The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-21
Foreign Gossip.

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Paris has 36,573 street lamps.
American tourists are swarming like
bees in Scotland.
The Orleans princes appear to have
gone back to their Bourbon.
"A circulating library has been opened
in Rome for the working classes.
"A steam fog horn is used as a signal
for closing the Vienna Exhibition.
In the last English census 1927
poets were recorded as residing in Lon.
don.
Rome has new hotel called the
"Hotcl Philadelphia" 1t is not vet open,
because the proprietor wants $4,000 rent
per annum.
Some Frenchmen have invented an
extraordinary explosive with which to
blow up the Prussian empire. 1t is called
"ozobenzin."
Russian intrigues are reported in
Germany. 1t is said the feeling against
Prussia in the small German courts
grows stronger, and that Russian family
influence is supporting these intrigues.
When John Bright, the Quaker men,
Der of the British Cabinet, is presented to
the Queen, she allows HIM to dispense
with kneeling and kissing her hand, and
shakes hands with him like a common
Christian.
The Shah has at last reached the
Vienna Exposition. If put into cage for
exhibition as a curiosity, he would prove
one of the chief features of the show. BIZ
furcated swine dressed in royal robes are
not to be seen every day.
Kate Field writes from London that
Mark Twain has been "endeavoring to in
still civilization into the Shah by sitting
on the floor and playing draw poker
and says that his august pupil makes won
derful progress in this great American
game"
They had a city election in Rome, the
other Sunday. We don't know which
party beat, and perhaps it doesn't matter
The fact of interest is, that the great ma
jority Of the solid Roman taxpayers stay
ed away from the polls, quite in the Amer
lean fashion. In consequence, the vote
was ridiculously light
The Right Rev. Edward Harold
Browne has been translated from the See
of Ely to succeed the late Samuel Wilber-
force as Bishop Of Winchester. He grad
uated, as wrapgler, at Cambridge, in 1882,
became a Professor in 1854, and was made
Bishop in 1854. The revenues of Ely are
$500; of Winchester, $1,000.
In England, young man, whose tail
or had sent him an insOlent dun, on a
postal card, brought suit for libel and re-
covered heavy damages, the Judge hold
ing in general terms that no communica-
ton, which would injure the standing of
any person, in whatsoever manner, was
eligible for open correspondence.
1t now passes into the domain of fact
and history that the good cook is sure to
become very aged. Good victuals and
AiciOus life are not compatible. Instance:
man one hundred and twenty seven has
Just died in Russia; he had been cook to
the great Empress Catherine II. The
Emperor Nicholas granted him pension
of 100 rubles, which enabled him to keep
the pot boiling. He has a little boy aged
ninety eight.
An official letter, dated Belluno, Italy,
says: ION the evening of June 20, ter
rible earthquake occurred here, carrying
death TO many, and CONSERVATION to all.
The dead are counted by tens, and the
material injury done by millions. Every
fourth or fifth building is made uninhab-
table. The principal monuments are
overthrown, or seriously injured. Every
where the cry of anguish Is raised, and
seeks for prompt and effectual relief"
The Marquis of Lorne was recently
asked by Mrs. Grey, q leading woman.