The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
OFFICIAL documents show that the
ratio of deaths per one Thousand per-
sons employed in England is less in
coal mining than in the navy by drown
ing, and one half less than on rail-
roads.
A CHINESE paper gives an account
OF the cruel treatment to which the
coolies are subjected who are employed
IN the Dutch islands in the Straits to
clear land and plant tobacco. Every
man, on his arrival, is tattood on the
cheek, and once arrived they are never
released.
In Sumatra. when telegraph mes.
sages are delayed or fail to be trans
mitted, it is because the wires are
down or won't work, as elsewhere. hut
1t Is not attributed to storms. Ele-
plants and tigers upset the poles, and
monkeys break the wires by taking
gymnastic exercies on them.
A BOY who was recently sent to pris-
on. in Canterbury, Eng, for cruelty to
horse, had devised a peculiarly in
genious mode of torture. He tied one
eud of rope around the horses
tongue, and the other end to his hind
leg. Then he irritated the animal and
made him kick, nearly tearing his
tongue out.
A LONDON policeman told aman and
his wife to " move on" and afterward,
without provocation, struck each of
them hard with his truncheon. The
Magistrate sent him to prison for TWEEN.
ty-one days with hard labor, say wing:
"Constables have no right to touch
any one in the street but for the pur-
pose OF taking them into custody"
A FRENCH railway contractor puts
his ties into pits and covers them with
quicklime. which is slowly slaked with
water, and this, the London Builder
says, adds to the durability of the
wood. climber for mines must be
left eight days before it is thoroughly
impregnated. 1t then becomes ex-
tremely hard and tough, and is said
never to rot"
The anniversary of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel was held
in London, on the 29tn of April. The
receipts for the year were $726, $50,
showing decrease. Some 667 mis-
sionaries were employed, distributed as
follows: In Asia, 1856; in Africa, 121;
in Australia and the Pacific, 81; in
America and the West Indies, 248; in
Europe. 2.
| A NEW form of disease has become
apparent in the heart of a very crowded
portion of London. 1t is a new form
of Cyprus fever, and a diagnosis of q
recent malignant case shows the patient
to be suffering from hallucinations and
lowered vitality. The Faculty ascribe
the disease to impure water, and have
| given it the name of detephobia, and
though it is seldom fatal, the sufferer
remains but a shadow of his former
self.
AN English journal frankly gives
credit to American genius for at least
fifteen inventions and discoveries
which, it says, have been adopted all
over the world. These triumphs oi
American genius are thus enumerated
First. the cotton gin; second, the
planning machine; third, the grass
mower and grass reaper; fourth, the
rotary printing press; fifth, navigation
by steam; sixth, the hot air or calOrit
engine; seventh, the sewing machine
eighth, the india-rubber industry
ninth, the machine manufacture o.
horse shoes; tenth, the sand blast fol
carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe
twelfth, the grain elevator; thirteenth
artificial ice manufacture on a larg,
scale; fourteenth, the electro-magne
and its practical application; fifteenth
the composing machine for printers
1t is not often that American achieve
ments in this direction receive dus
credit from such a Erch0nge
The absurdest thing that has hap
pened under GROWERS quest law fol
many u year in England is charged to
the account of Cheshire jury. A
woman who had repeatedly quarreled
with her husband was murdered one
night. The body was somewha,
bruised, and round the neck was a red
mark as of cord. The woman haG
obviously been strangled. A cord witt
clean clothes on it was in the from
kitchen, and a similar piece with 8
moose on it was found in the house
where the husband had slept the night
of the murder. 1t was on top of 8
cupboard which he had passed on his
way to bed. This piece had marks Of
fresh blood on it, and two hairs similar
to some taken from the head of the de.
ceased for the purpose of identified
ton. These proofs, with the very sus'
picious cor duct of the man on the
morning after the murder, were suffi
cient to convict him. The coroner's
jury were so interested in the case thai
on retiring to consider their verdict
they had cut off several pieces of thu
tell-tale cord as souvenirs of the occur
renee; the consequence of which wa.
that it became impossible to establish
the identity of the cord in the from
kitchen with the fragment which hat
the marks of murder on it.
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