The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Bishop of London has two
houses and $4,000 q year. He will
soon be relieved of one-half of his la
bors without decrease of houses or
salary.
THE English Court of Appeal has de-
cided that the steamer Princess Alice
was alone to blame in the matter of the
collision with the Bywell Castle last
September, which resulted so fatally
for the former.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION is scolded by
the Paris Pays for not going to Chisel-
hurst. He asked of the French Gov
eminent permission to 90, but the re-
quest was made, according to that
journal. in such q way as to leave no
doubt that he would be glad of re-
fusal.
The Prince Imperiars saddle, With
the holsters torn away, has been
brought to Chiselhurst and carefully
examined. An Englishman, Lord
Gerard, says that the young French
man was a nimble horseman, and tells
how one day when riding with him in
the country the Prince sprang up and
stood on his saddle, and thence vaulted
into tree under which they were
passing.
BOMBAY, with population of six
hundred and fifty thousand, and an av-
erage to the square mile exceeding
London, is the second city in the Brit
ish Empire in point of numbers. The
average death rate for the past five
years has been about the same as Lon
don. The people are tall, thin and
stately in appearance, with fine, intel
ligent eyes. The city stands on an ISL
and, Joined by an embankment to the
mainland.
| A WRITER in the London Builder
complains that an English patent costs
in Government duties 1925 within the
first six months, then $3.50 within three
years, then $500 within four more-to-
tai 1876 levied in seven years for pa
tent during fourteen years, while a pa
tent in America costs only 1856. in one
payment, for seventeen years. ''Thus,"
he adds, L" are the brains of English
men handicapped against those of
their great rivals in the proportion of
IT'S to T."
In Russia, as well as in Germany,
Austria, and one or two minor nothern
realms, q n0bleman's title is inherited
by all his sons. who transmit it to their
male offspring, and 80 on ad infinitum.
Needy mobiles necessarily abound
There are forty or fifty Count Zichys in
Hungary, three or four of whom are
wealthy magnates, and the rest pass
their lives In army or Government
Offices on the smallest pay. In Galicia
there are entire villages where every
peasant native has the right to preface
his name with the title Of Prince.
A HORRIBLE affair was recently oc-
cupying the attention of jury in the
department of the Somme, France. An
old peasant named Roussel has daugh-
ter, Delphine, whose mind about two
years ago became troubled in Conse-
quence of an unhappy attachment.
Roussel, through avarice and fear OF
the DOCTORS bill, made wooden cage
in which he placed her, and there the
unfortunate creature remained until
April IS, when she was liberated by the
lgendarmes. When released, the un.
lucky De.phine was in pitiable state
and although she has been carefully
tended ever since, her reason seems to
have vanished forever. Roussel hal
been condemned to five years. impris.
onment only, the jurors having found
that there were extenuating circum.
stances. ss
| LORD iLYTr0N, the Governor-Ge General
of India, says the London Truth, wa.
for long time intensely unpopular
with his countrymen in the East
Now that they know him they like him
better. His cbivalrous devotion to
ward the better sex has naturally NO,
failed to meet with due recognition
His. frank and easy disposition and hi
dislike Of the restraints Of ceremony
have Likewise been noted. One day
in the midst Of levee, he suddenly
ordered the doors Of the throne-room
to be closed. Az soon - he was alone
with an eide de-camp or two Lord Lyt
ton pulled ont cigarette-case, and
having lit q cigarette, +, proceeded
quietly to smoke it; When he had
| thus recruited his exhausted energies
the doors were egsip thr0Wn open
and the levee proceeded to its, tsrmins.
tion.la Nevertheless. Lord .1yttor
deems it his duty to exact . rigid oh.
servance Of edquette from his In
feriors. ..s5,,..sa,
j IL rich reiation-The telling Of {