The Red Cloud chief., 1880-04-22
HOLE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HONE AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
THE cost Of Michigan's new State
cspitol was $4,000 under the estimate
"a circumstance probably without .
parallel.
A BATTLE CREEK Niich.) babe had
a screw driver, tack hammer, and .
gold watch to play with. When the fun
began the watch was worth about @175,
but its value rapidly deprecated.
THApDEus GREEN, Postmaster at
C~entreville, Ind, is dead. He lost both
hands during the war, but with the aid
Of artificial hands he was enabled TO
fulfIl all the duties of his Office, and
even attained considerable proficiency
as q penman. :.
A PAIR of side-lace kid shoes have
been made in indianapolis for q Mrs.
Gates, of Brown County who Is Is years
old, weighs five hundred and forty
seven pounds. and is seven feet and two
inches in height. The shoes are number
fifteen, Just n foot in length, n
between four and five inches in width.
A TOwANDA (Pa.) sign reads thus:
s'John Smith, teacher of cowtillions and
other dances -grammar taut in the
neatest manner-fresh salt herrin on
draft-likewise Goodfreys cordial-rutes
sassage and other garden truck. N. b.
-bawl on friday nite-prayer meeting
chuesday-also saline singing by the
quire."
An English jury having been locked
ND eight DAYS, the Judge, when dis
charging them, complimented and
thanked them for the great care, atten-
ton and patience which they had given
to the case. The only recompense he
had power to make was the assurance
that he would take care that they were
not called upon to serve again ''for some
long time to come"
THE following is a "lOcal" from q
paper at Deland. Florida: "While one
of our Young ladies was out walking the
other day, she espied a young fox-sguir-
rel run up a tree, and not willing to lose
a chance for a good spot-pie,' started
for the house, but not having any big
brother to help her, she sbouldered the
gun, started for the squirrel, and soor
had him at her feet struggling for hi
last breath. We believe this is the same
Young lady who went a fishing and wa
upset by a large turtle, but, moi to bt
beaten, succeeded in capturing him ant
thirteen of the finy tribe, and on thu
way home chopped the head of a SHAKE
off with her No. l gaiter."
Mr.. DEHAAs, ex-Consul at Jerusalem
has set at rest a multitude of recen
contradictory statements about the Hol,
Land in the following series of pointet
denials: There is not q railroad in al
Palestine. There is not an American
missionary in the Holy Land, o a Sun
day School. But one Protestant Churcl
walls and one at Nazareth. The Jewisl
population has Increased during the las
few years, but the population of tn
country has more rapidly decreased
The Jews have no intention of reoccu
plying the land. They 60 there to die
not to live. No Jew around Jerusalem
owns or cultivates an acre of ground
The Jews of Europe and America vii
never return to Palestine unless force,
back at the point of the bayonet."
THE Countess Famine, lady-in-waitin,
to the Empress OF Russia, has been re
quested to resign and to travel abroad
She is of a romantic turn, and some
times received guests of whose characte
she was not fully aware. Among thes
was a young student who, warned tina
the police were about to search hi
rooms, fed to her house with his pa
pers, and, being pursued to her room
hid the papers under her pillow. Tn
police discovered them and arreste'
him. That the Nihilists, however, hav
friends in high quarters is shown, nc
only by the cipher documents found o.
Deutsch, killed in the secret press affair
but by letters and papers found on
Russian doctor and refugee at Paris
who either threw himself or was throw
mtothe Seine. These documents wei
sewed in his trousers lining and wer
handed over to the Russian embassy
who forwarded them to the St. Peters
burg detectives.
A FEW months ago several peasant
were tried at Novgorod, Russia, TO
burning alive a woman, upon the pre-
text that she had bewitched their cattl
and cast spells upon their children
These ruffians were acquitted on. tn
ground that they had acted ~conscien
tiously and in accordance with tn
Scriptural ordinance, "Thou shalt no
suffer a witch to live!" The tribuna
of Ustjush has recently, however, takel
a somewhat % enlightened view of
witchcraft a s brought before it. On
Ivan Alexeieff and six women of hi
village prosecuted a peasants wifi
named Charlamoff for having, as the,
alleged upon oath, injured their healtl
by the practice of sorcery. To thei
surprise and discontinue the Court &C
quilted Charlamoff and denounced tn,
prosecutors severely, sentencing tn,
women to four months Imprisonment
apiece, and Alexeieff to fifty blows Will