New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NOTES OF INfSHeSI,
There is no disgrace attached divorce in Egypt-
If mutual admiration with the honeymoon.
there Is nothing natural TO the Egyptian mind
than that the dissatisfied person take steps toward
another trial. There few old maids In Egypt
Widows remain widows only short tine, and. as
rule. young is considered fitted for business
or entitled the confidence of the community until
he is married.
Chinaman's pecultarities are many. He shakes
his own hand instead of yours and keeps out OF
step when walking with you. He puts his hat on IN
salutaton and whitsns his shoes instead OF black
enng them He rides with his heels in the stirrups,
instead of his toes, and his compass points south
His wife wears trousers, while he wears a gown
often he throws away the fruit of the melon and
eats the seeds. He laughs receiving bad news
to deceive evil spirits. His fvorite present to his
parents is a coffin and he faces the bow when
rowing a boat His mourning color is white.
The word 'Eisen Observation-Disclosures
tonsassistenten" would suggest German humor
were it not recognized in the of all the pro-
fessions, trades and occupations which were COW
cred in the German Empire in June last The call
ing question is that of assistant inspector IN the
railway telegraph service. and is one of 15o16 diff
fereut occupations specialized by the census taken
in that month. While some of the calings have
naturally tens of thousands of followers, there are
many cases in which there are only few. and IN
some only one person in the whole Kingdom Is earn
ing his livelihood in some manner which makes
necessary special classification.
Two centuries ago in England those persons who
refused to plead at the Sessions We're condemned
to the ''peine forte ct dure' as being mute OF
malice" One account describes the tnhiction OF
this barbarous punishment man who stood
mute" when tried in 1876 for robbery and murder
at I.ewes Assizes. They laid on him first 100
pounds weight: then added 100 more, and then
made it $50 pounds; yet he would not speak Addlhs
fftv pounds more. he was nearly dead. when the
executioner who weighed about 23S pounds, sat on
the hoard and killed him" 1t was afterward dis
covered that the unfortunate prisoner stood
mute for the that he was deaf and dumb.
Owing to the abundance and cheapness CT meat
in Australia restaurant keepers have for years
heen able to give astonishingly liberal meals for
ia cents 1t is the hospitabe custom in Australian
popular restaurants not TO charge for second
helping OF anything, and customers can have as
many cups of tea as they please after having paid
for the first one. The freedom with which this
privilege is exercised cuts down the profits of pro-
nrietors of 12cent restaurants They have decided
I'm conference to raise the price to IA cents
Some wears ago the jnhabitants of village in
remote part of Ireland greatly desired bell Tor
their parish church 4 wealthy man named Foley
nro1nised to present a bell to the church II he
could procure one with tones resembling his name.
in order that he should not be forgotten by pos
terity bell purchased and hung IN the
belfrv and in the tones which announced the hour
Of sarvice il did not require a great stretch of
imagination to recognize the donors name. Foley.
Foley Foley" Mr. Foley rubbed his hands with
Measure and vanity at the thought of future gen
erations hearing his name constantly sounding
through the village Not long after. through in
TEMPERANCE and extravaganza, he lost his money.
and about the time crack was discovered
in the bell From that time forth whenever the
bell was rung the people in the village could dis
tinctly hear the words echoing through the air.
Folly, Folly, Folly
In making excavations in the choir OF an ancient
church In Alsace recently the tomb of Il certain
knight who was Bailif of Balbroun about 1850.
was opened There lay his skeleton. in good pres
ervation but the left arm appeared untouched by
rin,e-merely rusty. It found to be of
steel wonderfully contrived. with a perfectly
formed hand the whole full OF springs. rendering
+be artificial member almost flexible a natural
arm and hand. The fingers worked by springs
moved by a knob set in the palm of the hand The
thumb has spring OF its own.
An electrical spanking machine is in use in
Of the prisons in Italy
vorrr actor named Viszary az the National
Theatre in Budapest awoke suddenly one morning
recently and, he had to rise early consulted his
watch and discovered that IL had stopped at
o'clock Fearing that he might be late for his ap-
nointuent he reused his housekeeper and asked
her the time. He learned that her watch had
stouped also at o'clock Three other clocks in
different rooms had also stopped at the hour.
He learned later that at O'Clock that morning his
wife had died at hotel in Venice.
The humanitarian ideas proclaimed at the third
Hague international congress and promoted by the
United States delegates. especially in regard 70
the collection of debts by foreign powers, are
exuIained at length in the "Memoria," annual
report 20 the Paraguayan Congress, sent by DR..
C-ecilio Baez, Minister OF Foreign Affairs. This
diplornat declares that Paraguay has given It's ad-
hesion TO the resolutions adopted by the Pan
American conferences at Washington Mexico and
Rio de Janeiro above all to those of the Hague
conferences. DR.. Cecilio Baez could speak with
accuracy OF the Pan-American conferences since
he had represented his country at two of them.
while he acted Minister OF Paraguay TO the
United States and Mexico for period of four
years.
TIE MOST PICTURESQUE MAN IN MEXICO