Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-04-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


,-Cockroaches are used by the Rus
Gans as q cure for Bright's disease of the
Kidneys.
The reiening beauty of Ireland is a
Belfast mill girl. Crowds surround the
mill daily to see her as she takes her de-
psrture.
The name of the reigning Queen of
Madagascar is Ranayalo-Manjaka, and
they say she is a very good woman, a
devoted Christian, and a humane and
progressive ruler. The French covet
her possessions, and the fact giyes her
and her people grave anxiety.
The Tichborne claimant IS occa-
sionally heard of from his convict home
i'm England. He complains bitterly OF
having been placed on the silent sys-
tem-that is, prevented from speaking
TO any one save once in three months,
although he was not conscious OF hav-
ing given cause for such exceptional
treatment.
A pensioner of the Honyed Asylum
at Buda-Pcsth fell down dead when he
heard of the loss of the Cimbria. In has
pocket was a letter from his son an
nouncing that he was about to sail for
HE United States on board that vessel.
The old mans death was sadder than
it first appeared. for the son was detained
by %pecuniary difficulties and did not sail
on the Cimbria.
The Hawaiian Gazette says that
.stwenty-fve wears ago there were not a
hundred lepers in the Sandwich Islands,
whereas now, at q moderate estimate,
there are 1900 or $1,000" 1t is a no
torious rs well as abhorrent and as
founding fact that the lepers not only
inter-marry, but that sound, healthy
women have been known to marry
leprous husbands.
Sir Godfrey Kneller, the painter,
was very conccited. He lived next tc
Dr. Radcliffe. and there was a door be.
tween their two gardens, and, as the
painters servants stole the doctors
blowers, he sent word that he would
close the gate. "Do anything with it
but paint it," said the doctor. "Iwould
take anything from YOU" replied Sil
Godfrey, ''but your physic."
"A seamstress OF Milan, GulsepplnS
Rosa by name, was recently in suci
dire poverty that she was forced to sell
Ior q tritling sum an old painting, tho
sole relic left of her dead mother. She
had scarcely dried her tears when back
came the picturc-dealcr with q largo
roll of bank notes. He had discovered
ahat the lamented relic was q master
rna sc A~,sL,1o (No,onos Foo
scarcely moro remarkable than his owl
honesty.
The Island of Foula, about twent,
miles west of Shetland, and containin!
about three hundred inhabitants, ha;
been isolated by continuous storms from
the mainland during the whole of thi
year until two weeks ago, when a boa
managed to reach it with provisions
The people were found in a terribl,
state Of destitution, and many of then
must have been starved to death but TO
this neighborly succor. .
There is a dark-red line on tn
matting of the House OF Commons rule,
about a pace from the bench. Its origil
lis almost contemporaneous with the es
Establishment Of a parliament. 1t wa
for the purpose of preventing member
from drawing their swords on eac
other. The old use of the line is, {
course, abrogated, but it is still consit
cred out of order for any member in dc
bate to outstep it by six inches.
DIR. Francis states in a paper rea
before the Harveian Society, London
that the habits of tea drinking at an
between meals, now so common in Eng
i3and, renders people peculiarly liable t
neuralgia. A lady in England wrote I
her husband in India: ''If you wis
ever to see me again come home 9
once; J. am very ILL.," She askcd.h
medical attendant to write also, whic
ne did as follows: "Stay where you arc
If your wife would only take less tie
she would be quite we'll"