St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

.--Jn spite of the remonstrances OF
English officials, the two black queens
Of Swaziland are going to London to
sc TIE queen. They wish Great Brit
;dn to assume the protectorate over
their country, although that was ex-
peessly conceded to the Transvaal re-
peblic not q year ago.
"A pnuematic typewriter has been
invented il England in which COM
pressed air does the work of the levers
in other machines. A small India
rubber bulb takes the place of the
keys, the pressure Of the finger pro-
ducine the impact of the type on the
paper. 1t is much cheaper than any OF
the existing types of high-grade in
strumcntS-
"A gold mine which has been dis
covered in Salisbury, Mashcnaland,
has its principal lode running directly
through the town. The land over the
course that the gold reef is supposed to
take has been divided into building
lots and sites for business houses. The
sale Of these lots has ceased, and also
diA OuAOAuS An luc AAuACAAsssS uSAS "a
bofhood.
Permission has just been given to
the Gobelins mandatory by the
French government to accept an order
from rich American for two tapes
tries, after designs by Boucher, repre-
senting Venus and Adon;s and YER
tumnus and Pamona. The conditions
are that 1000 shall be deposited; that
the price shall not be fixed till the
completion of the work; that the tapes
try shall be exhibited at the exposition
of 1900, and that work on it shall only
be done when the factory'has no gov
ernment work to do.
"A new ''Survey of London" is being
prepared, under the editorship OF Mr..
Walter Eesant, which will give an &C
count of every important building, in
stitution and company in the whole OF
greater London. 1t will contain his
tory of the city, its trade, political
power and customs, and will be a COM
plete record of it's condition at the end
of the nineteenth century. The book
will he in eight quarto volumes, fully
illustrated, and will he published by
the Blacks. The first volume will ap-
pear in the fall of 1905.
Louis de Bourbon was the name
given in Paris police court the other
day by a wine-shop keeper arrested for
trying to blow out his brains. He
claims to be a grandson of Naundorf.
who. when Louis Philippe was king,
declared that he was Louis XVII, the
little Dauphin imprisoned in the
temple. The wine dealer asserts that
lie has been an officer in the Dutch
army. that he has no political ambi-
ton, and that his attempt at suicide
was due to his failing to make his busi-
ness pay. The sign over the shop
reads: "Maison de bourbon"
Across the Devils dyke, q deep
ravinc near Brighton, England, q cable
way has just been erected and opened
for traffic. From a single steel wire
rope, three inches in diameter, stretch
ing 200 feet between two iron columns
| on either side of the dixie, arc suspend.
ed steel anchors, two feet from hulsc to
| flulke. by wire ropes of smaller dlnen.
sions and of varying length, SO as to
bring the line of anchor on level. On
the tlukes are supported two wire road
cables. one inch in diameter, on which
run the pulieys which support the car.
The cars are iron and wire cages. seven
feet by five, CARRYING eight passengers.
They are moved by an engine on the
bank, driving an endless wire rope to
which the car is gripped. like our cable
cars. The cable is 2aO feet above the
bottom of the ravine, and the trip takes
| two minutes and half.