Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27
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In French society 1t 10 considered q
laughable thing fox man to fan himself
or to be famed.
THIS il the coolest winter remembered
in Ireland. Birds have been discovered
eating each other.
RUSSIA is also going to have her inter-
national exhibition, as she intends invit-
ing horses from all points Of the world to
compete in her capital this spring. The
undertaking is under the patronage of
the czarowitz.
SUCCESSFUL exhibitors at the recent
Paris exhibition have been exhibiting
their orders of the Legion of Honor in
their shop windows, and have been off,
;ially warned to withdraw them, under
pain of expulsion from the Legion.
AN English woman who looked for a
man under her bed lately, found him
there, and had the presence of mind to
say nothing and quietly pick up her
watch and other valuables and 60 down
stairs and call the porter.
MARaAR1TA, the young queen of
Italy, when she goes to ball takes good
care to enjoy herself. She not only
dances, but remains until three in the
morning, while His Majesty, King I'm
berto, goes home and to bed as early a.
one o'clock, leaving her to her pleasure
IT is rumored that Baron Grants
enormous house at Kensington is to be
demolished. The eight acres of ground
belonging to the desolate mansion, with
the lake and all the rest of it, are to be
turned to account as the site of new
square, and the house itself is to be
utilized by way of building materials.
MANY Italian immigrants have writ
ten home from Brazil that the country
they had expected to find paradise is
quite the reverse; and that they are
treated like beasts while alive, and when
dying are without the benefit of priest
or doctors. Hence member of parlia.
ment has introduced law "to restrain
the insane desire of emigration"
The, Portuguese police authorities
have signiied that, with other objects,
there has been stolen from the royal
palace at Lisbon fine poignard by P.
Cellini. The handle comprises a skele-
ton standing, the eyes filled with rubies.
On the weapon are the letters A V"
in diamonds; on the scabbard are en-
graved many demons descending to hell.
The beautiful old church of St. Nicho-
las, in the Swiss town OF Freiburg, suf-
fered severely during recent hurricane
Many of the pinnacles were broken, and
the famous rosette window was badly
damaged. The statue of St. Nicholas
over the chief portal was turned three.
quarters round by the hurricane; but,
curiously enough, it was not thrown
down nor injured.
A REAL telegraph has been invented
by an English mechanical engineer. A
writer in London moves his pen, and
simultaneously in Brighton another pen
is moved in precisely similar curves and
motions. The writer writes in London,
the ink marks in Brighton. The pen at
the receiving end has all the appearance
of being guided by spirit hand. The
apparatus is shortly to be made public
before the society of telegraph engineers.
DURING an exhibition of some wild
beasts three weeks ago, at the theatre of
small town in Thuringia, Germany, a
frightful scene occurred. A leopard
was not nearly so submissive to the
tanner as usual, and dashed wildly about
the cage. Suddenly two of the bars
gave way, and the animal sprang with a
tremendous bound among the spectators
in the pit. The terrified people rushed
pell-mell to the door, but the beast at
tackled the hindermost of them furi-
ously with teeth and claws, and in four
minutes had killed a woman and child
and fearfully lacerated four other per-
sons about the face and neck. The mo-
ment the leopard escaped from its cage
the beast-tamer and his assistants hur-
ried after it, armed with spears, but we're
unable to overcome it until it dropped
dead from its wounds. On examining
the broken bars of the cage it was dis
covered that they had been filed. An
attendant, lately dismissed for drunken
ness has been arrested GA suspicion of
being the author of this atrocious deed.