Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-05
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A Geneva Organ-grinder has left q
fortune of s14 1000 to his heirs.
There is an actress in Germany
nam d Amanda Bettina Kreuswanger
Rosalie Bakerman Zwinkehut.
"A French woman who has been .
widow for ninety-siN years is still liv-
ing at Auberine. She claims to be 123
years old.
"A Partisan dame recently gave q
ball to her female friends, and asked
each to bring a. living animal. All ex-
cept three brought their husbands.
The asphalt pavement in the town
of Reading. England, was recently
raised and broken by a large num-
Der of mushrooms growing underneath.
The CHILEAN newspapers announce
the recent death OF a certain Don Jose
Miguel Herrara at the age'of II hun
dred and twenty-five years, and ave
that his age is well-attested by official
records.
Princess Delgorouky, widow of
Alexander IT,, goes into the country
for the summer and manages to make
life quite endurable there by taking a
whole hotel instead of Il room or two in
It, 1t is the Belvedere at Lucerne.
The city OF Bamberg is the first to
practically Apply the law against the
public disturbance of piano playing at
untimely hours in the case Of a girl,
who, greatly to the annoyance OF the
neighbors, practiced at an open Win
dow. The code prescribes a fine or
adequate Imprisonment. The munich
pal court let the fair culprit off with 81
md costs.
The total muster o. the House of
Lords is SIS. Of these five are men,
bers of The royal family. who, in ac-
cordance with usual practice, abstain
from divisions on u political question.
OF the remainder, 2sS rank as Tories
end 21S are usua ly classedi Jas Liberals.
But many nominal Libe ais, like Lord
~1radpournc and Lord Dunraven, usual
ly vote against the Government on party
gu stions.
in Belgium the murderer is sem
fenc,d to imprisonment for life. but
may often be seen, according to the
Paris Temps, ''going about unshackled
pr working at some easy occupation
like to%y-makiny." In Italy he is Sc
4lred 10 the wall of an almost dark cell
Wy a chain five feet in length, which is
rvcted to an iron ring around his
ank c, and which does not allow him
to take more than one step in any di-
rec ion.
At The recent annual meeting Of
The English Cooperative Union the re-
port showed that at the end of 1882
there were in Eng and and Wales 1858
so ieties, including ~lhirty-six which
Were pr ductiye. The aggregate men,
Der hip was $4,000; the sales nearly
Gs3, 900, 900, and the netprotitsitl, $780,
900; the share capital neary E7,00O,-
900. and ;he loan El,2S0,0 900. In Scot
land there were 2S2 societies, with a
membership of 81, 700; and in ireland
there were II societies.
1t is not unlikely that the diamond
field Of Bingera, New South Wales. will
e ,ual in richness the fam us Kimberly
district of South Africa. At Bingera,
within tire last few months, hundreds
of diamonds have been discovered, and
the size and number of the gems are
said to increase with the depth of the
diggin IS. A very formidable OBJ tacle
to the development CT the locality has
be IL removsd by the discovery O
abundance OF water for diamond wasl.
inc and other purposes at no greater
depth than fifty or sixty feet from the
surface.