Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-04-18

BY some lonely D00ltefcQ pOOls
Heard the owlet's startling call,
And muskrsts plunge in waters cool
A thousand thrilling voices sung,
Echoin8 from bog to bog;
The chorus loud, and loudez rung,
But yet to view was nary frog.
Foreign Notes.
An English traveller speaks of seeing
wild coffee tree in Liberia seventy five
feet high!
THE Prince of Hohenzollern Sigma
ringen says his wifeis given to thieving,
an asks for divorce.
The cattle disease is still complained
of in various parts of Europe as very
fatal.
The manufacture of artificial ice is
common at Honolulu-price to consum-
ers five cents per pound; nice and
clean article.
The London omnibuses pay an an
nual tax of over s6OO, 600 to the govern
ment, and employ five thousand per-
sOns.
TIE Imperial Library at Paris con.
tanned eight hundred thousand vol
umes before the late French war, civil
and foreign.
HUNGARIAN AUSTRIA and Turkey are
the natural enemies of Russia, and are
so estimated by the Gar and his gov
ernment.
TRAVELLING in Italy, this year, is said
to have proved unhealthy, many people
being taken sick on the way.
IT is not alone to this country that
the japanese are sending their young
men to be educated. sixteen lately
graduated at Berlin.
The Marquis of Ripon has been
unanimously elected, for the third
time, Most Worshipful Grand Master
of the Free Masons of England.
LONDON gossips comment with sur
prise upon the absence of the Marquis
of Lorne and his wife the Princess,
from the recent Thanksgiving doings.
The women of Rome propose to
give Garibaldi . statue in the Eternal
City, while he is still living. The
money was subscribed among them
selves.
THREE rascals, whose business it was
to rob graves for the purpose of sup
plying The chignon market; have been
arrested and imprisoned at Lyons,
France.
Mr.. JOHN MARTIN, member of Par
lament from Meath, never votes. This
is his tacit protest against English in
justice to Ireland in not giving her q
Parliament of her own.
RECENTLY daughter of an English
clergyman was burned to death while
dressing for a ball A young lady
who attempted to assist her was dan
gerously burned.
The Russian . my to-day is admira-
bly, appointed in all its effective de-
partments. The rolls embrace the
names of eleven hundred generals.
The town OF Sedan has sent a vote of
thanks to Count Orloff, the Russian
ambassador, for his successful efforts
in aisinfecting the batGle.f field round
Sedan and Metz.
A WRITER in the London press says
that the habits of the best workmen IN
the metropolis are extremely dissipated.
Beer and gin are the trouble.
PARIS is justly celebrated throughout
the world for the character of it's medi-
cal hoepitals. The city contains forty
of these first class institutions.
The restlessness of the working class
es has extended to Switzerland, where
unsuccessful strikes have resulted most
disastrously to labor and capital.
SwnnuSa being now taught in the
British army, cas- a military duty
the number of fatalities from drowning
in that service has sensibly diminished.
WnE-BEATNe, according to the Eng
lish newspapers, is becoming . very
general thing among the lower classes
Of that country; it is nothing new,
however, only it has become more pub
lie.
TIE japanese are not intolerant in
the matter of religion, as they have
three different religions and 81 differ Mt
sects. The persecution of the Chris
tians in the 18th century was not theo-
logical but political.
Two hunch5acks celebrated their
nuptials in Paris the other day in the
presence of thirty invited guests, also
hunchbacks. At the wedding ball all
the musicians were hunchbacks-as
was every dancer.
B1ANou1 the Abb, of "The Member
for Paris" the originator of the insur-
rection of the Commune in Paris, is
suffering keelly from nervous maladies
caused by his political troubles and
labor.
TINS summer the meteorologists are
to meet IN international Congress at
Vienna, and the inhabitants of that city
are in q panic at the prospect of the
awful varieties of weather they will
bring with them.
FREEDOM and education 60 hand in
hand together. There are now in Rome
~ public schools and IN aggregate at
tendance Of 1000. It is but q year
since no public school was to be found
in the Eternal City.
name to tranepire at present. has pre-
sented the city of London with an
equestrian statue of the late Prince
Consort. The sculptor is Mr.. Bacon,
and the site chosen is the Holborn Cir
Gus.
A GENTLEMAN from London lately, in
making . return of his income to the
tax commissioners, wrote on the paper
't For the last three years my income
has been somewhat under $50; in the
future it will be more precarious, as
the man is dead of whom borrowed
the money"
PUBLIC libraries are encouraged by
the state of Chill, and some few towns
now have then". The newspapers of
Santiego are in raptures over q VAL
paraiso bookseller, who proposes to let
out books for reading. HIS charges are
. dollar . month, and book can be
kept out for two months.
LONDON coroners don't like the word
starvation :" it would occur too often,
and be little too significant; so when
. poor human being dies of hunger,
they qualify it thus: death by dis
ease, accelerated by extreme privation."
These cases are not exceptional, but
are of daily occurrence in the great and
heartless metropolis.
The Hindoo philosopher Sakya- MUM
many centuries ago developed the main
theories in both the idealism of Berke-
ley and the positivism of Comte; as q
political thinker he anticipated the
noblest truth of our Declaration of In
dependence, and $500 years aso
taught, against the caste system cf
India, the doctrine of the equality Of
men.
A LITTLE SON Of Mr.. L. F. Richard
son, of Dublin, N. H., on March 20,
fell upon pair of shears, driving the
h1a6e which nonetrate6 hack IF his