St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-09-14
FUReioN GOSSIP.

A measure for permitting passen-
gers to retain the places they have
chosen in t:,e compartment of q rail-
way carriage in under consideration
by the French minister !. of pub blic
works. The idea is to pin to the lining
of the carriage piece of colored cloth
corresponding with another given to
the passenger, and rendering any tam
pering with them liable to fine of "a.
AT Aci Reale, in Sicily, two BROTH
ers who had sold some cattle and had
tine money with them were attacked
in the farm house by nine masked
brigands, and one of them was shot.
The carabinieri then came in, and,
after long fight, killed six of the
brigands, captured the other three,
and found that they were all towns
people. among them the village shoe
maker and the barber.
-Dalmatia, one of the most pictur-
esque and least known corners of Eu-
rope. hopes to be brought within the
range of travel soon. Austrian capi-
talists. including the manager of the
Austrian Lloyd Steamship Co., propose
to turn Ragusa, Cattaro and other
towns into winter watering places by
building modern hotels and other con-
veniences- The climate of Ragusa is
milder than that of Nice.
AT the Hamburg marine observa-
tory $4,000 copies of German ships
logs containing meteorological and
other valuable scientific information,
have been received since the observa-
tory was established in 1875. though
only J. 800 German ships 60 to sea year
lv. During the same time the British
admiralty has received only &. 1000 ships
logs, though the yearly sailings of
English ships exceed 10000.
A Paris mother lately, on return
ing from bail sooner than she was
expected, found her baby and its nurse
missing. The nurse was traced to q
cafe chantant, the Moulin Rouge. and
the baby was found asleep in a cot ut
restaurant near by, with eight more
aristocratic infants. The proprietor
called his place "Au Rendezvous des
Bebes," and said that nurses left their
charges with him every night in the
year. paying a franc and . half for
each child.
Fifty years ago Sir John Franklin
sailed from England with the Erebus
and Terror on his last voyage. The
anniversary was observed by the Royal
Geographical society by visit to the
museum and by a meeting attended by
nearly all the survivors of the English
expeditions sent in search of him, at
which Admiral Sir Leopold McClin-
took. who brought back in 1859 the
last written record of Franklin's men,
made a speech.
-Aiuerrita, the bull-fghter, estab-
lisl,&d record for days work recent
ly. He began at seven o'clock at San
Ferahdo, near Cadiz, killing three
bulls and putting the banderillas in
the ether three. He then took train
to Xcres, and did the same thing there
between eleven and three, and wound
mp the day by reaching Seville in time
for another fight at half-past five. In
this last fight the bulls were unusual
ly fierce. killing nineteen horses before
they were dispatched.
+ AT the sale of Irish work at Lord
house, London, there |
was exhibited a fiounce of the finest |
three yards in length by
eighteen inches deep, which occupied
eight workers for twelve months. Al |
lowing the moderate wage of ten shil- |
lings n week to each worker the cost |
of this production was over 1900. 1t |
was made in the lace school Of the |
convent of Youghal. A
piece, made in the same |
school. was the years product of six