The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-21
Foreign Gossip.

nv u'SI"SO Oti'y ClFCulitOn OF the
year was 176,l74. This. saws the Ts1s.
yrmph, is by far the larg return ever
made for similar period by anv news
paper In the entire history of journalism
1t is now agreed by the doctors of
England and France that tapeworm can
only be eliminated from the human BODY
ny e1tectually cxpeIling the head of the
parasite as we'll as its tail and lengthy
trunk. Drugs, properly administered,
VIII reach the head after the trunk has
unloaded.
"A Neapolitan has invented new in
strument, which he calls the piano grafo,
1t is SO arranged that, as the PLAYER
strikes the keys, the notes inscribe them
selves upon piece of paper-an invalu
able invention for the composer, who has
no longer to depend on his memory to
record his compositions.
An improvement has lust been in
troduccd in Paris. A certain number of
the comfortable little brOughams, which
ply for hire at the rate of tbirtv-tiyc
cents per hour, are now supplied with
hot-Water bottles, and the public are in
formed OF the fact by board hanging
from the side of the cab and by an in
SCllptlOn on tle lantern.
The Norwegian young woman is not
permitted to receive attentions from the
Norwegian young man until she is thor
oughly acquainted with the mysteries of
brcad-making and Can knit stockings.
AS rather natural result the Norwegian
1air ones arc all accomplished bakers and
ski!l1ul knltters at an early age-even
before they learn to read and write.
When London clergyman PROPOSES
to take boarders he advertises that +" his
enlarged arrangements have enabled him
to carry out still more fully his original
OBJECT, viz: to Obviate the trouble of
housekeeping for small families and OBJ
tain for them the pleasures of society
without expense: while securing to them
the entire comforts of separate private
house,"
An actress of one of the prominent
faris theaters approached the physician
OF the establishment the other day and
sald: Doctor, Can you do me a great
favor? Name il" said the doctor. who
was enamorcd of the actress. "Oh,"
was the reponse, " it is not very diff
cult thing: You are the physician of
Mile. H. She is my rival. want YOU to
give her fever which will keep her from
the stage for fortnight"
The Glasgow Citizen says that a most
extraordinary case of mistaken identity
occurred the other day at St. Rollox DO
nee station. A man named Nicholas
Nolan carried home drunken woman.
whom he supposed was his wife. Inside
the house the woman died, and it was
then discovered that she was a total
Stranger. The missing wife afterward
turned up at the Central police station,
where she had been locked up on charge
OF drunkenness.
"A Frenchman was about to be hanged
for criminal offense; az there was no
professional executioner available for the
occasion, the painful duty of carving
out the sentence devolved upon an anna
teur, who apologized for possible short
comings to the person principally con-
cerned. hope you will pardon me-"
said he, If put you to any unnecessary
inconvenience; but the fact is, have
never hanged anyone BEFORE" "Pray
40 not mention it, )" replied the other with
the greatest sang fsosd. "For that mat
ter, 1 have never been hanged before
We must each do our best"
"A Paris medical student has lust
died insane, having become so in conse-
quence of an event that happened in the
dissecting room. His subject had been
placed in u sitting posture while frozen
and its right arm was kept above its
head against gravity by the icy condi-
ton of the tissues, and AZ he worked.
lost in his labor, this arm came down and
the cold hand struck the student on the
cheek. 1t was clear upon investigation
that the hot fire made for the student
had thawed the tissues, but the impress
sion made upon his mind was too deep
to be removed by rational explanation.
"A writer in the Woman's Journal,
published in London, says: "There is
growing up in England q large class of
women who do not marry, who apparent
" wish not to marry. They deliberately
devote themselves to literature, to teach
ing, to some trade, generally an artistic
one; at any rate to some occupation that
gives a livelihood and tends to culture,
and this they choose for life. The mar
rylng instinct seems dead, or rather
never to have been born, in them. They
90 not seem to be thought of as out Of
place, but, on the contrary, they move
into fit places in the societal organism
easily and naturally, and are accepted
without remark"
Personal and Literary.
"A Pacific male-King Kalakaua.-
Arcadidn.
Mrs. Motley, wife of the historian,
whose death has been announced by
cable, was sister of the late Park Ben
jamin and lady of fine culture.
Brigham Young is about to die and
the result will be the most remarkable
funeral and more of unfortunate widow
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