Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The bicycle is taking on import
ance as a vehicle. In Germany, ioul-
neymal artisans ride them about tho
country.
London ladies who make them
se.ves conspicuous by wearing black
and white striped dresses are termed
''magpies."
Cremation is making great strides
in France. The Project Of the Seine
means to establish Siemens furnaces in
several of the cemeteries of Paris, and
PROPOSES to cremate all persons whose
bodies are not claimed by their friends.
The cruel practice of d%ishorning
cattle still continues in Ireland, it be-
ing estimated that 80, Joe head are dis
horned annually. In a late suit insti-
tuted by the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals against q dis
!horner, Judgment was rendered against
defendant.
The pictures in the homes of
= :Pompeii We're not articles OF furniture,
but were worked into the walls; and in
to the walls pictures will again be
worked when the world has woven its
new inventions and appliances thor
'oughly into its civilization, and has d.
gested them Us thoroughly as the Ro-
mans sssimilated the more limited
knowledge OF the Greeks and Of the an
'cient civilizations preceding them
Philadelphia Record.
A correspondent at Lucerne, Swift
lzerland. says there is little to do there
aside from 'the excursions on the lake,
but one could spend q week Just look
ing across the water. Of music there
lis a variety such as n rarely finds
every night a half dozen new concerts.
AL the strolling singers, and mande-
)inc players and either players and
,cymbal players of all countries seem to
flock to Lucerne in the summer, and it
is the custom to perform at the differ
'ent hotels during dinner"
A Fren h newspaper has discov-
GTed that it is the custom of marriage
lin tijuana for the brides mother to
publicly box her daughters ears. The
object of this proceeding is, that,
should the daughter subsequently de-
sire to get rid OF her husband. she can
plead That was forced to marry him by
violence. 1t is pointed out with regret
that the compilers of the new French
divorce law might have studied the GUS
toms of Lithuania with advantage
P1,1s Morauny NeWs.
On the night OF the 10th instant
lhere were dreadful tempests in Hun
gary, which caused much devastation.
in the village of Zehegeny a whole fami-
ny persisted. The water having penetrat-
into a room, the husband broke a hole
in the ceiling and drew the inmates
through it up into the loft. But soon
atterwar,l the entire house fell in, and
the wife. four children and a servant
were drowned. The man was saved bv
clinglng to a rafter, and was drifted
some four miles further down. On the
aine of the State Railway no fewer than
seventy houses were destroyed.
The walkers and runners of the
present age are pigmies by the side of
the professional runner of the days be-
fore railroads and telegraphs. Even
fifty years since we find that Ernest
Meusen was famed forhis swift locomo
ton. He once ran from Paris to Mos
COW, a distance of l, $50 miles, in thir-
teen days and eighteen hours. In 1886
he ran from Calcutta to Constantine
pie. 5,6l3 miles, in i,fty-nine days. He
always oNtstripped mounted couriers.
Invariably he took a direct, climbing
mountains, swimming rivers and run
ming through forests. His food was a
sinai quantity of biscuit and raspberry
syrup. He died in 1883, while running
through Upper Egypt.