Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-02-15
Foreign (iOSSiD.


And tho evcrgrcens-holly, and laurel, and yow,-
BE the cmblclns grcon Of our hearts, goodwill.
Foreign Gossip.
A HINDoo astronomer has built O
private observatory an the V;gn"l:-:s.
The Duke of Saxe-C oburg Gotha has
taken to composing operas under the
non. ttc 2,i,.,>,c of Otto Wernhard.
THERE has been III increase of eight
in the daily journals of Great Britain
during the past year, the total number
now being 118.
Bouc1cAU1r AND WEBSTER have Of
fered Fox 81, 500 per week to bring
" Humpty Dumpty to London.
The company for uniting Brazil to
Europe by a submarine cable, has been
organized, but the capital is yet to be
subscribed.
The Protestants in the city of Mexico
have q large and elegant church, called
San Francisco, which will seat about
1000 persons.
MADAME RATzzI has been endowed
with literary pension of 5000 livres
per annum by Victor Emanuel's Gov
eminent.
VIcroR HUGO PHILOSOPHERS over his
defeat at the polls, and AYERS that zap
parent defeats conceal definitive tri-
umphs."
A CENSUS has been taken of the pop-
ulation of Moscow, recording total of
Gil $40 persons.
PARIS, long known as the gay cap
ital," has been very dull thus for this
winter, the theatres Offering only indif-
ferent attractions, and society showing
but little animation.
A VERY prococious London boy is
accused OF having commenced as
burglar at the age of three, and being a
scientific garroter at ten.
AFTER the German indemnity is paid
France will have the largest national
debt of any country in the world,
amounting in round numbers to 3d.
500, 600, 600, or 1926 per head of the
entire population.
The wife of President Theirs attempts
to perform the fashion setting functions
reluctantly relinquished by Eugene.
Among her edicts is one against false
hair.
IT is reported that the postal authori.
ties of England have under their con-
sideration an invention by which the
handwriting of persons sending tele.
graphic message will be transmitted by
the telegraph.
ADv1cEs from England state that the
Fenians are again "on the rampage, "
and that they now threaten with vio-
lence the Catholic priests who advise
moderation or oppose the home rule
movement.
The ceiling of the new Paris Opera
House will be made of copper, consist
ing of a multitude of plates screwed to-
gether, and capable Of being at any
time disjointed. This roofing will be
movable, so that the height of the
theater may be regulated at pleasure.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette says of Gus
tave Dore's Illustration of London"
of which the first part has been pub
ished, that 1t promises to be faithful
as we'll as a beautiful book of drawings.
He has not fallen into the laundering
of most French artists, who make
Frenchmen of all they have occasion to
depict.
The late census shows that the town
of Frankfort.on-the-Main has now be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 inhabitants !;
whereas it had only 49, 27 in Deem
Der 1867. The number would have
been far larger if the neighboring par
ishes of Bornheim and Bockenheim,
where large part of the business popu-
Ia ki1r, If Trnn1f1rk 1,oro h
had been included.
SEVERAL of the large towns in Great
Britain have made arrangements to
continue the system already begun of
having penny lectures on science for
the benefit Of the working classes. The
most eminent men in Great Britain are
concerned in this movement, and the
attention paid to their addresses has
been of the most gratifying character.
A RECENT letter from Dresden SAYS
that the number of Americans there
this season is estimated at 1000. which
Is much in excess of previous winters.
and the English also number moro than
usual. Among all pationalities the
season is very soy, and in this respect
contrasts strongly with the last, when
the war occupied all minds, and gloomy
sadness filed oil hearts.
A FEW weeks ago, the cable dispatch
es gave highly colorea accounts of
riotous proceedings at the Belgian cap
ital, caused by an obnoxious ministerial
appointment. According to the reports
transmitted, the demonstrations were
very noisy and turbulent, and kept
Brussels in q ferment for several days
The claims for material damages are
now all in, and aggregate $1,000, which
is probably the cheapest cnaeutc ever
known.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is said to be the most
thin-skinned of ministers, and can't en-
dure the thought of chat. That's the
reason why he put down the white bait
dinner at Greenwich, a festive repast
where from time immemorial statesmen
were wont to relax the dignity and for
get the cares of office, and to think only
of merriment and good fellowship
Chaff was the order of the day at the
Greenwich dinner, but chaff is gall and
NORWOOD to the English Premier.
The British Museum.
The British Museum is now said to
have 1000, 900 books in its library. The
idea of printing its catalogue entire has
been abandoned, inasmuch as there sre
in the collection some hundreds of
thousands ephemeral publications and
broadsides, which would swell a cata-
logue to a magnitude that, for practical
purposes, would be useless. The num-
Der of American books in the Museum
Ia aaid tn he greater than in INV Il h-aru