Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Berlin added 4S7 portraits to the

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Berlin added 4s7 portraits to the
Rogues' Gallery in 1882.
The German Empire has caught the
street-car fever. Four towns are now
comfortably provided, and others are
getting ready.
Louis l., the King of Portugal, is
plain, short and thick-set, with a pas
sion for Shakespeare and the classics,
and a contempt for politicians.
The Emperor of Japan is roofing
out the newspapers which have grown
to power under his encouragement.
Eleven journals have just persisted IN
der the censorship, and an editor has
been imprisoned for writing about the
Emperor.
Baron Rothschild gave his daughter,
recently married, $4,000 900 to buy fur
niture with and $500, 900 a month to keep
house. During the few days preceding
the wedding the bride received over
1,1O0 letters from destitute young ladies
asking aims, and there vas no one but
received an answer.
The Byzantine portico of a convent
chapel at Hebron struck the fancy of
q Hungarian millionaire, and he bought
it of the monks for $500. intending to
remove it to his estate. But the German
Grown Prince begged him to take back
his money, which he reluctantly did,
and the part already taken down was
restored.
The plague of rabbits from which
She Australian colonies are suffering has
led New South Wales to pass a strin-
gent law. Henceforth any person who
shall have in his possession any live
rabbit. or even shall introduce into the
colony rabbit scalps, is liable for each
oficnse to a fine of $500, or, in default
Of payment, to Imprisonment for six
months.
Miss Leigh, known as the English
woman's good angel in Paris" ten
years ago established in that city 8
home for friendless young women.
From this have grown an orphanage, q
church and parsonage, a mission hall,
ayoung mems institute, a free registry,
a kindergarten and infant school and a
sanitarian.
The rule forbidding a Prince to con-
tract a marriage with a woman of in
*erior rank is vigorously observed in
Germany. Prince Alexander of Witt
genstein, however, has refused to allow
it to stand in his way. He fell in love
with the governess of his children. As
a Prince, he could at best confer upon
her only the doubtful position Of a NOR
ganatic spouse. He has therefore re-
nounced his hereditary title.
In the peninsular of Abeheron, in
the province of Shirwan, there is found
a perpetual, Or, as it is there called, an
eternal fire. 1t has risen from time i'm
memorial, from an irregular orifice of
about twelve feet in depth, and one
hundred and twenty feet in width, with
a constant flame. The flame rises to a
height of from six to eight feet, is unat-
tended with smoke and yields no smell.
The inhabitants have a generation for
this fire, and celebrate it with religious
ceremonies.
The youngest and only surviving
daughter Of Thomas Bewick, the cele-
brated wood engraver, died a few weeks
ago at Newcastle in her ninety-third
year, and in the same house where her
father passed away nearly sixty years
ago. 1t was nearly three years ago that
Jane, another OF Bewick's daughters,
died at Newcastle, herage being ninety
five. Isabella Bewick, the lady Just
dead, possessed many relics Of her
father, and it is hope that some means
will be found to prevent their disper-
sion.