Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

1T is stated that 1000 men come
in every year from the country to Lon
don.
Hon. John Mash, the new Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, is a Roman
Catholic, the second of that faith who
has been appointed to that office since
the Reformation.
AT the annual meeting of the
trustees of Shakspeare's birthplace at
Stratford-on-Avon it was reported that
during the last year over $4,000 per-
sons had signed their names in the
visitors book.
Professor Arpad Bokai, of the Uni
vcrsity of Klauscnburg, has made the
important discovery of an antidote for
%strychnine, which is said to have been
fully corroborated by a series OF sue
cessful tests on animals.
"A recent traveller in a Corsican vii
lage says he saw a troop of young girls
carrying on their heads jars containing
five or s;x gallons of water. Before
them marched their male relatives
bearing flaming torches to light the
burden bearers on their way.
-..Mystery gold," d composition of
platinum, tin and copper, which stands
ordinary acid tests, and is said to
weigh as much as pure gold, is in favor
in England for articles OF Jewelry, and
has been awaited of by counterfeitcrs
for the manufacture of sovereigns.
The Argentine Government is more
successful than that of any other Span
ish-American country in securingi i'm
migration from the Mediterranean
countries. 1t pays part Of the passage
money and assigns each family immi-
grating to the confederation farming
lands, to be paid for on instalments.
German students OF photography
are making considerable progress to-
ward the perfection of a process
whereby negatives may be obtained in
all the colors of the original. Prof.
Vogcl, who has been experimenting
many years, has succeeded in repro
ducing blues, yellows, reds and greens.
A gondola voyage across the Adri-
attic from Venice to Trieste has been
made involuntarily by the Comte de
Bardi, nephew and heir of the late
Comte dc Chambord. While the Comte
was boating on the Venetian lagoons
with an art st friend, his gondola was
suddenly blown out to sea, and al.
! though the little vessel was only in.
tended for canalnavigat:on, she crossed
the gulf safely TO Trieste.
The Count dc ". Prime Minis.
ter to the King of Sardinia, affected
mystery SO much in all his transactions,
both public and private. that, happen.
ing to hurt both his legs very severely,
he employed q surgeon for each
limb, while each was kept igno-
rant that the other was employed.
The treatment, therefore, adopted by
the medical men, and the nature of the
drugs they administered, being quite
inconsistent, the consequences proved
fatal TO the Minister.-Paris Mo77aimd
Journal.
From a return published by the
Berlin municipality Of the population
of the German capital, it appears thai
Berlin had on December LIST, 1880 (the
last census day of the German Empire)
1,l23,6O inhabitants, including the
military. By the end of 1881 tho pop
ulation had risen to 1,156,3S2 souls
1882, to 1,192, O73; 1883. to 1926, 1872;
1884, to 1868, 1856. The garrison OF
Berlin was at the end of the latter veal
20,034. Afresh census of the German
Empire will be taken on December Isl
next.