Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AT q recent ball in London q lady
wore a skirt studded with dead robins.
The Duke of Cleveland, who is
eighty years Of age, is the Oldest Duke
i'm the United Kingdom, and the Duke
of Newcastle, aged nineteen, is. the
youngest.
Mrs. Gladstone, who is nearly the
same age as the Premier, accompanies
her husband, as did Lady B~eaconstield,
everywhere, and frequently remains in
the ladies' gallery till the close of the
nights session.
( The Black Flags, according to a
statement made by M. Tricon. formerly
French Minister to China. have a Pc
culiar way of fighting. They always
place Cinnamon in front of them and
massacre tn III if they refuse to face the
!!enemy's fire.
The State lottery in SaXony is an
important source Of revenue for that
country, rs it yields an annual surplus
of 81, 1924, ODo, after deductipg an outlay
of S225,0 DOC. In the Imperial Assembly
Ut was lately urged that all gambling
enterprises We're immoral, but the vote
was aga INST abolition.
Emperor William has q French
cook, named Dubois, to whom he pays
"a large salary. He is relieved every
other month by an assistant, and goes
Ito Paris regularly during his vacation.
Nor twenty-five years he has held this
position, and he now holds the rank of
a commandment in the army with q pen
sion.
The British war authorities find it
exceedingly difficult to devise ways and
means for securing new recruits. Boys
of eighteen and nineteen are to be adj
United, and thirty-three inch chest
measurement has been substituted for
%thirty-four inches. The Marquis OF
Harrington lately announced, too, that
the stature requirements would be re-
'duced.
-Canovas de Castillo, the new Span
ash Premier. is carrying things with a
high hand. He told the Catalonians who
protested against the new Spanish COM
making of treaties was King Alfonso's
business; has prohibited all meetings,
public dinners and social parties of the
advanced Liberals, and has secured
sentences Of eight years. Imprisonment
against eultOiS WnO nave NeuGllECu W
criticise his royal master.
!, The Liverpool rowdy hasa peculiar
style OF dress. The jacket, vest and
trousers are made OF q thick, 'undyed
co. ton clo.h called moleskin, which has
something of a velvet smoothness and
softness on its right side. The Jacket
reaches just below the hips and buttons
to the throat over a scarf ormuff1er. and
the number of it's buttons is great. The
trousers fit tight to the knee, from
whence they hang with a rakish loose
ness and nearly the boot. Crown
ing all is q round worsted cloth peak
cap, with little round knob on thetop,
that makes a very suitable finish TO the
whole man.
/ The Paris correspondence the Lon
don Lancet writes: "Aftcr a service of
more than half q century as Director OF
the Gobelins Mandatory, NJ. Chevreul,
the illustrious chemist, has been placed
on the retired list; and. although in less
than two years he will have completed
100 years of age, he considers that he
has not been we'll treated. 1t would APP
pear, however, that in order to spare
the feelings of the old gentleman he has
been allowed to retain his appointment,
with the full salary attached to it. The
Municipal Council of Paris have given
his name to a new street in this city. an
honor rarely conferred on persons while
vet living"