The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The French Government, it is said,
will not allow Methodist ministers to
preach to the soldiers:
In Bombay Qndia) cotton factory
women receive four dollars and men
eight dollars per month.
YAKOOB KHAN looks like man of
low intellect, says the Simla CORE
spondent of the London Times.
In Eastern France and the north OF
England hawks have learned to notice
that the railway trains s.ptit ttp'' COW
eys of birds as they rush OH, the birds
being startled by the mise. The
hawks, therefore, fly after the trains,
and, when the birds have arisen in
alarm, pounce upon their prey, and then
fly after the train again.
MADAME DREONE, wife of an inn
perialist member of the French Cham
Der of Deputies, has obtained a decree
for the separate administration of her
property, on the ground that her hus-
band has lost large sums in specula-
ton, that his deputy's pay is seques-
trated and his furniture seized, and
that there is imminent peril of the loss
of her marriage dowry.
The apprentices who travel over
Germany on foot have had hard times
amid the general distress, and it is now
reported from various localities that a
disease called ,"the beggars' plague''-
kind of typhtis resulting from INSULT
Gent and innutritious food, excessive
Indulgence in alcoholic drink, and con-
slant exposure through sleeping in the
open air-has broken out among them.
Like most tramps who have not money
enough to get good food and lodging,
they spend the little they have on al
cohol. Systematic efforts are being
made by organizations in various cities
to help these poor wretches in a rational
way, by providing them with warm
meals and other necessaries, and dis
couraging contributions of money.
The agitation against vivisection has
taken deep hold in both Germany and
Switzerland. Numerous anti-vivisec.
ton leagues have been formed, and the
countries have been flooded with pam
phlets on the subject. So intense a de.
gree of feeling has been aroused against
the leading vivisectiohists and thei1
names have been so covered with oppro.
brium, that they have found it neces.
sary to defend themselves earnestly in
public addresses. One of the leaders in
the movement against them is Ernst
Won Weber, the South American ex.
plorer, who wrote book in which he
portrayed experimentation upon living
animals in such forcible colors that q
thrill of horror ran through the reading
public of Germany, and thousands were
straightway readyto take up arms in
behalf of the tormented brute creation
MONSIEUR w., "a rich American .
says the Paris Debats, had in his rooms
in that city some choice liquors in bot.
ties, the contents of which mysterious
ly diminished in his absence. In order
to detect the culprit, without running
the risk of making false accusation
he smeared lightly the orifices of the
bottles with black smoke. On his re-
turn the next day at noon, he observed
traces of the smoke on the lips of hi.
servant Julien. eff you want to see {
thief" he exclaimed, "look in the
glass" Julien confessed, and begged
not to be sacrificed for so small an of
Tense. His master told him not to do 81
again; but Julien became still further
troubled, and at length asked
for his pay. His eagerness tt
60 awoke the suspicious of "tht
rich American" who determined
to examine the mans trunk. Some dia
monds and other stolen treasures were
found there, and Julien was handed
over to the police.