Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

| -Pand-painted bonnets are the lat
ct thing in fashionable headgear in the
gay city of Paris.
In Wurtemburg girls under sixteen
years o. age are no longer to be allowed
to dance round dances.
1t is said of Prince B;smar, k that
he eats at one meal enough for half q
10 en- persons in good health.
Wife beating has increased so rap
Idly o. late among the miners in the
Midland collieries that bill has been
introdu ed in the English Parliament
making the penalty logging.
To show the splendor of the offer
ings made by the pilgrims at the grave
OF Victor Emanuel "a writer instances n
wreath of gold set with Jewels, which
was brought by the Palermo pilgrims.
1t is said to have cost 1000, 900 francs
dwellings for artisans are at pres
en-, built on an improved plan at Horn
sey, England. They are erected on
plats fifteen feet six inch wide bv
eighty feet in depth, and d fer from the
first class merely in having one bedroom
les and one water-closet only on the
| ground floor. The rental is not more
| than - week.
From the opening of the 3ast ses-
son of Pa lament. in 1888, to Il e OPEN
ing to the present on. there have been
twenty-five elections. Ten OF lib So have
been in Ireland, in which the Parnell-
ties have gal ed four sea.s-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 Off, ials visit and verify the
imperial funds kept in the Julius I over,
Mt Spandau. and divided into four Sc :
tions-that intended for the expenses OF
Notifications, the share for pensions and
invalids, that set apart for building the
Parliament House, and the war portion,
which now amounts to $50, 000,0 600.
According to the 4us ra'a ian Med
fcdi Gazette, pious New /ealanders do
not fail to pray earnestly to their gods
for recovery after they have received
gunshot wounds, bit this does not pre-
vent their using their own scientific
methods of cure, which consist, in these
cases, of drinking hot g'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 rast been engaged in teaching
English in Russian schools, wishing to
publish small English periodical for
the use of boys learning English, re-
Gently subm tied 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 short ac-
count of Hamlet and the Chest. The
Censor objected to "Hamlet" as a pcr-
niclous piece of literature t. plare in
the hands of respectable young PEOPLE.
The death of Jean Trottet, of Gene
va, recalls man Of an energy and cour-
age which have seldom been surpassed.
de 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-maker. used
the reins with deXterity, and was so
good a shot that he often carried off the
village prizes for marEfring He was
inGe PENDENT and sagacious, and has left
widow and four children amply pro-
vided for. Temp ing offers were made
to his parents, and later to himself, by
showmen, but were invariably declined.