Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
A medical journal states that the
average Chinese baby weighs but five
pounds.
More than one half, and probably
two-thirds, of the lawyers of Berlin are
Hebrews.
Great Britain consumes annually
100000 tons of potatoes, of which
100000 tons are imported, while the
remainder ar. raised on SAL. 900 acres
of land.
One of the plans to make Paris a
seaport is to convert the River Seine
into a canal ninety-eightteet wide. The
cost-of dredging, ETC., is estimated at
$4,000, O0O..
The ONE of Siam have petitioned
the King to forbid men pledging their
wives to meet gambling debts. The
cause Of woman goes marching on, the
world round.
The annual literary prize OF s.. 900
Instituted by the King of the Belgians.
will for 1886 be granted to the author
OF the hest work on the means of pop
lllarizing the study of geography, and
NCtC.oJIAS IL Ill CllC OlIlClCuU OuuCd-
tional establishments.
AN elderly E%ng7ishman was in the
habit of buying quicksilver and aqua
FORTS in separate packages and mixing
them into q sort of ointment for rheu-
matism. On n occasion, however,
they were put into the same bottle by
the druggist. They exploded in the
purchasers pocket, burning him so
that he died.
II. Painter Allen has published in
England a book on the deceased wife's
sister question. 1t contains the opin-
ions of seventy of the foremost Greek
and Hebrew scholars of the universities
OF Europe and America on the Biblical
aspect OF the question. Of the whole
seventy only one opinion is unequivo-
cally adverse to the proposed change in
the law.
"A new journal, called the Honey
moon, has just appeared at Brussels.
The editor announces that he has Sc
cured the cooperation of q doctor of
law and of an experienced g~enealogiSt.
The business of this latter functionary
will be to find illustrious ancestors for
those who think their prospects of mar
riage will be thereby improved.
Tho greatest eater that ever lived
existed in the days of old Parr, in the
beginning of 1900. His name was
Nicholas Wood, of the County of Kent,
England. One of the writers of the
time says: 'He did eat with ease a
whole sheep, and that raw, at one meal;
at another time thirty dozen of pigeons.
AT Sir William Sedley's banquet he did
eat as much as would suffice for thirty
men. At Lord Walton S, at one meal,
he did eat four score and four rabbits.
On one. occasion he devoured eighteen
yards of black pudding. He made an
end of a whole pig at once, and after it
three pecks of damsons. At another
time he ate six penny loaves, three six
penny veal pies, M pound of butter,
n good big dish of thornback, and a
peck loaf in the space of an hour.'
I'm Paraguay, at Guazu-Gua, it is
said that recently a woman going to
battle in the lake laid her child down
under a neighboring tree and walked
down to the water. A gibola, however,
which was on the lookout for prev at
the shore, sprang at her and seized her
before she could escape. Soon after
ward a horseman passing near heard
some cries, and on looking around saw
the child alone under the tree. Sus-
pecting some disaster, he rode down to
the lake and there saw a huge snake
swallowing the woman, who was
already drawn in up to the waist.
Hastily drawing his two lassces to-
gether, the nan threw the moose over
the woman under the arms and cn,r-
ring his horse, succeeded in drawing
the unfortunate woman's still palpi-
tating body from the throat of the dis
appointed monster. Whether the
woman survived is net stated.