The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
TwO-THIRDs of Cyprus are at present
ga parched, thistle covered wilder
ness" but Sir Samuel Baker says that
there is supply of water, believed to
be inexhaustible, within a few feet of
the surface, and in days gone by, when
irrigation was practiced, the sterile
place was granary.
On arriving at Nancy, France, to
witness the unwilling of statue to
her husband, Madame Theirs was re
ceived at the railroad station by the
Mayor of that city and the Municipal
Council. "We salute in you," said
that official in pathetic tones, "the
widow of the great patriot, and VIC
pray you to accept the homage of our
deep respect"
The Austrian army in Bosnia is said
to be in wretched condition. A year
ago, to the number of some seventy
thousand men, it was marched into the
province, and after q series of bloody
engagements with half-armed peasants
and disbanded soldiers, settled down as
to this it has never been healthy, and
the camps have been little better than
hospitals.
The new Khedive of Egypt has writ
ten to his Prime Minister: "Practical
economy in state expenditure. honesty
and probity in the public services, in
telligent Introduction of opportunc ju-
dicial and administrative reforms
such are the first remedies ON which 1
depend with a view of enabling the
country to recover itself, to develop its
resources, which are 80 fertile, and to
honor its engagements"
Mr.. NICHOLAS KISS, formerly q
member of the Hungarian Reichstag,
possesses hotel at Paris. At the foot
of the staircase he has placed an ele-
giant save-all or tirelire, surmOunted
by a parrot. When any one comes
down or goes up the staircase, the par
rot screams out "Szegedinr' The WIS.,
itor looks round astonishcd, sees the
tirelire and puts something in it, The
parrot has already collected more than
5000 francs.
AN "asvlum for aged domesticatcd
animals has been opened by benev-
olent citizen of Concise, a suburb of
Paris. Among its inmates are thirty
six-year-old COW, q twenty-five-year-
old pig, and an eighteen-year-old goat.
The senior member of the fraternity is
a nonchalant mule, aged forty years,
that excellently exemplifies the benefits
of the passionless philosophy of Epicte-
tus, with which NJ. Theirs used to say
he quieted the Paris mobs-as much as
he could.
HERE is Punch's inscription for the
proposed monument to the Prince I'M
perial:
PRINCE EUGENE LOUIS NAPOLEON.
Son of the Hero of Sedan.
Granddaughter of the Hero of Moscow
And Pretender to the Throne of France.
Brave. amiable and accomplished,
Who made many friends.
And unfortunately lost his life
In a very doubtful quarrel
Which in no way concerned him.
By small III section e Of the British people
Their slight respect
And their great regard
For the cause of Imperialism.
AhN AOAn0 correspondents va VhV
London Telegraph states that the Mus
SULLIVAN population of Bulgaria are en-
during indescribable outrages-whOle
families expelled from their homes.
men tortured and assassinated, and
children ill treated and left to starve.
A state of siege has been proclaimed;
in other words, the correspondent says,
the barbarous instincts of the Bulga-
rians are to be let loose against the
Mussulmans, and are to have the as
sistance of the authorities in Kidding
the principality of the hated Islamite.
A similar statement is made by the
Vienna correspondent of the Golos,
who says that at Varna the Turks are
now oppressed by the Bulgarians. and
that the authorities afford no redress.
Owing to the i'll treatment they receive
the Turks and Greeks fly to the hills
and form bands, which increase in
numbers every day. In several dis
tricts robberies are of frequent occur
renee, villages as well as travellers being
plundcred.