The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-01
Foreign Gossip.

Foreign Gossip.
Mary Cotton, the English murderess,
who killed eleven persons, is to he hanged
for her waywardness
Queen Victoria has provided a sar.
cophagus and pedestal of polished Peter.
head granite to receive the remains of the
Emperor Napoleon.
"A literary gentleman who has trav.
eled over the whole world says the ladies
of the royal family of Russia cannot be
matched for personal beauty.
Queen Victoria never postpones her
daily walk on account of the weather
She knows the practical paraphernalis
for rainy day as well as any bridesmaids
wife.
This time four thousand English min
listers urge the Archbishop of Canterbury
to support in the House of Lords the biil
to legalize marriage with deceased wife's
sister.
"A grand fete is to take place in Paris
in the month of September, on the occa.
sion of the evacuation of the territory
This fete will be the first celebrated since
the declaration of war.
Pneumatic tubes are being put down
in Paris to take the place of Geographic
wires for the transmission of dispatches
within the city, it being practicable to send
several dispatches at once by this new
method.
1t is stated that one-third of the whole
number of European children in India die
under six months old; that eighty-five per
cent. perish before they reach two years
and that out of q hundred infants born
only eleven attain maturitv.
Flute playing is becoming a fashion
able accomplishment among English
young ladies, and in the future many, in
stead of abusing a piano, will do violence
to the feelings Of flute, or breathe gen
tie melancholy into it.
Owing to the general decentralization
produced by the Oxford and Cambridge
boat race, the heads of the two Universe
ties have, it is said, under serious consid
Grafton the prOpriety of either discounte
nancing the race altogether in future OF
transferring it to the Henley course.
"A married man was recently discover
ed to be counting young girl at Sheffield
England. A crowd took possession Of
him, carried him to q public house, tat
tOoed him, and fined him $1.25. He was
then handed over to large number OF
women, who shaved the hair off his head,
applied huge treacle plaster, cut off his
whiskers, and enptied several bags OF
-four over him. -.
The Emperors of Germany and Rus.
STA are determined to take the lead in pro-
viding military music for the Vienna Elk
hibition at their own private expense. A
Prussian band of the Guards and q Rus.
sian band of the Guards, each composed
of hundred men, will add to the must
cal delights Of the exhibition by their
performances .@a,.
The city authorities of Quebec, after
long deliberation, have determined to
have its walls and gates pulled down,
much to the dissatisfaction of many of
the citizens, who do not hesitate to pro-
nOunce the action of the municipal
fathers open to the suspicion of jobbery.
Quebec has long been an object of inter.
est to tourists on account of its antiquity
and its quaintness, and the walls, which
it alone possesses of all the Canadian
towns, have been . special attraction. The
walls down, the power of the magnet will
be diminished, and the revenue derived
from strangers materially .lessened. As
the city has slender prospect of gaining
any commercial importance, not q few Of
the inhabitants hold that while the pro-
posed changes can do little If any good,
they may work much harm. Quebec,
without walls, would not be Quebec ct
all; and Quebec, without tourists, would
become poor indeed.-Neso York Tribune.