St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-05-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Order of the African Star WAS
foyu,ded in 1883 for the purpose of re-
wariing the adventurers who took
part in the colonization of the Congo
valley. AS yet it has achieved no very
prominent place among the orders Of
knighthOod.
There is q little patch of land abut-
ting on one of the magnificent build
iDgs that flank Victoria street, West
Minister, London. which has remained
waste for more than twenty years. 1t
is surrounded by high boarding, COW
cred with advertisements. The income
derived fgom these issuch that it would
not ray the proprietor to substitute .
building.
"A Greek journal states that SO
great is the quantity of wine now in
stock on the Island of Cyprus that last
years crop remains glut on the mar
ket, and il we are to believe further
accounts, wine there has become
cheaper than water. In the village of
Tschakistra n merchant who was hav-
ing house built, is said to have pro-
vided the masons with wine instead of
water to mix with the mortar.
Divorce has been legal in France
now for eight years The first year the
number granted was 100. the second
1000; in 1894 it was 5000; the total for
eight years is 10000. The working
classes supply the largest proportion,
AZ per cent; the peasants the smallest.
per sent Incompatibility Of temper
was the cause in 35, 600 cases. The most
common time for bringing suit is the
fifth year after marriage. Geograph-
ically, Paris heads the list.
The great ordnance survey map of
England. containing over los, 900 sheets
and costing during the last twenty
years about million dollars year, is
nearly completed. The scales vary
from 10 and feet to the mile for the
town., through 25 inches, inches, l
inch, u and lilo inch to the mile.
The details are SO minute that 'the 25
and Q inch maps show every hedge,
fence. ditch, wall, building and even
every isolated tree in the country. The
ea~inch map shows in color the ma
tcrial of which every part of a build
Ing is constructed. The plans show not
only the exact shape of every building.
but every porch. area, doorstep. lamp
post, railway and fire plug"
France is the land of politeness.
Within forty-eight hours after Presi-
dent Faure's election the Paris news
papers had described him as follows:
Reactionary; choice of the monarchists,
of the lukewarm, of the clericals;
prisoner of the reaction; coadjutor of
Leo MIL; creature of the vatican;
quartermaster for Prince Victor or for
young Orleans; suspect; choice of the
canteen; a wretched fellow, who is
Dupuy's understudy; that wretched
Felix: manikin; absurd manikin; as
founding Jack in the box: puppet; gro
tesque log; mean tool; ridiculous jay;
vain turkey cock; petty tradesman;
Congo trader; president for Congo;
Faure. the Congolese. The last four
epithets are due to the fact that his
son-in-law is administrator of the Con-
go Free State.
OF the forty monarchial countries
ut present found on the map of Europe.
thirty-three are governed by members
of descendants of German families. OF
these twenty-five are in the German
empire and eleven outside of Germany
namely, Belgium, bulgaria, Dem
mark, England, Greece, Lichtenstein,
the Netherlands, Austria-Hungary,
Portugal, Roumania and Russia. The
refining families of Spain, Sweden,
Italy and Monaco are of Romantic
origin, although those of Savoy and
Spain. while Bourbon, are strongly
mixed with German blood. OF Slavic |
origin are only the house of Petro-
wicth-Njegosh, reigning in Montene-
gro. and that of Obrenovich, rcigning
in Servia; this last also is not of un-
mixed blood. The sultan is Of Tura- |
nian origin. The forty rulers in Europe
are derived from twenty-six different |
families. and Of them seventeen are
German
Three new quick-firing guns are to
he introduced in the British navy: A
finch :5-pounder, 12-pound l2-hun-
gun and a 1a-pound s-hun- |
gun, the last two using the |
same projectile, but different charges |
of cordie. There are now fourteen |
different types of cannon in use, each |
different projectiles and Va
rieties of powder charges; the Hilton |
gums of the Sanspareil, the 67-toD guns |
Of the Resolution, the 45-ton guns of |
the Colossus, the 29-ton guns of the |
the es-ton guns of the Aus |
tralia, the new l2-inch gun of the Ma
iestic, the new s-inch quick firer. the |
6-inch breech-loader and the 6-inch |
quick firer, the 4.7-inch quick firer. the |
C-paund and s-pound quick frer and
tho guns now introduced. without
counting small-bore machine guns.
The possibility of confusing the am
munition. even without considering
the blunders of red tape, becomes . S.
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