The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-11-11
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GETER.iL GOSSIP.

vA London tailor has invented "the
united Suit, (which consists Of u mans
complete attire in ono garment.
The sale of the penny testament.
the cheapest edition ever published,
hns already reached nearly 400. 900.
and the publisher, Mr.. Elliott Stock,
confidently expects that a million
copies will be disseminated in twelve
months. Il, n q
The Earl Of Apncslcy, who owns
q great estate in Ireland, has. received
a threatenlng letter and had tho plate
glass OF his door. smashed. The para
graph recording this significantly
closes with the words: ellis 1ordship
has left for his London residence"
-Cologne Cathedral cannot vet be
seen as finished. Tho scatlolding still
clings around it, and will not be taken
down, it is said, for two years, 50 that
tho building can scarcely DO called
finished while so much of its beauty is
thus hidden from view.
The number of Americans estab-
lishcd iii business in London is greater
than that of the American colony III
Paris. The Partisan Americans are,
for the most part, free from business
cares, only few artists and literary
men being, professionally occupied OH
the banks Of the Seine.
M. Henri Rochefort has recently
pointed out in the. columns Aof L'Iu-
t:unSigeant that the leading spirits of
the luxury and friyolity Of the Second
Empire all bore German names among.
these he cites tho late M. Oflenbach,
Mile. iortcnse Schneider, NJ. IIauss-
man and the Comtcsse dc Mettcrnich.
The Paris journals have been dis
cussing the baby-carriage question,
! and publish letters from physicians
, coildemning its use on the ground that
it enables the uurse-maid to neglect
the child, while the child itself loses
the exercise it needs by being kept in
OH position.
1t is curious fact that no new
actors or actresses appear to be COM
ing forward in Paris this season. Got
ana tho elder COquelin. Landrol and
| 81. Gcrmaln, Worms and Dieudonne,
Dupuis aud Judic, and Ctlinc Chau-
mont have all become familiar names,
out they have 10 successors visible.
The first appearances last year were
all failures.
Among the many suburban resi-.
dcnccs which are about to be brought
soon under the auctionccr's hammer,
IN London, is tho Bolton House,
Hampstead, for many years the resi-
dcncc Of the two famous sisters
Agnes and Joanna Baillic. Here they
entcrtaincd their literary friends, in
ciuding Sir Walter Scott, Rogers.
Lucy Akin, Mrs. Barbauld, Charles
ELGnb, Keats, Nc; and here they died
Joanna in 1851, III her Goth year, and
Agnes in April, 1861, in her Tooth
year.
There has been lately turned out
at Milan new kind Of bread made
| with blood from raw flesh. 1t is said
to be u preventive Of scurvy, and to
40 away among peasants with all de-
sire for alcoholic drinks. The difficult
ty Of blood co0gulation being over
come, the "blood bread" will last tor
Years. Twenty per cont. of it's ingrc-
dicnts consists of blood, its cost is
on Y two-thirtls of n cent per loaf, and
1t is moro nutritious than The ordinary
loavcs at ono cent each.
| The modosty and honesty Of JAP
mcsc Dcggars arc worthy of the inita-
ton OF their profession alt the world
|
or answering the calls Of lncndicants,
tho shopkccpcrs Of Japan hang copper
cQlns by strings on nails in front of
their shops and when q bcggar comes
that way he takes one, and only one.
lie never abuses the merchants gen-
croSity by taking two or moro coins,
nor by entering the shop to solicit q
larger amount than that hung on the
nail.
So many murders have been COM
mltted in Switzerland during tho last
'hfec years TINT several cantons have
fc-cstablishcd capital punishment,
winch had been abolished in nearly ali
or them. The last canton to vote this
mas been that OF Schwytz, where the
popular vote resulted in u majority Of
Z,oSo against 43G in favor of the meas
urc. All the cantons which have re-
established capital punishment as vet
arc Roman Catholic; but there has
been such an increase in the crimes
against litc that the other cantons arc
likely to sanction the infliction Of the
death sentence.
An elephant is used in q spcctacu-
lar play i'll Philadelphia. He is kept
in stable several blocks away, and
taken to tho theatre every evening at
the proper point in tho piece. Ono
! afternoon he took it into his head that
/ the lime had come 10 perform. Throw
ing his keeper aside, he burst into tho
street, overturned a wagon and scy-
| cral street stands on his way to the
thcatrc, smashed door, and took his
usual place on the stage. The alb
sscncc OF lights and audience seemed
to convince him that he had made q
mistake, and he suffered himself to be
led back to the stable.
Mrs. Wendell Phillips is in such
poor. health that Mr.. Phillips may not
be able to lecture for some time.
A Kansas woman who was called
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