The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-12-10
Foreign GOSSIP.

The total value of the personal es-
tate and effects of the late DIR. Living
stone, the African traveller, has been
sworn to as being under 1900
An English minister says that if
Scripture said one thing and the London
Times another, 500 Englishmen out of
every $40 would believe the Times"
debate is again revived in London
such Mayor in that city as Wilmington,
leaving out all about the famous cat.
"A superstition prevails in the Isle of
Man that child may be preserved from
whcoping- cough by being placed in the
hopper Of mill. Chopping its head off
would be quite as ettectual.
They are going to try and put stop
in Germany to the sale of so-called
soothing syrups" for infants. Physi-
clans assert that more babies are killed
by these connections than by disease.
"A vile wretch of a mana regular
monster in store clothes-residing in Of
tawa, Canada, recently sold his wife for
the sum of ten dollars. She says that's
more than she'd offer for him at any
time.
The fall season has proved terribly
unhealthy in London. Scarlet fever is
the most violent disease which the
physicians are called on to encounter,
and against this they are practically
helpless.
1t is reported that twenty barrels,
entered as salt meat" and Australian
beef, were seized at Portsmouth, En-
gland, Oct. 20, and in each barrel was
found the corpse of a full-grown negro
They reached England from the United
States, and were intended for dissection
in London
In Fiji, they say, tax-paying is
associated with all that the people love.
The Call of the tax.gatherer is u festive
occasion, day for the best attire, the
pleasantest looks and the kindest words,
These interesting islanders hand in their
money with singing and dancing, and
the whole ceremony concludes with
dinner.
"A new method of thwarting safe
burglars is proposed in England. The
doors of safes are to be made sliding in
stead of swinging, and they are to be
moved by hydraulic pressure, which
is to be maintained during the whole
time that the door is shut. BY making
the doors very heavy it is thought the
burglars will be unable to displace
them.
The Ballarat Star says: "a nugget
Of gold weighing fourteen ounces four
heavyweight was picked up in Macar-
thur street few days ago, the fortunate
finder being, as is usually the case, a poor
workingman. The discovery was rather
singular. 1t appears that he was wear
ing pair OF almost solelcss boots, and
while walking along the street felt
hard substance pressing against the bot
tom of his foot. Looking down to ascer-
tain it the cause was a sharp pointed
stone he saw the point of the nugget
sticking out of the ground, and soon un-
earthed it,"
An American mas just been appre-
hended in Rome charged with the forgery
OF Brazilian bank notes. He had for a
confederate an Italian priest. said to be
a skilliul engraver, who is also in GUS
tOdy. In the apartments of the Ameri-
can, who was living in Rome in the
grandest style, were found lithographing
stones, engravings, chemicals, and every
thing necessary for the manufacture of
the notes. When the prisoners were ar
rested all was ready for printing, and the
priest afhrms that in twenty-four hours
they could have struck off notes to the
value OF $12, 10000 A new issue of
paper money said to he contemplated BY
the Brazilian Government is supposed to
have stimulated the forgers' industry,
and their notes, which are described as
being skillfully made, were for the
amounts of 500, 500, and $50 respect
iyely.