The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-13
FOREIGN GossR.

"A giantess named Ann Dunn died
in London few days ago, aged thirty
nine. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly nine feet high and meas
ured round the shoulders over three
feet.
"A tower nearly one hundred feet
in height is to te erected near Bolton
Abbey as memorial of the late Lord
Frederick Cavendish.
Mrs. Jane Brown has organized, in
Paris, meetings composed wholly OF
French ladies for the study of Shak-
speare.
The authorities at Saint Giles, in
Belgium, have supplied the police on
night duty with cloth boots having In
dia rubber soles. With these boots the
police are so perfectly noiseless that they
are at least placed on footing of equal
advantage with burglars.
According to the last official report
of the Imperial German Post-office there
were within the imperial postal terri
tory (Which does not include Bavaria
or Wurtemberg) thirty-six cities and
towns in which the telephone was in
full operation.
Some interesting figures as to the
cost of operas and ballets produced in
Paris are given. ''L'Africaine" cost
some S55, 0O0; "Le Prophetic, " $40, 1876;
.'Robert he Diable," S3s, 900; Faust, -
S37, 500. The cost of Aida was SAG.
500; 'Francoise de Romini," $40, 500:
''Le Tribut de Zamora.' $50, 400.
The Mackonochie case in England
has come to an end at last, after sixteen
years litigation. Mr.. Mackonochie
resigns his living in obedience to the
order OF the court. The Church Tones
bitterly denounces the prosecution, and
maintains that the peace brought about
by the late Archbishop of Canterbury on
his death-bed has proved to be only q
brief truce.
Accidents to the uneasy heads OF
Europe may be regarded Justly with
suspicion in these days. 1t transpires
that the injury lately sustained by the
Gar was not attributable to maleVolent
chance, but rather to the partially sue
cessfdl aim of man with gun. The
man has the Ill luck to be Nihilist,
| and if caught he will have the felicity
OF being hanged, which will not, how
ever, deter other hunters of big game
from taking occasional shots at his i'm.
perial highness and inflicting more acct.
dents upon him.
They are exhibiting in London a
Neapolitan lady of twenty-five, Signora
Sanatelli, as near parody of the living
skeleton as is possible to look at. She
is about middle height, with Ratchet
edged face, ridged with a nose large
enough for Goliath. This is her great
feature, and suggests that she has run
into prohoscis sss the Thibet sheep run
into tail. She might be packed in q
section OF water pipe. She is shaped
from shoulder to toe like a four-square
timber joist. The ex hibitors say it is
necessary to stuff her ankle boots with
cotton wool to keep the bones from slip.
ping on grating at the joints
The claim of Hebrew. gentleman
to be exempted from serving on a Cor.
oners Jury on the ground of his being
descendant or Aaron, the high priest,
and forbidden in that character to ap-
proach dead body, seems a strange
one to advance, and so many years have
passed since Aaron's death that the fact
of being directly descendant from hin
must in the present day ,be difficult tt
establish. Nevertheless, the So Janaes'
Gdsette cites the case of Mn. Lewis Da,
vid Cohen. who was fined five times fol
refusing to center unto corpse" on
that ground. ana who at last appealed
to the Magistrate at Quarter Sessions
who, after hearing the evidence and re
ceiving the written testimony of the
rabbi as TO the Aaronic descent, has or