Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-21
Foreign 1fprr,a.

There is only one four-cylinder press
III Germany. r-
.o Russia now keeps up an army of l,
ACT, 900 men,
A Polish sect commit assassination to
propitiate the Deity.
Much Of tho ice now sold in London
actually arrived there in 1866.
In 1867 the number of arraata for
habitual drunkenness, in London, was 100
$751;
Half a million books we're sold at the
late trade sale in New York, and $1,000 of
them were Byron's.
Mediterranean to observe tho 'meteoric
showers in November.
An old blind organist, who had lived
in London workhouse 70 years, died lately
at tho ago Of 49, lie could repeat all 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.
- 1t il said that there is man in Brazil
named Jose Moreira who is 1856 years old.
and that ne has lived all that unconsciona-
bIy long time on scraped cheese, wine and
sugar.
An English druggist suggests that ev-
cry iaboi o. poison" should have affixed
short statement OF the commonest and
most accessible antidotes for the conteDta
if taken accidentally.
"A Jersey lady in her hundredth year.
recently visited the Amsterdam Exhibition.
accompanied by her grandson, who was
Il Gal lt,o al
sewing machine, and threaded q needle
without the aid of spectacles.
The model farm of the Crown Prince
OF Prussia cost him, last year, seventy-two
thousand Prussian dollars The income
was four thousand five hundred and two
dollars. The Prince has since then aban-
doned the farm and cold it to one OF his
neighbors.
Mile. Caroline Sibert, of Vienna on-the
Rhine, took Bachelor of Arts degree.
Out Of a list of twenty-five candidates this
young lady came out first in French and
Latin composition, and second in Latin
translation.
-"Aw," exclaimed q Cockney to West
ern traveller in England, 'speaking-aw Of
the law of primogeniture, ave you the hem
tail in Amewica2" "Hentail?" said the
American, looking at his interrogator with
curiosity, ''No, sir we have the cock tail
in America, and very popular drink it is,
too" 'sfl:f..ijf -
"A Vienna paper says: :tBismark's dis
ease, ,as the French papers said some time
ago, il simply diirium tremens. He can
not hold q pen in the morning, and he has
to take strong stimulants in order to over
| come his nervousness.' He can never make
! a speech in Parliament without previously
taking strong doses of brandy. 1i'4':
Tho Indian papers state that the Ma
harsjah of Travancore is about to perform
the ceremony Of Thooloparum. The pro-
cess consists of His Highness being placed
in one scale with IN, equal weight Of gold
in the other. The gold thus obtained is
afterwards distributed among the Brah-
Minis according to each ones privilege, and
it is only after the ceremony that His High
ness is supposed to Ike sanctified. iH!
M. Theirs collection of engravings
has been lately estimated at the enormous
sum of 80O.OOOf Hismother-in-law, Nine.
Dosne, assisted him in discovering the pre-
cious curiosities which are now in his pos
session, and which form one of the finest
cabinets in Europe. This taste, d. reste,
was dominant passion during the Orlean-
list monarchy, and shared by the princes
of that house, whose patronage; of art gave
an impulse to its productions which of late
years has been much wanting.