The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP,


invented dynamite shell capable of
destroying man-of-war at two hum
dred PAGES, and rendering the use of
torpedoes unnecessary.
GEORGE HARGRAvEs, eighty-years of
age, a Liverpool merchant of good
standing. has just been sentenced to
five years. penal servitude for forging
bill of exchange for $4,000.
THERE have been many startling
cases of abduction in Paris. Many
children of respectable parents have
been stolen, and several young women
have disappeared under mysterious cir
cumstances. The police for once seem
to be utterly at fault.
A DECORATION is very dear to the
heart of Frenchman, and he does not
like to let his honors bloom in secret.
Successful exhibitors at the recent Paris
Exhibition have been exhibiting their
orders of the Legion of Honor in their
shop windows, and have been officially
warned to withdraw them, under pain
of expulsion from the Legion.
A SINGULAR meteorological phenom-
cnon was observable in January in
many parts of Switzerland. While the
temperature in the valleys and plains
was low, the waters covered with ice
and snow resting on the ground, a
warm south wind prevailed in the up
lands and among the higher Alps,
where the streams remained unfrozen
and the snow almost disappeared.
MADAME GREvY, wife of the French
President, is the daughter of rich
merchant of Nancy, and her friends
thought that she had made q bad match
when she married her present husband.
Her daughter is said to be an excellent
painter, bold huntswoman and a
crack shot. She formerly used to ac-
company her father on all his shooting
excursions.
A LOCKsMITH in the English mid
land counties has just been sent to Jail
for brutally beating his wife. This en-
terprising gentleman forced his wife to
sleep on the floor in order that his
racing deg might occupy her place in
bed, and his fOur-legged pet was re-
called on joints of beef, while his wife
and children were starving. The un-
reasonable woman complained, and
the outraged husband beat her within
an inch of her life.
A PAINTING that is greatly admired
at Rome this season, 1.-The Revels of
Messalina," has a strange history.
The man who painted it lived in an at
tic and kept body and soul together on
limited diet of bread and onions
When twas done he gave it to another
painter in pledge for $500, and finally
killed himself in utter despair. Now
that he is dead, his pictures are selling.
The artist to whom Messalina'' was
pledged also killed himself.
CHARLES READE, in a letter to the
London Telegraph, suggests that the
use of captive balloon would have
saved the English troops in Zululand
from the recent massacre. "a very
small one," he says, "would have
raised a man q thousand feet, and
shown him in moment the shallow
secrets of Zulu strategy. Lateral am
buscades, though in jungle, are no
ambuscades to a scout looking down
vertically with a powerful binocular,
and sweeping thirty miles at a glance.
The Nation, therefore, will feel obliged
to the War Office if it will send out,
not a great many more soldiers to be
knocked on the head, but few more
soldiers, more ammunition, more bal
looms, more gasometers, more binocu-
lars, and-more brains"
THE Bank of England win be one
hundred and eighty-ive years old on