New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

A. c-e,obIa there IS mandatory which uses
the water held IN reservoir sixteen hunored feet
up on the mountain. The water Is brought to the
mandatory by a vertical pipe Of this length and
.oroewhat less than an inch in diameter the force
of the falling jet being employed to drive tur-
hine II by means of lateral pipe the jet be al
lowed to escape. it spurts up with such force INTO
the air owing to the velocity impaired to 1t by Its
long previous fall. that strong man armed with
q sword NAV hack at it until he Is exhausted or
spIinter his weapon into fragments The weapon is
checked as effectually If it had struck against
bar of iron This Jet Of water which Is so inVui-
nerable to the keenedged sword Is of the thickness
of p mans thumb The speed at which the jet
moves does not much exceed a hundred yards a
eecond.
rasera-Octeber- -November-is the soldiers feast
IN India 1t commentaries the opening Of the
cannaign Of the great Hindu national hero-Ram-
against the giant demon-Ravan. 1t is kept with
great ceremony. The soldier worships his weapons
at this time the artisan his tools. the agriculturst
his implements of husbandry and the weaver his
loom Animals garlanded and decked out spe-
calI at this feast 1t was after this festival that
kings used in ancient times TO go forth to battle
The proprietors of lunch counters IN London
railway stations date their eggs. They mark on
the shell of a boiled egg the date It was laid The
evident purpose is to reassure doubling customers
A nartv of travellers few weeks ago arrived at
a station shortly before midnight and. following
tho habit of travellers. made at once for the
lunch counter Thev demanded eggs from the
waitress and asked that they might have some OF
that days laying Him sorry she said but
to-days heggs Is all gone, but-giancing at the
clock which pointed to quarter before 12-'f
would not mind the date hi could give you some
of o-morrow's
The old custom of honoring the kill by drinking
fox favored liquor revived in Yorkshire few
weeks ago. In olden days 1t was a common oc-
c,irrence TO pour gallon of ale through the mask
of the fox after II been seyered from the trunk
and for the huntsmen well as the field to drink
the blood -colored liquor On this occasion the Off
cials of the hunt in way interested
participant in the remarkable sequence to a kill.
After the huntsmen had broken up the fox
ber of foot followers rescued portion of the
cass and hurried to a little inn near at hand There
they had huge jug filed with beer and into this
they put the hams of the fox They afterward dra nix
the vupine mixture stirring their glasses with the
pads of a fox, and proposing Reynard's health in
Yorkshire doggerel.
The largest bowlder In the world Is in Victoria.
Australia The of The Leviathan Rock
has been given it It's estimated bulk ap-
proaches. If 1t does really exceed. 5000 tons
This great rock may be ukened TO immense egg
lying its side. the part resting on mother earth
being not more than thirty yards square Hun
dreds of persons could find shelter under 1t from
passing storm the sun
The word '1nfante." which was used so much
lately in connection with the tragedy at Lisbon
originally applied to the princes of the royal
families both in Spain and Portugal Since 1855
however. the heir apparent TO the throne OF Spain
has been styled Prince of the Asturias. while the
Crown Prince of Portugal bore the title Prince of
Brazil the separation of that empire from the
mother country But 'infante" has given q word
to every language in Europe in the shape OF "n-
fantry" which appears to have been applied TO the
foot folk who formed the personal body guard OF
the Spanish princes of the blood at the time when
most soldiers in that country of the mounted
kind