Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A giantess named Ann Dunn died
in London a 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 n hundred feet
In height is to be erected near Bolton
Abbey as q 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, i'll
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 a footing of equal
advantage with burglars.
According to the last official report
OF the Imperial German Post-ot1ice there
were within the imperial postal terri
tory (Which does not include Bavaria
or Wurtemberg) thirty-siN cities and
towns in which the telephone was in
Gull operation.
Some interesting figures as to the
cost of operas and ballets produced in
Paris are given. '.L'Africaine" cost
some S55, 600; Gle Prophetic $40, S95;
"Robert lie Diable," S3S, 900; "sEaust,"
$4,000. The cost of "Aida'' was SAG,
500; ''Francoise de Romini,' SAC, 500;
<'Le Tribut de Zamora," S36,4OO.
The Mackonochie case in England
f,oe AVN e., ~, o,,I ~ Lost of%o~ c;H,to1~
years litigation. Mr.. Mackonochie
resigns his living in obedience to the
order of the court. The Church Times
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 a
brief truce.
-"Accidents" to the uneasy heads of
Europe may be regarded justly with
suspicion in these days. It transpires
that the injury lately sustained by the
Gar was not attributable to malevolent
chance, but rather to the partially sue
>essfll aim of a man With a gun. The
~nan has the i'll luck to be a 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 intlicting more acci-
dents upon him.
They are exhibiting in London q
Neapoltan lady Of twenty-five, Signora
'anate!li. as near a parodyof the living
skeleton as is possible to look at. She
is about middle height, with q Ratchet
edged face, ridged with a nose large
enough for Goliath. This is her great
feature, and suggests that she has run
into proboscis as 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 ioist. The eX hibitors say it is
necessary to stuff her ankle boots with
cotton wool to keep the bones from slip.
ping or grating at the joints.
The claim of a Hebrew gentleman
to be exempted from serving on a Cor.
oner's Jury on the ground OF his being
descendant Or Aaron, the high priest,
and forbidden in that character to APP.
proach a dead body, seems a strange
one to advance, and so many years have
passed s'nce -Aaron's death that the fac
of being directly descendant from hin
must IN the present day be difficult Il
establish. Nevertheless, the st James
Gazette cites the case of Mr.. Lewis Da
vid Cohen. who was fined five times fo1
re using to center unto q corpse" or
that ground. and 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
dered the remission of the fines.