Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Tho British training ship Warspite
has rescued O,40O children from pow
erty and dcgra lation and trained them
for the sea.
The Oldest Empress living is Au-
gusta of Germany, who is seventy-one
years old. The youngest is the Queen
Of Servia, who is twenty-eight.
M. Dc Lesseps is a veritable Gar
gantua in the matter Of tlattery: his APP
petite for ~notoriety is Unsuitable, and
the Paris papers are constantly filled
with paragraphs about himself. his wife
and his children.
Five newspapers devoted to mysti-
eism and spiritual SIN ale published in
France, four in Belgium, eight in Spain
and three in Germany. In fact, mysti-
oism is becoming fashionable, and the
last new marvel is discussed in every
drawing-room and at every dinner Ia
bic.
The Wurtemberg Minister of the
interior has ssued orders that hence
forth young folks of either sex shall not
be allowed to dance together in places
of public amusement. He, however,
will relax this order in the case of mar
rage parties, if the originators of the
ent rtainment furnish the police with
the necessary moral guarantees"
-Horsefesh is, according to United
States Consul Ballou. largely eaten in
Alsace. The retailer sells the choice
cuts for about eight cents per pound;
for ordinary, six cents. A large guam
tity is used in the manufacture of saul
co oroo All 1,1rSoc n no hof1,o orI offor
being killed, given a strict examination,
and if found in any way diseased are
rejected.
"A resolution was pas ed recently at
. meeting OF the English Church Union
declining to accept the proposed Court
OF Final Appeal, or any secular court
claiming to reverse a spiritual sentenee.
"A resolution was also passed urging
that no reconstruction or regulation OF
&C 'lesiastical courts could acquire spirit
nal validity ave from the authority OF
lhe synods of the Church.
Editors in German-Poland are learn
Ing with vengeance what is meant bY
liberty OF the press under Prince Bis
marck. One Of them has spent five
months of the past year in prison, and
has six months more in prospect. An
,ther has been condemned to eleven
and one-third months imprisonment.
A third is now in prison for fifteen
months, Il fourth for three months, and
. fifth for four months.
"A lecturer at Edinburgh on the
Shetland Isles said lately: "Of the hun
dred islands and islets which constitute
the Shetland group not more tian about
twenty-eight are said to be Inhabited.
Washed on their Western sides by the
wild waves of the Atlantic Ocean, and
on their Eastern coasts by the no less
tempestuous pillows of the Northern
Sea, they look like wi at perhaps they
are-the skeleton OF long since buried
peninsula. They are an island Den
mark.
The dwarf trees of China are curl
osities of forestry. Every child knows
how the Chinese cramp their women's
feet by bandaging them when they are
infants, and thus I, nder it impossible
for them to walk. 1t is, however. won
derful to see miniature oaks, chestnuts,
pines, and cedars growing in flower
pots, fifty years old and yet not a foot
high. To do this take a young plant,
cut off it's tap root, and place it in q
basin in which there is good soil kept
well watered. Ii it grows too rapidly,
dig down and shorten in several roots.
Every year the leaves grow smaller, and
the little dwarf trees make interesting
pets.