St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-04-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Twenty small statues were recent
" stolen from the front of the Rouen
cathedral and offered for sale to a
sculptor in that city. 1t was only
when ne undertook to find out where
they came from that they were missed
from their places. as they stood high
above the ground. The manner of their
taking down is still a mystery, and the
thieves have not been found.
On Christmas eve the Countess de
Maupas, living near Poitiers, received
an anonymous letter in which she was
warned that she would be blown up
by bomb Oh Christmas night. On in
vestigation the writer turned out to
be the parish priest, who explained
that he was laboring under a hallucina-
tion. Refo-e her wedding, four years
ago, the countess received q similar
letter.
A Scotchwoman, o missionary in
Morocco, while travelling with friends
on horseback, in attempting to ford a
river near the city of Morocco, was
carried away by the current. Some
Moors drew her out of the river, car
ried her of to a distance. and hid her
refusing to give her up until they had
received ransom of forty dollars BY
the time her friends recovered her she
was dead.
I'm London last year 2s. 200 articles
were left in public conveyances. as the
chief commissioner of police reports,
$1,000 of which were found and re-
turned to the owners. Among the OBJ
jects left in cabs were over $4,000
purses, 81 watches, and 43 clocks. Dur
ing the same period exactly the same
number of persons lost was reported.
and $4,000, one-half, were restored to
their friends by the police.
When French men-of-war lie in
New York harbor one commonly sees
the officers at the Frenchiest of French
hotels and restaurants, manifestly rev.
cling in the clever stimulation of the
fatherland to be found at such places.
Two or three such houses of entertain
ment always have a semi-European air
that is manifestly not assumed in or
der that Americans in search of sensa-
tions may be satisfied, but because the
European element preponderatesa among
the guests.
For the Madagascar expedition
France is constructing as fast as possi-
BILE tlotilla Of light draught gunboats
and barges. Eight of the gunboats
draw only sixteen inches of water and
are eighty-five feet long by seventeen
feet beam. Four others are somewhat
larger, with a draught of twenty-four
inches. Engines and boilers are on
deck and can produce a speed of six
and half knots. Each gunboat is
armed with two one and one-half inch
rapid fire guns, protected by armor-
plating.
Under the new building act st.
Paul's cathedral becomes the central
point for numbering the streets of Lon
don. the number beginning at the end
of the street nearest the church. In
future ''avenue" can not be applied to
streets under fifty feet in width, gar
den" and grove" can only be used
where they are really appropriate,
''terrace" and place" applied to parts
of streets will not be recognized Off
cially. and no names already in use
within the county Of London can be
given to new streets.
-Eorty-two centenarians, thirty
women and twelve men, were discov-
cred in Great Britain last year by the
st. James Gazette. Among them were
Dowager Viscountess Sidmouth, 100, A
years wife and so years q widow;
Evan Baines, in Wales, at log. whose
birth is entered in the parish register
for l7sS; Mrs. Sarah Thomas, who on
her one hundred and sixth birthday re-
ceivcd los shillings from the prince of
Wales. and who is an inveterate smoker,
and Ellen Roche, who died in County
Cork at the reputed age of lis, and was
an ardent smoker and snuff-taker.a