The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In Geneva, Switzerland, a new school
for matchmaking has been opened, and
the latest machinery, including much
of American manufacture, has been in
troduced. s tsJ
ii The Paris public executioner has
died of apoplexy, aged fifty-five years.
His name was M. Roch, and his salary
81. 600 2 year with "perquisites on
A SINGULAR strike has just termi-
mated at Barcelona, Spain. The mu-
nicipality having about twelve months
ago imposed tax on the consumption
Of gas, all the private consumers in the
city resolved not to burn gas, and have
stood firm until the removal of the i'm
post. ~ .r..f ,sts 5a
THE London Daily Telegraph says
Gen. Gourko has imposed upon st.
Petersburg state Of siege which
awakens painful remembrance of the
reign of terror Instituted in Warsaw
eighteen years ago-a state of siege
of the barbarous old Russian pattern,
by which town. is converted into q
gigantic Jail, and its inhabitants are
compelled to play the spy upon one
another. ..se, . a
Two BOYS at Wincanton, Eng, badly
addicted to vicious literature, put ON
black masks and false .mustaches, and
set out with pistols to indulge in ex-
PLOTS on the highway. They attempted
to rob q man and fired two shots at
him; but the net result was q sentence
to six months imprisonment and
twenty-five strokes with a birch rod for
one, and three months and twelve
strokes for the other.
A YOUNG Jewish lady of rich and
respected family was recently on the
point of being married near Cologne,
in Germany, when q peasant woman
entered and forbade the ceremony.
She said that twenty years before she
had been the nurse. of the child now
supposed to be the bride, but had ac-
cidentally rolled over upon 1t and
smothered it while sleeping. Fearing
punishment, she substituted her own
infant, and allowed it subsequently to
be taken from her. "N course l am
much obliged for the education and
rearing the child has received" said
the woman, :" but you can understand
that as q good Christian could never
allow my daughter to be married to q
jew" e'
DIR. G. w.. LE1TNER, q famous lin
guist, has Just sent to the Civil and
Mtitavy Gazette of India q translation
of q narrative sent to him by an old
servant of Shere Ali, in which he gives
curious account Of . Queen now
reigning over q district near Herat.
She is beautiful and brave enough to re-
call the classical, Penthesilea. She ID
descended from the far-famed hero
Russian. Feramoz Khan, Z General Of
Kafrstan, once went to seize some Of
the camels of her country. but the
Queen rode out on . superb horse 70
meet him and offered him single COM
bat. The General retired without any
camels. She is unmarried, and many
Princes have sued for her hand in vain.
Although proficient in wsrlike arts,
she cultivates the arts Of peace, and hen
subjects are wealthy and happy.
You've ladies who correspond with
rejected lovers would do well to take q
hint from the following curious case
Mile. Felicie Maxy. who lives on the
farm Of Pentecote, ON the Belgian
frontier, was on the point Of being
married, when she received letter
from an old sutton asking her to recon
slider the matter, and send him an i'm
mediate reply. A postage stamp wa
gallantly inclosed to defray the cost o.
transmission. The answer duly writ
ten, Nile. Maxy spilled the stamp TO
her fair HIPS; but hardly had abe done
20 whom she felt sharp pain IN her
tongue, and in less than no time thai
interesting member became horribly
elongated, and infamsd and covered
With noisome sores. The disconsolate
one. Alfred Camin by name, FARMER
al Pichon, in the Nord,, has been szs
rested; but he declares that he used Ia
noxious drug, but simply moistened 1
corner Of the stemp with hi6iown lips.
Such 10 the state of the case asrje noU
ssands; but ths tale caxiss IL Own
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