Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP:

I'm a Cologne court a person was
recently fined twelve dollars for refus-
ing to take the oath, on the plea that he
did not believe in aGod.
The German authorities, with 3
view to discourage emigration, have
forbidden the railroads to carry emil
grants ut reduced rates.
The Rcuue Bt1lioqraphique reports
that in Paraguay a tribe of Indians
with tails has been discovered. AGuay-
cuyos child of eight years was captured
with a tail afoot long.
A Belgian editor who recently in
suited a rival editor in the morning,
fought a duel and killed him in the
afternoon, and came out at z p. m.
with a special evening edition descrlb-
ing the encounter.
China, which only six years since
had but six miles of telegraph lines.
has now completed a system by which
Canton, the capital of Southern China,
is brought into direct communication
with the metropolis of the north.
Deaths from consumption in En-
gland and Wales are on the decrease.
The number from 1860 to 1870 aver
aged over So. ZOO annually, and from
1870 to 1880 between $1,000 and SO, 900.
Last year the number was 48, us in a
population of 2 ,413, 1862.
OF the twenty volcanoes surround
ing the ancient city of Quito the lowest
is owe $4,000 feet and the highest
(Chimborazo) is nearly $4,000. Three
are now active (Cotopaxi. Sangai, and
Ciobincha), twelve are dormant, and
the rest are extinct. Twenty-Five sum-
mits are covered with perpetual nov
The '.Rogues' Album" in the Ber-
lin Criminal Police Court, did good
service in 1884, 1874 criminals having
been identified by it's means. In the
same year 1868 Photographic portraits
we're added to its number, including
those of 4 murderers, SO burglars, 2l
pickpockets, and l6 shop-lifters. max
ing a total number of 1892.
No less than 1886 relatives of En-
glish titled families are quartered on
the public service. The drafts on the
treasury for the sisters and aunts Of
dukes amount to $48, 800, 458, the
brothers-:n-law and nephews of mar
quises to $41, 529, $50, and the cousins
and others of earls to $240, 906. OlO per
annum or a total sum, going to prove
John Bright's assertion that .'the
~aristocracy lives on patronage" of
1881, 236, 21O.
The recent account of the remark
able escape of a mother and several
children from a shipwreck in which the
vessel turned bottom upward recalls
the fact that thirty years ago a schoon-
er was washed upon the beach at
Penzance bottom upward which was
found to contain several men who after
the capsizing had been tossing about
inside for several days in the same
position as that in which she had been
washed ashore.
One day when the ground was
white with snow, Nine. Dorian, a great
whip among the Paris an .'sportswom-
en-" invited Victor Hugo to drive out
and see the skaters in the Bots de
Boulogne. AS he got up beside her on
the box of her turnout she remarked:
''You have forgotten your o%vercoat,
mon cher maitre." ''My %overcoat! 1
never had one; and I dress just the
same way in winter as l do in summer.
My overcoat is my youth"
l. I'm q communication to the Acad-
emie des Sciences, M. Duclaux states
that the presence of heterogeneous
in the earth is essential to the germina-
ton of seed. His experiments were
made with plants whose seed grow on
the surface as well as those which
develop in the ground. The agricul-
tural Importance of his researches lies
in the fact that farmers who under
stand this principle will avoid the use
on planted soils of any substance
inimical to the lower forms of organic
life.