The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-13
Foreign Gossip.

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Foreign Gossip.
Coal is abundant at Greenland, and
laborers are plenty at "a cents day and
feed.
The net duty on dogs in England,
during the last financial year, amounted
to no less than 81 ,51O,096.
The Shah has taken the Grand Vizier
back into his royal favor, being convinced
that he meant no harlem!
Many of the balconies in London are
reported in dangerous condition, and
people are warned against stepping out
upon them.
AT the funeral of Sir Edwin Land
seer, q wreath of camelias, sent by Queen
Victoria, was laid on the coffin Of the
deceased.
Great Britain, in prosecuting the
Ashantee war, has blockaded the gold
coast of Africa from Cape Coast Castle
to the river Assince.
Some Dutch officials have been assas-
sinated at Benkoelen, near Lais. How
they found the place on the map, and got
there, does not appear.
1t is the correct thing in British Co
lumbia to walk about with chunks of
gold quartz in your pocket worth few
hundred dollars apiece.
Switzerland has I, 900 primary schools,
1000 teachers, and 10000 scholars. The
education of children is compulsory in
all the cantons except Geneva and Uri.
The English have just made the an
noying discovery that a considerable
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between Tripoli, Smyrna and Constanti.
nople.
Victor Emanuel, while in Berlin, was
extremely generous to Prussian officials.
Besides the presents to higher ones, he
distributed among the small officials $50
gold watches.
"A new theater is talked of in Paris.
1t is to be built by q stock company with
q capital Of 15,0OO, 600 francs. The house
is to hold twenty thousand people, and
four years will be required to build it.
The vexed question whether the Jews
in Germany can be compelled to appear
before magistrate, II summoned to at
tend on their Sabbath, has once more
been brought on the tapis and decided in
the affirmative.
AT Belwell, in Ireland, on October3 q
large bog shifted its position during the
night-owing to heavy rains-on to the
adjoining lowlands, destroying corn, hay
and other crops. The bog now covers 800
acres Of good pastureland.
"A new newspaper, edited by women,
has been established at Puebla, Mexico.
A Roman Catholic priest, who has recent
" married, contributes to the journal q
series of articles advocating the abandon
ment of celibacy by the priesthood.
AT Clerkenwell Police Court in En-
gland, few days since, the manager Of
the Newcastle Colliery Company was con-
victed of having knowingly sold an in
ferior quality Of Goals for q good one.
He was fined e10 and costs, with the al
tentative Of one months imprisonment.
The sardine fisheries in France at
present employ 10000 sailors and some
$4,000 men, women and children on land
to prepare the fish for market. It seems
that the catch is now diminishing every
year, and the almost complete failure Of
the fish may be anticipated at no remote
period.
Sensational reporting Is carried to q
fne point in England. A reporter who
saw Gladstone ct church says: 1.-THE
Premier, who looked careworn and anx-
ious, entered heartily into the service, and
on the singing Of the second hymn, "Jeru-
salem, my happy home appeared to EN-.
phasize the words, when shall my labor
have an end :? This last touch is splen-
did.
In England the population is equal to
one person to every 1910 square yards; in
Wales one person to 10,7W square yards;
In England and Wales together, one to
1853 square yards; In Scotland one to
1904 square yards; In Ireland ono 10 16,-
6s1 square yardA> IN the United King.