Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-21
Foreign Items.


There is only one four-cylindsr press
l." uermsny Il ,yin~.,s YrgoM It.
.c - ~ now keeps up an army of /,
a Polish sect commit assassination to
propltlate the Deity. ..-a "Hsi
Much of the lee now sold in London
actually arrived there in 1866. w.
In 1867 the number of ayrae+. h,-
habitual drunkenness, in London. vas 100
S57. 1'
Half million books were sold at tho
late trade sale in New York, and II, 900 Of
them were Byron's. n. ..4 49,
3 "A French expedition is togo to, the
Mediterranean to observe the tmeteorio
showers in November. as! g.. n
., An old blind organist, who Had lived
in London w0rkhouse 70 years, died lately
at the age of SO. He could repeat al the
Psalms. .
"A London publisher proposes to re-
PRINT in one or more volumes al that has
been published in England and America on
the Byron controversy. ''e5
1t is said that there Is 4 man in Brazil
named Jose .Moreira who is 1876 years old.
and that he has lived all that uncopsciona.
bIy long time on scraped cheese, vine and
sugar. - - -''o
An English druggist suggests that ev
cry iaoel OF poison" should have affixed 4
short statement Of the commouest and
most accessible antidotes for the contents
if taken accidentally.
"A jersey lady ID her hundredth year.
recently visited the Amsterdam Exhibition.
accompanied by her grandson, who was
| colf
sewing machine, and threaded . needle
without the aid Of spectaeles. s...g -
| The model farm of the Crown Prince
OF Prussia cost him, last year, sevsnty-two
thousand Prussian dollars, The income
dollars. The Prince has since then aban-
doned the farm and sold it to one of his
neighbors. '<.fE> ; q ! =. .ls':s:estaat s.
| At the Lyons University, last month,
.; Nile. Caroline Sibert, of Vienna, on-&he
Rhine, took = Bachelor OF Arts degree.
| Out Of = list of twenty-five candidates this
young lady came out first IN French and
Latin, composition, and second in Latin
translation.
! cav, exclaimed . Cockney to aWest-
ern traveller in England, 'tspeeking-av! of
the law Of primogsnitnre, ave you the hem
| tS11 ~ 9AQpWAGse55 <5s s4204e&141J III t0O
American, looking 1t his interrogetor With
curiosity, mo. sir We have the. cocktail
in America, and very popular drink it Il,
too" If5tIrSsf rY !
! "A Vienna paper says: :Bimazks dis
case, as the French papess asaid some time
ago. is simply di6rium stremens.s He, can
not hold a pen in the morning, and he has
to take strong stimulapts in order TO over
come his nerv6tsnessy He can nevef make
a speech ia Pslissnn1ent witheutt p1gvvi oaslt
taking stfong doses Or brandy fri ss1oEss
The Indian papers stats that the Ma
halqpj4h Of Tayancore il about ia. perform
the ceremony d sThoolopazun.J The pro-
cess consists Of His Highneas ietni paeced
in one scale with an, equal wofkhf Of gold
in the other. The gpld thus obtained is
afterwards distributed among the Brah-
minis. according to each ones privilege, and
it IL only After the ceremony that His High
ness IL supposed to be sanoti6sd aHg1
II. M. Theirs collection 81 81 favines
\ has been lately estimated atth6 enormous
sum of 500. O0M Hismother-in-law,M Nine.
Dosne, Assisted him, In s06Dvethks fheprer
cious .curiosi6es Mhieh;ass NOW. in his poc-
session, and which form one o.. the finest
cabinets in Europe. . This, taste, dx rsste,
was:a dominant passion daring tho ORlean-
ist monarchy; and sharsdsby Tie princes
of that house, whose patunnagesofta art ave
an impulse to It's. peodactins vhjoh oflate
Il years has been much Wanfim& .H:ts4f t1r.