The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-15
Foreign Gossip.

fOrelSn UOSSlps
1T is a remarkable fact that human
hair grows nearly twice as fast in Europe
as it does in America.
The present year will be the first in
which the English income tax has ever
been at so low a rate as three pence in the
pound sterling.
Queen Victoria recently sent e3 to the
wife of a private in an English regiment,
the understanding being that there was 81
for each baby.
Ladies are included in some of the
juries at the Vienna Exposition, and will
be expected TO give their best judgment in
the distribution Of awards and prizes to
the exhibitors.
There are in st. Petersburg ninety
nine printing Offices, thirteen of which be-
long to the Crown. Moscow has fifty
seven printing offices, six Of which belong
to the Crown.
"A committee has been formed among
the members of the Berlin Geographical
Society to cooperate with the other geo.
graphical societies of Germany in organic
ing an expedition for the completion,
from the west coast of Africa, of the dis
cover.es commenced by DR.. Livingstone
from the east
-Four men have confessed to the muir
der of girl named Clauscn, at Ethan,
England, in April, 1871, and asked the
favor of being hanged for the crime Yet
| all of them have been proven to have been
distant from the scene of the murder at
| the time of its commission. The English
police now find their duty of convicting
criminals changed for the necessity to
prevent lunatics from sacrificing them
selves on the alter.
The London Daily Telegraloh's explor-
| er in Assyria has met with great success.
He has found eighty new Inscriptions in
| Guiding histories, known and hitherto I'M
known, of Assyrian kings. Among his
discoveries is highly important tablet
containing a collection of proverbs in
ther calculation of the whole class of in
scriptions. Many of the inscriptions have
definite dates.
We learn from Nature that the Ameri-
can Palestine exploration expedition has
Lieutenant Stecver, United States Cavalry,
accompanied by Professor Paine, formerly
of Robert College, Constantinople At
latest advices, the expedition was fitting
out at Beyrout, with the view of taking the
field early in March. They have, there
fore, already entered upon active duty.
An arrangement has been made with the
British Exploration Society, by which the
whole country east of the Jordan, and en-
bracing the old territories of Moab,
Gilead, and Bashan, is to be relinquished
exclusively to the American society. As
this region abOunds in ancient ruins and
excavations, it is expected that many OBJ
jects of interest to the antiquary and Bible
student will be brought to light.
Industrial.
The Maryland oyster beds have been
scraped SO clean that tight market is
looked for next year.
The product of the gold mines of Nova
Scotia during the last twelve years is esti-
mated at $4,000, 600. The product last year
was $2SS, 900.
One hundred square feet of space has
been secured at the Vienna Exhibition for
the display of the minerals and other pro-
auctions of Tennessee.
The Independent mentions an "occas-
ional contributor'-a lady-who is not
ashamed to earn her living as cook and
housemaid, working for months wages.
-Holyoke, Mass, has twelve paper
mills, paying monthly for wages $6S,5OO,
producing daily 4215 tons of paper, and
employing 500 male and 1881 female
workpeople.
British workmen are in many in
stances now so careless about regular work
that one colliery owner who examined his
books found that the average of work in
fortnight was three days of eight hours, or
twenty-four hours for three weeks work.
MIR. Clarke Aspinwall, the Liverpool
Coroner, who was chosen arbitrator in a
dispute between the master painters of
Liverpool and the operatives, has just sent
in an award which reduces the hours to
IS per week, and raises the rate of wages
to 711d an hour. The present hours are
5619, and the rate of wages 611d.
The straits to which English manu.
facturers are reduced for cheap coal COM
pels technical paper to observe that 1.-THE
day is probably not very far off when it
will become matter for full consideration
how England may best and most econom.
ically draw upon the immense coal seams
of Picton and Cumberland River in Nova
Scotia"