Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-16

PRINCE EDWARD, of Saxe-W w eimar has
been appointed Commander of the
British troops in Ireland.
THE remains of bodies dissected ir
the Paris hospitals, amounting to 4,0o(
annually are to be cremated.
COMMENTING on Spain's quarrel with
Germany has caused the prosecution Of
thirty-four newspapers at Madrid.
THE Prince of Wales is about to pay
visit to the Sultan of Turkey. His
Royal Highness is a good deal of 9
roamer.
THE Milwaukee TurnZeitung has
been, by the edict of the German
government, forbidden circulation il
that country.
ROASTING and devouring white
people attached to the stations of the
African Association is reported to be a
recent achievement of Congo canni'
balls.
Mr.. BLAINE is writing upon his book
at the rate of ten pages per day, de-
voting three morning hours to that
work. He will complete the volume
in a couple of months.
In shooting at cat, James T.
young man living neal
Pittsburg, killed his mother. Crazed
by that catastrophe he made an unsuc-
ccssful attempt at suicide.
The Harpers are to pay w. u. How
ell's $4,000 a year to contribute solely
to their magazine. This is done in
large part to prevent his services being
secured by the Century magazine.
A LARGE amount of gold and silver
coin, lying idle at different and remote
parts of the country is to be trans.
ported to Washington by direction OF
the Secretary of the Treasury, to be
supplied to the commercial centers, as
may be needed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND admits that
while upon his vacation up in the big
woods of New York, he caught some
fish, but dryly adds, "that the numbe,
was not as large, nor the size so great
as he understood had been described
by the newspapers. Mr.. Cleveland
appears not to be good hand at a fist
story.
RATHER a queer case occurred al
the St. Louis morgue. Four persons
swore to the identity of the corpse of a
man, one of the number being
the widow of the deceased, but
a couple of days after this event,
the widows husband returned to his
home in robust health, as large as life
and twice as natural.
A LOBSTER weighing twenty-three
pounds was caught the other day of
the north coast of Cape Cod. Ont
weighing fifteen pounds was the largest
specimen ever before found, and two
pounds is the ordinary weight. Thi:
monster of it's kind measured twenty
four inches from the eyes to the tip O.
the tail and sixteen inches around thu
middle.
Mrs. MULL1GAN, who succeeds Miss
Ada Sweet, for eleven years pension
agent at Chicago, is the widow of Gen
James A. Mulligan, who died OF wounds
received near Winchester, Va, July
26, 1864. He entered the Union army
at the head of the 23d Illinois regimen
and was brevettcd Brigadier Genera
for gallantry and bravery only three
days before his death.
A-
The United States is the third bee
producing country of the world. A
the last estimate Great Britain was th'
brewer of 1,OO0,000,00o gallons, Ger
many 9OO,00O,O00, the United State
100000. Beer brewing stands sixth
among the industries in this country
exceeded only in amount of capital EN-
ployed by metals, cottons, woolens an@
worsteds, lumber and flour. The in
crease of the production from 1880 t.
1885 was 5000, 900 barrels.
AN Eastern writer makes point o
the fact that at the Presidential elec
ton of 1880, there were, in the state o
Rhode Island, only $4,000 votes cast
though the census taken that yea
showed the male population of the vot
ing age to be $4,000, (native born 4S,
600, foreign born 27,0Oo,) so that tn
vote was less than 40 per cent. of tn
male population over 21 years of age
while in Illinois, with voting popula
ton about ten times as great as that O
Rhode Island, the vote amounted to 8
per cent of those entitled to vote. Th
cavse of this is doubtless to be found il
the fact that in Rhode Island a vote
must be taxpayer, while in Ilinoi
the franchise is not restricted, but is
free-for-all, as it were.
The use of steel rails by the rail
roads in place Of iror rails has wrough
a great change in transportation
facilities. Only ten years ago standar'
carload on all first class lines wa
10000 pounds, the weight of the ca
being 20.5OO pounds. About five year
ago the weight of carload was in