The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-04
FOreign Gossip,


Don Carlos wife is a beautiful blond,
having golden hair, dark eyes, and carries
herself with naughty and graceful mien.
She is inclined to be Amazonian, and
wants to march at the head of the insur-
gent army.
M. Gustave Ceurbet had the pleasure
of pulling down the Vendome column
during the days of the Commune, and he
will now have the additional pleasure of
paying, to the extent of his worldly pos
sessions, for putting it up again.
Notwithstanding his disagrecable
manners, the Shah is said to be q very in
telligent and cultivated man, and even q
polished gentleman, for Persia. 1t is ru-
mored that he is keeping diary of his
travels, to which he devotes three hours of
steady writing every day.
Marshal Bazaine's trial will be com.
menced on October 5. The well.known
French advocate, Maitre Lochaud, has
been selected by the Marshal to conduct
his defense. The trial, it is thought, will
last for two months. The prosecution
will call three hundred witnesses.
Mr.. Smith, the London Telegraph's
Assyrian explorer, says: Babylon is
slowly disappearing. You may see por-
tons of it every day loaded on donkeys
and brought to the town of Hillah; but
it is such vast area that it will take GEN.
turtles still to remove the remains"
| From the 18th of May to the 9th of
July there were 81 SIT cases of cholera in
Gallicia, out of which 19,0O7 ended in
death. And from the LIST of July to the
9th OF July there were nearly 400 fatal
cases. This is not an exaggerated report,
for the official records attest its truth.
On the occasion of the evacuation of
Nancy by the German troops, two min
utes after the rear guard had marched out,
tricolored flags began to appear in the
principal streets. The dogs were Orna-
mented with tricolored ribbons. The day
was observed as a holiday, and the thea
ter was opened in the evening for the
fisst time since the commencement of the
war in 1870.
"A phenomenal occurrence has recent
ly taken place at a village called Mana
no-matumura, in Japan. A former
tributary to the river Nishiyaagawa had
been dry for some centuries, and fields
were cultivated in its bed. 1t has now
suddenly broken out again as a rapid
torrent, drained the wells in its locality,
and swept away monastery.
"A rat ran up the interior Of an ele-
plants trunk at Paris. The elephant
made frantic efforts to relieve himself of
this unwelcome visitor, but in vain. Sud-
denly he paused and seemed to reflect;
then he went to his basin, filled his trunk
with water, and amid the great excitement
OF the lockers on, elected the water and
the unfortunate rat with one sublime
effort. .1s,
The altogether too prevalent practice
of putting live fishes into the mouth, head
foremost may possibly receive a check
from the experience of a man in India,
who, while playing with fish in tank,
sought to chastise one by putting him in
his mouth and playfully chawing his
head. Fishy struck out I'm and pricked
him in the hand; he unwittingly released
the hold with his jaws, when the fish
leaped down the aching void !" and
stuck there. The surgeon proceeded to
white him up and draw him out piece
meal, which really seemed too bad, as,
before the operation was half through
with, it proved to be of no consequence
to the man most interested.
"A serious outbreak occurred at the
Criminal Reformatory in the village of
Limpley Slotte, near Bath, England, the
other day. About one hundred young
girls are under detention there, and q
large number of them mutinied ON &C.
count of their dislike for the new laundry
matron. They barricaded themselves in q
room, and their conduct became SO vio-
lent-as they had broken through the
windows of the laundry and scaled the
walls-that large police force was sent
from Bath and Bradford. The police had
to break down the barricades to get into
the rooms. The ring-leaders were arrest
ed and taken to Bradford on,Av0n, where
an investigation will take place.
Miscellaneous. '''
ID, The Indians are again red-dy on the
war-path. S'7s p"
"A fuel-saving cook-The one that
"boils with indignation" G. '-'@@ i
An application of spirits Of turpentine
is said to be q certain relief for the pain of
bee sting. 81 ..H ~ss
The reports from Wall street say that
gold was "hesvy to carry But who
wouldn't like to carry it for all that.
"A Boston man has discovered that
stars have the peculiar effect of making
him dizzy when seen in the early morn
ing. 'E$7 asst y"
1t Is said that Hartford is city of
more assurance than any other in the
country. But isn't she tolerbly backed in
it, Assuredly.
The Ontonagon Miner wants the State
Of Michigan divided, 9 and q new State
carved out of the Upper Peninsula and
part of Wisconsin. tsf.T sa4 35.sss
Avoid entering the water within two.