The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The tenant farmers of England pay
. larger sum per acre for the use of
land than they would be obliged to give
in purchase money for better lands in
this country.
The Cornish folk in England are
noted as wonderful pie-makers. They
even serve vegetables in this manner,
ana the laboring classes, in these hard
times, are said to exist largely upon a
curious compound known as "turnip-
turnover
QUEEN VICTORIA, according to a Lon
don correspondent, invariably presents
royal or aristocratic bride with an
India shawl, gift that costs her
nothing. The Prince of Wales, the
same chronicler AYERS, is enamored of
poker, and plays that pleasing game
with more enthusiasm than success.
PRINCE RODOLPHE, the heir-apparent
to the Austrian throne, has just had an
other narrow escape. A few weeks
ago, he shot himself through the hand
while examining gun, and the other
day, while hunting in Hungary, he was
charged by q wild boar, which only
changed its mind st the last moment,
and determined to gore a keeper in
stead of the Prince.
A CLOCK made entirely of bread has
lately been received in Milan, Italy,
from Peru: 1t was constructed by an
Indian, who, having no means of pur-
chasing material, saved a portion of
the soft part Of his daily bread for the
purpose. He solicited it with q. GER
tain salt which rendered it very hard
and insoluble in water. The clock keeps
good time, and the case, also of hard
ened bread, displays artistic talent.
THE electric light is to have a trial
in Paris, under the supervision of the
municipal authorities. For year, the
Avenue rUpsra and the Place de Ia
Bastille, and one If the market-build-
ings, are to be lit by the electric light,
at a charge not exceeding six cents PER
hour for each burner, while the gas
company is to light the Rue du Quatre
Septembre, the Place du Chateau d Eau,
and another msrket-building. in an i'm
proved fashion, at ali extra charge of
rot more than one cent per cubic meter.
A REMARKABLE case, as showing the
amount of superstition still prevalent
among the lower orders in England,
came before the Borough Magistrates
of Ludlow, Shropshire, recently. A
woman named Collier was summoned
under the local bylaws for using abu-
sive language toward another, named
Oliver. The parties, it appeared, were
neighbors, and, sheet having been
lost off a garden line, the practice of
turning the key and the Bible'' was
resorted to, with view to the discov-
cry of the thief. The complainant said
Oliver met her in the street and told
her the Bible had been "turned down.
to several houses where suspected per-
sons lived, and that when Mrs. Golfers
name was mentioned "the Bible fled
out of their hands," The Bible was
then turned to see if the sheet was sto-
len during the day ornight, and, as the
latter was indicated, Mrs. Collier called
her "a daylight thief" The bench
| dismissed the case, remarking that the
superstition was "more like relic of
the past" than belief in this "ad
vanced age" 1t is curious to remark
how this method of divination, very
commonly practiced in the Middle
Ages, has survived almost without mod.
ification. The Bible is opened at the
Book of Ruth, and, balancing the key
on the forefinger of each hand, which
are formed in the shape of a cross. the
verse is repeated commencing
Whittier thou goest 1 will co.
Where it turns the guilty party is to b;
| found,