Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-29
FOREIGN, FINDINGS.

FOREIGN, FINDINGS.
AMyINo;claim on Douglas Island ALASKA,
has Just been sold for &, 500, 900. z#
GULL and the Argentine Republic ARE t.
be Connected by rail over and under tho
Andes.
|, THE railway casualties in England last
year include thirty three persons killed and
six hundred and fonty-seveD persons in
jnrcd. 49, ~5
TnE more important cities of Colombia
arc almost Us we'll supplied with telephones
rs the average city Of the same population
In this country.
Two STATE railway carriages havo been
built in Paris for tho Emperor and Empress
Of China. The dragons on tho panels arc
OF gilt bronze and they are very magui2-
cent all over. !.--..5
THE "telephono diseasc'' has been dis
covered by Prof. Wilborstadt, of Berlin.
The use of the instrument produces dis
order IN the Migratory chambers Of the ear,
generally in. the left ear.
TELEPHONE. rates are comparatively low
in Sweden. At Orebo, for instance, tho
/ subscriber pays an annual rental Of but
four dollars and gets the use Of a telephone
| system extending one hundred miles into
| the country. --t
I THERE: are six hundred and twenty-ono
newspapers printed in Berlin. Fifty-four
are official papers, seventy political, ono
hundred and sixty-tive have to do with lit
erature, science and 'art, two hundred and
seventeen are commercial, and thirty relig
ious. ''
| AN immense terrestrial globe, on the scale
Of one-millionth, will be feature of the
Paris exposition Of 1885, It will be about
forty feet in diameter and will give impor-
tant spaces in their actual relative size.
Paris, for example. will cover about q sixth
| of :: square inch.
COUNT MAURICE EsTERHAzY has been put
| under guardianship to check his mad ex-
| travagance. He owns, free and clear of
membranes, more than 1000 acres of
land in Hungary, and can travel IN q
straight line more than fifty miles without
| quitting his estate.
TIE morphine habit in Paris is enslaving
thousands of women in the upper classes.
They provide themselves with q miniature
! apparatus, which can be concealed about
the person and actually practice the vice in
public, injecting the drug while visiting or
attending the theater.
| DURING the recent celebration at the b.
logna University the students of Parma
| sent their Bologna brethren Parmesan
cheese, weighing ono hundred and eighty
pounds, and covered with Latin Inscriptions
worked in maccaroni. A tun of wine was
also sent to wash it down with.
| Ex-QUEEN Isabella, of Spain, hos an in
| come Of one million dollars a year, but is al
ways in debt. She maintains no house in
Paris, but always resides at hotel Her
executive ability is alearly shown by tho
ease with which she constantly spends more
than her enormous income amounts to.
AN atmospheric phenomenon was wit
messed in the English Channel lately. The
atmosphere rarefed to the extent that OBJ
jects thirty and forty miles distant could be
discerned by the naked eye with remarka-
bic distinctness. Almost every prominent
object could be picked out along the French
| coast.
A SOCIETY called tho Columbia has started
a carrier-pigeon service between Strasburg
and Vienna, and recently number of pig
cons were started at the latter city at five
o'clock one evening, and the first of them
reached Strasburg ct six o'clock the next
morning, having Travelled at the rate of
over thirty-one miles an hour oil night
TIE sardine and other tins, Of which such
thousands are thrown away, go to support a
branch of industry in Paris which is deeply
interesting to the youthful part of the pop
ulation; for, after being stamped into shape
by machines Of simple construction, they
reappear in the form Of countless armies of
tin soldiers, which are sold at prices 80 low
that the manufacturer could not possibly
afford to buy his material new from the tin
| man.
SEVERAL Of the French railway companies
and other public bodies have adopted tho
practice of having their printing done on
green instead Of white paper. The reason
for this alteration is that they have conclud-
ed that the combination of white paper with
black characters endangers the eyesight OF
their work-people. Black on green has al
ways been recognized as good combination
for this purpose, and many railway tickets
are so printed.