St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-09-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
-1smail Pasha. the late khedi

tOHeL0N OOSSIP.
-Ismail Pasha, the late khedive oi
Egypt, left three widows. one Georg.
ian princess and the other two Cir
Cassians. who live together in the
| palace of Resina. ON the bay Of Naples.
They now drive about Naples without
their wells, and are very fond of shop.
ping and of the theater.
lin the cities Of Japan there 10 q
large class of women who make their
living by furnishing amusement to en-
nnied patrons They are we'll edu-
Gated, can converse, recite poetry. tell
stories. sing songs, play the guitar
and dance for the entertainment OF
those who send for them.
In Finland Jews are to be allowed
to engage in trade and industry on
the same footing as foreigners residing
in the country. by regulations just is
sued by the government. They may
also contract marriages with Christian
foreigners who belong to countries
where such marriages are legal
A curious feature of the sale of the
duchess of Montrose's wines was the
extraordinary bottles that came to
light from her cellar; there were any
number cf magnums. but the magnum
we know. The cock bottle, however,
is stranger to most; it contains .
magnum and a half, but the royals of
the late duchess are wonderful bottles;
they might he called glass casks. rs
they each contain four magnums-
Restaurants Of the first rank left
the Paris Palais Royal long ago. and
now the jewellers, the chief attrac-
tion remaining. are leaving as fast as
their leases expire, and moving further
west. The theaters seem likely to fol.
low. At the corner of the Champs
Elysees and the Rue de Berri the
Palais Sport has just been opened. and
a large arena for bicycling and q the
ater are spoken of just off the Avenue
de la Grande Armee.
-Gen. Poillene dc Saint Mars, COM
manding the French Twelfth army
corps, has issued an order of the day,
regretting that the soldiers do not
sing on the march. and suggesting to
the regimental bandmasters that they
train capable men in the ranks to sing
national and warlike songs. senti-
mental and popular airs and lullabies.
to the accompaniment of mandolins,
accordions, or other instruments that
can be easily played while marching.
The Belgian liga for woman's
rights published call upon the
proprietors of large stores in Brutelles
to allow their saleswomen to pse chairs
part of the day. The merchants de-
clined on the ground that their wealthy
customers would object if the sales
women were seen seated. The league,
not considering the objection as tena-
bic, has promulgated a circular where
in the women are called upon to boy
colt the stores in which the use Of
chairs or stools is prohibited.
-Anti-Semitic agitation in Vienna
has led to an incident that reads like
Chaucer.- A boy was missing in Wahr-
ing suburb recently, when q Galician
jew. with his long kaftan. tall hat
and ringlets, happened to pass by q
children's playground. A woman,
pointing to him, cried: There's the |
Jew; he stole the child" when the |
children rushed at him. knocked off |
his hat, pulled his coattails, beat him
and pelted him with stones. He took
refuge in his brothers shop. and a
crowd of hundreds of men and women
smashed in the windows. and would
have lynched the man If a large body
of police had not come to the rescue.
Among the plans for special at
fractions for the 1900 exhibition Sc
ected Dy the commissions for more
examination are four schemes
or captive balloons, four for the re-
of an ironclad or ocean
eleven panoramas, including
me Of journey from Paris to the
forth pole, sixteen reproductions Of
Old France" "Old Paris" etc, q large
telescope. a reproduction of
he moon, tremendous bell in a mon
mental belfry, luminous cataracts
md fountains, projection Of light ON
rtiiicial clouds, an electric gyroscope,
children's exposition, and many spe-
ial exhibitions. A curious feature is
lie large number Of plans based on
crial navigation.