Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-12
FOREIGN Items.


Mn. TENNYsoN visited tho Woolwich
arsenal some time since, and witnessed
the casting of cannon. After the o.
Grafton was finished, he remarked:
"Vulcan would he astonished If he saw
how the thunderbolts of war are forg-
cd nowaday."
PROF. MOMNsEN is about removing
from the Berlin University to that Of
Leipsic, which is now incomparablv
tho best equipped and attended of all
tho German universities. MOmmsen's
lectures OH the institutions and policy
of ancient Rome will draw still more
students.
A PICTURE in Punch's Almanac for
1874 represents scene in a nursery. A
lady il seated near the fire, and little
girl is kneeling before her, while an
other little girl says: inland. please
mention Tn so dreadfully tired I CAN'T
say mine tonight, but III be sure to
remember tomorrow
A NEPHEW of Louis Kossuth. who
lives Mt Des Moines, Iowa, says that the
picture of the needy old patriot eking
out a precarious life in an attic by
teaching languages in London, is wholly
q work Of the imagination. He Is, on
this authority, a hale, hearty, white
haired man Of seventy-two. Living
pleasantly with two able and thrifty
sons, who are civil engineers, and would
make him perfectly comfortable and
easy If his own prudently husbanded
means did not do 90.
The new library of the city of Paris,
intended to replace that which was
destroyed at the burning of the Hotel
de Vile by the communists, was opened
to the public recently. The new libra
~ is indebted to the librarian, NJ.
Cousin, for a gift of 5000 volumes and
1000 engravings; also to NJ. Besancon,
doctor in medicine, for an extensive
collection of books, pamphlets, news
papers, G0aches, and other documents
relating to the revolution of 1848.
The fatality which has attended the
English war against the Ashantees may
be judged of by the fact that after q
service of five months but four marines
and none of the blue-jackets originally
engaged remain, the rest having either
died or been 20 incapacitated from per-
forming their duty by the insidious
effects Of the climate as to necessitate
their being sent home. A party of 1O1
invalids arrived at Ascension ON the
18th ult. So.
In recent letter from Russia, United
States Minister Jewell writes .sBanks
have been regularly chartered here now
for about ten years, and pay all of them
8, 8, and 10 per cent. dividends. These
stocks are all worth from 120 to 100.
I have not yet learned how many there
are in operation, but there has as yet
been no failure among them. The
Government exercises q strict watch
over them, and q defalcation would be
simply the army for life or the Siberi-
an mines, and criminals do not escape
here" ~.,. ..
A VERY ingenious system of bank
robbery has been discovered at Copen-
hagen. One Of the tellers of the
National Bank of that city, who has
specially charged with the counting
and checking of the old notes which
were to be destroyed, managed by q
clever manipulation to tear out piece
of each note in such q manner that out
of the fragments of about ten notes he
made a whole one by cumming the
pieces together. These notes he placed
between the others, abstracting genu-
inc note for the false one substituted.
The fraud was discovered by accident
and the teller was arrested.
The finest kitchen garden in France
is that of Versailles, which belongs to
the state, and brings in yearly reve-
nue., taking good and bad years togeth-
or, of about 20, 600 francs. The Assem-
bly, has determined to apply this valua-
BILE property to the information of q
model market garden and school of hor-
ticulture. The details of the institu-
ton are not yet arranged, but it is
presumed that it will be self-supporting
and that it will render valuable assist
ance in the development of horticultur-
al science in France.