Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-19
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Foreign Items.
A NUMBER of bibles were among the
presents to the Grand Duchess Marie.
JAPENEsE laborers are content to work
i'll the mines for four hours q day for
u cents, and for this sum they can get
all the food they need.
BANCROFT recently appeared on skates
ut the Thiergarten Pond in Berlin. He
is said to have done the +" eagle" very
nicely.
The Egyptians have conceived a
national motto-"1t is Egypt wherein
the Nile flows, (which promises to be
as talismanic as the German affection
for the Rhine.
VICTOR HUGO recently attended q
session Of the French Academy, for the
first time in Is years, expressly for the
purpose Of giving his vote in favor of
the admission of Dumas the younger.
A PARIS paper, the Figaro, has recent
~ adopted the plan of giving special
attention to local news, and has discov-
cred so many murders and mysterious
disappearances which the police could
not account for, that the Parisians be-
came very uneasy.
ENGLISH evangelists publish religious
tracts in the weekly newspapers Of the
kingdom, paying for them as ADVERTISE
ments, and publicly announce that by
this means they reach 8, 600, 600 persons
every week, larger number than could
be reached by any other means of grace.
S1Na1E-BBEAsrED English Jackets are
still worn. For Spring wear they will
be made of French serge. drop dete.
and diagonal cloth. Later in the sea-
son, it is predicted, the swallow-tail
basque will appear. It's shape is
something like the dress coat of gentle
men, made both single and double
breasted, with one button fastening it.
IT is reported from Prussia that mill
tary preparations are being carried on
wish the utmost dispatch. In June the
whole of the line infantry will be armed
with the new Mauser rifle. The Aus
train manufactures of arms have re-
ceived large orders for Mauser muskets.
The Prussian calvary has suddenly
been armed with carbines on the Chas-
sepot system. New heavy gums will be
supplied to the artillery In October at
latest, while new light guns will be in
use in April. At present, 10000 labor
ers are at work onthe 9trasburg fortifi-
cations and 1000 at Nets.
RECENT kilograms from Melbourne
announce that q rumor prevailed that
Great Britain intended annexing the
Fiji Islands and it seems now 70 be we'll
founded Commissioners are on the
spot, sent by the imperial Government
to report upon the expediency of annexa-
ton, and their report is not likely to be
unfavorable. Recent occurrences in
the islands, and the calling there of the
line of San Francisco steamers, are ad-
ditional reasons for the measure; at
any rate it is certain that the Gladstone
Ministry had resolved on energetic
action in the matter, and it is not to be
expected that the present Government
will be less careful of the national inter-
ests.
The revisers of the authorized version
of the New Testament held their thirty
six session the other day, and sat for
several hours. The members present
was Bishop Gloucester and Bristol who
presided the Archbishop of Dublin,
the Bishop of Salisbury, the Dean Of
Rochester, Archdeacons Bickersteth and
Lee, Canon Lightfoot, Professors Eadie,
Moulton, Newth, and Edwin Palm
er, Drs. Angus, Scrivener, and Vance
Smith, Prebendary Humphrey, and
Mr.. Hort-in all 16, with Mr.. Trout
beck, the Secretary. The company
revised the 9Th chapter or the Epistle
according to st. James, and part Of the
LIST chapter of the LIST Epistle of St.
Peter.
TIE Chinese government is trying to
raise navy after the English model,
and is building ships to that end. The
sixth frigate built at Kaou- Chang
Meaon, the government dockyard, was
launched recently, and the great aim Of
the constructors is to follow the British
system in all particulars. Accordingly
it having come to the knowledge Of
the officials that the larger British wal
vessels when of wood are launched in
their naked state and coppered after
ward in dock, they resolved that in this
respect the frigate No. 6 should differ
from No. 5, of which it is in almost
every other respect an exact reproduc-
ton. No. 5 was launched fully copper
ed; No. 6 was, however, launched in he1
wooden skin, and afterward put in the
arsenal dock to be there sheathed in
copper.
THERE has been some little excite
ment in Manchester, England, owing to
q mysterious occurrence which took
place the day when Mr.. Jacob BRIGHT
lost his election in that city. In the dead
of night the cathedral bells rang out q
merry peal, creating much alarm and
anxiety. What makes the affair un.
comfortable is that the bells do not an.
pear to have been rung by mortal hand,
lat least it cannot be discovered by
what human agency they were set In
motion. The wardens and churchward.
ems are unable to give any explanation
of the circumstances the bells verf
rang without their knowledge or con
sent, and they are all the more annoy
ed, because the restoration of tht
cathedral depends on the aid of thu
citizens at large, and it is feared many