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

Mn. TENNYsoN visited the Woolwich
arsenal some time since, and witnessed
tho c''stlng of cannon. After tho op-
Grafton was finished, he remarked
Vulcan would DO astonished if he saw
how tho tlundcrbolts of war are forq-
ell mowad"y."
Pnor. NIoMMsEN il about removing
from the Berlin University to TINT Of
Hc'l'*", which il now incomparubly
tn" best equipped and attended of ali
tho German universities. MommsenH
lectures OH the institutions and policy
of ancient Rome will draw still more
students.
A PICTURE in Punch's Almanac for
1874 represents Il scene in Il nursery. A
lady is scented near tho fire, and little
girl il knceling before her, while an
other little girl says: "Mnud. please
mention I'm so dreadfully tired I can't
Say mino tonight, but I'll be suro to
remember tomorrow
A NEPHEW of Louis Kossuth. who
lives ut Dcs Moincs, Iowa, says that the
picture Of the needy old patriot eking
out IL precarious life in MI attic by
teaching languages in London, is wholly
II work Of tho imagination. He is. on
this authority, u hale, hearty, white
haired man Of sevcnty-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 so.
The new library of the city of Paris,
intended to replace that which was
destroyed at the burning of the Hotel
dc Vile by the communists, was opened
to the public recently. The new libra
ry is indebted to the librarian, NJ.
Cousin, for Il gift of 5000 volumes and
1000 engravings; also to NJ. Besancon,
doctor in medicine, for an extensive
collection OF books, pamphlets, news
papers, aOiches, and other documents
relating to the revolution of 1848.
The fatality which has attended the
English war against the Ashantccs may
be judged Of by the fact that after a
service of five months but four marines
and none of the blue-jackets originally
engaged remain, the rest having either
died or been so 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
10Th nit.
In u recent letter from Russia, United
States Minister Jewell writes "Banks
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 100 to 100.
I have not yet learned how many there
are in operation, but there has as vet
been no failure among them. The
Government exercises a strict watch
over them, and a 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 a
clever manipulation to tear out a piece
| of each note in such 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 q yearly reve-
nue., taking good and bad years togeth-
er, of about 20, 900 francs. The Assem-
bly, has determined to apply this valua-
BILE property to the information of a
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 horticulture
al science in France.