Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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Little girls in India wear gold
rings in their noses.
Lord Salisbury is the first Prime
Minister the Queen of England has had
younger than herself. Gaa
At the beginning of the century
the Vale of Cashmere contained 800.
OOO persons. and at present its popula.
ton is not over 2O0,0 U0.
"A committee of the British Medi-
cal Association is collecting informa.
ton concerning the experience and
habits of persons who have attained
the age of eighty or over
At the seventy-tifth annual meet
ing OF ~Swedenborg Society, held on
june 10th, it was announced that
2,132 volumes of the works of Sweden
borg had been sold, and 1884 vol
umes presented, during the year.
The bronze with which the statue
of Gambetta will be cast is formed OF
Chinese cannon captured by General
Palikao in 1860. The officer of Ma
poleon Ill. never imagined that he was
supplying the material for the glorifi-
cation of the man VINO was destined
to overthrow the empire.
Two Irishmcn named Moore, liy-
ing at Cavan in the greatest poverty.
have suddenly found themselves pos
sessed Of a large fortune. 1t seems
that their half-brother emigrated to
Buenos Ayrcs some forty years ago,
three -fourths of which he has be-
queathed to his brothers, after deduct
ing some tritling legacies.
1t has been discovered by an en-
thusiastic statistician. who is said to
have devoted some sixteen weeks of re-
search in order to make the ~calcula.
ton, that Mr.. Gladstonc's political ut
tcrances since he first spoke in the
House of Commons up to July, 1883.
represent fourteen miles of print, and
since then 700 yards have been further
added to this exuberant verbosity.
The old town hallof Vienna, which
has been abandoned for the new pal
ace on the Ring, is to be demolished.
The old building was refronted in the
last century, S that it looks modern,
but many parts of 1t date from the thir-
teenth century, and it has been identi-
fled with all the historicals events in
the annals of Vienna for more than six
hundred years.
Many have attempted to scale
Cotopaxi. the Hottest of active vol
canoes, but the walls are so steep and
the snow is so deep that ascent is i'm
possible. even with sealing ladders.
On the south side of Cotopaxi is a great
rock, more than two thousand feet
high, called the '.Inca's Head" Ira
dition says that it was once the summit
of the volcano, and fell on the day
when Atahuallpa was strangled by the
Spaniards. Those who have seen Vcsu-
wins can judge of the grandeur Of Coto-
paxi if they can imagine a volcano 49,
600 feet higher. shooting forth its fire
from a crest covered by 5000 feet of
snow. with a voice that has been heard
quo miles.
The sword Of honor which the En-
peror of Russia has presented to Gen
eral komaroff is described as being a
magnificent weapon. Its shape is that
of an old French sword; the blade is
made of Damascene steel; the scabbard
as we'll as the hilt is of gold; between
the chased ornaments on both sides of
the scabbard there are rows of Jewels,
and at the upper end of the sword
there are clusters of six or seven large
diamonds. At the lower part OF the
scabbard are engraved the words ..For
valor," also surrounded by precious
stones. Further ornaments in the shape
of roses formed of Jewels are set in diff
ferent places.