The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

said she, 81 should think was the
bride, after l!''-Hayper's Bazaar. -
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
NEARLY all the pawnbrokers of
France are women.
A PARIS letter says that suicide
took place recently at the Folies Ber-
gere under very peculiar circum-
stances. The man appears from a let
ter found on his corpse to be devotee
of science. He left the following let
ter: Is 1 desire that my body be given
to the faculty of medicine to study. l
shoot myself because l am suffering
from an incurable disease. In spite Of
that am as strong as horse and cam
not die. Let me be very carefully dis
sected l shall afford the doctors a
very curious study"
IT was Fuad Pasha who took the
Sultan's firman of investiture for the
new Khedive to Carlo. In acknowl-
edgment of his services he received
from the Khedive and members of his
family various valuable presents. But
the German newspapers declare that
over and above these presents he re-
ceived an enormous sum in actual
money, viz: From Tewfik Pasba HIM
self, 25O, 900 francs; from the Khedive's
wife, 100000 francs; from his mother,
100000 francs: and from the Egyptian
Government, 100000 francs-in all,
1,1OO,OQO francs for the trouble of jour
neying from Constantinople to Cairo
and back.
The Leeds Mercury says that a rather
amusing incident was witnessed in the
Scarborough aquarium recently. The
keeper, while engaged in cleaning out
the tank occupied by the octopods, was
suddenly seized by the leg fortunately
he had sea-boots on) by the largest of
the octopods, which fastened four of his
tentacles round the leg of the boot, and
with the other four held firmly on the
rocks forming the back of the tank. A
struggle ensued, during which the man
found he could not disengage himself
without killing the animal, and finally
hit upon the expedient of slipping his
leg out, leaving the boot in the water,
and beating a retreat. The hungry oc-
topus stuck to the boot for twenty min
utes, when it relinquished its hold.
A CERTAIN NJ. Drillon has found that
the number seventeen brings bad luck
to the Imperial dynasty. The Prince
Imperial had seventeen assegai wounds.
There are seventeen letters in the name
Napoleon Bonaparte. The addition of
the figures 1903, the date of the birth
of Napoleon I'LL, numbers seventeen;
so does the addition of the figures 1926,
the date of Empress Eugenie's birth, as
also 1853, the date of their marriage;
from 1858, the date of their marriage,
to 1870, the date of their fall, seventeen
years. The Prince Imperial was seven
teen years of age when his father died;
there are seventeen letters in the name of
LIE Lieutenant Carey, and the addition
of the figures 1862, the date of Prince
Victor's birth, again produces seven
teen.
ENGLAND has been shocked by a
laundering execution, and it appears to
be settled that Marwood, the hangman,
is an ignoramus, who is permitted to
try experiments at the expense of the
condemned. At Newgate, on the 25th
of August, one James Dilley was to be
put to death. Marwood arranged for a
fall of six feet. The man, after expert
encing the horror of such a fall, finally
died only of strangulation. Scientific
persons are of the opinion that the
wretch must have been torturously
racked and have died in great agony.
The long fall is failure. The old gal
lows, it is thought, killed much more
F.. mercifully than the new tangled ma
chimes which have been introduced.
The British press is discussing Mr..
Marwood, and with all the more vigor
because by an order from the home
office the representatives of the press
are hereafter to be excluded from exc
cutions.
A YOUNG Italian, who had been de.
ceived and robbed by an elder brother,
recently committed suicide in Rome.
This brother was a married man and
had boy. Now, the younger brother
from the moment that his elder brother
deceived and robbed him, knew nc
peace of mind for an intense tempta
ton to kill his brothers child. To es
cape this temptation he determined tt
kill himself. And kill himself he did
He went to bed one night with bottle
Of ether and a wine-glass at his bedside
He began by taking one wine glass O
the ether, and then wrote his impress
sions. He thought that perhaps hi
would repent of his wish to kill hi.
brothers child. But, on the contrary
| in proportion as he doubled his dose.
the wish increased, and at the end O
each phrase he repeated: II have still
a greater wish to kill my brother.
child" This continued till the Twelfth
glass, when he wrote: "May this be tn,
last. can write no more" He died