Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-17

And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown
And each single wreck in the war path of might
Shall yet be rock in the temple OF right.
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
Ar the clubs at Nice 800, 600 may ex-
change hands of an evening.
KING KA1AKAuA, of the Sandwich Is
lands, has new 500, 900 palace.
The Prince of Wales gave his brother
Leopold a 1926, 900 piano as wedding
present.
A COMPLETE set of papier-mache fur
niture, inlaid with mother of pearl, was
made few years ago for the Queen of
Spain.
SWITZERLAND has had to pass law to
protect its Alpine flower, and the coun-
try round London cries for one to save
the wild primroses and cowslips.
JOHN BULLS family consumed $685.
O00, 900 worth of beef and liquor last
year. The sale of beer has increased
and that of hard liquors decreased.
The salary of President Grevy, of the
French Republic, is $l6O, 900 a year.
He lives within it, but MacMahon, when
president, spent about 5000, 900 year.
DURING the late northwest gales on
the Baltic large quantities Of amber, es-
mated at 1,60O pounds in weight, were
washed ashore on the Frische Nehrung,
near Konigsberg.
The following singular advertisement
appeared in the year 1888 in Scotch
newspaper: "To be let, beggar's
stand in good, charitable neighborhood
bringing in about 30s a week. Some
good will is required. N. B.-A dog for
blind man to be disposed Of"
A CURIOUS strike is reported from
Vienna. The beer drinkers of that easy
going capital have determined to drink
no more beer until the local brewers con-
sent to revise their prices, which we1e
lately raised without any satisfactory
reason.
Few probably are aware that what is
familiarly known as a coffee-biggin takes
its name from Mr.. Biggin, an English
man of forum, who invented it. He
| was a man of science, and introduced
valuable improvements in tannery. He
died in 1903.
1dE SdACo WulCu plCVhucu ldoU "luGCI
in various parts of Scotland made sad
work with the trees. On the shores of
Loch Lomond, some 5000 were blown
down. Parts of the Queens estate at
Balmoral lost some of their finest ones,
and at Ballochbnie Forest nearly 1900
fell.
TIE necessity of keeping down the
rabbits which are eating up the colony
OF New Zealand has led to demand for
cats for rabbiting. Professional rab-
biters, who are paid price ranging from
one shilling to three shi]lings for each
dozen skins, according to their state,
have been employing cats to aid them in
capture, and the venture has proved
highly successful.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Bulgaria, did
a graceful thing in response to request
from lady in Paris to aid her in securing
a complete collection of Bulgarian post
age stamps. The had the collecting
mania in this direction, and had failed
in every attempt to add a full assortment
of Bulgarian stamps to her album. The
prince sent her complete series, &C.
compan1ed by pretty note.
DOMESTIC servants and drivers of pub
lie vehicles in Constantinople are hereaf
ter to be under the direct supervision of
paternal government. The Office fol-
the compulsory registration of servants,
already twice opened and twice closed
is about to be re-established, and those
who want servants must seek them there
or 30 without them. Public coachmen
will be required to furnish proof of good
character and skill.
A STRANGE fate has overtaken work
man while employed in the Paris morgue.
He was painting its ceiling one day,
when his ladder gave way and he fell to
the stone door, striking on his head with
such force that in few minutes he was
dead. It so happened that no one pres
ent knew the unfortunate mans address,
so that it became necessary TO place his
body on one of the marble slabs used for
the remains of the unknown dead.
The streets of Paris are in great part
sprinkled by hose attached to hydrants,
which are found to cost half less than
watering carts, of which, however, $50
are employed. The scavengering and
sprinkling. both of which are admirably
performed, cost 81, 10000 They man
age many things very well in Paris, un.
doubtedly, and get something for their
money, but the municipal taxation is by
far the heaviest in Europe, with possibly
the exception of St. Petersburg,
| SANITARY legislation in England dates
from a very early period, Edward IL
decreed that butcher who sold measled
pork should be fined for the first ofense
pilloried for the second, imprisoned and
fined for the third, and expelled from the
town for the fourth. Richard II. took
measures against the pollution of rivers
Henry vi. prohibited cattle Staying
within walled towns with three excep
} tione. Elizabeth enacted that only on
family might dwell in cottage. Th'
plague in the time of Charles II. led t.
many health enactments.
DURING the early part Of this month
steam dredger, operating lin the Rive
; Clvde. near Glasgow, brought up sole
leather trunk marked "George Plaisted
Boston," This trunk was lost from tn
, steamer State of Nebraska, Of the Stat
Line, last September. The owner say
.. his trunk put Oh board the steamer q
!, Glasgow, but on his arrival at New Yor]
: it could not Do 1Ouuu. 1uo cOAAPsaA
paid claim of 81, 900 for the loss an
after six months time the trunk an
contents-the latter tallying exactl
q with Mr.. Plaisted's description-are re
4 covered uninjured. -,
The "buffalo hunt" in which the tw
I sons of the Prince of Wales were in
!, dulged at Ceylon, recently, was paintt
J, absurdity. It was forbidden that th
; two burly boys should run any risk (
). injury, SO tame buffalo was turned OF
3 and, after being chased by dogs, VT
shot down by one Of the princes-a mo-
) ignobIe piece of butchery. This r
minds London writer of a bear hun
which occurred in Sweden years ago.
royal prince had to be entertained, an
: so bear hunt was got up for him. I
last the animal was circumvented. II
: prince raised his gun to fire; the be-
y began to dance. It was tame OF
:. which had been bought of its showm'
= and turned out.
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