Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
"A guide book to haunted houses Is
10 be published in London.
Statistics show that there are at
present about 1000, 900 people in Great
Britain who receive charitable relief.
AT the wedding of the Marquis of
Kildare with the Lady Hermlone Dun
3combe he presented each of the brides
maids with a specially ordered watch.
1t is estimated that fully four-tifths
of the merchants and professional men
doing business in London reside at least
twenty miles from their places of bust
ness, going to and returning from the
city on the elevated and underground
roads.
The Duke of Abercorn has thirteen
titles, each of which represents a sepa-
rate peerage; the Marquis of Butte has
fifteen; the Dukes of Argyle and Buc-
cleugh have each sixteen; the Duke of
Hamilton seventeen. and the Duke OF
Athol, with twenty-three, stands top of
the tree.
The Earl Grosvenor, who was pas
;sionately fond OF mechanical engineer
ing, was frequently to be found in the
railway workshop ut Crewe Station, and
still %oftener driving ''the Wild Irish
man. between London and Hollyhead.
There is not a driver on the northern
Railway towhom Lord Grosvenor's face
was unfamiliar.
In a playful, dated just one hum
dred years ago, of Sadlers Wells Thea
ter, London, the following notice APP
pears: "A horse patrol will be sent in
the New road at night for the protection
OF the nobility and gentry visiting this
theater. Patrols, horse and foot, are
stationed from Sadlers Wells gate,
along the New road, to Tottenham
Court Turnpike between the hours OF s
and H."
The Duke of Richmond and his
relatives have cost the British tax-pay-
ers SIS, 100000 since 1850. In the same
time the Marquis OF Waterford and the
73eresford family have raked S6,541, 900
from John Bull. These are specimens
of the workings of what John Bright
described as the outdoor relief system
for the benefit OF the British aristocracy.
The recent decree of the Project of
Police fo%rbidding private individuals to
collect the contents of Paris dustbins
has been suspended, much to the de-
light of the thousands of rag-pickers
whose meaps of subsistence it threat
ened. 1t is said that the 800 merchants
who employ, the rag-pickers realize sew
eral millions of dollars annually by the
sale Of this refuse.
The Norwegian shoe, or skee run
ner, is used in Colorado for long jour-
ueys over CLASSY snow, or when going
up or down a steep mountain. Every
n has a pair of these ungainly shoes
men, women ard children. Those
who have mastered the art of snow
shoeing can go very rapidly on them.
There is a Norwegian there who is will
ing to wager that he can travel fifty
miles across the country in ten hours,
but that is much faster than the ma
jority Of skee runners.
"A young woman recently addressed
letter to kuskln on the subject of art
training. DESTROYS Of becoming an ar.
.tist, and wishing good advice, she
thought she could do no better than
apply 10 SO hlSn an autnorlty. lhe re.
ply was characteristic and rather disap-
pointing. The great critic, without
giving her any hint as to the right
course to pursue, told her cit would be
better to write less and cultivate a GOOD
and beautiful handwriting. No one
who writes as you do could make a
good artist It took five people to de-
cipher the hieroglyphics in which Rus
kin clothed these few words. The young
woman framed this curious production
and hung it in her studio.