St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-12-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


has been singularly improbable. most
of the sources being too small in yield
to pay for working, while the richer
deposits are, for the present, too far
removed from means of transport to be
commercially valuable except in Bur
NAH.
AS bull fighting has been going on
in the south OF France in defiance Of
the prohibition of the government, NJ.
Leygues, minister Of the interior. has
ordered all Spanish toreadors to be ex-
peeled from France. and all French bull
fighters violating the law to be prose-
cuted.
The wearing of hats in parliament
by the members is explained back to
the time when those who were sum-
moned to legislate. or rather to author
ize the king to make levies, came wear
ing helmets. which were not easily
removed. 1t is another illustration of
the fact that in England things are
now as they used to be, and as they
will be.
How little the population Of France
moves about is shown by the last cen
sus- Out of thirty-eight million in
habitants twenty-one millions live In
the town or village In which they were
born and thirty and one-half millions
have not moved out of their native de-
partments. Only q million and half
have emigrated to France from colonies
or foreign countries.
Paris will be freed soon Of tho
greatest part Of her sewage. - the
"aqueduct" Of Acheres has Just been
completed. It will convey the sewage.
by the way OF Clichy and Asnieres,
where It passes under the river bed
by a siphon. to Argenteuil. where 1t
recrosses the Seine over q bridge. and
thence to tho plain of Archercs, where
the sewage Is disposed of.
Gigantic remains Of elephants have
been found in a new railroad cutting
In the department OF tho Charente.
France. Besides two tusks, one of the
extraordinary length Of nine and a half
feet. there are elephants' molars and
bones, remains of mammoths. teeth OF
rhinoceros. bison and hippopotsmus,
and large number Of flint implements
Tho discovery of human relics with re-
mains of such antiquity Is very unu-
sual.
"A messiah has appeared in Sicily
At . place called Caiamanti, near Syra-
cuse. His namc is Sebastiano Rioggio.
He breaches plurality of wives, and
hundreds Of persons have gathered
around him, all of whom have been
accommodated by the bishop Of Sy.
racnse. Similar pretendcrs appeared
two years ago before the political out
break. Throughout Sicily tho peas
ants are discarding their old caps and
wearing broad-brimmed hats. which
they call Socialist" they are also
wearing red neckties and carrying
heavy sticks with knobs- Tho govern.
ment expects trouble.
New Zealand has . kind of green
parrot. called kea. that attacks sheep,
and is held up by evolutionists rs one
of the most striking instances Of rapid
adaptation on record. Mr.. Wallace has
argued that it desertedrhe forests and
its natural food of berries. first for the
picking Of the slaughter house. then
for the live sheep. and finally, by IN
extraordinary refinement. it now only
strikes for the delicate fat around the
sleeps kidney. A New Zealand sheep
farmer has .lately brutally demolished
this fable. The kea, he says, is only
found above the forest line, and does
not feed on berries. but on the lichens
on stones; it did not train itself to eat
meat, but probably only took to it BY
accident. mistaking the long hair OF
unshorn sheep for lichen. It never
touches the kidney now, but only
wants blood. and strikes the sheep faI
back. not to reach . special delicacy,
but because the sheep can not reach 1t
there. The only fact left to the evolu
tionists is that the parrot sometimei
kills sheep