The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-30
Foreign GOSSIP.

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Foreign Gossip.
One of the smallest stations on the
new Russian railroad is named Werckre-
ondinsk. The largest station will he
named accordingly.
An eccentric genius has sent in Pc
tition to the French National Assembly
asking for the passage of a law providing
that every new. born child shall have its
name and the date of its birth tattooed on
its arm.
The anniversary of the coronation of
Jimmu Tenno, the first of the Mikado's
family, who assembled the throne 2,534
years ago, was celebrated in Japan, Feb.
II. A centennial isn't of much account
over there.
M. Belmontet presided at the annual
banquet OF his comrades, the old soldiers
OF the First Empire, held recently in Paris.
The veterans, who now number scarcely
hundred, drank toasts to the memory
of the Great Emperor and to the army Of
Austerlitz.
The american Register, of Paris, in
forms us that dancing is going out of
fashion in Europe, and says: "If men
and women could firt as conveniently
and as pleasantly without its protec.
ton it would be given up altogether in
civilized countries"
Roman Won Rampony, an Austrian
officer and student of the University of
Innsbruck, was recently challenged BY
several members Of an atheistic club. He
refused to fight, being q good Catholic,
and consequently has been dismissed
from the Austrian service.
"A portion, consisting of 1O, 900 copies,
of It cent issue of the Dundee Aduertiser
was printed on paper manufactured from
reeds grown on the banks of the Tay.
The paper il said to closely resemble that
made from jute. As far as the expert
ment has been tried it is said to be salts
factory.
The new agent at London for the Do.
minion of Canada does not seem to be
earning many laurels in his adopted home.
He signalized his election to Parliament
by personally insulting members of the
Government, and now correspondent of
the Liverpool Albion says he has shown
the same bad tact by insulting the House
of Commons.
I'm an action for damages on the
ground of SANDER tried recently in tie
Small Debt Court, Glasgow, the defender
refused to say whether or not in open
lodge he had made certain slanderous
statements against the pursuer. He plead
ed that all Masons were bound by an oath
not to disclose what was done in the
lodge" Sheriff Murray, however, over
ruled the objection and ordered the de-
PENDANT to answer the question. -
The smallest postoffice in the world
is kept in barrel which swings from the
outermost rock of the mountains over.
hanging the Straits of Magellan, opposite
Terra del Fuego. Every passing ship
opens it to place letters in or to take them
out. Every ship undertakes to forward
all the letters in it that 1t is possible for
them to transmit. It hangs there by it's
iron chain, beaten and battered BY the
winds and storms, but no locked and
barred Office on land is moro secure. 1t
Is not In the track Of mail robbers.
Tho Bavarian law requires boys aud
girls of sixteen to 60 through examine
ton, and sends them back to school If
this test shows that their education il i'm
perfect. The Prussian law fixes the pc
riod of schooling for boys ct eight years,
and for girls Of seven. This long dura.
ton Of tuition II possible in Russia BE-
cause the population, imbued with the
idea dating from the Reformation, which
depended for IL progress on the power Of
I'll men to read the Bible, tha4 elementary
instruction II IN indispensable pfovision
for aleer life, works with instead Of against