Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-20
FOREIGN

Queen Victoria, according to an
official announcement, has never eaten
q piece of cake.
The number of suicides committed
in front of affairs in the Italian basilicas
s largely on the increase.
The second prize for butter at the
Calcutta exhibition was awarded for q
sample of American oleomargarine.
Inhabitants of the Himalaya re-
gions eat six meals a day-the hare,
chatie, haiarche, liffin, lunch and din
nDr.
The German Reichstag will this
punishment. There is a great deal of
public sentiment in Germany in favor
Of the change.
Blasting paper is an Austrian in
vention. 1t is merely a kind of blotting
paper coated with an explosive mix
ture, cut into strips, rolled into car
fridge form and fired like gun-powder.
The Oldest existing business cor
poration in the world is said to be that
of the .'Merchant Adventures Of the
Town and County of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne" which dates its beginning to a
charter of King John, granted in 1915.
Since Mr.. Surgeons Stockwell
Orphanage wa opened, nine hundred
and twenty-four fatherless children
have been sheltered and cared for in its
| cottage homes. Each home has its
own family under the direction of its
matrOa.
Tenderness to dumb animals is at
last beginning to be heard of in Spain.
Both at Cadiz and at Santanda sucie-
ties have been formed for depressing
acts of %inhumanity and raising the gen
eral tone of the community in relation
to such matters.
When a Thibetan lover parts from
his sweetheart, after calling upon her,
he twirls his cap over his head, bows in
reverence, aud then puts out his tongue
to its full length, the latter perform
ance having the same at1ectionate sig
niticance as the parting kiss between
lovers of other countries.
dynamite has recently been put to
the odd use of slaughtering cattle at
Islington, near London, by fastening a
small charge between the horns, and
Immediately upon hearing of the ex-
plosion at London Bridge a New Zea-
land clerk, meeting the woman from
whom he had just been divorced, under
the pretense of salutation exploded a
dynamite cartridge, blowing both their
heads from Their bodies.
The myth that q large sum of
money had been offered by the Govern
mcnt for 1000, 900 postage stamps is
said to have arisen in the following
way: An advertisement appeared in
London, England, asking charitable
people to send their stamps to a poor
boy in Brighton, who wished to cover
his walls with portraits of her Majesty.
When they should be covered the lads
education was to be paid for by a
wealthy lunatic. Thousands of stamps
were sent, and then cleaned and sold.
The police broke it up.
Judge Lynch holds court even in
China. Just outside the gate of Shang-
hal recently a son killed his father,
when a solemn conclave of the latter's
clan hastily met, deliberated for about
five minutes, and then took the parri-
eide, bound him hand and foot, and
threw him into a hole previously dug
for the purpose. Mud was thrown into
the hole and the members of the clan
stamped by turns on the grave until it
was level with the ground, and so,
without leaving a mound or any mark
to point out the parricide's grave, the
assembled crowd dispersed.