The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-10
soREIaN GOSSIP.

Recent changes of name by con-
spicuous Edinburgh families are Mug
gins to DE Morgyn, Bullock to Belcome,
and Cuddy to Cuthbert. The Reuies1
thinks that the law ought to forbid such
things.
Addressing his followers at Henley,
recently, ''Gen." Booth said the Saliva
ton Army was still marching on, and in
twenty years. If the rate OF progress of
the last six years was continued, there
would be ], 1,250, 900 officers and $50, ,00O,-
600 soldiers.
1t is mentioned as q rather curious
fact that DIR. Frenoy, the leading physi
clan at Aix-les-Bains, where so many
persons go to be cured of rheumatism,
is martyr to that ailment, though he
Is very successful in curing others of the
complaint.
King Humbert wants to have his
life insured for 5000, 900. in order to
make some provision for his family,
having impoverished himself in the pay
ment Of half his fathers debts. But the
Italian companies decline the risk, on
the ground that crowned heads are ex-
ira hazardous.
Making jam is one of the favorite
holiday recreations of President Grevy,
according to the Paris Figaro, which
tells us that the head of the French Re
public may frequently be seen in his
kitchen at Montsous Vaudrey enveloped
in large blue apron and skimming
preserves over the fire.
The Chinese have q new war vessel
which they have christened the Ting
Yuen. It is armed with formidable
Krupp gurs. and the only bar to its eff
fectivencss against the ''foreign devils"
is that every discharge of one of these
monster cannons creates a general
smash-up inside this terror of the seas.
A whole broadside discharged as an ex-
pertinent nearly wrecked the ship.
The steepest railroad gradient in the
world is said to be that OF line from
Montreux to Glion, distance of 1000
feet, just finished by Nicolas Rggen-
bach, the Swiss engineer who con-
structed the Rigi Railway. On August
Is NJ. Riggenbach made the descent
with single car, without the cable, in
order to demonstrate the efficiency of
his brakes. and stopped the car three
times on the way. He is constructing
similar line up the Nefgherries for the
Madras Government.
Yet another suicide occurred a few
QdyS ago IrOm one OF Ine UOWeTS Oh
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. About
eleven o'clock in the morning stout
man, of some sixty years of age, dressed
in deep black, threw himself without
the slightest warning from the Bourbon
tower into the court below. When picked
up he was, of course, quite dead. 1t is
not improbable that, in presence of the
alarming increase in such accidents, the
authorities will close the towers Of Notre
Dame. .as they have already done the
Vendome column.
The late Dean Stanley is said to
have rarely made a gesture when
preaching. One day after morning
service he asked his wife if she had mo-
ticed the intensity with which the con-
gregation had gazed upon him during
the sermon. .sHow could they help it,
my DEAR" said Lady Augusta, ''when
one of your gloves was on the top of
your head the whole timer" The Dean
having taken off his hat before entering
the pulpit, the glove lying therein had
fallen on his head, and as he stood quite
still when preaching. there il remained