Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-07
F0REIGN GOSSIP.

Among the Chinese regular opium
smokers swallow the smoke.
The famous Marshal MacMahon,
now seventy-tive years of age, stands
erect and soldiefly as ever.
A large tract of land has been
leased in England to educate young men
for colonial life.
The Earl of Jersey has given to
laboring men in one of his Oxfordshire
villages fifteen acres of ground, in plats
of from half an acre to three acres each.
Pictures of childhood are growing
so fast in numbers in English exhibitions
that it appears, critics say, as though all
the artists were becoming converted to
baby worship.
A report of the Belgian Consul at
Shanghai shows that the commercial
treaties concluded with China by Ger
many, the United States and Russia
during 1SSO-S1 have led to an enormous
increase of business.
King William, of Holland, is a
large, rather stern-looking man of sixty
three Years of age. Queen Emma is
forty years his junior. and is pretty and
graceful. with an aflable manner.
st. Blaise, the horse that won ssthe
Derby recently, is partly owned by the
Prince of Wales, Lord Arlington and
Sir Frederick Johnstone, and they
shared over $500. 600 on the race. The
Prince and Princess of Wales gave a
brilliant party in celebration of the VIC
tory.
Cyprus is threatened with another
plague of locusts. At last accounts the
eggs were Matching with alarming Ia
pidity, and every trap and appliance
adapted to their determination were be-
ing dispatched in hot haste from all
parts OF the island to the neighborhood
of Larnaca, where the plague began.
Three ladies-Lady Pollock, Miss
Sinnott and Mrs. Paidden-have been
returned to the new Board of Guardians
of the Poor for Chaplain, one of Lon
don's districts. More ladies have been
elected to other Boards in the metropo-
lis. Again comes word of the success
of certain American women doctors in
China and India. Miss Howard, who
practices the healing art in the f1owery
land, earns 800, 600 a year at it.
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Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch, the
Admiral commanding the Russian fleet,
for the erection of further monumental
honors to the Russians who fell in de-
Tense of S%ebastepol. Accordingly, a
large slab, bearing the names of the Adj
mira(s. commanders and staff and field
officers who were killed, or
who died subsequent to their
wounds, is to be placed in the Vladimir
Cathedral at Sebastopol, and opposite
each name will be designated the par
ticular engagement in which each per-
son fell.
The continued disappearance of the
sardines, once so abundant on the coast
of Brittany, has become a serious calam-
ity to the people of that part, where the
catching has been wont to give employ
ment to 1000 boats and more than 1000
fishermen, while the curing and pack
ing for home consumption and exporta-
ton have furnished a living to q very
largenumber OF male and female hands.
The reason of the disappearance is be-
lieved to be the great change of tenn
perature during the season, the weather
having for the last two or three years
been lot only more variable, but at
times, and eve during the summer
months, comparatively speaking, cold
and stormy,