Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
An extensive system Of railroads is

extensive system of railroads is
Il tn bc commenced in China.
nr;ed potatoes are prepared in Ger
wv in immense quantities. They lose
s;xty-fvc per cent. oi'their %elshI IN
driving. and when used are said 10 oe as
good as fresh ones.
yonno Mr.. Burdett-C outts, nee
portlctt. has an imitator in Paris.
Gount dc Lugival, aged twenty-six, has
met married a widow aged scventy-two.
Thc ancient dame brings the boy an in
demnity of 5000, 900 francs.
In the land of the Hindoos, who are
. worry amiable and gentle people. there
&c in m%,y houses a called the
i.rodhaoara, OF chamber of bad humor,
which serves the purpose of the corner
for naughty children.
In China metals are strewn about
clio Empire in profuslon-enormous coal
measures, prodigious deposits of iron.
vast veins of copper, great tracts OF ga
lena, chrome, plumbago, cinnabar,
cupreous nickel (white copper, zinc,
writes, manganese, ETC., are found in
every section.
"A Melbourne (Australia) journal
GAYS that the present Lord St. Leonards,
a%ywc]l-known black sheep, who was at
6, Kilda. a fashionable watcring-place
ncor Melbourne, recently received Il
,,orv sound thrashing from a colonial
hnshman for having at a public bar
snokcn irreverently and indecent]y of the
Queen.
At the recent elections q gentleman
o,,o into one of the polling booths unite
ont of breath and said:-''Well, am I
electcde'' Returning OAicer-"Areyou
onc of the candilates?" '.No." ..Then
whv do YOU askT' 81 am told that the
elections have taken everybody by sur
mise, and SO l thought to myself, one
can never know."-Lc Figaro.
One of Prince Bismarck's first acts
as head of the Foreign Office was to raise
the status of Gcrmany's representatives
abroad. TO which he attaches such i'm
nortanee that the diplomatic salaries
lar exceed all save that of the Governor
Of Alsace-Lorrainc. The Embassy at
Paris has lately been renovated with
s%plendor.
The mail of Nine. Patti, in Paris, is
remarkable not only IN account OF its
enormous size. but also ON account of
the auccr things in it. About a dozen
letters a week contain requests for her
to become the godmother Of babies Just
horp. and also of babies who are expect
ed. Among the piles of begging letters
the ,aost original SO far is one from a
dude who sends his photograph as an IT.
rcsilible plea for 500 francs.
OF cighty-four female convicts
shipped from Odessa a few days ago to
SeahaIicn, thirty-six were transported
for killing or attempting to kill their
husbands, twenty-five of the thirty-six
being vet in their teens. One bride of
seventeen sweet summers murdered her
husband six months after marriage; an
other OF sixteen killed hers within a
week. while a third of eighteen made
herself Il widow on her bridal night
with the assistance of a sledgc hammer.
An cid Scotchman, when taking his
BARNS to be baptized, usually spoke OF
them as laddics or ~lassics, as the case
might be. At last his wife said he must
not say it was a laddic OF ]assie, but an
jufant. So the next time that Sandy
had occasion TO go to the clergyman the
latter said: "Weel, Sandy, is it a lad
Aie?" cts nae a laddic,' was the
answer. Then it's q lassie." ''It's
nae 4 lassic, said Sandy. ''Wccl, mon,
what is it. then?" said the astonished
preacher. Il dinna remember vera
wecl," said the parent, ''but l think the
wife said it was an illcfant." The clergy
man finally found out that it was not an
elephant, but an infant, he was ex-
pccted to baptizc.