The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP,

bed hard enough to have suited the
Duke of Wellington, does not smoke
or use snuff, is fond of flowers. and es-
pecially of fresh air, drinks one glass
of Burgundy q day, rises early and
fares frugally. He is eighty-two years
old, and can ride horseback like q
trooper.
THE London Truth hears that the
Prince of Wales has recently shown his
usual kindness of heart in not prosecut-
ing member of his household in whose
accounts very serious deficiency was
discovered. The person in question
was simply told to leave, but was
spared the exposure before Magis-
trate which his conduct deserved, and
for which he had not even the plea of
poverty to urge.
/. THOMAS VAUGHN, of marlborough,
Eng, ran through $2,5OO,OOO in eight
years, and all his effects were recently
sold. The furnishing of his billiard
room alone cost between $3.50, 900 to
5000. 900; in the smoking room the
spittoons cost 500 each; in some of
the rooms the leather covers of the
seats cost $50 a yard; q fireplace cost
$4,000; and the owners bedstead
1880.
A SHORT time ago a youth named
Buffy murdered a schoolfellow who
came to visit him at hotel in Zurich,
and then set fire to the bed-clothes.
His motives seem to have been ieal-
ousy, and, after being arrested, he
managed to hang himself in prison
cell with strips torn from his bed
clothes. He was the third person
charged with murder who has COM
mitted suicide in a Swiss prison this
year.
A WITTY Russian Colonel travelling
through Eastern Roumelia with He
brew merchant feigned that his COM
panion was the director of finances.
Herr Schmidt, particularly unpopu-
lar official. When mob of Bulgarians
assembled at the inn with loud clamors,
the merry Colonel persuaded the mer-
chant that this was demonstration in
his honor and induced him to go out to
return thanks, when the mob pounded
the unfortunate 1sraelite within an
inch of his life and stole his watch and
clothing.
One of the English Judges, says
Truth. has received a handsome ring
from the United States, accompanied
by letter in which the donor, while
concealing his real name, expresses his
gratitude to the gentleman in question.
1t appears that some years ago the man
who had been rightly charged with
having committed a forgery was &C
quilted, owing entirely to the favorable
summing up at his trial. Since that
time he has lived honestly, and is now
honored and respected by those who
know him. Comparing his present
position with what he might have been
had things gone differently, he rightly
gives the credit of his good fortune to
the Judge who presided, and incloses
the souvenir in consequence.
The case of a girl lying in a trance
at the London Hospital is exciting the
greatest sensation among medical men.
Every medical authority in England
has been called in to decide upon the
case of the strange phenomenon. The
patient lies still and motionless upon
the bed. Her eyes are closed, but
when the lids are raised beneath the
Doctors fingers the gaze is bright and
intelligent, as though the mind we're
perfectly conscious of all that is pass
ing around her, while the pulse beats
strong and regular as that Of person
in full health. The girl has been lying
in this state of trance for more than
three weeks without food. The &C
count of her seizure is singular
enough. She had already been pa
tient for a few days at the hospital
when the nurse was called in the mid
die of the night to her bedside by the
most terrible shrieks and meanings.
The girl was found writhing in agony,
exclaiming that death was coming on,
and that she had but few moments to
live. Before the nurse could summon
the doctor the patient had stretched
herself out stiff and senseless, and has
never recovered motion or conscious
ness since that moment.