Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-06-13

Nevertheless tho way is long,
-! AND nd: tours leap np in the sht Of tho sun.
And . kiss from bsby-only one.
Foreign Gossip.
ENGLAND has borrowed the idea of
the American palace cars, and is elated
tlereat. =
THERE are no less than 8, 900 canoes
in the museum of Florence, all relics
from Pompeii.
AT the annual meeting of the Lon
don Church Missionary Society, the in
come was stated at f153, 697.
EUROPE is supposed to contain 300,.
600, 900 people. One hundred years
ago the estimate was but 60, O0O, 600
IT is the policy of the present govern.
ment OF France to make Rouen the
principal military port Of the country.
Tn Paris Monde demands that
crosses and pious inscriptions be placed
upon all the public monuments in Paris
The question of compulsory educa
ton is again the subject OF debate in
the various provincial assemblies in
France.
The Burmese Embassy, which is
shortly expected to arrive at Brindisi.
will be solemnly received by the King
of Naples.
The Queen of Holland is very liter
ary I'M her tastes and habits, expanding
two-thirds of her income in this direc-
ton.
A RUSSIAN Imperiar ukase increases
the police force of the Empire by three
officers, eighty-one sub.of6cers, and 375
privates.
PARIS is gradually assuming her pris-
tine architectural elegance once more,
and all record of the late devastation is
disappearing.
BR1x1EGG, in the Tyrol, encouraged
by the success of the exhibition at
Ober-Ammergan, proposes to give a
Passion Play this year.
A COMPETENT authority GAYS that
should the British Ballot bill pass, Ire
land will not return one member who
is not a Home-ruler.
ENGLAND is short of horses, and in
case OF an emergency would not be able
to fit out her artillery and mount her
cavalry regiments.
The ignorance of the French peas
antry is said to be unparalleled in the
civilized world, Not one in hundred
can read or write.
ANY number of books have been pub
ished in Germany founded: on the
FrancO-Prusslan war, and now o crop
of plays has commenced:
The German mint, at Berlin, has
been driven for months in coming to
| meet the orders of government and the
demands of business.
EDMOND ABOUT has become the edi-
tOr.in- chief of the new Paris journal.
the Nineteenth Century. Many noted
writer's are associated with him.
ONE of the special and peculiar taxes
in Russia is known as the "chimney
tax" from which only churches and
ecclesiastical buildings are exempt.
AUSTRALIAN preserved meats are still
largely imported into England from
her distant colony; $4,000, OOO pounds
were received thence in twelve months.
The Russian Imperial Council has
given q severe check to the movement
for system of professional schools in
Russia, by voting against the project,
20 to 10. =,
IT is intended to rebuild Luther's
cell in the Augustine monastery at Err.
furt, destroyed by fire some months
ago. A general subscription is pub.
icly invited for the purpose.
GREAT numbers of Frenchmen are re.
turning to Europe from America this
season, and all seem uncertain AZ Ia
when they shall return. Are they goina
to get vengeance7
T. HE conductors of a charitable insti.
tuition in Neweaetle-on-Tyne, England,
meeting by placarding the wallis with
the words. cloves request"
The new international railroad over
the Alps-the st. Gothard-is the
fourth, the most central of all, and for
directness~ Is the most important be.
tween Italy and Central Europe.
EXCURSIONS to the great battle-fields
around Paris are now the order of the
day. Coaches start from Versailles
daily, and make circuit of the Com.
mune and Prussian fighting grounds.
IT is thought that the port of Genoa.
the early glory of Northern Italy, i,
| again to assume much of it's former
maritime importance, by reason of the
Suez canal and the St. Gothard railway,
The fire department at Florence.
italy, according to the sculptor, Hiram
Powers, consists of ten men. three
equipped with pipes, four with buck.
cts, and three with small fire extin.
guishers.
HE German Ambassador at Athens,
receives SO, 900 a year, the English Min.
lister $25, 600, the representative Of
France $19, 900, the Russian Ambassa.
dor SIS, 600, and the Turkish Ministe,
$23, O00.
THERE was fight the other day in
the English Court of Chancery, over 8
Request made by lady for feeding bel
favorite poodle. One party said the
dog was dead, but he was produced by
the other side.
/ THIS present exhibition is the largest
that the British Royal Academy has
had, consisting of nearly 1900 works ;
it is more than half d. large again az
that of 1866, which comprised slightly
over q thousand.
A STRIKE in the Leeds fiax-trade has
terminated 10 favor of the employers.
The operatives demanded the nine
hours system, but they have abandoned
the struggle, and work will be resumed
on the old terms.
DURING the last three years England
has lost one iron-clal with all hands
four have been on the rocks and rem
dered well-nigh useless; and many of.
icers of the navy have been wrecked il
prospects,.
One Of the changes in the German
army is to be the wearing of the i'm
perial eagle as an ornament Throughout
the service. Prussia has also deter
mined to establish stations in the from
tier fortresses for carrier pigeons.
The Spanish government asks TO-
authority to raise 10000 fresh troops
This information is not easily recon.
ciled with the recent representation
that the Carlists are rapidly surrender
ing, and the Cubans thoroughly con
qucred.
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