Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-05
EOreign Notes.

1T ls sa1d tnst the pfettiest tomb in
Pere-la-C haise is that of Helen, Adrian
of, = Russian ballet dancer.
The Princess Mathilde, who was ex.
tremely partial to Theophile Gautier.
went to see him laid out after death.
and wept abundantly.
NEARLY all the hotels in Paris that
bore German names have been replace
ed by patriotic sign boards, where the
national celebrities of France are duly
hohored.
M. THEIRS has made an earnest re.
quest to an association which proposed
to do him the honor to erect statue
of himself in the Place Vendome, He
begs them to wait till the indemnity is
paid and the disasters of the war re-
paired. =
PUNCH furnishes the following bit of
genteel paternal satire:
Z1'nte parent to dandy son-s. Oh !
yer don't want to 20 into business.
don't yer. O! yer want to be q clerk
in the post. hofice, do yer2 Post-hof-
flee, indeed! Why, all you're fit fol
is to stand houtside with your tongue
bout Ter people to wet the stamps
against"
A. FRENCH society has decided that it
prolongs the lives and increases the
happiness Of dogs to make them work.
TIE tomb of Heloise and Abelard.
in Pere Ia Chaise Cemetery, Paris, has
been renewed as place of pilgrimage
since the performance of the opera of
that name.
Ar meeting of the Medical Society
of Victoria, held in June last. the fol.
lowing collection, taken from the stom-
ach of lunatic, upon whom q post
norton examination had been made.
was exhibited: Twenty-Five pebbles. six
teen pieces Of glass, twelve nails, one
screw, two bones, button, five bits OF
tin, peach stone, six fragments of a
pipe-stem, and q whole cutty-pipe. The
cutty-pipe was found fixed in the leo
caecal valve.
An American tourist has been dis
tinguishing himself in Ireland. Mr..
Fitzhenry, of Boston, runs away with
Miss Agnes Barry, only daughter of
Newton Barry, late member of Parlia.
ment, of the county of Wexford, Ire
land. Miss Barry is q prize, as she
has f3OO, ZOO, inherited from one of
those dear old uncles Of whom we read
in novels. The father, of course. re.
fused his consent but the lovers ran
away to Killarney and were made one.
Papa, of course, relented, forgiving the
happy pair, and all now goes merry as
a marriage bell
r QUEBEC is to-day the most quaint
looking city on the North American
continent, with its ancient cathedrals.
churches, converts, inconsistencies and
market places; its little, old-fashioned
and dilapidated dwellings,, low one and
two story houses, plastered and painted
both in white and dlngy colors, with
bright green shutters and hic5 and
steep red tile or bright implanted tin
roofs, with queer little dormer windows
peeping out of them, and tall chin
neys topping high over the gable ends.
The BUSINESS thoroughfares have some
solid stone buildings fronting on them.
but few of which are of modern de-
sign. - : &z9..,3 =,
THR Friend of India gives a curious
item Of news from Neriad. It ia said
that a pattidar of the Neriad talooks
entered into contract with the patti
dar of the Dhundhoodee talooks to
give his daughter in marriage to the
latter's son and obtained from him $50
rs. On the appointed day the mar.
rage ceremony was performed, but
subsequently it turned out that the
person who personated the bride was a
Mohammedan lad dressed in female
costume. The pattidar and his accom-
plice were tried before the first class
subordinate magistrate of Neriad and |
were each sentenced to six months
imprisonment and to pay
fine 0f 1EO u.