Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-26

trust you, though cannot understand.
Yes, you are free to go your way, my friend,
' -L;pp;ncett'x Magazine.
Foreign Items.
The Courier du Bas Rhin gives the
following statistics of the percentage of
soldiers unable to read and write in the
several European armies Prussia, 1884 E;
Russia, 1875; Spain, 5000; Italy, 3d.,
90; Great Britain and Ireland, 1900;
France, $500,
In England recently q man attending
the funeral Of his father was arrested
for an offence committed fourteen years
previously.
Rusk1s says that Madonna of Ra-
phael, now offered for sale in England
at $500, 600, is "worth the whole exhi-
bition at the Royal Academy two years
running"
ONE of the jurymen in the Tichborne
case lost $40, 600 by dishonest cashier
while he was engaged upon the case.
An advertiser in an English paper
calls for supply of "old artificial
teeth" He says that persons having
such articles to sell can "apply with
the teeth"-which reads like an invita-
ton to partake of a tough beefsteak.
Actions for libel are being broug hit
against well-known Irish artist, who
has recently taken to caricaturing. One
of the plaintiffs has been moved to take
legal proceedings by the fact OF his
being represented in the costume Of a
clown.
EXPERIMENTS to organize pigeon
post are at this moment being made in
Hungary with the authorization of the
Minister of War. A body of officers of
Komorn are engaged in fixing the sta
lions for service, which would be of
great utility in case of war.
Two workingmen only have been re-
turned to the new British Parliament
Macdonald of Stafford, and Burt of Nor
peth. They are both miners, though
Burt can hardly be called q working
man. The only two entirely Liberal
counties, Durham and West Cornwall,
are mining districts. Miners wages are
so high that the rateable value of their
houses generally brings them within the
county franchise, from which most
other laboring men are excluded.
ACCORDING to the British Newspaper
Press Directory there are now published
in the United Kingdom 1856 newspa-
pers, of which 314 appear in London,
915 in the Province of England, So in
Wales, 149 in Scotland, 131 in Ireland,
and Is in the Channel Islands. The
magazines number 639, of which PAP are
of decidedly religious character.
The French law is sometimes hard to
understand. A Paris paper tells us that
NJ. Raspail has been sentenced to two
years imprisonment and a fine of l 1000
| francs, and his son to six months i'm
prisonment and fine of 500 francs, for
having published in the Almanack Me-
teodologique an apology for acts con-
demned by the law as crimes.
Count DE PARIS will shortly appear
before the world as an author. He has
for some time been engaged in writing
an account of the American Civil War.
1t is expected that the work will be
published at an early date, and will be
illustrated with suitable maps and dia-
grams.
A MASQUERADE in the Coliseum at
Rome was one of the projected features
of the late carnival. The plan was to
parody the games played there in an
Gent days. Devout people saw In this
a sacrilegious use of the ground where
on early Christians had been martyred,
and protested. A procession of women
marched to the Coliseum and the Pope
demonstrated. As compromise, the
masquerade took place in,the sub-struc-
ture of an old building.
The very name of the Kingdom Of
Poland having just been changed into
that of the Province of Warsaw, a por-
ton of the eastern districts will be
shortly embodied with the adjoining
provinces of Russia proper. By this
change the inhabitants of the annexed
districts will lose the right of using the
Polish language in their intercourse
with the subordinate authorities
only privilege still reminding them of
her former Independence.
A CORRESPONDENT at Paris, of an Eng
lish journal writes It was stated
yesterday that the DUO d'Aumale was
about to bring an action against the
Grand Chancellery of the Legation of
Honor for the recovery of q legacy of
9, OOO, 900 francs left by the Prince de
Condo as pension to the wounded
Vendeens and oldcavaiers of st. Louis.
King Louis Philippe refused to allow
the legacy to be distributed inthat way,
and handed it over to the Legion OF
Honor"
MEssRs SoTHEBl, WILKINSON &
HODGE sold at auction, in London. q
few days since, some rare books and
manuscripts. An old black letter Bible
in English, by Miles Coverdale, printed
at Zurich in 1850, although worned
and made up with fac Smiles, sold for
e53 los series of 127 ballads, printed
between 1910 and 1890 for singing in the
: streets, and sold for one halfpenny each,
> 943 Cramer's version of the Bible, is
? sued in November, 1541, imperfect, ego ;
l Capgrave's Legenda anglia, printed in
. 15i6 by Wynkin de Worde, but wormed'
l 923; Voragine's Lcgenda Aured, also
i printed in 1927 by Wynkin de Worde'
t imperfect, but made up with acsin.ites,
4 e4i; Christine de Pisa's Boke Of thu
n Fayt of arms, printed by Caxton IL
!. 1859, with several leaves in fac sinlitc
0 91O3; an ODiciuns Beate Marie lir
: ginis, printed on vellum in 1889 al
:, Lyons, Ell lOs.; Higdcn's Polycroni
: con, printed in 1927 by Peter Treveris
e and considered the chef dG.rrc of hi
e press, $1S 15s.