Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Birmingham is to have a new rail
road station costing 81, 250, 900 and COW
ering eleven acres.
Lotteries are to be licensed by the
| Turkish Government on the payment of
. ten per cent. tax on the receipts.
Lord Ward offered Sarah Bernhardt
$685. for the ragged little suit she
wore when her talent was first discov-
cred, but she wouldn't take it.
At Osler's great glass warehouse in
London may be seen an entire suite of
bedroom furniture in glass, the freak of
q Spanish nobleman.
-Gambetta's whole fortune, which
has been put at the most exaggerated
figures by his enemies, proves to be less
newspaper shares.
.-Horse-flesh is sold in some parts of
London as beef. 1t has the peculiarly
rosy appearance which people like, and
it must be proved to be .'unfit for the
food of man" before it's sale can be le-
gally forbidden.
For hanging his son up to a hook
by the heels with his head downward
for nearly half an hour and fogging
him four times with a belt while he was
in that position, an Englishman was re-
Gently sentenced by q London court to
six months hard labor.
The other day a publican at Well
ington, in Shropshire, was suddenly de-
prived of the license of a house which
he had kept respectfully for. several
years, because the police had tardily
discovered that in 1859 he had been'con-
victed of stealing q faggot of wood
worth two pence.
Arab and his fellow-eNiles in Cey-
Ion occupy their time studying English,
for Arab declares, so says the Times Of
Mdia, "that the debt of gratitude he.
owes to England is sufficient induce
ment to him to endeavor to have it in his
power some day to express his thanks in
the English language"
The gondola in which Wagner took
the air every day has been bought for
his widow and sent to Bayreuth. For
the table at which the master used to sit
in the afternoon, listening to the mill
tary band in the Piazza di San Marco,
three hundred francs has been offered to
the owner, who declines to part with it.
Another curious relic purchased, it is
stated, by some hero-worshippers is the
railway truck in which the body was
taken from Venice to Bayreuth.
An old maid died recently in Nor
way leaving a will in which she di-
rected that her estate he divided into
six equal parts and distributed to her
six discarded lovers, who are all poor.
In explanation of this bequest, the de-
ceased left the following upon record:
"These lovers either courted me for my
money, which they may now have, or
else they loved me, and for that reason
they shall have the money, because l
disbelieved them"
The Wustrirte Zeitung describes
some recent remarkable discoveries of
buried coins in Kothen, not far from
Leipsic. A month ago an earthen jar
was found containing four hundred and
seventy-four large silver coins and three
hundred and ~sixty-six smaller ones, all
about 1000 years old, and since then a
deposit of one hundred and eighteen
gold pieces had been unearthed, sup
posed to have been buried during the
Thirty Years War;, as the dates on the
coins are from 1890 to 1851. Many of
these latter are unique and conse-
quently very valuable. The whole col
lection was bought by MI. Hanlo, a
banker of Berlin.