Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-23
Foreign Items.

PRINCE LEOPOLD, of Bavaria, has, in
honor of his betrothment with the
Archduchess Gisela, of Austria, been
appointed "proprietary Colonel" of
an Austrian regiment of artillery.
IT appears that the Jesuits own
twelve monastic establishments in Ger.
many, and the order is growing so rap
IDLY in Rhenish Prussia, that an anti
Jesuit agitation is going on.
The meat fed out at the ENGLISH
workshops and public institutions is
canned for the government in Austria
liza, and is pronounced a pure and
healthy article of food, as we'll as very
cheap.
FoRrY-sEvEN thousand persons die
annually in England, which the Lon
don Telegraph calls "a scourge, COM
pared to which cholera is Jest and
war diversion"
They have lately introduced into the
street lamps of Lonaon strips of look:
ing-glass in the roofs. The reflection
is said to throw three times as much
light as the ordinary lamp.
THERE is q very strenuous effort be.
ing made under Government patronage,
in France, to promote the cause of
temperance. Light wines have of late
been superseded by strong liquors with
the French tipplers.
The following telegram from the re-
lief committee, Teheran, dated April
is, has been received by the committee
OF the general fund in London: "F'am-
inc at Teheran worse than ever. Bread
daily rising in price, now Sd per pound,
very bad quality and scarce. Further
relief till harvest time very urgent"
The French Government has not yet
abandoned the idea of taxing raw ma
terials, the Minister of Finance having
informed the Budget Committee that
he is convinced that this is the only
means of raising the $28, 600, 600 neces-
sary to balance the budget.
The Elector of Hesse-C assel, who is
noted for his violent temper, was re-
Gently sued for damages by Bohemian
farmer, whom he had struck with his
cane in q fit of anger, and the court
sentenced his royal highness to pay the
ma!treated farmer the sum of 1000
forms.
RENARD, the Communist who has Just
been transported to a life of penal ser
vitude, wrote letter to Victor Hugo,
asking for copy of "Les Miserahles, :"
and received this reply. ''You have
done great deed. You could not but
be condemned or glorified."
PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES, of Prus-
sia, has left Constantinople. He ac-
cepted an antique sword, presented to
him as souvenir of his visit by the
German colony, and from the Sultan
the Order of the Medjidie of the first
class.
CAPE diamonds are growing in politi
cal, as they decline in commercial i'm
Portance. The new brushes" are
being abandoned one after the other,
while Sir H. Barkley and President
Brand, of the Free State, are vigorous
ly maintaining dispute about terri
torial sovereignty.
The English Anti Tobacco Society.
wanting evidences of the evil effects Of
tho weed, took into their service Prof.
Newman. He had never used the stuff
in any form and the arrangement was
that he should take good smoke, get
sick, and then describe the horrible
sensations in course of lectures, The
Professor got his pipe and smoked
about half an hour, and singularly
enough he did not get sick ut ali; and.
SO far from being utterly Disguised, he
Just keeps on smoking, and the Society
folks arc Il little discouraged.
The government Of France is getting
through an enormous amount of work.
The revision of military grades, for
example, has been completed by the
commission appointed for that pur-
pose, and has been accepted by both
armies-Napoleon's and Gambetta's.
The principle adopted has been to ex-
anime every commission, to annul or
diminish any grant made in haste or
from favor, and to confirm every one
justified either by service or by suisse
quent successes in the field. Seven
thousand commissions have been ex-
amined, II ported on, and adjusted, and
as yet only one officer apparently has
refused to accept the decision, and the
army has become once more whole.
This was by fur the most dangerous
question in the War Department, and
it's removal seems to show that Gen.
Clssey has been somewhat un,lcrrlted
us I'LL administrators.
Miss RAMSAY, the dang hter of Gen.