Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The crown jewels in the Cathedral
at Moscow are valued at Sl2, 600, 900.
-Zuckertort, the famous chess play
CT, recently played forty games in Ber-
lin simultaneously blindfolded, and won
them ali.
-1ricycles are forbidden in the Ber-
lin streets. the police ordinances decid-
ing that the machine is a v%elocipede,
and so is prohibited.
reindeer are t o be acclimatized in
the higher regions of the Bohemian
Mountains, where the climate is be-
lieved to be favorable to the expert
ment.
The Turcoman horse, though not
fleet, has wonderful staying powers.
and will. with his loose canter, cover a
hundred miles a day for ten days.
Athens will be the next capital to
hold an International Exhibition. A
patriotic Greek has lately ~bequcathed
the necessary funds, and the display will
take place in 1887.
In the recent practice in the Med
way England with the new Brennan
torpedo, worked by a steam engine in
the fort at Sheerness, the torpedo ran
a long way up the harbor, following
and lodging a pinnace with remarkable
precision.
The tenets of the Mahdi's religion
are very strict. If a married man is
guilty of immortality he is put up to his
waist in the sand and stoned to death.
If he steals his hand is cut oil. Sing
ing and lascivious dancing. such as
used to be carried 1 in Khartoum, are
put a stop to. Every man must pray
five times a day.
When the French Ministry of Fl
nance was burned down during the
Commune in 1871. all the official land
register books fell a prey to the flames.
The loss has just, to a certain extent,
been repaired by the completion of a
fresh survey of France, which shows
that the superficial areo of the country
is 80, l53, 203 hectares.
BY a measure presented to the
Uruguay Legislature it is proposed that
newspapers be prohibited from pub
fishing any details with respect to sui
cides. For breaking this law the owner
of the paper will be required for the
first offense to pay a penalty of $3.50;
and for the second onense $500. or, in
default of the payment of the fines, one
month and four months Imprisonment,
respectively.
"A grand piano, just presented to
the Princess Beatrice, is a unique affair.
1t is in a black case, ornamental with
gold. The sustaining pedal enables
the player to prolong the sound of one
or moro of the notes, on the organ
principle. The piano has so elastic a
touch that all the gradations, from the
most subdued whisper to the greatest
fortissimo passage, can be accomplished
with fine effect.
"A %sanitarium costing 81, 500, 900 is
one of the good results of a successful
quack pill. The great Holloway not
only left his children rich beyond the
dreams of avarice, but his name will
be carried down to posterity as the
founder of one of the most magnificent
sanitariums in the world. 1t took
twelve years to build this palace, and
nobody dares to calculate how many
boxes OF pills to pay for it. The sani-
tarium was recently opened with i'm
posing ceremonies in which the Prince
OF Wales took part. 1t has a capacity
of $50 patients, and its founder not
only paid for it by the manufacture and
sale Of pills alone, but also by that
means made himself one OF the richest
men in the world.