Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-11
Foreign Items.

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The total value Of cotton produced this
year ip Italy is estimated to be about sl2,-
600,
Tho cholera has made its appearance
in Moscow, Russia, aud the deaths average
thirty per day.
The police force Of Berlin is to be
armed with life preservers which have re-
Gently l.sen ordered in Paris.
"A copy Of Shakspeare's comedies, his
| tories and tragedies, printed in London in.
1923, was recently sold for 81, 600.
| Over thousand Partisan lorettes have
gone to Alexandria, Cairo;a Suez to be
present at tho inauguration of the Suez'
Canal.
| King William of Prussia offers the
| Pope carpet TO cover the floor OF the hall
I in which the great Council will meet It
J will cost $4,000.
! An Irshwoman in London has been az
rested for drunkenness more than three
hundred tines,r aud has been convicted
and imprisoned more than: one hundred
times.
There is remarkable diver named
Coad at Bodmin,I in <CornWnh,. Eng, who.
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under water three minutes and ten sec
onds. This exceeds anything OF the kind
on record.
Father Hyacinthe's conduct creates d
great deal of talk in Rome The Pope was
much depressed for several days after the
| news came, but his Holiness seems more
cheerful. The Council Hall arrangements
divert his thoughts little from what must
! be to him, however, and every Roman
Catholic, a sorrowful affair.
Walking Signs Of Character.
Some observing person has given the
following rules for judging man by his
walk:
Observing persons move slow; their
heads move alternately from side to side,
while they occasionally turn around. :''+.
Careful persons lift their feet high and
place them down, pick up some little OBJ
struction and placing it down quietly by
the way.
Calculating persons generally walk with
their hands in their pockets and their
heads slightly inclined - -
Modest persons generally step softly fox
fear of being observed.N ~. s-r~i -,
Hmid persons often step of from the
sidewalk ON meeting another, and always
GO around a stone instead OF stepping over
Wide-awake persons "toe out, =" and have
long swing Of their arms, While their
hands move about misceuaneously.
| Careless persons are forever stubbine
their toes. ~. So: g.
! Lazy persons sclape about loosely with
their heels, and are first on one side of the
walk and then Oh the other.
| Very strong minded persons PLACE their
toes directly i'll front OF them, and have
kind OF stamp movement.
| Unstable persons walk fast and slow by
! turns. go '2r'"
Venturous persons try all roads, frequent
ly climb the fence instead of going through
the gate, and never let down bar
One idea persons, and always very selfish
ones. "toe in" ,. .!... ...,.,ls ~. zoe.
Cross persons ara very apt to hit their
knees together
Good natured persons snap their finger
and thumb every few steps.
nn:loH'ns persons haaSs a. kind of jls;
| Kite Flying iu Japan.
| The japanese kite is made, of an upright
stick, and flexible bow across the top, tied
at the ends to the bottom of the upright,
! Over this. tissue paper is pasted, little tas-
sells are tied to the WINGS and the kite is
done. There is no tell, but to make NJ,
| for this there is q bellyband lido YOU T.
member what a bellyband is?) ten 1,
long. When the owner has painted tbs
desi gnatio'i Of his family on his kite he il
| ready to commence operations, and buy,
himself great ball of fl ken Irvine Tie,
first three hundred yards OF this are dipped
INTO mixture of paste and glass pounded
to powder; the rest slenNins I'M
| touched. Then throwing 'the KITE
| up into the. Air, the operator allows
itsto slideof horizontally IA far AS it will
taking ont line with it: then he pulls in
about halt, with dexterous jerks and twist:
unknown to the foreigner, thus getting the
kite well up again; another sail aud anoth-
or jerking aud pulling in are repeated until
the kite is we'll up. Few, foreigners have
been able to master even thus much OF the
rudiments. But the Intelligent japanese
for hours at motionless object il. the ar
at the end of the string he holds BY
peculiar and quite Understandable nlanipula-
ton Of the string, his kite turns bottom.
side MP, and comes straight downward,
perpendienlNrly, until it seems inevitably
about to strike on Il roof or get entanglra
in Il tree.
| Another little WEIGHING Of: the string
turns it again, and at will he sends it away
Off to one or the other side, until close
hauled. like n vessel ''braced sharp up
When another kite approaches him, how
ever, begins the fun. and then you see the
advantage of tho glass with which part of
tho string is armed. ''Kite fighting"
begins, and the object in this contest is to
cut the string of the adversarys kite and
thus let it loose One kite is directed across
another, both let ont line Mt once. but after
mancuveilng fora while the more dextcrous
gets chance to draw his glazed string
sharply across tn" unprotected part of tho
| other, and ems it away. On Acertain day
in May every year "kite-tlying Day"-aA
Nagasaki repairs to the top Of the Compeirs,
a very high Hill near by, to witness tho skill
of the kite-fyers. 1t is great holiday,
and probably the very best annual opportu-
nifty for seeing the people in their holiday
attire. On this last occasion one very skill
full kite flyer succeeded in cutting away over
forty kites before losing his own. am
told that in Manila they are also very ex
pert at this amusement, but have heard of
no other place.
"A lady who wanted S4OO to complete
the payment for house recently purchas-
ed by her, called at the White House. We'd
nesday, and asked the President to advance
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