Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-08-11
SPIRIT OF THE DAY.

is receiving invitations from all sections
of the country.
LIE Comte de Paris, Tunbridge Wells
on the 10th of August for tour in
Scotland. He will be accompanied by
several princes of the house of France.
About the middle of September the
Comte will proceed to Switzerland.
In this latter journey he will be accom-
panied by the Due d'Aumale.
Mrs. Paul Hayne feels her husband 8
death so keenly that her health is en-
dangered. She is seeking a degree of
relief in travel and is now visiting
friends in Augusta, Ga.
Queen Margarita, of Italy, has chosen
q woman physician, Signora Margarita
Farne, one of the first Italian women
to study medicine.
1t is proposed, to reward M. Pasteur's
generosity and self-sacrifce in freely
bestowing his bydrophobia treatment to
all corners, that subscription of 81 be
made by everybody ever bitten by q
dog. ''There's millions in it,
The widow of Parson Brownlow,
who is still living at Knoxville Tenn,
keeps bound copy of Brownlow's
Wing as memorial of her husband.
Moncure D. Conway has prepared q
lecture entitled adams third wife,
1t begins with ''sex mythology and
ends with q discussion of the American
woman to-day and tomorrow.
Nine. Albani has left London to
spend six weeks in her castle in Scot.
land. She will then give a series OF
concerts in the large cities of England,
after which she will start for Berlin,
where she has a winter engagement.
She will return to London in the spring
for the Italian season.
Don. Carlos, the Spanish Pretende,
has returned to Venice, where he will
remain until October. He is suffering
from chronic throat trouble.
The Jones family, it is reported, are
going to have a reunion in Maryland.
If they wish to know what contempt
ible, degraded and forever-lost race
of people they are, let them invite
''Sam,' of that ilk.
The expelled French princes intend,
according to the Paris Siecle, to es-
tablish a royalist journal in Brussels to
champion their ''rights.'
The Catholic Universe has opened q
subscription fund towards a memorial
of DR. Orestes A. Brownson, which, ii
is thought, will take the form of an
endowed chair in the American
Catholic University at Washington.
Ex-senator Bruce of Mississippi
begins lecture Season of one hund ed
nights next October at 800. a night.
The new Republican Senator from
California is native of Maine. He is
hardly disciple of Mead Dow. how:
ever, as he made his money in whisky.
Major E. A. Burke. of the New Or.
leans Times Democrat, is the gu st OF
President Bogran at Santa Barbara,
Spanish Honduras.
+. Sir Charles Kortright, who has just
been knighted by Queen Victoria. spent
the last twenty years of his long Off
cial career as British Consul at Phila.
delphia, where e married a lady be-
longing to one of the old Quaker city
families.
The Philadelphia Press has the news
that ''Mrs. Langtry often walks eight
cen miles day and tires out two men
on the road.' What disposition is
made of the men when they begin to
shrink from the trial is not stated.
Perhaps an ambulance is taken along.
In Wilmington, Pa, they enforce a
law which compels vehicles to keep at
least twenty feet behind street-cars.
Bees in Oakland, ILL.,, drove a minis
ter and his congregation out of church
last Sunday.
L. @. G. Lamar, Jr., has been ap-
pointed private Secretary to his father,
the Secretary of the Interior. He has
been acting in that capacity under an
appointment as stenographer.
It is now rumored that the DUO De
Chartress will challenge Gen. Boulang-
er to duel. These French duels are
pretty numerous but they are equally
harmless.
Jay Gould paid a visit to Mr.. Blaine
at Bar Harbor the other day and the
gentlemen had very pleasant inter-
view.
Sidney H. Morse, the sculptor, has
received a commission from tie Hollis
Street The tire. Boston, for life statues
of Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cush-
mantle statues to represent each
actor in one of his or her characters.
and yet preserve portrait-traits of
each.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, is
visiting the home of his childhood, at
Salem. III. Heis credited with having
more than 81 .OOO, 900 invested in sugar
interests, which must be a sweet con-
ISOLATION to him as he looks across the
prairies where as boy he drove the
cows and stubbed his toes.
w. j. Campbell, of Philadelphia, is
engaged in writing life of Thomas
Jefferson. Mr.. G. has collected large
number OF steel engravings and wood
cuts of the great statesmen.
DIR. j. S. H. Fogg of Boston, has a
complete set of the autographs of the
signers of the Declaration of Indepen.
dence, having paid $50 for one sigma
ture cut from the fy-leaf of a book.
Prince Charles of Monaco has sailed
from Lorient in his steam yacht
L'Hirondelle to continue his re-
searches relative to the direction of
the Gulf stream and other Atlantic
currents. The yacht carries 500 bot
ties in air-tight cases to be filed up by
the finders. Other scientific Observa-
tons will be carried out during the
voyage of L'Rirondelle.
Gen. Harvey, of the United States
Army, is the oldest man on the reg
lister. He became q soldier in 1918,
and participated in every war in which
the country has engaged since that
time. He is eighty-six years of age
aid very rich.
Mrs. E. B. Wheaton. widow of the
late Hon. L. Wheaton, has purchased
an estate at Norton, Mass, and will