Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-30
FoREGN GOSSIP.

Chill is the most prosperous coun-
Nv in South America.
: Queen Victoria has the finest set
ri Mate in the world. 1t cost $40, OOO,-
900.
A movement is on foot in Dublin to
substitute Irish names for the present
English names of streets.
Savage dogs which kill their mas
tors are condemned to a curious form
Of death in Japan. They are shut up
in , box with a little food and are
thrown into the sea.
A house in Craven street. Strand,
london, which has over its front door
a tablet bearing the information that it
wa, once the residence of Benjamin
Franklin. is now a boarding house.
Two cases of the successful Joining
of divided nerves have been reported to
thc Paris Academy of Sciences, function
hojnr restored in one case to a nerve
which had been divided for fifteen
wears.
On the spot in High street. Oxford,
on which Ridley and Latimer were
burned ut the stake, there is now a
small brass cross, over which hundreds
OF draws pass daily, no five per cent
Of whose drivers ever heard of the fires
of persecution nce kindled there.
In France newspaper men often
fight duels, it is supposed. for the pur-
pose of bringing their papers into pub
lie notice. but these ducls are rarely
fatal. Indeed, so uncommon are fatali-
ties in French ducls at present that
of 5tJ duels fought since 1869 but eight
have resulted fatally.
The second thimble centenary has
recently been celebrated at Amster-
dam. The first thimble was made in
October, 1854, by a goldsmith, Van
Ben,chclton, whose idea in the manu-
tacture of the pretty conceit was to
protect the finger of his lady love. The
English were the first to adopt the new
invention.
Nine million square miles is GER
tainly a mighty measure. being forty
four times bigger than France and
md sev%cnty-three times larger than the
combined area of the British Isles.
Yet this is said to be the measurement
of the cxpauSe OF territory embraced
in the geographical basis of the
Congo which the International Afri-
Fan Association claims.
In Scotland. as in England, they
prard theft as a good deal worse
han murder, At the High Court of
Judiciary in Edinburgh the other day II
man was condemned to two months
imprisonment for having knocked his
wife down and Kicked her unto death.
The next prisoner was convicted of
having stolen Il letter containing two
haIt-soverigns and sixty stamps. He
sentence was five years penal scrvi-
tide.
A native chief in Fiji presented
himself for baptism. How many wives
haze vou?" said the missionary.
Seven" said the chief. s.Oh. that
won't do; cant bAptizc YOU till YOU
have got rid OF six of Them A month
later the chiefcame again: saying: Me
all right now; You baptize me now.
Only one wife now" ''What have you
done with the othcrs?' said the mis-
Sionary. oh said the cannibal.
"Mcs eaten cherry one Of 'cm.'-Ben
Br!erleY's Jo@rEai.
-The place where William Tell shot
the apple from his sons head-provid-
ed the incident ever really took place
is now called Altort. and is one mile
from the head of Lake Lrzerne. The
side OF the tree under which, Schiller
SAYS. the boy stood, is marked by a
ii'lge square monument sixty feet high,
The sl1eS Of which are adorned with
paintings that are more suggestive than
artistic. On the snnt where. Toll ct,nI
Is now 4 large white statue of the
swiss patriot in The act OF drawing his
bow.