The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-03-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


1t is only ten years since that in
France the science of geography came
to be considered of much moment.
-Senor Sunol has been entrusted
with the commission for the statue Of
Christopher Columbus which Is to be
erected in the square Of the Casa de la
Moneda, Madrid. The inauguration
viii not take place until the 18th of Oc-
tober, 1888. q 80 81
1t is said of the crown jewels Of
England that when they are used by the
Queen on occasions of state they are
conveyed from the Tower in cab under
care OF two assistants. It has been sug-
gested that they be protected en- route
by guard of mounted soldiers. -
The summit of spur of the Khasia
Hills in India is described by Professor
J. Eliot as having the excessive average
annual rainfall OF 4s3 inches owing to
the presence of vast mechanical OBJ
struction which converts horizontal air
motion into vertical air motion. s,s
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, seems
10 be greatly beloved by the Neapoh-
tans. They call her ssthe Marguerite Of
Marguerites. Recently when she en-
tered Naples every window and doorway
was adorned with her favorite flower
indeed the whole city looked like great
bouquet of daisies.
When the Scotch express train ar
rived at Darlington, in England. the
other morning at 80, two boys, broth
ers, aged ten and fourteen respectively,
were found hanging on by the brake un-
der one of the carriages. They had got
on the train ct Edinburgh, and intended
to have gone on to London. The dis
tance from Edinburgh to Darlington Is
260 miles. 4
Robert Dodson, woodman, Of
Hexam, England, has established his
right to funds that have been locked up
in chancery for 1873 years. The brother
of his grandfather, who married an
heiress, but had no issue, was muir
dered after settling in Manchester, and
his property, then large, went into the
Court of Chancery. The value of the
estate Is now more than 81, ,000, 900.
The French Minister of Agriculture
has published an official estimate of the
harvest for 1881, In which the number
of acres sown in cereals is given at H.
500, 900, showing an increase of nearly
half million acres on last year. The
crops, however, were not so good as
they were the year before, the total
yield Of wheat being put at $4,000, 600
quarters, or nearly 1,500, 900 less than in
1880, while the average yield per acre
was only IA 1.2 bushels; or bushel less
than last year. The yield of rye was
about 5000, 900 quarters, or about 50O,-
900 quarters less than in 1880.
AT recent meeting of the English
Chapter of the Order of st. John, the
silver medal for deeds of gallantry on
land was awarded to Mrs. Marion Smith,
widow of Bandmaster B. Smith, Ninety
fourth Regiment, for her courageous
self-deyotion in remaining under fire
during the action at Bronkorst Spruit
on the goth of December, 1880, and ale.
viating the sufferings of the wounded in
| every possible manner, even tearing up
her own dress to make bandages, and
also for the good service rendered by
her for a period of three months, when
she voluntarily remained with the pris.
oners of war-lnany of them wounded
Ito whose comfort she displayed unre-
mitting attention under trying circum.
stances.