Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-10-30

temper, Tongue ana COn0ucL.
10. Three things to think about.
Life, Death, and Eternity.
Foreign Notes.
The new Hotel Philadelphia, in
Rome, will be conducted on the Ameri-
lean plan, and will have bar.
The Romans-ancient and modern
are returning to the Eternal City after
their summer vacation.
MILAN remains the headquarters of
those young ladies from America who
are studying for the operate stage.
LONDON stationers have introduced
some exceedingly pretty styles in note
paper and envelopes this season.
BARxA1D shows still flourish in Eng
land, and "gentlemen" vote for tho
prettiest barmaid night after night.
A CHINESE play, with real Cinnamon
and women performers, is announced
to he brought ont shortly in London.
The London Times keeps a "libel
suit lawyer" and he has carried the
paper through thirteen suits without
judgment being rendered against it.
WoRK1xa4EN's clubs in London are
decidedly on the increase, much to the
annoyance of the English aristocracy.
PARIS is becoming crowded again,
and the hotels all have about as many
as they cao comfortably accommodate.
BROTHER JONATHAN in Baden cannot
become reconciled to the idea of eating.
his meals in the dirty baths.
CROWDS daily watch with deep inter-
est the work of rebuilding the grand
Column Vendome in Paris, which pro-
crosses rapidly.
AT the Berlin Circus visitors are per-
the acts. The stables contain one hun
dred horses.
THEY have invented in France new
kind OF ink for secret correspondence.
II first writes an invisible color, but in
twenty four hours turns jet black.
The Emperor William ordinarily re
tires at ten O'Clock and rises at seven.
Two servants keep watch in the CORR
dor during the night.
MADAME CArAcAzY recently visited {
the Vienna fair. She fully sustained
dressed woman of the day.
TELEGRAPH postal cards are now is
sued by the English government. The
cards are deposited as letters, and COL
lected hourly by carriers.
THEY are to have opera in Madrid,
next winter. despite Don Carlos and
other difficulties. Marie Sass will be
the leading Drima donna.
On Friday, October 3lst, the Vienna
Exposition will close. On the evening
of that day the city will be illuminated
and q grand banquet will be given.
In Paris smooth half is the fashion,
although some ladies destroy the
beauty of the new arrangement by
FASTING cats paws" on either side Of
the face.
THEY have opera and ballet panto-
mines alternately at the Berlin Opera
House. The latter are magnifcently
put upon the stage, and worth a long
journey to see.
CERTAIN portions of the river Clyde,
near Glasgow, Scotland, are so narrow
that an Anchor Line steamer in turn
ing around barely escapes the bank by
half q dozen yards.
TIE German droskie." or cabby,
eats and sleeps on the box of his crazy
vehicle winter and summer. They have
been known to change their linen and
costume once a year.
In Paris, the old sardine boxes are
gathered up by rag.pickers and sold to
builders, who fiji them with mortar
Il h4 <>e
cheap dwelling houses.
The marriage of Gladstone's daugh-
ter to Mr.. Wickham, the announcement
of which created such a sensation in
London fashionable circles, will take
place early IN November.
The number of cigar-stores in Ham
burg is astonishing. They are found
on every street and alley: Like the
Hamburg shillines, they are as numer-
GUS as the sands on the shore.
TOURISTS for some reason or another
remain but q short time in Brussels.
The fact is astonishing, more especially
ing of European cities
Oysters are no longer . luxury in
Lordon.. They arrive daily from
America by sailing ships, and are east
~ disposed of. Englishmen, as a rule,
do not understand the art of eating
oysters.
RECENTLY, a gentleman in London
bought box of old papers At auction
for Is. In it was subsequently, found
autographs of Racine, Alfred De Mus.
set Belzac, Moliere, and many Mar
shals of the first Empire of France.
Ex-QuEEN IsABE1lA, of Spain, has left
Paris for q while, but her whereabouts
are known by detectives, who have
been put upon her track by trades
people who have little accounts against
her.
PRINCESS LOUISE, Warehouses of
Lorne and daughter of Queen VIC
toria, is a sculptress of considerable
merit, and is now engaged in design
ing busts for the adornment of her
London residence.
ONE'of the most elegant and con-
spicuous women in Paris this Autumn
is the widow of an American General
who was killed at the battle of Gettys-
burg. Her entertainments ore uncom-
monty fine
A NEW theatre il talked of in Paris.
1t is to be built by a stock company
with capital of Ii, 0O0, 900 francs. The
house Is to hold twenty thousand peo-
pie, and four years will be required to
build it.
The Charing Cross Hotel, London
being built directly over railway ter
minus, is the noisest in the city. AL
though it is always full, no one has ever
been known to sleep there more than
half the night.
NINE. V1vor, the leading Paris NIL
liner, draws her designs on note paper
and submits them to her forewoman,
who is artistic in taste. The Madame
is guided by the advice of her assistant
invariably.
THE newest Swiss musical boxes are
made to play the music of one cele-
brated composer exclusively. They
are known as Mozart, Wagner, Bee
thoven, ETC., boxes, Tue winding up
is done by crank instead of key.
Miss SHANKs, the daughter of far
mer at Divit Hill, in England, was
bitten in the arm by her uncle's cur dog
about two months since. The wound
was cauterized, but on Sept "a the
young lady was taken i'll, and after ter
rible suffering she died of hydrophobia
"WHAT's in a name 2" A good deal