The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The mortality in the Village of
Vetlianka, in Astrakhan, where the
plague made its first appearance, ap-
pears to have been frightful. The peo-
pie, says q correspondent, died like
flies, and the corpses lay unburied in
the streets.
The sober Scots have been infected
by the lottery mania. The success of
the French scheme has induced them to
try similar method of raising money
whercwith to pay the debts of the un-
fortunate shareholders in the CITY of
Glasgow Bank, and q large meeting
has been held to settle the preiiminaries.
Six million tickets at five dollars each
are to be issued.
THE recent explosion on board the
British man-of-war Thunderer was at
tended by some terrifying incidents.
The gas from the explosion descended
into The deepest recesses of the iron
monster, and extinguished all the lights.
The men between decks therefore found
themselves suddenly plunged into Chm
merriam darkness, without having the
least idea of what had happened, the
machinery meanwhile going full speed
ahead. It speaks well for the discipline
on board that no panic ensued. Some
of the men in the turret at the time of
the explosion held their hands before
their eyes and thus preserved their
sights, although the exposed parts of
their faces were terribly burned.
A GERMAN paper says that a few
months ago q very eminent German
Marshal, who keeps exceedingly carly
hours, found a young. woman busy
with her reaping-hook in one of his
fields long before the other laborers
were astir. Inquiring the name of this
exemplary female, he presented her
with thaler, and when later in the
day his steward appeared, mentioned
the subject and highly commended his
early riser to him. The steward, who
did not recognize the name, asked one
or two questions and then said: "That's
Marie Bauer, the cleverest field-thicf
in this part of the country. Your Ex-
cellency may rest assured that she con-
trived to bundle off a handsome amount
of your fine clover along with the thai
er. She makes hay when the sun
/ doesn't shine"
In Paris, recently, young woman
went into one of the great drapery
houses to shop with her maid. One of
the watchers of the establishment
presently tapped her on the shoulder
and asked her to follow him to the
searching-room. "You have just put
pair of new gloves into your pocket,
mademoiseIle; don't deny it." II know
have" said the young lady, quietly;
land if you will be good enough to
look inside them you will see that, as
they were bought at another house,
they could hardly have been stolen
from this This proved to be the
case. The watcher haa made a mis-
take, and was profuse with excuses.
"Now," said the girl, turning to her
maid, Ego to the nearest Commissary
of Police and tell him that the daugh-
ter of Prince Orloff requires his pro-
lection" Her father was the Russian
Ambassador.
A PRETTY story is told in St. Peters
burg. A Government functionary liv-
ing in the outskirts of the capital died,
a few days ago, in utter restitution,
leaving behind him, motherless and
without friends or relations, two little
children, one boy OF seven and the
other a girl of three. Left in the house
alone, without money or food, the boy
did not know what to do to get bread
for his sister. At last, urged by the
little ones tears, he wrote on piece
of paper, "Please, God, send me three
copecks "a penny to buy my little sis
ter a ROLL" and went to the nearest
church to slip it into an slns-box, be-
lieving, in his simplicity, that the
prayer would reach Heaven through
this medium. A priest passing by OBJ
served the child on tiptoe trying to
thrust the paper in, and, taking the
paper from him, read the message.
Returning home with the child, he took
the little ones to his house and gave
them the food and clothing they so
much needed. The following Sunday
he preached a sermon on charity, in
which he referred to the incident, and
afterward went round the church with
q plate. When the offerings were
counted, it was found that the congre-
CATION had given 1900 roubles, or near
" 1000.