Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-Hand-paintcd bonnets are the lat
est thing in fashionable head gear in the
gay city of Paris.
. in Wurtemburg girls under sixteen
years OF age are 10 longer to be allowed
to dance round dances.
1T is sad of Prince Bismarck that
he eats at n meal enough for half q
dozen persons in good health.
Wife beating has increased so rap
idly Of late among the miners in the
Midland collicries that a bill has been
introduced in tn. Englisl, Parliament
making the penalty tiogg'ng.
To show the splendor of the offer
ings made by the pilgrims at the grave
OF Victor Emanuel a writer instances a
wreath of god set with Jewels, which
was brought by the Palermo pilgrims.
1t is said to have cost l,oo0,o 900 francs.
Dwellings for artisans are at pres
en- built on IN improved plan at Horn
sey, England. They are erected on
plats fifteen feet six inchrs wide by
eighty feet in depth. and differ from the
first class mcrclyin having n bedroom
les and one water-closet only on the
ground floor. The rental is not more
than 50 a week.
From the opening of the last scs-
son of Parliament. in 1855, to the OPEN
ing to the present ono. there have been
twenty-five elections. Ten OF these have
been in Ireland, in which the Parnell-
ties have gair ed four seats-Mallow,
Sligo County, Monaghan County and
Limerick City. Of the fifteen English
and Scotch, the Conservatives have
gained two, Southampton and York,
and the Liberals one, Ipswich.
The Treasury of the German En-
pire has just undergone its annual in
spection. Every year three important
financial officials visit and verify the
imperial funds kept in tie Julius Tower,
at Spandau, and divided into four Sec
tions-that intended for the expenses of
Notifications, the share o rpens;ons and
invalids, that set apart for building the
Parliament House, and the wal portion,
which now amounts to $50, 900, 900.
According to the 4dustro'o&ian Med
zeal Gazette, pious New Zealanders do
not fail to pray earnestly to their gods
for recovery after they have received
gunshot wounds. but this does not pre-
vent their using their own scientific
methods of cure, which consist. in these
cases, Of drinking hot d3g's blood.
Professional observers say that the per-
centage of cures effected by native doc
tors is very large, and is attributed to
the abstemious habits of the people.
An Englishman who has for some
years past been engaged in teaching
English in Russian schools, wishing to
publish a small English periodical for
the use of boys learning English, re-
Gently submitted the first number for
the Censor's approval. 1t contained
nothing but short stories and essays
from standard authors, couched in easy
language, and among them a short ac-
count of Hamlet and the Ghost. The
Censor objected to "Hamlet" as a per-
niclous pie2e of literature t. place in
the hands OF respectable young people.
The death of Jean Trottet, of Gene
va, recalls a man of ar energy and cour-
age which have seldom been surpassed.
He was born without legs, hands, or
feet, yet he learned to write, fastening
his pen at his elbow, and when he grew
older became an active hay-makcr. used
the reins with dcXterity, and was SO
good a shot that he often carried off the
village prizes for mark-tiring. He was
inde pendent and sagacious, and has left
n widow and four children amply pro-
vided for. Tempting offers We're made
to his parents, and later to himself, by
sbowmen, but were invariably declined.