The Red Cloud chief., 1880-04-08
HoHE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HVAH AND fUkEl6N GOSSIP.
ENGLAND has to buy the -four 70,
three out Of every five loaves of bread
shc eats. 80
A LARGE number Of eagles have beer
seen recently in Cheatham County
Tenn. One killed by VIM. Teascly
measured nine feet from tip to tip.
The young Emperor of China ha.
seventy expensive wives to provide for
and their silks and satins last wear cos
half the land tax of the empire.
VrcLETs are one cen apiece in Hart
ford, Ct, and a little girl who die(
there recently was buried in q caske
made entirely Of violets. The child
name was Violet.
THE largest amount of life insuranc,
ever effected on the life of any one maj
was on the late Marquis Of Anglesey
who was insured in various companiel
t. the amount of s3,75O,OO0.
A LITTLE Milwaukee boy who hat
been in the habit of playing truant wa,
dressed in girls clothes and brought by
his mother to school, the other day. Sht
wanted TO shame him.
ANEW HAvEN(C Conn. )cat having beer
locked in a cellar and unable to get out,
clawed at the wire ofthe door bell which
ran through the cellar, and made the
bell ring necessarily. The owners Of the
house, a timid man, after repeatedly
going TO the front door and finding no
n there, called upon a passing police.
man, and the two, well armed, went
into the cellar. The cat then quietly
went out.
AN indianapolis surgeon has in charge
the case of a young girl sent from ILL
nOis for treatment. The bones of both
her legs will have to- be partially re-
moved, and the little sufferer must SUBJ
init TO two painful operations. The
cause of her affection is from dumping
the rope" the evil effects of which first
appear as p~eriostatis, and result in the
death of the bone.
Miss NELLIE, daughter of ex-Gov.
Hubbard, of Connecticut, who eloped
with her fathers coachman several
months ago, has learned the dressmak-
ing business, and is living happily with
her horsey husband. The old man
doesn't relent enough to speak of, but
has told Nellie that any time she will
separate from the ex-coachman she will
be received into the family again.
AN old couple living at a distance
from neighbors, in Juneau County, Wis,
discovered their house afire in the night.
The old man fell from the roof, and,
being made helpless, his wife dragged
him to a safe distance, provided him
with a feather bed, and went for help.
On the way she fell and froze to death.
Her crippled husband lay where she
had left him five days before being dis
covered.
In the pastoral regions of Texas ont
thousand head of stock cattle, as usually
found on ranches, will double their num-
Der within three years, This allows for
losses of age, disease and accident. The
net increase is at the rate of thirty-three
and one-third per cent. per annum.
This accounts, in part, for the fortunes
accumulated in a few years by cattle
raisers. Some of the cattle men arc i'm
mensely wealthy.
EIGHT men were passing on foot
through a narrow, deep canyon i'm
Nevada, when they saw an immense
bank of snow detach itself from the
PERCEPTIONS side and slide rapidly down
toward them. Three of them escaped
by running, two took refuge be-
hind stumps, and were subsequently
rescued alive. and three were killed by
burial under tons of snow. The depth
of the snow is uncommonly great on the
Pacific coast this season, and MANY
lives have been lost in avalanches.
A LIVERPOOL merchant last year took
son, who was recovering from scarlet
fever G. e., was in the most infectious
stage of the disorder), to stay at a large
hotel in Wales. The young mans con-
dition became known; and there was a
general exodus from the house. The
landlord thus had his house empty at
the busy time, and, besides, was obliged
to GO to considerable expense in disin-
it. He brought an action to re-
cover the loss he had sustained, and it
has just been settled out of court by the
payment of a large sum-nearly $4,000;
inclusive of costs.
Two wild cats were recentled trapped
in Catlin, Oswego County, Mich, one of
which weighs fifty pounds, is thirty-one
inches high, and three and one half feet
long. The other, which appears younger
and more docile, is nineteen inches
high, and two feet long. They were
in the trap by one leg, and have
been placed in cages. One of the traps
was missing and the chain snapped
asunder, which showed that a larger
and more powerful one had been caught.
A dog attacked one of the cats, and al
though one leg was in the trap, and it
was also hampered by a chain, the dog
was literally torn in pieces before he
could be rescued.
GEORGE MALLORY ate a hearty meal
at a Virginia City Nev.) restaurant.
and, laying the bill for $3.50 on the
cashiers desk, said that he couldn't pay
it, for the good reason that he had no
money. The proprietor said: "Saw up
that load of wood you see in front of the
door and I'll call it square," Mallory
u into the street and cOolly in
vited a crowd to see "the biggest fool
the State meaning the man who
him to work for a meal already
Thereupon the restaurant man
pulled his nose, boxed his ears, and
kicked him; but this did not appease his
wrath, and he knocked the fellow down,
pounded him with a cane, and finally
him.
THAT the disease which broke out in
Japan last spring was Asiatic cholera of
an unusually deadly type seems to be
admitted on all hands. From the
official figures furnished by the Govern
ment to the Toxic Times, it appears that,
up to December %, 16S,Sl4 individuals
had been stricken down; of these, lOl,.
504 had died, 4 1885 had recovered. and
1905 were stiI under treatment. Out
every LOCO Japanese subjects, 5 had
been attacked, and the percentage of
mortality among the attacked had
reached the high figure of 1929. "It
should never be forgotten" saws the
Toxic Times, "that the cholera was 6rst
imported from Annoy, at q. time when
The desire of the Japanese Government
enforce quarantine upon ships coming
from that port, known to be infected,
was overborne by the British Minister"