Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

An owl was served "unbeknownst"
1t a recent dinner in Paris and was
greatly relished.
Recent changes of name by con-
spicuous Edinburgh families are Mug
gins to DE Morgyn, Bullock to Belcome,
and Cuddy to Cuthbert. The ReUieW
thinks that the law ought toforbid such
things.
Addressing his followers at Henley,
recently, Gen" Booth said the Saliva
ton Army was still marching on, and in
twenty years, if the rate of progress of
the last six years was continued, there
would be l,25O, 900 officers and 250, 000,-
900 soldiers.
King Humbert wants to have his
life insured for S60O,O0 in order to
make some provision for his family,
having impoverished himself in the pay
ment of half his fathers debts. But the
Italian companies decline the risk, on
the ground that crowned heads are ex-
ira hazardous.
1t is mentioned as u rather curious
fact that DR.. Frenoy, the leading phvsi-
clan at AiN-les-Bains, where so many
pClSO1S ~ w W SltICu vi 1llCullh1lSiAS
is a martyr to that ailmcnt. though he
is very successful in curing Others of the
complaint.
Making Jam is one of the favorite
holiday recreations of President Grevy,
according to the Paris Figaro, which
tells us that the head OF the French Re-
public may frequently be seen in his
kitchen at Montsous Vaudrey enveloped
in Il large blue apron and skimming
preserves W. the fire.
The Chinese have a new war vessel
which they have christened the Ting
Yuen. 1t is armed with formidable
Krupp guns, and the only bar to its eff
fectiveness against the ''foreign devils"
is that every discharge of one Of these
monster n creates a general
smash-up inside this terror of the seas.
A whole broadside discharged as an eX-
pertinent nearly wrecked the ship.
The steepest railroad gradient in the
world is said to be that of a line from
Montreux to Glion, a distance of 1000
feet, just finished by Nicolas Riggen-
bach, the Swiss engineer who con-
structed the Rigi Railway. On August
10 NJ. Riggenbach made the descent
with a single car, without the cable, in
order to demonstrate the efficiency of
his brakes, and stopped the car three
times on the way. He is constructing a
similar line up the Netlgherries for the
Madras Government.
Yet another suicide occurred a few
days ago from one of the towers of
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. About
eleven O'Clock in the morning a stout
man, of some sixty years of age, dressed
in deep black, threw himself without
the slightest warning from the Bourbon
tower into the court below. When picked
up he was, of course, quite dead. 1t is
not improbable that, in presence of the
alarming increase in such accidents, the
authorities will close the towers of Notre
Dame, as they have already done the
Vendome column.
The late Dean Stanley is said to
have rarely made a gesture when
preaching. One day after morning
service he asked his wife if she had no
ticed the intensity with which the con-
gregation had gazed upon him during
the rmo elbow could they help it,
my DEAR" said Lady Augusta, .swhen
one OF your gloves was on the top of
your head the whole timc?" The Dean
having taken off his hat before entering
the pulpit, the glove lying therein had
fallen on his head, and as he stood quite
still when preaching, there it remained.