Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are 10000 grain mills driven
by wind in Holland.
The French Council of State has de-
cided that the Government has the
power to stop the salary of all clergy
men, ever those of Bishops.
The trade in idols is unusually brisk
in Birmingham, England. A thousand
glass-gods, which cost thirty-seven cents
apiece and sell for four dollars, have
Just been sent to Durham.
The Ginori porcelain-works at
Florence, established one hundred and
fifty years ago, employ 1000 workmen,
and supply a fine income to the Ginori
family. who live in the palace which
overlooks the works, built in 1920 by
one of tine family.
Count Won Moltke received the
news of his sisters death a few days
ago. while on his way to attend his
nephew wedding. Curiously enough,
six Years ago he got word of his BROTH
er's death Just as he was starting to at
tend the wedding of another nephew.
In Breslau a chimney-shaft fifty
feet high is composed entirely of paper
pulp. which has been chemically i'm
preynated so as to resist combustion.
Paper has been put to some eNtraor-
binary uses, but this is perhaps the most
astonishing violation of preconceived
ideas yet attempted.
The sanitary inspectors of Paris
lately came across an establishment
where ground acorns and burned wheat
were made into a stiff paste, which was
stamped into coffee beans and colored
into an alcoholic solution of colophone,
''to give them a rich Mocha color"
The beans We're then packed in bags to
be sold as pure coffee.
An Irish officer challenged a gun
ner at the Tampico garrison to a duel.
1t was accepted, six Founders named as
the weapons and a thousand yards the
distance. Knowing the %gunner's skill,
the officer allowed the newsof the affair
tc reach the ear of the Governor. who
pat 4 stop to it. The gunner never
missed a dummy at that distance.
The Mayor of Pesth lately an
nounced: I'm the course Of the excava-
tons now making a stone coffin was
found. The owner or the heirs of the
same that can rightly claim the find
will please present their claim at the
Mayor Office" 1t is not likely that
either owner or heirs will put in an APP
pearance, considering that the name of
''Caius Tullius Spurio"' is carved upon
the coffin, which must have been placed
there when Buda-Pesth was a Roman
colony and bore the name of Acquin-
cum.
The revenue returns of France for
the first quarter of the second year,
compared with the corresponding period
OF last year. show an increase in the
yield from indirect sources, amounting
to 6,Sl0.000 francs. and in that of the
postal and telegraph services amounting
to 100000 francs. OF a total increase
from both these sources of $500, 600
francs. The duties on sugar have pro-
duced 4.6C0, 600 francs more than last
year. The customs duties show an in
crease of 5 $780, 900 francs, the tobacco
monopoly Of 3,46O, 900 francs and alco-
hol of 81. S40,0 900 francs.
The known attempts on Louis Phil
ippe's life We're as follows: Bergeron,
on the Pont Royal, December, 1882;
Fieschi, internal machine: Boulevard,
July, 1885: Alibaud, court of the Tuil-
cries, June. 1886; Meunier, Quai DIES
Tuileries. December, 1856; Champion,
an abortive internal machine, Quai de
la Conference, 1887; BARNES, near the
Pont de Ia Concorde, October, 1910;
Quenessit, who shot at the three princes,
September, 1871; Lecomte, Fontain-
bleau, August, 1876; Henri, on the bal
cony of the Tuileries, July, 1S47. II
should be cheering to uneasy crown.
wearers to reflect that the object of
these attacks escaped scatheless, and
died. in the eighties, in the peaceful Sc.
clusion of a very luxurious English
country house.