The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-11-26
Foreign Gossip.

Wouiu eHiohc Twelve cigars III one even
ing. He was taken sick on his eighth
cigar, but persisted and won his bet.
Prof. Chevalicr was called to attend him
the same night, but not in time to save
his life.
Ono must take care how he takes
pity. In France farmer found little
gypsy girl of eleven years in the road.
She said her sister had deserted her. Out
of pity he took her homeland two
weeks later she ran away with his baby,
eight months old.
The French keep up their little jokes:
An Alsatian woman goes to confess:
Father, | have committed great sim
Well" | dare not say it; it is too griev-
ous.' Come, come, courage have
married a Prussian.' Keep him. my
daughter. That's your pcnance.'"
On the Champs Elysees an English
man riding a beautiful horse threw his hat
into landau in which were two ladies';
greatly surprised. they looked at him
closely, saw his head fall, and screamed.
Policeman -came-and the EnglishmAn
was dead in the saddle with apoplexy.
They are seriously considering in
Scotland the propriety of going back to
toggiDg as means of Furnishing certain
crimes of violence, such as wife beating
and the like. 1t would certainly, if
faithfully applied, appeal to the feelings
OF the criminal more decidedly than
many OF the punishments now in use.
1t has been discovered that some re-
cently-built ships of the British navy,
having been planked on the bottom with
English elm, instead of teak, are so IN
tnlnra h1vy nffn,,cSvn hat g
to live in them. The elm wood absorbs
water like sponge, and the result is a
most unpleasant and pervading odor.
1t has been estimated that if the
population of London goes on increasing
at its present rate it will exceed 5000, 900
by the end of the century, and that
should it continue at the present rate
during the next century by the year 1000
it will have reached the enormous aggre-
gate of %, DOC, 900 of inhabitants; but you
can't always tell.
Funny decision in France on an in
surance case. If house is insured for
the total value, the value of the land
must be included in the sum, and may
be deducted by the company from the
payment of loss. So that one must nav
premium for the insurance of that which
cannot be destroyed, though he cannot
have the benefit of that insurance.
The Jardin d. Acclimatation, Paris,
has just received two running oxen from
the Island of Ceylon. They are of di-
minutive size, not larger than a very
small donkey, but are of great utility in
that country. The mail service is per-
formed by them. They are active and
bear great fatigue, and can travel very
considerable distance at a regular, rapid
pace.
-Englands marriage statistics have
been analysed to show the probabilities
of marriage for women at different ages.
SuppOsing the sum of wOman's chances
of marriage to be 100, she exhausts be.
tween the ages of fifteen and twenty
years fourteen and half chances. If
she lives unmarried from twenty to
twenty-five, fifty-two more of her
chances have vanished into thin air.
Ii she remains unmarried for five more
years she will turn thirty with only fif-
teen and a half chances out of her hun
dred left. After thirty-tive she has
eleven and a half chances, and at this
point the statistician gave up his calcu-
lation, except that he assures us that
even after woman has lived unmarried
for sixty years she still has the tenth of
a chance of getting married out of the
hundred with which she is supposed to
have started life.