The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-02-12
FOREIGN Gossip.

his customers.
Foreign Gossip.
The Chilian Government is about to
issue 500, 900 in bronze coinage.
I'm the city of Cotochin (Hindostan)
and its neighborhood live nearly 1900
colored Jews.
1T is asserted that there are now in
Milan sixty-five young American ladies
eager to pay literally for an appearance
upon the operate stage.
of the II, OOO, 900 inhabitants of Spain,
12,OO0, 600 can neither read nor write
There are 1900 villages, towns and cities
presided over by Mayors, 2,OOO of whom
are unable to sign their names to any pub
lie document.
"A London correspondent writes that
the ex-Empress Eugene has grown ten
years older since her husbands death,
and exhibits an alarming tendency to
stoutness-not usually an accompaniment
of grief and lamentation.
The Fdrtnightly Reusew prophesies
that the day is not far distant when farm.
ing in England will become commercial
speculation, and will be carried on by
large jointstock concerns, issuing shares
of ten, fifteen, or fifty pounds each, and
occupying from 5000 to 10000 acres.
MIR. Frank auckland recently stated
in lecture that there is in the Geological
Gardens in London q chimpanzee Of ex-
traordinary intellect which a professor in
q deaf-and-dumb school had offered to
teach to speak. Should he be successful
the experiment will tell strongly in favor
of the Darwinian theory.
-Averdict of 81, 500 was recently given
in Scotland in breach of promise suit
brought by Mrs. Janet Honeyman, a
widow of twenty nine, against w. Home,
spirit merchant of fifty, who broke of
the engagement because the plaintiff in
sisted upon her mother living with her
after the marriage.
"A wealthy proprietor of . well-known
patent medicine proposes to establish in
London, at his own expense, and to f1t up
completely, q large metropolitan naais0n
de sG,ate, for the use of bachelors, stran.
gers and others who fall sick in London,
ana who are not fit objects of public
charity in hospitals, but have no means
of being adequately nursed in their apart.
ments.
Most Frenchman, when they commit
suicide, like to do it in q way which will
render them celebrated in the papers. A
coachman living at Montmartre invited
his friends to dinner recently, and on ar
irving there, instead of finding their host
at the head of the table, ruddy and joyous,
they discovered him dead, hanging on
the bed-post. He had taken the precau-
ton to provide bread, cheese and wine for
his guests.
ST. Helena, the island prison of Ma
poleon BOnaparte, and q possession OF
Great Britain, is just now in q very I'M
fortunate condition. Mountain floods
have destroyed many of the villages, and
what the water spared has been destroyed
by the ravages of the white ants. The
population has decreased by one.ffth
within eighteen months and those remain
ing are in q semi-state of starvation, while
the fields remain uncultivated, and indus
try is at standstill.
One of the dresses ordered in Paris
for the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia,
the bride of Prince Alfred. cost 10000
francs, and il described by the Gasloss as
- ravishing toilet for . blonde" It is q
robe of light blue silk velvet, over which
is a tunfc Of India muslin draped a
pantique. The muslin tunic Is of 90 fine
. quality that It will easily pass through
q finger ring. The plaits of the corsage
are kept in position by gold clasps Get
with pearls, and the edge Of the tunic 10
fringed with pears.
An ingenious invention for Bonapart.
ist propagandism is portrait Of the
Prince Imperial ON small square of
paper not much bigger than postage
stamp, and bearing the inscription, "Ap-
peal to the people," and Everything for
and by the people," These little bits of
paper are gummed at the back, and nav
be stuck upon walls, windows, door posts,
ETC., with little risk ON the part of the Der.
sons who circulate them of being found
out It il said that As many g three
millions have been struck off.
The tomb of Petrarch was recently
opened on the occasion of the centenary
Of the poet. The bones were found in
quite perfect condition and of an amber
color; other than which we fail to note 4
single fact Of the slightest interest in the
long account Of the ceremony published
by Q foreign contemporary. The specta-
Gle Of body of scientists, calling them
selves the Academy of Bovol@ta,n break.
ing open the grave Of agreat man, paving
over Ills bones, and gfaring It his dust
through their eyeglasses, with apparently
no other object than to make him share
his coffin with . bottle containing . list Of
their names, must be reffeshingly idiotic.
--A,Pafis journal tells; tho story Of .
beggar who presented himself regularly
q 8 CoEtAin co1leo house with . clafi0oet
under his arm. @Will you allow me,
gentlemen" said he, in an humble tone Of
veice, ITO play : tuner. I an only IN ~
assar. ah6H yoa ptsfsr giving ne : Sew