agricultural district whose
tenancy is not ten miles from London,
and who had flooded = meadow. col.
lected over $3.50 in five hours ON . GER
tain day from skaters.
Consideration rcigns among the
English lawyers. For the Easter term
Of the courts the cause list consists of
only 300 cases, rs compared with
1,6OO the year before. The loss is
chiefly in the queens bench division,
the decline in whose business seems to
be permanent.
The house Of lords ut present is
made up of five princes Of the blood
royal. twenty-six archbishops and
bishops, as. peers Of England, Great
Britain and the United Kingdom, SIX
teen representative Scottish and twen-
ty-eight representative Irish peers, in
all :,57 members.
Turbine wheels are being tried in.
stead of screws as the prOpelling pow
cr on small steamers at Dresden. tx
periments made with one boat, pro-
peeled first with three-bladed screw
and then with turbine wheel, showed
that speed fice per cent. greater could
be obtained with ten per cent less
horse power by using the wheel.
by a new French law anyone
found guilty of revealing the con-
tents of private letter will be pun
islled with Imprisonment for six days,
the term to bc increased where the
opening of the letter is not accidental,
even if The contents have not been di-
vulged. The law is aimed particular
ly against the practices of the con-
clerges.
"A new magazine rifle invented by
an Italian officer. Capt. Gel, fires twen-
ty cartridges automatically, without
requiring any change in position on
the part of the soldier: the firing may
be intermittent or continuous at will.
At a recent trial in the Cascine at Flor
ence, before the prince of Naples, the
twenty shots were fired in two seconds,
and all hit the target.
"A curious trade complication has
arisen out of the use of the water-tube
boilers in England. The bOilermak-
crS' union and the ANAL ga mated engi
necrs both claim the right to fit the
pipes for the boilers of the new cruiser
Terrible: and for the present each as
sociation is allowed to work for a week
at q time. but when the question is
definitely settled. the side that loses
will probably strike.
A standard thread for screws has
been adopted by the French navy de-
partment which is in principal the sys-
TEN advocated by the Societe d'En-
couragement pour Industries Nation
ale: and an important step toward the
adoption of the system throughout
France. 1t is, of course, based on the
metric system, the diamcters OF the
screws increasing by two millimetres
from six up to thirty-two; after that
the difference increases. but always by
an even number of millimeters. The
pitch increases by half millimeters.
AT the Geunadius sale in London .
manuscript of Firdusi's Shah-nameh.
finely illuminated and with twenty
nine paintings. brought S56s; Henry
Wills copy of Plutarch's Lives. with
his arms on the cover, $500. the Earl of
Leicester's Aristotle, $500; Chalcocon-
dylas, L'Histoire de la Decadence de
rEmpirc Gree, Charles lis copy with
his arms on the sides. So7O; Queen
Elizabeth's copy Of Chrysostom. Sis;
Marie de Mcdici's HellodOrus, sl6s; the
regent Murray's copy of Thucidides,
sla5. Over $4,000 was obtained for
the library.