Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Queen Victoria has attended the
theater only twice since her husbands
death.
The Sussex County farmer in Eng
land plows with from three to five
horses in a single line, and cries to his
animals, '.Mather woot," CT come
hither, wilt thou?
A Mohammedan paper says that's an
inhabitant of India, who is eighty years
old, has just paid 10000 rupees for the
hand of a girl of eleven, and the mar
riage will Don take place.
At Sarah Bernhardt's tea the other
day a certain Count X. appeared with
his arm in a sling, having wounded
himself while out shooting. ''Really,"
quoth the sympathetic Sarah, $50 there
was nc other game?"
An English organizer of companies
says that not one-quarter Of the number
offered to the public for investment
within the last few weeks have received
half the capital demanded. The names
OF baronets have ceased to draw, and
even those Of lords are at a discount.
Two young exquisits were languidly
discussing Damocles' predicament,
forced to dine beneath the sword sus-
pended by a single hair, ''Not that l
should have minded the sword, ba
Jove: it would have been the danger of
the hair falling into my plate that
would have unnamed me-"
-Maspero, the explorer. has found a
Coptic church of the fifth century
among the ruins of 1hcbes. The way
down to it is by five brick steps; the
floor is tiled, and the walls are of rough
bricks bearing inscriptions. On a stella
covered with q hard white substance
are traced in red ink 800 lines in the
Theban dialect, forming part Of a SER
mon directed against hcrctics.
Mile. Lima Braun, at whose villa at
Baden-Baden Prince Gortchakotf' died,
will sue the SONS of the late eN-Chan-
cellor for the $4,000 marks per year
which her guest had promised her. 1t
is now said that the sons had hard work
to prevent their father from fulfilling
his frequently-given promise to marry
the woman, who had completely fasci-
mated him ever since the Berlin Con-
gress.
The skill of the Chinese in dwarf
ing plants as we'll as ladies' pedal ex-
tremitics is well-known. 1t is stated in a
recent work on China that the ladies of
the upper ten" in the Celestial en-
pirc wear in their bosoms little fir trees,
which, by a carefully adjusted system
of starvation, have been reduced to the
size OF button-hole flowers. These re-
main fresh and evergreen in their dwarf
state for a number Of years. and are re-
garded as symbols of the perpetuity of
love, to express which they are used by
ladies Of the highest rank.
An English surgeon has published
a book upon nervous shock and injuries
OF the spinal cord in their mcdico-legal
aspects. A series of 234 cases of injury
is described, and the after history Of
some of the patients followed up for
eight years after the accidents. The
upshot of the matter is that patients,
however i'll they mi ght have been after
the collision and previous to the settle
ment to their claims, recovered sooner
or later-some with indecent haste-af-
ter the compensation money had been
paid. SIN hardly any of these cases., -
says the British Medicaz Journal, "was
there any injury to the spinal cord or
its membranes. Bromide of potassium,
which is Unfortunately prescribed on
these occasions, has, by its depressing
action on the nervous system, some ef-
feet in the pr%otraction of all the symp-
toms. It is generally discontinued i'm
mediately after the check has been paid,
to the evident benefit of the sufferer"