The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A SON of DIR. Kenealy has been ar
rested in London for forging a newspa-
per reporters name to a dispatch pur-
porting to tell of his own suicide.
KANAvALoNA, Queen of Madagascar,
mas issued proclamation to her SUBJ
Jects commanding them to send their
chlldren to school, saying that it makes
her GLAD to see her subjects wise. She
adds: land SO be all of YOU diligent,
for although you do not now know the
sweetness of knowledge and wisdom.
you will discover it when they become
yours
A YOUNG man named Wilde, de-
scribed as of a retired and gentleman
ly disposition" lately made things live
ly in his fathers house at Wavertree,
near Liverpool, by shooting a servant
maid, driving everybody out of the
house in a fright, barricading the doors,
and holding the fort against all corners
till morning. The mystery was unex-
planned at last accounts, but it looks as
though the young man was crazy.
THE famous leap OF The Chandler,
supposed hitherto to be the greatest
performance of the kind ever recorded
in steeple-chase annals, has been out
done at Birmingham. During the
jumping contest at the horse show, Mr..
Robert Leaman's hunter, Surrey, rid
den by Mr.. Henry Grayson, made such
splendid jump over the mimic brook
as to set the great audience applauding
frantically. The horse, wild with ex-
element, went right on down the ring,
and rising at the barrier of the amphi-
theater with one tremendous bound,
literally sailed over the bars and five
rows of spectators, alighting in safety
and injuring nobody. The distance
was measured and found to be thirty
seven feet, Il jump even more surpri.-
ing than that made on the steeple-chasc
course, all things being taken into con-
sideration.
WHEN a man speaks SO indistinctly
that he cannot be heard by the report
ers, and writes so indistinctly that his
manuscript cannot be deciphered by
the printers, he is very apt to have i.
grievance with the newspapers. Such
is the case Of Lord Denman, who, in IL
recent debate in the House of Lords,
spoke slightingly of newspapers. 1t is
said that he once wrote to the editor of
London journal complaining that he
had been imperfectly reported, and
supplying in postscript the purport of
what he had said, which he desired
should be published. The editor po-
litely explained that Lord Denman had
not been reported because he was in
audible in the gallery, and that while
he had every disposition to do justice
to the noble Lord, he could not print
his version of the speech because the
printers were unable to read the manu-
script.
The London Truth thinks that Il
name is worth a good deal in the case
of Alfred Tennyson. The I.aureate's
elder brother inherited Grasby Hall,
and some neighboring farms many
years ago, and for the sake of the one
thousand or two thousand pounds a
year which they yielded he entirely
dropped the Tennyson, and became
the Rev. Charles Turner, name which
stands on the title-page of his book of
sonnets. He died few months ago,
leaving no children, and his wife fol-
lowed him to the grave within few
weeks. The next heir is the Laureate,
but he will not accept the condition
which vigorously enforces the entire
suppression of the Tennyson. Doubt
less there will be found a nephew, if
not son, willing to forego the prestige
attached to the family name for the
sake of a comfortable inheritance, but
| the succession is still unsettled.