Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-10-31
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Royal College OF Music, Lon
don, which is but q few years old. has.
received q new donation of ESQ, 600.
It now possesses E15O,OOO. an income
Of tl3,OOO, AMI flfty-nine pupils.
lin thirteen years (l87S-1886) in
Great Britain there has been q de-
crease in the number of marriages of
throe and half per cent. in each thou
sand of population.
in Norway bucket OF water is set
down by horses with their allowance
OF hay, and they take sip of one and
mouthful of the other alternately.
A broken-winded horse is rarely ever
seen in that country.
I'm many parts of Great Britain it
is customary to remove hives of bees
from farms 10 the mountains in the
month of August, so as to give the
bees an opportunity to collect honey
from flowers that blossom late in the
season.
Jerusalem is rapidly growing as a
trade center. One hundred thousand
dollars worth of objects of devotion
In mother-of-pearl and olive wood arc
exported to America and Europe every
year. Vine cultivation is being ex-
tended, and the price of land has risen
six-fold within q few years.
The King of Corea is not the
weakling that his enemies represent
him. In fact, he is a strong, progress
I've man, who has hard road to 90,
and whose gentleness is sometimes
mistaken for lack of strength. Ameri-
cans who have known him admire him.
German scientists have laid bare
the latest haunts of bacteria. The sur
faces of coins are found to be coated
with them. and with species char
acteristic of putrefaction. Old bank
notes and even new ones are alive with
micro.organisms, which, in fact, would
seem to abound on all objects which
are exposed to frequent handling.
The American circle in London. so
an English paper says, is beginning to
attain an important position, owing to
the fact that so many American ladies
have married Englishmen of title,
land are, on this account, as we'll as
for their personal attractions and ac-
complishments, we'll received every,
whore. Ultimately the American cir
Gle will, if it manages with tact, and
consents to glide, become a great in
auence' in London"
"A correspondent who recently spent
a few days on tho Dutch island of
Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, writes that
in many of the humble houses occupied
by the fishermen of the island he saw
carved furniture that would turn an
American collector green with envy,
while in every house the rare old Delft
china was ranged in double and triple
rows about the walls.
"A Russian method of stopping a
runaway horse is said to be very effect
i've. They place cord with q running
knot around the horses neck near the
neck-strap. To this slip-noose attach
pair OF reins, which may be thrown
over the dashboard ready to be seized
at any moment. When the horse starts
take up the extra reins and tighten the
cord around his throat. The most
furious horse stops instantly.
Queen Victoria has begun to de-
velop a great fondness for the game of
whist. She is not satisfied to let a day
go by without having her rubber. She
Is not a brilliant player, but she tries
conscientiously to satisfy her partner.
Those about her are beginning to be
bored by her incessant longing to in
dulge in the game. She can stand a
long siege at tho table, and often
wearies those who are playing with
her by her disinclination to quit. It is
said that she hates to lose her money!
as much as though she were poor-for
she plays the good old English game of
guinea corner.