Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Queen Victoria has twenty-five
grandchildren.
Baron ~Nordenskjold will start this
spring on a new Arctic expedition up
the eastern coast of Greenland, a direc-
ton in which few attempts have hither-
to been made.
I'm London, Mrs. Murphy, drunken
" engaged in household pursuits, fell,
and her head striking in a tin sauce
pan, Just filed the utensil and fitted so
closely that she could not remove 1t;
and she died of %saffocation.
The recent death of Matilda Diez,
the greatest actress Span ever pro
duced, caused general mourning in that
country, her funeral in Madrid being
one of great public demonstration. She
was born in 1918, and was known as the
Rachel of Spain.
When DR.. Wccker, the celebrated
German o%culist, removed Gambetta's
RIGHT eve in 1867, the organ was pre-
served in spirits. sIt is the eye," the
suryeon said, s.of q man who is sure to
enact an important part in the worlds
history" He was right, and the eye is
still preserved.
DIR. Ball, in a lecture before the
Paris Faculty of Medicine, said s'there
is a broad frontier between folly and
reason, between sanity and insanity,
peopled by millions of Inhabitants" He
held that the number OF persons per-
feetly reasonable on all points through
out the entire period of their existence
formed but a minority of mankind.
In the southern. portion of the coun-
try drained by the River Congo, i'll
Africa, there has been found by Lieu
tenant Wissman a very dense popula-
ton. During his journey from Loanda
to Zanzibar this traveller does not seem
to have met with any serious obstacles.
On the cont: ary, the noted Mirambo
gave him every assistance. At one por-
ton of his route he found a tribe OF
dwarf negroes.
"A church in the village Of Cesano,
near Albenga, Italy, was robbed. The
authorities searched the stable of a sus-
pected man. They found a subter-
ranean apartment. The entrance was
hidden by straw. A poor woman, thirty
years old, entirely nude, was the only
occupant. She had been there thirteen
years, fed on swill and acorns. Her
reason was gone, and she was speech
less. She was removed to an hospital,
md her father was placed under arrest.
The physicians in one Of the hospit-
a. of Vienna have made the remarka-
bic discovery, in dissecting the body Of
d patient, that he had carried about in
his brain an iron nail covered with rust,
that to all appearances must have held
its singular Judgment since early child.
hood. The man was forty-fve years Of
age, a pookbinder, and always passed
for a thoroughly intelligent person. The
nail in his brain did not seem to effect
his mental powers in any particular,
There is probably NJ cas- on record to
parallel this.
When Wagner first went to Paris,
in 1910, the celebrated musician Lisz'
was the idol of the public, the pet O
society, shining in the meridian splen
dor of his uneyampled career. 1t is no
surprising that Wagner, looking up tt
him from the abasemcnt of poverty
should have turned bitter and resent
jul, and fancied that List disliked him
when List was only unavare of his ex
.s.ence. Afterward Wagner Learned
how completely he had misunderstood
the great and generous artist, and
friendship grew up between them whicl
WAS never broken. Twenty years late
Wagner married LISTS daughter.