The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

READING aloud is the fashionable
entertainment in Paris society at pres
ent.
A RECENT speech of Mr.. Gladstone
in the House of Commons was listened
to in the laboratory of the Royal Insti-
tuition, the sound being conveyed by
telephone.
A LEATHER bag containing 1925, 900
was recently found in London bill
lard saloon, where it was left under a
settce by its careless owner. He re-
covered it next day.
The Italians propose to cap the eli
vember by oommemorating the 1,800th
anniversary of the destruction of Pom
peii and Herculaneum.
The return to the registrar by cler-
gyman who had solemnized amarriage
in the north of England recently stated
that the woman married, aged nine
teen, was the thirty-seventh child of
her father by his fifth wife.
AT Missolonghi the Greeks fought the
very noblest battle of modern times,
says modern journal; yet when a
French sculptor sent to Missolonghi
statue in memory of the defense, the
Greeks are said to have practiced at it
as a target. "These are the freaks of
a national character lowered, but not
ruined, by many centuries of subjec
ton"
LORD BEACoNsF1ELD said to men,
Der of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce, who came to tell him re-
Gently that the Chamber intended to
vote resolutions condemnatory of the
Ministerial policy on the Eastern ques-
ton: II have heard great deal about
Manchester 'clayed cotton which is
disgracing the English name in China.
Please tell your Chamber that if they
attend to my business 1 will try and
attend to theirs"
1T is a custom in some parts of Rus
STA to hire Generals to give dignity to
wedding feasts. This occurs chiefly
among the middle classes, who take
pride in parading their acquaintance
with members of the upper class. The
cost of hiring a General varies from
five silver roubles upward, according
to grade and decorations. The ar
rangement binds him to come in full
uniform, and to remain for a fixed pc
Rod. The General is very apt to get
drunk on such occasions.
"a HANDSOME sum ought to fall in
to the exchequer on the death of Baron
Rothschild," says the London Wcrtd.
He was father of his family in the
strictest patriarchal sense. Not tree
could be felled, bedstead removed, or
coat of paint put on a cottage door
on property nominally his sons with
out the express sanction of the Baron.
The sons occupied houses and estates
by themselves, but the property was
the fathers, and he did not forget it.
He was not the man to provide for his
sons, as rich men do, during his life
time. There will, therefore, be sue
cession duty payable on the scale as il
Abraham had died, assuming that
such troubles as taxes existed in his
day."
A GALLANT young fellow volunteered
in the Forty-second Highlanders four
years ago. This crack regiment had
the bad luck to be selected for service
in Cyprus, and among the many who
were victims of the climate was this
Glasgow lad. His mother quickly fol.
lowed him, dying of a broken heart
and the father in his affection anc
wrath has announced the extraordinary
resolve of indicting Colonel Stanley fol
manslaughter. OF course, such a pro
ceeding, if seriously entertained, woull
not be carried beyond the initiatory
stages. The grounds on which the allie
CATION is made are that merely for pc
litical purposes the life of this young
fellow was wantonlv sacrificed. The
Minister of War, of course, could no,
be seriously indicted on any such charge
and, as matter of fact, Colonel Stan.
lev has no other connection with the
matter than that he happens just nov
to be Minister of War.