Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-02-05
Foreign Mites.

Mn GLADSTONE hos declined to re.
ccive dcputation to urge the claims
of women to the right of suffrage.
SCANDAL is again busy about the
Grand Duke Alexis. It is now report
cd that ho hls been married to the
niece OF the Russian Minister OF Ber.
lin.
In scme Of tho public schools of Eng.
land the teaching of telegrnphy has
been tried with much success. In.
struments are lent by the Government,
and tho children learn very rapidly.
The Portuguese Government have
abolished tho Macao coolie trade. This
measure causes great excitement, as il
will have the effect of depriving large
number Of Portuguese and Chinese OF
employment.
A "LlFE OF WASHINGTON in Japan
ese. consisting OF forty -four volumes,
illustrated, has Just been published in
Yeddo. Washington is represented in
the costume of the present time, with
a mustache, cane, and Skye terrier.
THE fusion of the two Duchies Of
Sake Coburg and Saxe-Gotha has al
last taken place. Hitherto each duclfy
possessed q separate Diet. A com.
mission of twenty-one members has
been chosen, who will arrange the Of
fairs in common of 10Th duchies.
The John Bull staSSs that the life Of
the late Bishop Wilberforce has been
undertaken by the Archbishop of Dub.
lin; the political career of the late
rrelate, especially the record of bis in.
tiuence with the Aberdeen Ministry,
being reserved for another volume. un
der another editor.
The Duke of Wurtemburg, who is q
Field Marshal in the Austrian Army,
delivered Q lecture the other day on
Central Asia, to the garrison of Prague,
in which he stated that it was the in
terest of both England and of Austria,
in view OF the progress of Russia in
Asia, to connect Kurrachee with Con-
stantinople by a line of railway.
The late Queen Dowager of Prussia
has left all the works of art accumulated
by King Frederick William w., her
consort, which constitute a valuable
and highly interesting collection to her
brother-in-law, the present Emperor.
They would otherwise probably have
been lost to Berlin and removed to Ba
varia.
In the course of lecture recently
delivered by Mr.. Frank auckland q
remarkable statement was made. There
is in the Geological Gardens a Chin
panzeenamed Joe, an ape of extra.
ordinary intellect. Mr.. auckland
states that the teacher in a deaf and
dumb school has offered to teach the
monkey to speak. The offer should
certainly be accepted.
MILE. SCHNEIDER, the opera bouffe
prima donna, has, it is stated, our.
chased plot of ground in the Avenus
de pImpera'1ice, for which she haze
paid nearly $4,000. The residence
which the Grand Duchess intends to
build on her new property will cost
when completed, upwards of GOO. 600 +.
($2OO, OOO).
The Emperor of Germany has con
ferred upon Miss Anna Thacker, of
Wolverhampton, the War Medal, with
ribbon, and the insignia and diploma
Of this decorat on, for services rendered
to the sick and wounded in the hospi.
tai at Cologne. This is in addition to
the cross already received by Miss
Thacker.
Count Won Mo1TKE has become the
conservative candidate for the German
Parliament in Berlin. The indications
are that he will not be chosen, as Der
lin is truly radical. His supporters
say that his candidacy is meant only tt
test the fullest strength of the conser
vatives in the capital.