The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1VAe1AVN VVCOx1O
JAPANESE ladies wear hats only when
it rains:
AN English traveller says that the
secret of cutting and dressing steaks is
monopoly of one or two London
taverns.
ICELAND is progressing famously un-
der the liberal Constitution granted by
King Christian five years ago, and will
elect its new Parliament, the second.
next year. Though taxation is light,
there IS growing surplus in the treas
ury Compulsory education has been
introduced and receives popular sup
port, and convenient roads are build
ing throughout the island.
A TRAMwAY has been opened in the
German city of Brunswick on a new
principle. The rail has no groove. It
is laid exactly flush with the road 8
level. and may thus be crossed at anv
angle with any description of convey
ance without any jar or disturbance.
The car is guided and kept in its place
on this rail by slight steel studs on the
tire of the wheels, which fit into cor
responding holes punched in the rail at
the distance of every five inches. The
invention is that of an English archi-
tect.
The King of Northumberland IN $50
gave for a history of the world 800
acres of land, and a Countess of Anjou,
date not stated, once gave 200 sheep
and large parcel of furs for volume
of homilies, and 12O crowns for a single
book of Livy. In 1920 Latin Bible
was valued at $3.50, and this was time
when two arches of London Bridge
were built for less than $3.50. A Ia
borer in those days had wages so small
that the earnings of fifteen years had
been necessary to buy the Bible, and
the Bible being in Latin he could not
have read it after all.
WHAT Zulu discipline and rule was
is clearly indicated by a story told by
Cetewayo himself while on his way
down to the place of embarkation.
Pointing to a bush, which he desig-
mated by the name of the towards
bush, he informed his conductors that
in front of that bush Chaka used to sit
after battle had been fought in order
to hear accusations of cowardice
against any of his soldiers. If man
were convicted on what seemed suffi-
cient evidence he was expected to
stand still with his left arm high above
his head, while an assegai was slowly
and by degrees thrust downward from
the armpit till it pierced the heart.
ON many of the German and English
railways the trains run in the evening
are now lighted by gas, instead of by
candles or the other methods hitherto
in use. A very rich gas is extracted
from oil, and placed in a light but
strong receptacle beneath each car, and
this is consumed in burners especially
adapted to the purpose. The gas is so
rich that burner consumes, as the re-
ports represent, less than three-fifths of
a cubic foot per hour, and giving light
equal to that of a four-foot burner using
ordinary coal gas. Moreover, the state
ment is made that this gas can be and
is compressed to density of six at
mospheres, which is not practicable
with the common Illuminating gas. By
this means it is possible for a car to
carry, without an appreciate addition
to its weight, stock of gas sufficient
for very long journey.-Erchange.
IT is the rule of the Lord Chamber
laln's Office at London to send to the
Queens jewellers for valuation all the
ornaments which are found in the
palace after court ball or concert. The
day after state ball a gentleman came
to the Office and inquired for diamond
necklace which his wife had lost the
night before. The chief clerk assured
him that no diamond necklace had been
found; whereupon the husband pro-
ceeded to expatiate on the enormous
sum which he had given for the neck
lace, with description of its various
beauties. The clerk listened in silence
with much apparent sympathy, and,
just as the loser was taking his leave,
quietly remarked: cit is very odd
coincidence, but your necklace was OF
the same pattern as a paste ornament
which has been found; but which has
been pronounced of SO little value that
it was not worth Advertising" The
paste necklace was produced, and it
ended by the gentleman signing a
receipt for it, which involved swallow
ing large mouthful of humble pie
after his circumstantial description of
the cost of tn. Y Post.