The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-14

The Shah IL an ungrateful creature.
When welcomed to Paris he replied:
Here I see the sun again, and am re-
minded of my native country" This fling
1t London was positively cruel. England
did her utmost for the royal Persian.
True, she could not supply him with sun
shine, but she gave him an immeasurable
quantity Of gas. ,-Ss-.
The London Times of q recent date
says Mrs. Cline, the authoress, was writing
In her boudoir on the evening of the pre-
ceding day, when spark few from the
IRE and ignited her dress. Before assist
ance could arrive, the unfortunate lady,
who for years had been q confirmed in
valid, was burned most terribly. She died
on the following morning.
"A wife of Bath, England, recently
distinguished herself by her demonstra-
tions of grief for the death of her hus-
band. She tore the shroud from the corpse
and tried to pour rum down its throat.
She delayed the funeral procession by sit
ting on the coffin and refusing to have it
removed. The united strength of three
men was necessary to keep her from
jumping into the grave after the coffin.
The English official who told Mrs.
Fawcett that ladies were not permitted in
the free public reading-room found that
he had walked up the wrong woman. She
appealed to the authorities, and extracted
an official declaration that there was no
legal authority for excluding women; and
she raised such a breeze of discussion that
every library in London has since been
open as freely to women as to men.
Near Lorient, France, a father aged
seventy has been sentenced to ten years
transportation for barbarity toward his
for switching off the heads of flowers
a chain to be made, which he riveted
pigsty. For three years the unfortunate
thus lived; his bed was heap of manure
and his only companion pig.
"A Prussian amazon has appeared on
the theater of war in Spain. A Valencia
newspaper says: 1--WE have had the pleas
ure of seeing the Prussian heroine an
nounced, who will, it is said, command 9
battalion of volunteers against the Carlists
She is we'll grown, hardly twenty-five
years old, has pretty face and blonde
hair. She wore a long upper garment
long riding trousers, and Phrygian cap
and carried cavalry sword. We do mo-
know whether she will remain here or &C
to Barcelona"
Matthew Browne tells the Englishmer
what is the matter with them: "While
we have been turning our eyes," he says
upon the more obvious and vulgar evil.
attendant upon the free use of alcohol
we have been overlooking the insidiou.
action of bland and peaceful liquit
which has been sapping the foundation.
of manhood and honesty. Alcohol SENDS
few to the Jail or to the mad-house. Blu
tea acts through the nervous system upor
the conscience and turns US into nation
of sneaks."
The Paris papers are amusing theil
readers with the Shah of Persia. Hi.
Persian Majesty travels with 10000 kilo
grammes of luggage, not including hi.
horses, one of which, the royal charger
has his tail dyed red! The Shah make.
presents of jewelry and precious stones tt
all the princesses he comes across. Thu
Queen of England is to receive necklace
of brilliants worth half a million. Ac
cording to the Koran, he is forbidden tt
tread any other soil than that trodden by
Mussulmen. To remedy this little draw
back, the Shah has ingeniously placed ,
lining of earth of his own country be
tween the soles of his boots! He neve
uses pocket-handkerchief twice, ant
when he has done with it he throws i
away. These and other statements equal
ly extraordinary are now going the rount
Of the Paris press.
There is in Paris an aged woman
who has for the last fifty years supporte,
herself by an industry of which she i
said to enjoy complete monopoly. Sh'
supplies the Garden of Acclimatizatiol
in Paris with food for the pheasants
which food consists entirely of ants eggs
These she collects in the woods aroun,
Paris, and receives about twelve franc
for the quantity she brings back from
each of her foraging expeditions
These generally last three or four days
during which she sleeps on the field o
action, in order to watch the insects q
dawn, and to find her way to their treas
ures. She is almost devoured by the ants
an Inconvenience of which she takes littl
notice, but at the end of her harvest-time
which lasts, from the month of June to tn
end of September, her whole body is in
truly pitiable condition. Her service
are, of course, highly valued, for, as Their
is at present no competition in this lin
Of industry, it would be difficult to suppl,
her place.