Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-27
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Some land in the city of London
was lately sold at the rate of $3, 10000
an acre.
William Marwood, the British hang
man, never saw a man hanged until he
performed the work himself.
The Emperor of Brazil has given
Professor Lacerda 100000 for his dis
covery of permanganate of potassium,
hypodermically injected, as an antidote
for the bite of the cobra.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Frank Buck
land was ridiculed for predicting that
the day would come when salmon would
be cheaper than meat in England, but
the dav has come and his foresight is
confirmed.
An Oxfordshire (England) baronet
has left his estate to his confidential
valet, who has lived in his service from
boyhood. The baronet. a hot-tempered
man, in ea"ly life struck and killed a
servant. The valet, then a page boy,
was the only person hat say the deed
done He testified strongly in his mas
ter's favor, and remained in his service
until his death.
Victor Hugo's letter inclosing his
contribution of two hundred dollars for
the relief Of the lschia earthquake suf-
ferers was characteristic. He wrote:
II give to Ischia one thousand francs.
The catastrophe of Ischia is more than
an italian catastrophe; it is more than a
human catastrophe;# it is a universal ca
t%astrophe. l feel touched; l send my
mite"
Pierre Jean, an old soldier, be-
licved to be the Oldest member of the
Legion of Honor, has lately died in
Paris at the ripe age of ninety-four.
Born in the year of the greatrevolutDn,
he served under Napoleon in the Aus
trian campaign of 1909, survived the
terrible march from Moscow in 1872,
and was taken prisoner in 1918 before
Dresden. 1t was on the 18th Of March,
1915, during the ''hundred days. of Ma
poleon's rule, after the return from
Elba, that he received the coveted dec
GRAFTON. At the battle of Waterloo he
was sergeant major in the Thirty-sixth
Regiment CT the line.
"A peculiarly fiendish crime has been
brought to light at Toulouse. The po-
lice Of that city have made a descent
upon the house of a grocer named Rou-
2oul, and have rescued from a cellar a
man and his son in the last stage of
starvation. They We're the father-in-
law and nephew Of Rouzoul, who, it is
stated, kept them in durance while he
squandcred their fortune, valued at
100, 900 francs. The poor victims, when
rescued, were found to be terribly
emaciated, and entirely bereft of rea
son.
"A Paris journal tells that a New
Yorker, whom it names, on coming i'll
to the possession of five thousand dol.
lars from the estate of a dead uncle, de.
voted it to playing %baccarat; that he en-,
joyed a most wonderful run of good
luck: that he broke bank after bank in
the French Capital until the doors Of
those that remained fsolvent were
closed de~fensively against him; and thai
year of the prosperous gambling made
him the possessor of half a million. He
returned to New York and took fine
quarters in a leading hotel. A veal
passed, and he id nothing except
spend money lavishly. He went back
to PARIS last winter, and made a fresh
onslaught on the gambling hells. This
time the conditions of luck were re-
versed. His was bad, and the gan
blers' was good. He lost as rapidly anc
steadily as previously he had won, and
now he is without anything.