Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-31
mRE1GN GOSSIP.

Queen Victoria's maids of honor
ssp eight in number and receive $1,000
ayear each.
There is moro crime in Rome and
vicinity than in any other region Of the
world having the same population.
BOMBAY husbands cut off their
wives noses for punishment. In a sim
kglc week tive such cases were lately re-
ported.
"A London newspaper, devoted to
laotel interests, laments the fact that
tho hotel business Of England is grad
Tally Slipping into the hands OF for
tnigners, owing to English inactivity.
Poor Carlotta, ex-Empress of Mex
|sco. spends only Il few thousands a year
Ia her mad-house, and the accumulated
interest of her immense fortune has be-
zone enormous. Her heirs will be her
brothers.
MANY visitors who arc surprised at
'sceing members sitting in Parliament
with Their hats on forget that this is
!rcally the revival OF Il once general GUS
iaom. Instead o. being Il survival from
tho days of open-air parlaments it is
rather u Renaissance of the long Pc
'riod during which men almost inva-
tgiably kept theirhats on, even IN church
n at the dinner table.
The most artistic of Italian furni-
turc, made from precious woods inlaid
lout ia Bcrgamo by Il firm that has been
engaged in the business during cen
'tury. Old and new specimens of its
lworkmansh p are much sought after by
foreign connoisseurs for the adornment
loft palaces and country villas.
The new Partisan arial machine is
sigar-shaped and pointed at each ex-
,Aemity-not simply underneath. as is
usually the case. There are seats for
awe %:pronauts in the car. The balloon
has a directing apparatus and rudder.
The force is obtained BY a series OF
electric accumulators of ten horse
power. The balloon is operative for
four hours.
In a recent sermon in birmingham
cardinal Manning said that men were
land the very name of God. Politics
ttxas goddess. Philosophy was goddess.
Science was goddess. 1t was the same
with education. There was no true
education without religion. What had
mnde England great? Not warfare,
not conquest, not politics nor leglsla.
aiOn. it was the one faith and the love
OF God and of the neighbor.
A singular method of preserving
;kistori al records has been discovered
i'm Ireland. On Case Hill, near Bel
fast, there was a short time ago an an
'Gient caste. In order to protect it's
ruins from the ravages of time and
passing vandals, some local antiquar-
tians determined to surround it with a
wall, and employed a contractor to
execute the work. The wall was fin
lished IN due course, but when the
lsntiquar.ans came to admire the castle
pit was gone. The contractor had used
lthe ruins for buildingfmaterials, and
mot u stone of the castle remained.
The terrible operation lately sub
united to by Lord William has directed
attention to maladies of the tongue.
One OF the mos extraordinary cases
was that OF Thomas Forder, at Win.
chester, in 1924, who was apparently
1n every respect healthy until within
about twenty hours OF his death, when
he complained Of a soreness on his
tongue. which gradually swelled until
dc was sutfocated. A post mortem
aailed to discover any cause, and the
verdict was: ''Died by the visitation of
God. in consequence of q sudden dis
easc and enlargement OF the tongue.'