Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-12
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
France has about completed war
vessels costing over $26, OOO, 900.

France has about completed war
vessels costing over $26, DOC, 900.
We and dry seasons affect the
wings of butterflies in India so differ
entity as to cause ..broods of the same
insec, to be taken for different species.
The famous old English watering
place of Bath has not been so crowded
s.nce the days of Jane Austin. fashion
able doctors having again discovered
the virtues of the waters.
The Prince of Wales has been
Grand Master of England for eleven
years past. During that while the
craft have contributed $l7, 500, 900 to
the three Masonic charitable institu-
tons of London.
At Castle Howard, Lord Carlisle's
seat in Yorkshire, there is a guest
house in the park where a months
rest, with good living, is provided each
month for four Woodworking women
from large towns.
Queen Victoria always sleeps in a
wooden bed Of a peculiar shape and
made up in a special way, and when
eve Her Majesty goes to a strange
place a led and its furniture are dis
patched from Windsor for her use.
"A rich citizen of Lcmberg, noted
for his gallantry, died recently and left
by his will 1900 tlorins to the hand
soonest woman in town. The will says
that the Judges Of the fair contestants
must ignore the question of morality
in rendering their decision.
In Japan earthquakes have had a
very noticeable influence in determin-
ing the nature of the buildings. Archi-
lecture. rs understood in other parts of
the world, may be said to have hardly
any existence there. In consequence
OF the frequent shakings to which the
houses are subjected it is said that tho
great city of Yeddo has to be practi-
cally rebuilt on an average every seven
years. Fire almost invariably follows
a great earthquake in Japan.
"A correspondent who has had a
quarter of a century's experience of
travelling in hot countries, writes to the
London Globe: ga man should always
thy to do rs long as ever he a in the
if he does taste water he becomes
thirsty again IN half an hour. l have
often ridden hard, under Il blazing sun,
in clouds of dust, from daylight until
eleven o'clock. but, once tempted to
take a drink, have not been able to
abstain tor an hour at a time"
The Arabs of Sahara are very sup
erstitious as to the color of theirhorses.
''The black" says a writer, .'brings
good fortune, but fears rocky ground.
The chestnut is the most act We. If one
tells you he has seen a horse fly in the
air, ask of what color it was; if he re-
plies chestnut believe him. In a
combat against a chestnut you must
have a chestnut. The bay is the ha1di-
est and most sober. If one tells you a
horse has leaped to the bottom Of a
precipicc without hurting himself, ask
OF what color it was;if he replies bay
believe him."
"A curious project has been started
in Paris by an association of journal
ists--namcly, to hold an exhibition of
pictures rejected at the Salon, rejected
not this year or last year. but any time
since juries were first devised. Such
AL Exposition DIES Refuses would be al
most "a rival to the Luxembourg. 1t
would include some of the most char
actcristic works of some of the great
est French painters. Gericault. Della
croix, Millet, Danbigny, Troyon, Reus-
seau, would hang side by side with
Courbet, Manct and Dcgas; and the
list might be almost indefinitely ex-
tended.