The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AT a recent trial in London it was.
established in evidence that in some of
the wholesale warehouses men and boys
were kept at work, with intervals for
meals only, from $50 A. NJ. to IL P. NJ.
The popularity of the violin among
the laboring classes of England was
recently shown by the attendance of
over 400 applicants for instruction at
the recent opening of the ''penny violin"
classes at Birmingham. Only penny
a lesson is charged, the instruction be-
ing given in large classes.
I'm the new London hansoms, which
are roomy, and into which three passen-
gers can be put, there are to be found
small looking glasses, trays for cigar
ashes, and matches. Some drivers go
further, and supply rugs. to cover the
legs of their fares, and others have small
clothes brushes for the passenger to
brush himself up with on a muddy day.
"A correspondent writing from Js-
maica to a leading London paper says
that the hill climate of Jamaica is al
most perfect. Society is very sociable,
and living, except butchers meat, excel
lent and very cheap; servants the same,
viz, really good cook, 81 a week,
waiter ditto, groom ditto. Imported
articles from England are sold very
low.
"A lady sends to Mr.. Labouchere q
description of the present style of waltz
ing, saying: ssThere Is decided effort
being made to do away with anything
like the elegant tYois temps movement,
and, instead the athletes of the ballroom
put their bodies to. the work of dancing
much in the same manner as they do in
the game of football, holding their help
less partner firmly at arms length, and
using her, as occasion offers, as q kind
Of 'battering ram.'"
The electric light has found its way
into India. At Calcutta the public gar
dens are lighted by it, and the Elgin
mills at Cawnpore also are. Perhaps
the large mills in Bombay will take up
the system, though one extensive owner
raises the objection that other mills
would then also adopt it, thus making it
possible to work all the twenty-four
hours, rendering the competition more
severe than ever. Houses are likely to
use the system, for gas is unknown in
some parts of India, and in hot weather
it can not with comfort be used any
where.
I'm Verona, Italy, the official in
trusted by the Syndic to issue licenses
for marriage mixed up the names of the
applicants in such sort that when the
day arrived for uniting number of
young couples, the wrong people found
themselves named in the document and
had to choose between taking the part
ners selected for them or postponing
their marriage altogether for some time.
With much reluctance on the part of
some, and joy on the part of others, the
ceremony was allowed to proceed, q
number of people who, until then, had
been strangers to one another, being de-
clared respectively man and wife in true
Italian form. In the opinion of the
Syndic this was not q matter of much
importance, it being certain, in that gen.
tleman's opinion, that thus mated they
would experience quite as few disap-
pointments as they would had they each
chosen their own mates for life; while
by promptly agreeing to accept the Off
cial arrangement they had saved the
State representatives much trouble and
not wasted the time of its clerks in pre-
pairing fresh licenses in return for the
fees