Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-09-11

Telegraph from Burgess to explain that
the motive of abstention is not disloy-
atty, as imputed to the clerical party
by the Belgian press, but desire to
protest against the fetes being made
Liberal demonstration. Mr.. Kenyon
stNtes that not only have the digni-
taries of the Catholic Church and the
leaders OF their party, but also the
senators and deputies ~ho represent
Antwerp in Parliament, and who hap
pen to be clericals, been omitted from
the list of invitations. It is on this
account that the Catholics, as body,
intend to take no part in the fetes.
A CURIOUS story comes from Prussia.
According to old customs the uniform
in which Frederick the Great died be
came the property of his valet, and
was preserved in the inheritor's family
up to few weeks ago, when, the head
of that family dying, the heirs resolv-
ed to convert it into money. 1t was
disposed for $50 thalers to dealer in
old clothes, who soon met with O pa
triotic admjrer of historical relics, who
invested 500 thalers in the suit. The
next purchase was an Englisman, who
ventured the comparatively high price
of 5000 thalers (f1, 20O) as specula-
ton hoping to realize as much ar e.
600 by reselling to prince of the
reigning house in Prussia, who was
ANXIOUS to possess himself Of the uni
form, bnt the price alarmed him. The
purchaser, it'is said, has shipped the
Interesting garment to the United
States, where he believes he will OBJ
tain even higher price than that asked
of the great Kings descendant.
A PARLIAMENTARY "statement of the
number of photographs of convicted
criminals sent from the prisons of each
| county and borough to London from
the time the act of 1870 came into force
to the 31st day of December, 1872, and
the costs incurred in each county and
borough, and by the Office in London,
and OF the numbers of cases in which
they have led to detection" has been
issued. From this paper it appears
that from the lis county and borough
prisons of England and Wales 43, 634
photographs OF criminals were sent to
London within the time specified
that the cost of these was e., 948 l8s.
3D.; and that the number of cases in
which they led to detection was l56.
Col. Henderson, in his special report
from the Metropolitan Police Office,
states that 30, 463 photographs of Grim.
inals have been received during the
same time in the Habitual Criminals
Office in London from the borough and
county jails and prisons, and that 37a
cases OF detection have resulted from
the Identification of the photographs.
n. JANssEN's method for photo
graphing the apparent contact of Venus
with the edge Of the sun is worthy of
description. The Photographic plate
is in the form of disk, fixed upon q
plate which rotates upon an axis paral-
lei 70 that of a telescope. Before it is
placed another disk, forming a screen,
in which is small aperture, in order
to limit the Photographic action to the
edge OF the sun. The plate which
carries the sensitive disk has $50 teeth,
and is placed in communication with
an escapement apparatus actuated by
an electric current. At each secoud
the pendulum of clock interprets the
current, and the plate turns one
tooth, so that at each second a fresh
portion of the Photographic plate is
exposed. Thus, IN as many seconds,
$50 images of the sun and the planet
can be obtained. When the series
relating to the first contact is obtained.
the plate is withdrawn and another
substituted, which gives the second
contact, and so on for the four.
MONTENEGRO, remarks the Pail Mall
Gazette, has begun, under the mild
and pacific rule of the new Hospodar,
Nikita, himself educated abroad, to
throw off the reproach of being the
most utterly ignorant part of Christian
Europe. Three years since, it ia
asserted on the best German authority,
incredible as it may seem, there were
not $50 persons who could read de-
Gently in the whole country, and hardly
any who could write. It was also said
that few of the parish priests knew any
thing but their book of prayers, and
that only by tote. The first steps to-
ward education were promoted by
Russia, which gave in 1869 liberal
sum to ward maintaining seminary for
Greek priests, the Empress having
the same time endowed school for
the better class Of girls ut the capital.
The Hospodar mas of late been exert.
ing himself to found system of parish
schools, and thirty Of these are already
established, in which 9, 600 children are
receiving instruction.