The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-14
FOREIGN. GOSSIP.

In the north of England CONNECTION
ers sell funeral biscuits in bags on
which is printed a funeral hymn. The
same lines have done duty for genera
tons.
A RICH ornamented garter is one of
the regulation presents to German
royal bride, and an illustrated German
paper depicts such an article given to
the Empress fifty years ago.
A FRENCH woman, who made a for
tune by keeping shop, under the En-
pire, has had her yacht and her cottage
painted black, has changed all her fur
niture for ebony, and proposes to mourn
for the Prince Imperial the rest of her
life.
The King of Belgium is the person.
age mentioned in the following placard,
which was posted recently against the
Palace of Justice in Brussels: "The
law of the schools is signed. Let us
now stab the King for God and the
Fatherland."
HENRY BEssEMER, the English in
ventor, has taken out one hundred and
sixty patents, almost as many as Edi-
son, and one of them, his process for
making steel, ranks as one of the most
useful inventions of the century.-N
Y. Post.
DISCOVERIES were made at the Blan-
tyre colliery, near Glasgow, where a
terrible explosion on the Sd of July
destroyed thirty lives, that some of the
men had tobacco-pipes and false-key
to the safety lamp, which was found
open, making it probable that the ex-
| plosion was caused by reckless at
tempt to take smoke in situation
where it could not fail to be attended
by tremendous risk.
The Paris correspondent of the N.
Y. Tribune tells a strange story Of the
Zulu war. In 1868 Captain Lambert,
of the Fourth Voltigeurs of the French
Imperial Guard, was caught cheating
at cards and was expelled from his
regiment. He decided to drown hinf-
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in foreign lands. So he went to the
Cape Of Good Hope, learned the native
dialects and became a purveyor of
ammunition to the Zulus, and after
ward obtained commission in the
Zulu army, of which he finally became
Commander-in-Ch Chief. He died in the
service, but it is said that to him the
Zulus owe their knowledge of military
tactics.
A REMARKABLE story, showing the
great advantages of ignorance, is told
| of a French cook who won a prize in
the late lottery. She had felt certain,
long before the drawing of the prizes,
that No. ~ would turn out winner;
and she managed to buy it, and awaited
the result with anxiety, but without
fear. The list came out in due time, and
surely enough No. ~ had won big
prize. Her master, therefore, ques-
toned her about it, asking to be in
formed why she was so sanguine. The
explanation was simple. "Why, sir"
she replied, Il dreamed three nights
running that No. 8 would be a lucky
number; that is how came to be sure,
because three times eight is twenty
seven." This cook does not in the
least agree with the poet who said that
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing;
she had very little knowledge, indeed,
of arithmetic, but found the result
quite satisfactory.
Liz 1Olh-lOlC VI IIl0 NldSyStIS llluSI
be very quaint, if a legend told BY
Moritz Jokai, the Hungarian poet, he
a fair example. A few centuries ago,
Szegedin, even then one of the largest
and most important towns of Hun
gary, was totally destroyed by fire.
The people sat lamenting over the
smoking ruins, and bitterly asked
themselves if their city could ever
again be what it was before. Then an
swerei an old woman, "Not till the
dead come back once more into the
streets" This speech, probably mean
ing that Szegedin would never be as
before, became saying in the neigh
borhood; and has remained so till to-
day. Now, the other day when the
town was destroyed by the floods, the
waters burst open the vaults and
graves, and many of the dead in their
wooden cotfins floated about the streets
of the town. The Magyars, as super
stitious as are all people with Eastern
blood in their veins, now firmly be-
lieve that this is an omen and that the
saying will come true.